You read that right. If you haven't played The Sims 4 yet, a good portion of how your Sim and your Sim's family developed in The Sims 3 happened right smack bang in the middle of the Toddler phase. Now, that entire phase has been completely removed. You can have babies, sure. And they'll do the usual things that babies do; grow, puke, harvest souls using their claw-hands, make omelettes; all normal stuff. But they won't become toddlers. They'll jump straight to being obnoxious ruddy faced children, ready for schooling. That's a huge removal! Perhaps there is an argument to be made that with the removal of this phase of the Sim lifecycle, precious resources were free to be used elsewhere. Meaning more content, more mechanics, more options, better FPS. Which would be great, except that it's clearly not true! The phase has been cut for perceivably no real benefit. The only benefit really being, EA didn't have to spend time and money adding that phase into The Sims 4. Typical EA bull.
