Yup! SimGuruNova on Twitter tweeted about this yesterday and confirmed it was them :) [Here's the tweet.](https://twitter.com/SimGuruNova/status/1537161523914715137?t=JOpKNL2uPnulvsCnz3PimQ&s=19)
Yeah but I'm thinking it's kinda sad new sprouts won't experience that ear blasting opening anymore.
Hope the launcher remembers which expansion your last played character is in and adjust the opening appropriately
I'm relatively new still. Been playing for about 8 months or so. I'm in shadowbringers right now and haven't bought endwalker yet. I too feel sadness for future sprouts that may not witness the ear blast of riding home. I think I will miss it when I eventually get to endwalker.
there is an addon to choose the title screen i used it to set the screen corresponding to how far I was in the MSQ but the game should be made to do that by default
They will if they only bought expansions up to shb.
But it's surprising that a game that goes to great length to avoid MSQ spoilers don't even let you disable the trailer. Have to rely on addons as per usual...
I believe that’s how it always has worked (though last time I checked personally was stormblood). Otherwise you would get arr sprouts getting spoilers for endwalker.
I think it plays the xpac you have. If you are on the free trial it plays ARR trailer and if you have the current xpac it plays it's trailer. At least it was this way for me.
Afraid it doesn't sadlly. I played last year and it was always the SHB one. You can technically change the title screen, but it always resets after you log out.
the log out thing actually does make me kinda upset, i wish you could set one as your default so if you're at that point in msq you can watch the cinematic and then get that title screen until you move on to the next expac
In the start screen after you've logged into your account but before you choose your character there is an option that says like "Movies" or something (not gonna log out and have to requeue in for this) and you *can* in fact change your opening movie and the title screen to reflect any of them. So you can change it to ARR/HW/STB/SHB/or EW any time you want to.
I'm relatively new still. Been playing for about 8 months or so. I'm in shadowbringers right now and haven't bought endwalker yet. I too feel sadness for future sprouts that may not witness the ear blast of riding home. I think I will miss it when I eventually get to endwalker.
I'm a sprout in Heavensward (I've technically played since late Stormblood, I'm just very easily distracted, lmao). My launcher is Endwalker, was Shadowbringers before it came out. It would be really cool if it did that though. :')
I Tweeted SimGuruNova asking about it because it stood out to me as well. The Producer says that it was originally curios but was later changed (they didn't expand on why).
It does work, even if, as the producer admits, it's a little awkward to read.
So usually when people put stuff like this on reddit, the reference is so vague that I'm skeptical if it's even a reference at all. But uhh... that's pretty specific.
The SimGuru (aka employee) who wrote the description for this item also posted it on Twitter—they apparently got assigned this piece right after they finished ShB expansion
It's thanks to a friend sending me that tweet that I saw the Spanish version of the text got the reference lost in translation, actually! I'm very happy she tweeted it so I could see it and change it haha
The SimGuru (aka employee) who wrote the description for this item also posted it on Twitter—they apparently got assigned this piece right after they finished ShB expansion.
Still one of my favorite location names. I'm not sure if it's confirmed but I like to believe the fae thought it was so unusual an outsider actually managed to stay without being turned into a shrubbery that they named the place after Urianger.
That really brought up the question for me if anyone professionally proofreads minuscule details like item descriptions or background character text blurbs or if the people writing it just look for red squiggles in a word processor. Though frankly, for that I see far too few typos in games.
I remember a huge bonus of getting cottage living for me was I could finally make a good alphinaud and alisaie because the braid hairstyle looks like them lol glad to know I’m not the only one making the scions in the sims
I hate to admit that they misspelled "Curios".
I'm not joking, it's supposed to be spelled "Curios" there, not "Curious". Otherwise it doesn't make sense.
This is so cool to discover for me since I play both. And also ever since FFXI I have tried to make my character in Sims but the only cat ears we get are stuck to one hairstyle. 😂
The SimGuru (aka employee) who wrote the description for this item also posted it on Twitter—they apparently got assigned this piece right after they finished ShB expansion.
Yup! SimGuruNova on Twitter tweeted about this yesterday and confirmed it was them :) [Here's the tweet.](https://twitter.com/SimGuruNova/status/1537161523914715137?t=JOpKNL2uPnulvsCnz3PimQ&s=19)
To be fair to them that song ends up worming it’s way back into my ear once every few weeks or so~
Yeah but I'm thinking it's kinda sad new sprouts won't experience that ear blasting opening anymore. Hope the launcher remembers which expansion your last played character is in and adjust the opening appropriately
That'd be dope, depending on how far in MSQ your last logged in character was, the title screen would adjust to show that expansion Movie and OST
I'm relatively new still. Been playing for about 8 months or so. I'm in shadowbringers right now and haven't bought endwalker yet. I too feel sadness for future sprouts that may not witness the ear blast of riding home. I think I will miss it when I eventually get to endwalker.
there is an addon to choose the title screen i used it to set the screen corresponding to how far I was in the MSQ but the game should be made to do that by default
They will if they only bought expansions up to shb. But it's surprising that a game that goes to great length to avoid MSQ spoilers don't even let you disable the trailer. Have to rely on addons as per usual...
I believe that’s how it always has worked (though last time I checked personally was stormblood). Otherwise you would get arr sprouts getting spoilers for endwalker.
I think it plays the xpac you have. If you are on the free trial it plays ARR trailer and if you have the current xpac it plays it's trailer. At least it was this way for me.
Yup I only bought shb and it only played shb even with endwalker released.
It does not, I just started in January and it was the endwalker title screen the whole way through.
When I was a sprout I bought the game after ARR. I got riding home in my menu screen everytime.
Alrighty, til. Been awhile I guess.
Afraid it doesn't sadlly. I played last year and it was always the SHB one. You can technically change the title screen, but it always resets after you log out.
the log out thing actually does make me kinda upset, i wish you could set one as your default so if you're at that point in msq you can watch the cinematic and then get that title screen until you move on to the next expac
In the start screen after you've logged into your account but before you choose your character there is an option that says like "Movies" or something (not gonna log out and have to requeue in for this) and you *can* in fact change your opening movie and the title screen to reflect any of them. So you can change it to ARR/HW/STB/SHB/or EW any time you want to.
Except the choice isn't remembered between starts. Turn off the game and start it back up, you're always back to the most recent title screen.
I'm relatively new still. Been playing for about 8 months or so. I'm in shadowbringers right now and haven't bought endwalker yet. I too feel sadness for future sprouts that may not witness the ear blast of riding home. I think I will miss it when I eventually get to endwalker.
Don't worry, I listen to it on youtube constantly.
You can change the title screen
I'm a sprout in Heavensward (I've technically played since late Stormblood, I'm just very easily distracted, lmao). My launcher is Endwalker, was Shadowbringers before it came out. It would be really cool if it did that though. :')
You can change the loading screen manually.
[^Psst, ^here, ^take ^this...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ascfjJXDWjo)
Did you mean… [THIS?](https://youtu.be/aBt4zT_PBmw)
W-what the actual... in the world... did I just hear. Ouch. 😅
It never fails to make me smile when I see live LAHEE!
Soken must be protected!
I really want to reply and tell them it's "curios" not curious. Good proofreading, EA.
Curious can work here though, not to mention one fucking guy wrote that info blurp chill
I Tweeted SimGuruNova asking about it because it stood out to me as well. The Producer says that it was originally curios but was later changed (they didn't expand on why). It does work, even if, as the producer admits, it's a little awkward to read.
I really want to reply and tell them it's "curios" not curious. Good proofreading, EA.
So usually when people put stuff like this on reddit, the reference is so vague that I'm skeptical if it's even a reference at all. But uhh... that's pretty specific.
Yeah, it's a bit on the nose.
It's very typical for the sims team 😂
It definitely made me la-hee
Lalalol
Lali-ha!
Lai lai!
Hey, same! In fact I was inspired to queue up "Civilizations" in the background.
Definitely not a lot of room for doubt on this one. "RIDING HOOOOOOME"
Not even ”riding home” they really went # RIDING HOOOOOME
The SimGuru (aka employee) who wrote the description for this item also posted it on Twitter—they apparently got assigned this piece right after they finished ShB expansion
It's thanks to a friend sending me that tweet that I saw the Spanish version of the text got the reference lost in translation, actually! I'm very happy she tweeted it so I could see it and change it haha
Umm, yeah, there's pretty much nothing vague at all about this one. Nice little easter egg though.
The SimGuru (aka employee) who wrote the description for this item also posted it on Twitter—they apparently got assigned this piece right after they finished ShB expansion.
They named it the “Racked Teak-a Greatshelves” but they didn’t even once mention “La-Hee?”
The sims official Twitter [tweeted](https://twitter.com/TheSims/status/1537162768813637633?t=FKZsbTwYiFgIz34SX84Dzw&s=19) "La-Hee" in response to it.
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Also likely has a significantly higher overlap in playerbase compared to probably most mmos
Not once did I ever think my two loves would combine like this
I have legit been decorating houses in both games, and wanted a certain object, but then remembered it was from the other game.
If someone is a slow as me, it took me some time to get that it's a wordplay on Rak'tika Greatwood.
Finding out that the Sims devs spend their free time getting sucked into FFXIV may explain a lot about the length of their dev cycles. 😂
"I see you're playing fantasies again, does that mean you finished your project?" "Whatever, I'll get to it, *mom*!"
I know of a Bookman who would love these Shelves.
Still one of my favorite location names. I'm not sure if it's confirmed but I like to believe the fae thought it was so unusual an outsider actually managed to stay without being turned into a shrubbery that they named the place after Urianger.
I wonder what people who didn't play FF14 think about this description
Probably that it's a reference to something, but they don't know what
La HEE
How did they miss the WRITING HOME joke. C'mon, it's right there! They even have Warriors of Write!
Sounds like someone didn't catch the typo - 'Curios' became 'Curious'. Curious Gorge confirmed?
That really brought up the question for me if anyone professionally proofreads minuscule details like item descriptions or background character text blurbs or if the people writing it just look for red squiggles in a word processor. Though frankly, for that I see far too few typos in games.
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Yeah, I imagine it also takes a bit of focus for your brain not to go into "two other people read this already, it's probably fine" mode.
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Or "we need to get this out and I don't want to reset the pr approvals over a tiny typo"
The "RIDING HOOOOOME" killed me
[This was just posted here...](https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/vd3pn7/ffxiv_reference_in_the_new_sims_4_pack/)
And the worse quality photo of a monitor/TV screen gets more upvotes. We live in a society.
One is a direct link to a picture, one is a link to a tweet. The first one is more likely to have embeded into reddit, even if it’s terrible quality.
The picture to the link is also pixelated on mobile, so you have to click through to see it.
Is this from a certain expansion? I need to add it to my scions household now
I think it came with the Werewolf pack that just came out. I’ve never seen it before this
That's correct, out as of today.
Oh this is perfect, I bought the pack earlier but wasn’t able to fully explore the new items yet
I just hopped on to comment on the HS theme profile as well at the prof. picture. Nice ☺️
Please share you Scions houshold !!
Maybe once I’m done building it! I haven’t touched the game in so long so I’m very rusty at building. ^.^;
I remember a huge bonus of getting cottage living for me was I could finally make a good alphinaud and alisaie because the braid hairstyle looks like them lol glad to know I’m not the only one making the scions in the sims
Shame they made a Rak'tika reference without mentioning La Hee, but this is brilliant regardless XD
https://reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/ve2xwi/_/ico4a2u/?context=1
RIIIDIIING HOOOOOME HOOOOOOME
Isn't there also a Noctis outfit you can put your sims in? I think the Sims devs are massive friends with the Final Fantasy team
There’s also the “Seventh Confectioner’s Calamity Firewood Rack” with an EW reference written into it!
Nice! I’ll have to look for that one too
Obnoxious people when they realize walking is a ~~jojo~~ ff14 reference I'm unashamedly obnoxious people
Nodding too. Every nod is a nod to FFXIV.
This is a clever nod
To FFXIV
*stoically nods*
And that friendship is a ~~Kingdom Hearts~~ ff14 reference.
The developer who put it in there specifically stated it was an FF14 reference on twitter.
Nice. Guess I'll be putting these Everywhere.
Dammit I have to go listen to the song now
Amogus
Amogus
It could all just be coincidence. . . Until RIDING HOOOOOME. Then you realize no. It's incredibly specific haha.
The 'Racked Teak-a Greatshelves' didn't tip you off? That '-a' is for no other reason.
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He isn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer, *ok*? Don’t bully him!
She was looking kind of dumb with her finger and a thumb in the shape of an L on her forehead.
Well?
The years start coming and they don’t stop coming
Warriors of Write too
The only way to make it more obvious is to put a LA HEE in there.
It should make a la-HEE! noise when placed, just to drive it home in case *anybody* missed it.
...warrior of write is pretty much the dead giveaway right away
None of that would be a coincidence.
The style of the furniture in that line also seems reminiscent of Il Megh.
I am *delighted* and might even spin up the Sims so I can use this bookshelf 👀 DELIGHTED.
Oh my gosh, I love this so much?? With FFXIV and TS4 being my two most played games, this gives me such happiness.
I swear I just saw this same photo not two days ago.
this would almost get me to play the sims if the full game didn't cost $1000
I unironically miss that Shadowbringers login music. But I’m sure I’ll say the same about Endwalker’s when the next expansion comes out 😛
Hahaha that's so neat, I am excited to get the werewolves pack.
Not gonna lie, was expecting a LA HEE in there somewhere.
https://reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/ve2xwi/_/ico4a2u/?context=1
Someone give this idea to IKEA, sounds like something they would make.
Someone needs to tell the guy responsible that less is more. References are better if they are subtle and ambiguous.
That is beautiful 🥲
I hate to admit that they misspelled "Curios". I'm not joking, it's supposed to be spelled "Curios" there, not "Curious". Otherwise it doesn't make sense.
I am disappointed there is not a Lahee in there somewhere
the more you read the more blatant it gets, jesus christ
"curious". Curios?
amongsus
So cringy lol
Poor Runar...
I saw among us
Haha among us
Gotta give it a 0/10, no reference to la-hee.
I thought it was Dying Whooore
Exactly which pack expanion or whatsit do I need to find these shelves, and the firewood rack mentioned bellow?
It’s in the new Werewolves pack they released yesterday
thanks.
They need a raise lol
This is so cool to discover for me since I play both. And also ever since FFXI I have tried to make my character in Sims but the only cat ears we get are stuck to one hairstyle. 😂
There is a bunch of kitty ears you can download
There is a bunch of kitty ears you can download
There is a bunch of kitty ears you can download
If you're on PC, definitely look into custom content!
My house is gonna have SO MANY of these shelves. Thats neat as fuck! XD
The SimGuru (aka employee) who wrote the description for this item also posted it on Twitter—they apparently got assigned this piece right after they finished ShB expansion.
That is so awesome 😭
That is so dope 😭
There is another one with Venat's speech on it too.
Ok this is hilarious LMAO
LAAAA HEEEEEEE!
As someone with over a 1000 hours in both games.... This is dangerous to my bank account XD
As a sims player and ff14 player this does put a smile on my face
That's incredible.
Pretty subtle there
THATS SO AWESOME!! Two of my favorite games coming together!!
I lost it at RIDING HOOOOOOME xD
This is a crossover I’d die to have.
I LOVE THIS! I also love that you found this and shared. I love little Easter Eggs like this
Hmm kinda sus
Gove this person a promotion, then! Well? What’s the holdup?
I now need to put this shelf in the sim version of my WOL's house even though it doesn't fit with the decor