Sims 4 March Update Brings Marketplace to PC and Mac, Fixes 60 Plus Bugs

The Sims 4 Team shipped patch builds 1.122.205.1030 (PC) and 1.122.205.1230 (Mac) on March 17, 2026, delivering the in-game Marketplace to PC and Mac players alongside more than 60 quality-of-life bug fixes — many pulled directly from the community's top-voted issues list. Console players on PlayStation and Xbox will receive the Marketplace at an unspecified later date.

The Marketplace arrives fully integrated into The Sims 4, offering curated collections and improved discovery tools designed to help players find creator content that matches their playstyle. Pack Select, previously buried in the Game Options Menu, has been relocated to My Collection within the Marketplace. The functionality remains intact: players can still choose which content loads into a Saved Game, and the move adds a new capability to manage storage for Marketplace downloaded content, including Maker Packs and newly purchased Kit content, directly from within the game. The patch also updated Gallery discovery with improved filters for easier navigation.

On the bug fix side, the Sims 4 Team called out Sim autonomy as one of its Quality of Life Team's key focus areas. "This update delivers on 3 of our top autonomy issues: Sims socializing with strangers, excessive flirting, and Sims using certain objects obsessively," the team wrote in the official update post, adding that player feedback on autonomy will continue to inform future updates. The practical effect of the strangers fix is straightforward: public lot gatherings will no longer be derailed by uninvited Sims wandering over to start unsolicited conversations.

For players running mods or custom content, the standard post-patch routine applies before filing any bug reports. Remove all mods and CC, delete the game cache, run a repair through the EA App, Origin, or Steam, and test the issue in a clean save before reporting anything to the EA bug forum. Players who want to delay downloading the update entirely can uncheck automatic updates in their launcher settings before the patch downloads, or go offline in the launcher before launching the game.

The Sims 4 Team closed the update post with its customary sign-off: "Happy Simming!" The promise to keep watching player feedback on autonomy signals that the quality-of-life push is treated as ongoing work rather than a one-patch resolution.