I agree with everything in his review and, as others have said, kudos to him for donating $50 to an animal charity!
I was on the fence about buying this stuff pack but I'm definitely not going to now since the more purchases it gets, the more likely it is that EA will try to do something like this again in the future. So I think I'll donate the money to my local animal shelter instead like LGR and other Simmers have been doing
Yeah what bothers me the most is that they might try doing the exact same thing with the next expansion pack - cutting up content and selling parts of it in stuff packs etc. It worries me tbh.
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If you're going to donate your money, donate it to a kid's charity or something instead of going with a fad to give it to animal charities.
Also, I should warn guys that those charities will hand your details around as somebody who is charitable so you might just want to stuff $10 in your local charity store charity jar rather than giving online.
To be ABSOLUTELY honest, now that I've seen some reviews of this pack, I don't know how keen I am to get it. I mean, I was hopeful. Totally hopeful. I hoped that the furniture would be properly new for the pack. While everybody else (okay, not everybody, but all the really loud people) was saying the pack would be terrible and they'd never get it, I was saying, "Let's not base our judgements on a trailer. Let's wait until it comes out."
Then I end up looking like a chump because they're all right.
Prepping a list of mods to add after Infants are placed into the game. Because real life isn't 'nice'.
That would get pretty obnoxious quick after the first two or three times of doing it, even more so if you have larger families that contract it.
I guess, but i imagine it more like a food recipe where you could make a total of 8 plates so everyone could share. But its not random, you can only contract it if the cage is dirty, right? Keeping your home clean is already part of the sims anyway otherwise you'll get vermin, so unless you neglect it, you wont get it.
Actually im not sure if even vermin is in sims 4.
We need more consequences in the game imo, adding something like this seems like fun, not a nuisance. But thats just my opinion.
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Something I can see happening - after watching Deligracy's review - is that if this pack is a genuine success, EA will throw imagination out of the window and make a ton more clothes for Cats&Dogs based on clothes in the other packs. That worries me much more, really, because your pet can only wear one thing at a time so you get much less use out of extra pet clothes than you do out of Stuff.
A lot of those clothes are based on clothes from other packs too.Like the Toddler Stuff Bee.
Prepping a list of mods to add after Infants are placed into the game. Because real life isn't 'nice'.
LGR is entertaining but I don't think people should base their decision to purchase on his 'review', since it's far too much of an opinion this time around. In my opinion, anyway. The word 'review' in the title is rather... misleading. You could say he goes off topic a few times himself.
Prepping a list of mods to add after Infants are placed into the game. Because real life isn't 'nice'.
Disagree as you will. He's supposed to review the pack, not the way EA takes advantage of loyal customers. We already know they do that. Also, a lot of people rely on his reviews. A good review shouldn't leave a person uninformed and needing to look up other reviews to learn the whole truth - good or bad. That's the whole point of a review.
For an item like the Rodent Rug... well, that's downright misleading, because it swatches into multiple animals and shapes. Some pet beds also have multiple shapes and markedly different designs, and he doesn't mention this.
He also says "This stuff just acts as a constant teaser to buy more content so you don't feel left out and I assume thats's the point." Yeah, it kind of is - definitely is, in fact - but you don't buy Cats&Dogs to be able to use another pet bed that came in the expansion - you buy it to play with Cats&Dogs. I mean, it keeps Cats&Dogs in the light but it's not holding a gun to your head simply because it's so specifically aimed at people who did buy Cats&Dogs and even then I'm sure most people can live without a hamster in their lives.
The Gameplay object, ultimately the most important object in any SP, got like, a minute, and the disease - considering that people have been asking for more deaths - got about thirty seconds. Compare about four minutes spent ranting about EA, and how it takes almost two minutes at the start to get to the actual game content - about half of this is spent assuring us that LGR doesn't hate The Sims.
Gotta say a lot of that furniture totally annoys me though. Okay, NOW I am convinced that there was stuff directly stripped from the C&D pack. You want to get cross about any aspect of the pack? Get cross about THAT. No wonder this pack came out so fast.
He showed all of the CAS content, all of the build/buy content. He went into detail on the C&D requirement, the hamster cage, and the new death. What vital information did he miss? I see no reason someone should have to search out additional information unless they are looking for a content overview.
Yeah what bothers me the most is that they might try doing the exact same thing with the next expansion pack - cutting up content and selling parts of it in stuff packs etc. It worries me tbh.
I hope not. I'd rather we get new content in SPs then something from expansion packs granted I really do like this pack. Even though my opinions on this pack are different then Lazy Gamers the way he did this review made me laugh.
I agree with him. I will admit that what bothers me most is the broken-up furniture set and I'm glad he showed that. C&D felt slim to me content-wise (I even complained about that here). Finding more items that are a part of a furniture set from C&D really makes me feel like they took content out to make a stuff pack.
I don't mind the recolors of existing clothing so much, but I'm glad he highlighted that as well. Just.. bah humbug
I agree with him entirely. Great review. He thoroughly went through everything this pack offers, explained clearly how this is EA trying to make even more cash on a theme that worked out well for them (as it always does), and where your money has better belonging (donating to an actual pet rescue). This pack, in every regard, is the lowest point of The Sims.
Yes, that is right -- even after Katy Perry: Sweet Treats.
Yeah what bothers me the most is that they might try doing the exact same thing with the next expansion pack - cutting up content and selling parts of it in stuff packs etc. It worries me tbh.
This stuff pack was especially blatant about it. That's not good and it concerns me too.
....This pack, in every regard, is the lowest point of The Sims.
Yes, that is right -- even after Katy Perry: Sweet Treats.
I never thought I'd see a pack as bad as that one. But here we are.
In fact, after all these years, next time I see a copy of KPST, I'm going to buy it. And know that I haven't purchased the worst pack in the Sims series after all.
So, I guess My First Pet review by LGR is a thumbs down. I wasn't planning on getting it anyway. After watching his review, I'm glad I didn't. This is probably my "Katy Perry: Sweet Treats" of Sims 4. Didn't buy that one either.
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Yeah what bothers me the most is that they might try doing the exact same thing with the next expansion pack - cutting up content and selling parts of it in stuff packs etc. It worries me tbh.
This !
And also, I agree with LGR's review. I didn't buy the SP, and do not plan to do so, unless it comes on sale for 5$ which I believe is it's true value price.
Also, that $50? WHY? A guy already has C&D and thought it was pretty good, then bought MFP... How about he start a trend of donating that $50 to a children's charity instead? Cuz y'know, FIRST PET? All that kid-based stuff? It was a publicity stunt.
Really, a publicity stunt? LGR is not trying to impress anyone. Plus, he's not in the public eye, only in the eye of the gaming community. I'm sure most people in the simming community know who he is and know what to expect from his reviews.
Anyways, I agree with everything he said in the video. I've been playing for nearly a decade and this is by far the worst pack I've seen. I thought Katy Perry was bad, but at least it was somewhat original. The review pretty much correlated with what I thought.
If you're going to donate your money, donate it to a kid's charity or something instead of going with a fad to give it to animal charities.
Also, I should warn guys that those charities will hand your details around as somebody who is charitable so you might just want to stuff $10 in your local charity store charity jar rather than giving online.
To be ABSOLUTELY honest, now that I've seen some reviews of this pack, I don't know how keen I am to get it. I mean, I was hopeful. Totally hopeful. I hoped that the furniture would be properly new for the pack. While everybody else (okay, not everybody, but all the really loud people) was saying the pack would be terrible and they'd never get it, I was saying, "Let's not base our judgements on a trailer. Let's wait until it comes out."
Then I end up looking like a chump because they're all right.
It's a pack...about (one's first) pet(s)...of course he's going to give to an animal charity, out of all potential charities. Any type of charity is worth donating to in theory, kids vs pets it doesn't matter. If the cause is real and the charity is legit; then it's a good thing to do. Online just gives you a (much much wider) variety of choices.
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Anyway, I agree wholeheartedly with the opinions in the review and thought the review was decent. He could've gone in a bit more details about various things, but it was pretty obvious he was still very tired/heated over the whole thing and honestly I don't blame him.
And tbh, I was even more surprised how bad the pack was in terms of proportion to objects that were essentially required to have C&D to have versus ones that were just universal and you could use without having to buy C&D. Like, nearly 50% of the items of the pack. Non-pet CAS stuff was absolutely bare bones, much of which was just reskins; which isn't THAT big of a deal normally but when you have such a small selection...it just makes it much more frustrating especially if you don't have C&D.
I'm gonna agree with him in that I think the pack should've just been 100% catered to C&D only or at least content should've been much more spread out throughout various other packs (he talks about this in the comments, and brings up a good point).
Both hairstyles look like messes. The female one wouldn't be too bad if it didn't have 3 layers in the back, what on earth. The furniture looks nice and the rodents are cute, but it really is just hard for me to justify the price when a good portion of the content should've been in C&D.
Okay, this review feels really, REALLY lazy to me. Simply put, LGR skims over pretty much everything in favour of concentrating on telling us that not the entire pack can be played without the C&D expansion. Kind of missing the fact that people WITH the C&D expansion are the ones it's aimed at, skimming over the gameplay object in three seconds,not showing the many, many MANY swatches for the items, which is a shame because most of them actually change the shape of the item.
Now I'm glad that LGR speaks his mind and doesn't squee like a fangirl. But I don't think of this as a review. More like another rant about MFP (some of which make reasonable points), and we have plenty of those. His just came out AFTER the game was released.
I mean, this was a Stuff Pack. I knew from the start that he wouldn't advise anybody to get it.
Also, that $50? WHY? A guy already has C&D and thought it was pretty good, then bought MFP... How about he start a trend of donating that $50 to a children's charity instead? Cuz y'know, FIRST PET? All that kid-based stuff? It was a publicity stunt.
This is the part that got me I noticed it too.. but then again I bought the pack and pulled most of it out. Most.. because I was satisfied with what I looked through but I saw a lot more than what was shown in the video. I'm not going to go into a detailed analysis but he showed the rat splat looking rug... but there are many different ones ladybug, turtle ect, square ones both plain and with animal print patterns ect. He also did the same thing with the two pet beds, showing them in brown and doing the doghouse bit. Funny yes.. appealing to his audience, check. Showing the product throughly.. no. I think he didn't show them because he wanted to ho-hum it, focus on "24", whats going wrong in his opinion and entertain. That's okay might I add but .. as for fair and unbiased, no....it's not a full review it's a statement. Thing is he could have splayed them out and still done the snark bit about re-texturing. Right? Shown the pack and got in the digs too. He does show some things later as he's talking about the pack but you can't tell what's what.
Another thing that stuck out like a sore thumb to me was lining up 4 yellow cages.. the most obnoxious color in this simmers opinion. I mean he took the time to pull out each cage I think. Why not show different colors. Again.. entertainment and snark, and showing the variety imo makes it look better. As it was for grins I turned off his voice and watched the show a second time through.. and still liked the content. To me it's like his review is just geared to entertain those that agree with his stance AND that's okay might I add again. Same as someone bubbling over with joy when presenting. I usually don't watch reviews.. any of them. I watched more this time just because of the turmoil.. for my own entertainment. Not to see what they had to say. I don't need to. I enjoy the product and I'm not on the fence. I can see the content when the Gurus do a livestream. I guess one day it's possible I'll get a pack that I hate after playing with it but it hasn't happened yet and I'm not holding my breath that it will.
Anyway, I don't believe his reviews covers it all, or "nails it" and definitely not this time. They do cover some, voice his opinion and entertain. That's okay. For someone that wants to see what's in the pack though.. it could show a lot more.
Am I mad though?.. Nope, quite the opposite, it's entertaining.
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I was on the fence about buying this stuff pack but I'm definitely not going to now since the more purchases it gets, the more likely it is that EA will try to do something like this again in the future. So I think I'll donate the money to my local animal shelter instead like LGR and other Simmers have been doing
It's just plain not what I want in my game. But there is the principle of it as well. They shorted matching furniture on the C&D EP for this pack.
Worse, they shorted us simmers for profit. No. I don't play that way.
Also, I should warn guys that those charities will hand your details around as somebody who is charitable so you might just want to stuff $10 in your local charity store charity jar rather than giving online.
To be ABSOLUTELY honest, now that I've seen some reviews of this pack, I don't know how keen I am to get it. I mean, I was hopeful. Totally hopeful. I hoped that the furniture would be properly new for the pack. While everybody else (okay, not everybody, but all the really loud people) was saying the pack would be terrible and they'd never get it, I was saying, "Let's not base our judgements on a trailer. Let's wait until it comes out."
Then I end up looking like a chump because they're all right.
I guess, but i imagine it more like a food recipe where you could make a total of 8 plates so everyone could share. But its not random, you can only contract it if the cage is dirty, right? Keeping your home clean is already part of the sims anyway otherwise you'll get vermin, so unless you neglect it, you wont get it.
Actually im not sure if even vermin is in sims 4.
We need more consequences in the game imo, adding something like this seems like fun, not a nuisance. But thats just my opinion.
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A lot of those clothes are based on clothes from other packs too.Like the Toddler Stuff Bee.
LGR is entertaining but I don't think people should base their decision to purchase on his 'review', since it's far too much of an opinion this time around. In my opinion, anyway. The word 'review' in the title is rather... misleading. You could say he goes off topic a few times himself.
He showed all of the CAS content, all of the build/buy content. He went into detail on the C&D requirement, the hamster cage, and the new death. What vital information did he miss? I see no reason someone should have to search out additional information unless they are looking for a content overview.
I hope not. I'd rather we get new content in SPs then something from expansion packs granted I really do like this pack. Even though my opinions on this pack are different then Lazy Gamers the way he did this review made me laugh.
I don't mind the recolors of existing clothing so much, but I'm glad he highlighted that as well. Just.. bah humbug
Yes, that is right -- even after Katy Perry: Sweet Treats.
This stuff pack was especially blatant about it. That's not good and it concerns me too.
I never thought I'd see a pack as bad as that one. But here we are.
In fact, after all these years, next time I see a copy of KPST, I'm going to buy it. And know that I haven't purchased the worst pack in the Sims series after all.
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This !
And also, I agree with LGR's review. I didn't buy the SP, and do not plan to do so, unless it comes on sale for 5$ which I believe is it's true value price.
Really, a publicity stunt? LGR is not trying to impress anyone. Plus, he's not in the public eye, only in the eye of the gaming community. I'm sure most people in the simming community know who he is and know what to expect from his reviews.
Anyways, I agree with everything he said in the video. I've been playing for nearly a decade and this is by far the worst pack I've seen. I thought Katy Perry was bad, but at least it was somewhat original. The review pretty much correlated with what I thought.
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It's a pack...about (one's first) pet(s)...of course he's going to give to an animal charity, out of all potential charities. Any type of charity is worth donating to in theory, kids vs pets it doesn't matter. If the cause is real and the charity is legit; then it's a good thing to do. Online just gives you a (much much wider) variety of choices.
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Anyway, I agree wholeheartedly with the opinions in the review and thought the review was decent. He could've gone in a bit more details about various things, but it was pretty obvious he was still very tired/heated over the whole thing and honestly I don't blame him.
And tbh, I was even more surprised how bad the pack was in terms of proportion to objects that were essentially required to have C&D to have versus ones that were just universal and you could use without having to buy C&D. Like, nearly 50% of the items of the pack. Non-pet CAS stuff was absolutely bare bones, much of which was just reskins; which isn't THAT big of a deal normally but when you have such a small selection...it just makes it much more frustrating especially if you don't have C&D.
I'm gonna agree with him in that I think the pack should've just been 100% catered to C&D only or at least content should've been much more spread out throughout various other packs (he talks about this in the comments, and brings up a good point).
Both hairstyles look like messes. The female one wouldn't be too bad if it didn't have 3 layers in the back, what on earth. The furniture looks nice and the rodents are cute, but it really is just hard for me to justify the price when a good portion of the content should've been in C&D.
This is the part that got me I noticed it too.. but then again I bought the pack and pulled most of it out. Most.. because I was satisfied with what I looked through but I saw a lot more than what was shown in the video. I'm not going to go into a detailed analysis but he showed the rat splat looking rug... but there are many different ones ladybug, turtle ect, square ones both plain and with animal print patterns ect. He also did the same thing with the two pet beds, showing them in brown and doing the doghouse bit. Funny yes.. appealing to his audience, check. Showing the product throughly.. no. I think he didn't show them because he wanted to ho-hum it, focus on "24", whats going wrong in his opinion and entertain. That's okay might I add but .. as for fair and unbiased, no....it's not a full review it's a statement. Thing is he could have splayed them out and still done the snark bit about re-texturing. Right? Shown the pack and got in the digs too. He does show some things later as he's talking about the pack but you can't tell what's what.
Another thing that stuck out like a sore thumb to me was lining up 4 yellow cages.. the most obnoxious color in this simmers opinion. I mean he took the time to pull out each cage I think. Why not show different colors. Again.. entertainment and snark, and showing the variety imo makes it look better. As it was for grins I turned off his voice and watched the show a second time through.. and still liked the content. To me it's like his review is just geared to entertain those that agree with his stance AND that's okay might I add again. Same as someone bubbling over with joy when presenting. I usually don't watch reviews.. any of them. I watched more this time just because of the turmoil.. for my own entertainment. Not to see what they had to say. I don't need to. I enjoy the product and I'm not on the fence. I can see the content when the Gurus do a livestream. I guess one day it's possible I'll get a pack that I hate after playing with it but it hasn't happened yet and I'm not holding my breath that it will.
Anyway, I don't believe his reviews covers it all, or "nails it" and definitely not this time. They do cover some, voice his opinion and entertain. That's okay. For someone that wants to see what's in the pack though.. it could show a lot more.
Am I mad though?.. Nope, quite the opposite, it's entertaining.
$50 total.
It's actually $30 right now.
- the single stupidest pack
- HOW GENEROUS!
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He’s the best sims reviewer