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Is my first pet stuff pack actually worth it.
brendhan21
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I have not bought it yet and I am seriously considering to skip it as well honestly a few people have said if they did not have to review it for the channel they would not have bought it. I wont lie that sends me slightly mixed signals on if this pack is worth it or not. I am honestly not sure if there is anything worth getting for this pack or not.
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Could’ve used this comment before I bought it
Yes
What you're getting if you buy this pack
A lot more choices in animal clothing
Holiday Onesies that look like the holiday sweaters for toddlers,children,cats,small dogs and big dogs.
More Pet Beds. There were only 2 in Cats and Dogs.
More Litter Boxes and Pet Toy containers.
A round aquarium coffee table with fish.
Rodent pens with hamsters,rats and 2 other rodent choices.
The aquarium coffee table alone makes this pack worth it. Of course I love aquariums.
You also clearly love cats. OMG that cat picture for your avatar is cute.
Except it doesn't even function like the other aquariums....you can't put fish in it, your sims can't "view" it and you can't set the lighting for it. I definitely wouldn't pay $10 just for that item.
There was a developer livestream several days before the pack launch that showed basically the entire pack....all the CAS items, all the Build/Buy items and the whole hamster thing. When they show us the entire pack before it's released, there is really nothing else that anyone needs to know as far as what they are buying.
If this is the future of Stuff packs I don't want to be involved in the Cheap, Lazy, pack splitting cash cow. No thank you EA. Same goes for EP's.
Maybe it wouldn't of hit Simmers so hard if it wasn't still so close to the released Cats and dogs EP. Maybe if they waited a year, then it would of been easier to swallow!
Those things are boring to me.
Based on your previous posts, I don't think you'd like this pack.
EDIT: I'm seriously considering about passing on this pack!
I've watched a few reviews and playthroughs (I don't own the pack). The rodent doesn't seem to add a lot in my personal opinion. Of course they take off in their rocket ships every once in a while, but how soon will that animation feel a bit tired and "been there, done that" to you? You can feed them and hold them but they're stuck to their cage (when they're not off to space). The playing with the hamster animation isn't that great (too short) in my personal opinion. It has always been that way but they do cost a big amount of money this time around, with them being the gameplay item of a stuff pack I mean. I do find it very cute that the other pets seem to radiate towards the cage. Kids can study them as homework and the notorious disease from TS1 makes a return which is cool. Unless you've been craving the addition of a hamster and a new death/sickness I wouldn't go for it.
There aren't a lot of new CAS-items, except for cats and dogs but those are mostly rehashes and the question is if you frequently use outfits for pets.
The furniture is mostly for kids and fits in with some of the kids furniture of the EP, so if you use those often it might be a nice addition to have other furniture with the same styling and colors. A lot of people are in love with the new aquarium/table and I also think it looks nice.
You obviously get some new stuff for cats and dogs but in my personal opinion there still isn't a lot of diversity when it comes to dogbeds (yes yes a lot of colors but not a lot of different types).
I personally don't think that one virtual object is worth 10 dollars to be quite honest. I'd rather spend my money on something else so I personally don't think that the coffee table alone makes the pack worth it. Maybe if I were wealthy but I'm not.
What I don't get though, is when people complain about the new pet being an object. The small pets have always been more or less an object. Just a thing you interact with, but a nice thing nonetheless. And this pet does a lot more than the previous ones.
I bought KPST on sale -- while I don't like the items, the items are at least original. Was it worth $20? It was barely worth the $5 I spent on it for all the use I give it. But for people who like that kind of whimsy, it gave a lot of new content including new venues.
Generally, I think Sims 4 Stuff Packs are a much better deal than Sims 3 Stuff Packs, but I think the Sims 3 EPs blow Sims 4 EPs out of the water in terms of content.
Not technically on the Katy Perry Pack - it was costumes (from Katy Perry's California Girl Tour) mainly useful in the singing career of the Showtime EP. So it was technically an sp for an ep also - even though the argument can be made you did not NEED the ep to use it - I have to question that opinion seeing as regular clothes it looked ridiculous but did look good as show costumes. I owned it and the only time I used it outside of the pool lot and ice cream lot was for the shows my Katy Perry Sim put on stage in Sims 3. (Keep in mind this pack was 20 dollars).
As for the small furry pets pack we just got - I like it. Helps me make a cheery looking happy place for fun families and their pets. I also could see some of the furniture as looking cute in a child/toddler related restaurant, play house, or even a nursery school... which are just ideas I have. I am particularly fond of the Pygmy Hedgehog and the Void Creature and look forward to having these additions to my game.
But is it worth it: well that is question only you can decide. To me, yes.
"Games Are Not The Place To Tell Stories, Games Are Meant To Let People Tell Their Own Stories"...Will Wright.
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In REALITY, I simply exist.....
Then you assumed the risk when you bought the pack....there are livestreams from the developers....summary videos/reviews from YouTubers....fansites that give a rundown of the pack and post images of all of the items....and the embargo on those third-party sites and videos is lifted the day before the pack is released for sale. There was a thread maintained here in the forums with all the developer comments and answers to questions about the pack leading up to its release. So I'm not sure how anyone could buy this pack, apparently not really knowing what's in it, and say they could've have used a 3 sentence description of the pack from a forum poster before they bought the pack. There was plenty of information about this pack available before purchase (just like all the other packs)....so if someone didn't want to spend any effort looking at that information before buying the pack and chose to be an uninformed buyer, then that's on them.