Are You Buying Growing Together?
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Are You Buying Growing Together? 245 votes
Yes. Already Preordered.
28%
71 votes
Yes. Release day purchase.
19%
48 votes
Yes. Before April 27 to get the extra content.
22%
54 votes
Yes. Will wait for a sale..
8%
20 votes
Maybe. Waiting for more info and gameplay reviews.
11%
28 votes
No.
3%
8 votes
Other
6%
16 votes
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I am just battle_ing myself about when and at what cost
I really wanted HSY this year too though so that could help me wait sale like "if i wait i can have 2 packs" but idk
also dear lord do we even know what else they release this year to make me broke
then again mind you I do not even remember what HSY limited items were that i missed so like will i remember these either if i miss them is mystery
also I really want to not support the limited items agenda so like even if I would buy packs full price sometimes it quite frustrates me
whichever way it is I will buy this pack one mysterious day
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I’m not a huge family player so the kids activities don’t interest me really, but the new category of likes/dislikes and preferred sims personalities seems neat. Still I’m aware that Sims 4 tends to go from 0% to 200%. If this isn’t tuned well it could make getting friends and lovers a real nightmare. I don’t want a pack with another feature that I will need to turn off.
At this point I’m more excited for free patch (hopefully not game breaking this time) with science babies, because I’m currently playing with trans sim and before the stream I wanted her and her boyfriend to adopt a kid at some point, but now there will be new in-game option. Very happy. 😃
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What makes me hesitant to buying it is the family/ social dynamics system. This system could either make or break the way I play my game. Although I regard it as an essential gameplay component, I’m aware that Maxis tends to implement these kind of features in ways that could lead to getting bombarded by intrusive pop-ups and non-sensical situations.
I’m not sure if walk-through videos can help me make an informed decision (I’m sure they can, but I don’t like most…they are too loud and go too fast, whinge) or… I could just stop whinging and wait and see how this one plays out! 🫡
I'm wary of that new family dynamic system (any system that is confined to a single pack, anyways), but if it shows itself to the best thing since the sliced bread and really give your sim families more depth, I reserve the right to change my mind down the road. But for now, I'm content to sit this one out.
I feel that my sims have overstayed their welcome and I don't really have the patience to repeat everything that we have gone through with lifestyles, sentiments, wants & fears... I'm going to be honest, based on what we have seen from previous years, I am expecting this pack to be a disaster at launch and it feels like EA/Maxis have become too comfortable to improve this and I also don't want to experience the same things again, over and over again since 2014.
So I'm probably just going to watch this one from the back row, and see what happens. It's not a definitive "no, I will never buy this pack" it's more like, "I'm not sure." the issue is not with the actual pack, it's with the whole game and the fact that it's 8+ years old.
I do think the new personality systems "sound" good, but since we saw next to nothing about how they actually work in the live stream and I'm EXTREMELY leery of anything the devs implement, it's a wait and see for me. They have a serious track record of overkill .... any system they add is at full max (and typically makes absolutely no sense for a good majority of the sims).
I don't need another system that I have to wait for a modder to fix and tune the system to behave in a realistic way (or shut it off).
Plus I'm EXTREMELY irritated by the fact this "enhanced personality" system is locked behind paid content, when the majority of simmers have been complaining and begging for better sims since the beginning. I feel like anything added that improves the way a sims behave and autonomous behavior is a CORE FEATURE and should have been in the game from the start, not locked behind a paywall so those people who can't afford another $40 pack is stuck with the horrid AI of the existing sims!
I also did not see a lot of new "stuff" for my sims to do that match my personal play style.
My sims are typically immortal (I play with aging off) and I normally only play a handful of families that have kids (and those are normally toddlers, because I have a toddler in my house in RL, so I'm used to that).
I don't care for playing kid sims and only do on a rare occasion. So them learning to ride bikes is not a big deal to me, them getting to have pillow fights is another mehhh for me.
Plus, I can't help but feel like they deliberately omitted these activities for kids to do when DU and HSY were released, because they had plans to add those abilities to this EP from the beginning to help entice people to buy.
I also know that I will never ever use that tree house either, it's too ginormous, I don't play on large lots.
And, I'm not really impressed by even more "game table" games .... why couldn't there have been shuffleboard or something like that instead for the elders. Is the power walk tied to this world? From the livestream I got that feeling it was since there's 3 new paths they can walk on.
Why are there no close by neighbors in the residential neighborhood? Instead there's like 5 houses in that block are fake.
I'm irritated by the amount of set dressing in this world that the devs felt were needed to created "their" vision, instead of allowing players to make the world their own. It will be another world that I never use besides possibly visiting for the splash pad, that's it.
The food stall and piano in the middle of the city is not an enticement for me to visit.
So yeah, overall impression for me personally is it's just ok.......just another movie set backdrop (like most worlds in TS4) for players to take pictures in and pretend there's stuff to do in the world.
I will get it eventually because I do like more BB/CAS items, but this pack didn't wow me.
I am not a huge family player as I prefer to play with the teen and up life-stages but I am a generational player so having something added for the younger generations appeal to me. I also hope there is something new for the elders. I haven't watched the live stream yet so I don't know much about this besides what the trailers have showed us. Besides, I like being surprised.