I was thinking about what it would take to get me buy an expansion pack for toddler's considering how I feel about them being cut. Frankly, it would be a lot. In addition to what we had; I would want the following options, to even consider purchasing an expansion for what I feel like should already be there. I don't mean just a toddler's xp; more like a more robust Generations.
1. Opening cabinets and banging on pots and pans.
2. Getting into toilets and trash.
3. Riding toys
4. Coloring and occasionally coloring on the walls.
5. Lots of clothing options. Osh kosh b'gosh, Baby Gap, and Carter's style.
6. Bubble baths and wading pools
7. baby swings
8. Useable rocking horse.
9. Lots of interactions with family, other children and toddlers and pets. When they are added.
10.Bath toys
11.Fear of storms
I know that many of you would never purchase an expansion for toddlers. But, if you would consider buying one, what would you want added?
edited: to clarify meaning.
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This is a comment I just posted in another forum. I could see EA making the decision to cut toddlers in the base game but add them back in an expansion at a later date as a means to please more people. Sure it may seem like an affront to those who like toddlers at first, but there are more opinions out there, and maybe it truly was a decision made to make more people happy and not less. I may have wishful thinking that this was the reasoning and that there really is a whole expansion dedicated to children and family activities on the planning board I'm just going to wait and see.
and knowing EA the toddlers would still be worse then in 2
who can play in toilets, have bubble baths, can actuality interact with other toddlers and child sims (child sims can even talk to infants when someone's holding the infant) can try to hug pets only to like there strangling them, has a hug interaction called huggle with other toddlers, can play some games with child sims, can learn nursery rimes form sims child and up, can play peek a boo with sims child and up, and of course could be taught to walk, talk, and be potty trained by sims teen and up. I'm pretty sure i forgot some interactions.
In free time the activity table was added where toddler and child sims could play with blocks and draw pictures (so could they not draw with the one in 3?) and other stuff i forget. Then in apartment life when play equipment other then a swing set was added toddlers got a spring rider witch i think was what was cloned to make the rocking horse i saw on mod the sims.
So most of that list was in the sims 2 (the spring rider for rocking horse) and for clothing options i think there are more in the base game 2 then 3
Edit: I forgot about how toddlers would sometimes dance if a radio/stereo was on, but you can make them they have to do it by them selfs
As long as EA includes more gameplay, making toddlers be a bit more like a real toddler, then I would definitely purchase an expansion to include them.
Yes, I should have said that. I personally would be offended if they came just as a toddler's xp, and was thinking more along the lines of a more fleshed out generations.
I do not care if it came with all the bells and whistles.
I will not pay for something that was suppose to be in the base game then be told later, "No sorry, no toddlers."
IF E.A. does come out with a Toddler expansion pack, they can take it and stick it where the sun does not shine.
Well said.
People who buy these expansions will be the first to get back the omitted features, but soon other people will have basic stuff like tots and pools in base game through patching. Like you know how they exclusively advertised memories for Generations, but now everyone has them whether or not they own that game? Same with breast slider from Late Night.
They should try to make these pools and toddlers the best they can, to make up for the fact they left them out.
This sounds highly unbelievable.
I am the type of person to where if I say "NO" I mean "No" there is nothing that can be said or done to change my mind.
Yes, I am THAT stubborn. :P
When it hits the 5 dollar bin at Walmart.
It would have made more since for them to take out YA not toddlers. I will not buy an EP for what should have been in the game in the first place. Put them in a free patch and make an EP with everything the OP stated and I might consider buying it then.
^ This. You all can believe or not, doesn't really matter. I am not going to continue to be fleeced by EA. I look for them to go bankrupt within the next 10 years anyway.
ETA: This is considering I ever do decide to buy the base game of course.
That's how I feel. I wouldn't buy an EP based on toddlers....and they would have to be a minor part. I uninstalled Generations after a couple of weeks.