I can't recall whether Plumbella was for knitting since the beginning or not (I think I remember Carl and James expressing disappointment over it winning). 'Cause I think that might have to do with it.
My own reaction to the trailer is completely tainted by the fact it's hard for me to get excited about knitting in any capacity lol. Even if it turned out ot be a great pack. Might be the same for her?
I'm still looking forward to it because I look forward to new content. (Or maybe because "I'm a girl" lmaooo. I knew testes were fragile, but I didn't know you could just snip them off with a pastel-colored strand of yarn.)
> @j1z1 said: > I can't recall whether Plumbella was for knitting since the beginning or not (I think I remember Carl and James expressing disappointment over it winning). 'Cause I think that might have to do with it. > > My own reaction to the trailer is completely tainted by the fact it's hard for me to get excited about knitting in any capacity lol. Even if it turned out ot be a great pack. Might be the same for her? > > I'm still looking forward to it because I look forward to new content. (Or maybe because "I'm a girl" lmaooo. I knew testes were fragile, but I didn't know you could just snip them off with a pastel-colored strand of yarn.)
I agree with her on this pack. That rocking chair DOES look weird and clunky and like they could have done a LOT better with it.
I also think that the scope of this pack is SO limited. Our expectations for what should come in a pack are so low. You can knit. How many of your sims are going to be knitters? How long can you watch someone knit before you get very bored? This provides no meaningful gameplay.
Yeah I just wished for something different. This is all stuff I feel like I already have but the community seems to be voting for more "basic", "modern", "pretty" stuff and I'm more of an "eccentric", "weird" type of player.
I wish there was more stuff for people like me 'cause my game isn't about "the pretty house", "the beautiful family", "the perfect job". It's more about trying out different things I wouldn't do in real life.
But I guess I'm a minority here.
That's me as well. I have a feeling that we're a growing player base, though. Happy Haunts they said was a very close second place winner. Hopefully we'll see a Game Pack next year for it.
I am still sore that Happy Haunts didn't win..that was like the BEST and most interesting idea.
SAME. Although I was rooting for the Grim Reaper career, ANY choice from Happy Haunts would've been amazing. Just the idea of a knitting pack puts me to sleep. Since they know there is a large interest in Happy Haunts, Im hoping they dedicate a good pack for it in the future. You can't just wave a Grim Reaper career in my face, take it away and expect me to forget about it.
Anyway, I dont know why people are surprised that the pack is very much leaning toward YA focus. I mean sheesh the theming and build/buy choices that ya'll picked out was a pretty clear indicator of what direction the pack was going. And since it was by majority vote, this just tells EA/Maxis yet again that catering to the YA audience is where the money lies. Simmers wanted Elder stuff, and yet voted for YA stuff. I would say that its ironic buuuuut....
Its just not surprising.
At least we will get a knitted Grim.
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.” –Helen Keller
Yeah I just wished for something different. This is all stuff I feel like I already have but the community seems to be voting for more "basic", "modern", "pretty" stuff and I'm more of an "eccentric", "weird" type of player.
I wish there was more stuff for people like me 'cause my game isn't about "the pretty house", "the beautiful family", "the perfect job". It's more about trying out different things I wouldn't do in real life.
But I guess I'm a minority here.
You and me both. I've been saying we need more weird/different packs. It doesn't even have to be supernatural related. What about a theme park related pack with a world to go with it? What if they took Happy Haunts and made it into a game pack with an "abandoned" type world you can ghost hunt in/live in? I learned Sims 3 had a casino in a world that was like Oasis Springs, what if we had a Las Vegas type world with casinos and resorts? All of these with appropriate BB/CAS to go with it.
A casino pack will lift the packs rating dramatically. Sims 3 was a different time where game companies did not ravish games with loot boxes and loot crates. Any sign of gambling these days makes game raters edgy.
I'm not a fan of knitting. It's a girl thing, I'm not a girl, I'm a guy, I like guy things (the bowling pack is my favorite stuff pack). I also dislike the trailer for this pack, we finally get a guy to be the main protagonist of a pack and it's for something as emasculating as knitting, with the most cringy moment when his room got pastel vomited all over *. However I do think team Maxis has worked hard to make this pack worthwhile, with extra animations, objects, and cas items. Like it got the extra attention I would have liked Realm of Magic, Island Living, and Discover University to have had. The Nifty Knitting pack really seems to have everything in it you could and should expect from the theme: knitting. I'm actually inclined to buy the pack just for the few grandma's running around... shuffling around... (there's no elderly 'walk' in the game, is there?), uhm... soon to be rocking (in a chair that is) in my game to have something to do.
* edit: I must have mentally blocked out that sweater he was wearing.
This reminds me of a seventy-year-old person claiming that boys should play with cars and not dolls. Knitting is not a girl thing.
They could do a carnival pack. Sims Vacation was a ton of fun with the boardwalk and carnival games like Whack-a-Will.
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.” –Helen Keller
I agree with her on this pack. That rocking chair DOES look weird and clunky and like they could have done a LOT better with it.
I also think that the scope of this pack is SO limited. Our expectations for what should come in a pack are so low. You can knit. How many of your sims are going to be knitters? How long can you watch someone knit before you get very bored? This provides no meaningful gameplay.
Which is why I am happy it won instead of Happy Haunts. SPs in general are too limited, so I rather have something deeper with gameplay in the larger packs.
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.” –Helen Keller
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Actually I am not too far from that age and most I know don't think that way. However our parents generation most certainly did.
Oh and my ex
AHQ Champion
My own reaction to the trailer is completely tainted by the fact it's hard for me to get excited about knitting in any capacity lol. Even if it turned out ot be a great pack. Might be the same for her?
I'm still looking forward to it because I look forward to new content. (Or maybe because "I'm a girl" lmaooo. I knew testes were fragile, but I didn't know you could just snip them off with a pastel-colored strand of yarn.)
> I can't recall whether Plumbella was for knitting since the beginning or not (I think I remember Carl and James expressing disappointment over it winning). 'Cause I think that might have to do with it.
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> My own reaction to the trailer is completely tainted by the fact it's hard for me to get excited about knitting in any capacity lol. Even if it turned out ot be a great pack. Might be the same for her?
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> I'm still looking forward to it because I look forward to new content. (Or maybe because "I'm a girl" lmaooo. I knew testes were fragile, but I didn't know you could just snip them off with a pastel-colored strand of yarn.)
i don't think she was.
I also think that the scope of this pack is SO limited. Our expectations for what should come in a pack are so low. You can knit. How many of your sims are going to be knitters? How long can you watch someone knit before you get very bored? This provides no meaningful gameplay.