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Why only "Cats" & "Dogs"?
coldplay2233
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Why so vanilla? Couldn't we keep some new animals we haven't had in the sims before? Cat's and Dog's just feels too vanilla and stereotypical suburbia. And I think it's sad to call 2 new pets an expansion pack! Maybe a game pack at the most..
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I feel like they are really ripping off the customer now calling Cats & Dogs an "Expansion Pack". Does nobody realize how much less content we are getting for the same price? They've really stretched the definition of game pack & expansion pack with this one. Obviously they wanted to save money so they made an "expansion pack" with the same budget as a game pack.
EA, you are really terrible to your loyal customers.
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The Sims 2 reused animations of Cats & Dogs from Urbz and then added some details.
The Sims 3 reused the animations of small Pets & Cats + Dogs from The Sims 2.
The Sims 4 is rebuilding it all from scratch. That's what happens when you use decide to build content from scratch instead of recycling. You're going to get less.
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Well it is. How much work do you think it was to add foxes in this pack? It's not like they had to animate a whole new skeleton. They just took the dog skeleton and added some fox fur to it. This should have been Cats & Dogs Game pack.
If they wanted to call it an expansion, it should have been "The Sims 4: Animals" or "Unleashed" or something. And added a WIDE range of animals and wildlife to the game. Hence, an EXPANSION. Which EXPANDS your game more than just 2 domesticated vanilla animals.
My whole problem lies with them calling this an expansion when clearly they are stretching the definition with this one. They are charging us a higher price for what I would consider to be a game pack in terms of amount of content.
EA are a big company. Did nobody else see the rest of the gamescom stream? Look at how much of their budget they are spending on sports cars and flashy lights and action driving, and paying celebrities. Imagine how much of that budget is generated from the sales of the Sims?
If it's true that the Sims team is smaller than ever and have less resources than ever, then it must be true that EA are not putting back into the game for us so the Sims team can deliver what the series has done for many years until now..
How about no? Did you not see the trailer? That is what's included.
Also we're also getting a new world, a new active career (and it's a career that's never been in a previous game before), a bunch of brand new animations and interactions for the pets, new traits for them, new Build/Buy Objects & costumes (along with an actual color wheel) for the pets new Build/Buy & CAS for the sims, plus we haven't heard anything about new traits, new lot traits, new aspirations but there's bound to be some in there. They can't show everything in a minute-and-a-half long trailer. I actually feel this EP is quite full compared to some of the other EPs we've gotten for Sims 4 and I can't wait to add it to my game.
Not true.
TS2 Pets and TS3 recycled Cats and Dogs from Urbz, so they didn't have to do the work again, so they could add more Pets with the budget.
The Sims 4 has the same budget, but they have to start from scratch.
If The Sims 3 had to start from scratch, we wouldn't have gotten horses etc.
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They CHOSE to give you small bites of content for the highest price you will pay for. It's got nothing to do with what they can't do. You are making excuses for them. The Sims 4 has lowered everyone's standards.
It's now been confirmed raccoons can also be made in cas.
The trailer is like 2 days old. They haven't had time to announce small pets yet. Just be patient. There's no logical reason why there won't be some new fish, or frogs, or a bird in Buy Mode that you can feed, talk to and build a relationship with. Or a freakin' womrat.
I swear this is the first pack for some of these people. Trailers don't announce everything that comes in the pack. There's blog posts and live broadcasts, and some stuff is kept secret until release day.
Be patient.
Having said that, I'm still hoping for a more detailed blogpost and a gameplay broadcast in order to obtain more knowledge on this pack. did they overprice it? IMO, YES.
but we'll have to wait and see, maybe it IS worth the money...
-Yarden.
"oh, here, have a pet Gorilla, and a pet Dragon..."
WHO THE [Edited: Profanity] HAS A RACCOON FOR A PET
-Yarden.
Multiple people have told you we can have raccoons and foxes as pets and you dismiss it every time
Who has a cowplant as a pet, and an alien/vampire couple next door irl?
This definitely is WAY more work than a game pack gets, this has been worked on for years.
And you still consider this GP material?
Sorry OP, but you're not making any sense.
They are doing what they did with vampires obviously which is giving more focus on cats and dogs.
I for one am looking forward to this pack.
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And on the devs. Some of them have been with this franchise from the beginning. Don't you think they are just as, if not more so, invested in this game? Don't you think they would rather make new content than keep making pets or spiral stair cases? If you want massive content go back to 3. If you want a LOT of content, but slightly smoother, go to 2. Meanwhile, deal with what we have. We can't change what they are doing, but we CAN change how we are reacting to it. Besides, we have a great modding community who can give us all the randomness we want....which is great, because people who CAN'T have large amount of content in game don't get it, and those who can DO.
There's this thing called "fun".
You might have heard of it.
Having completely new entities such and cats and dogs adds a lot of new content. Dozens of interactions for all ages, specific interactions for different shapes of animals and a whole list of interactions. I'm not sure if you had the same experience as I did but I found other animals in Sims 3 Pets really clunky and could have been improved on immensely. Like the horses? They were really clunky and I would have loved it if they actually fleshed out the competition part rather than a rabbit hole but I understood why they couldn't. By only focusing on cats and dogs, it gives the gurus a chance to fully flesh out the animals, interactions, and expand what you can fully do with these animals. Yes you are losing the amount of content but you are also getting much better quality content. Similar with what they did with the vampires by only focusing on the vampires rather than a whole pack of supernaturals. This also gives gurus the opportunity to flesh out content based around cats and dogs such as the vet career, a whole world that I am sure will accommodate the pet's needs (like an agility course for dogs and such) and even a whole new CAS system for the animals alone.
Once again it really depends on quality over quantity, and in my opinion, I would very much rather have a handful of amazing quality content rather than only rabbit hole competitions and fetching collectables.