Touching more about all sims series, just wondering why people oppose such feature/mechanic in the sims series? Just curious to know. I personally find it to be the same as washing dishes and knowing (some) people do ask for there to be more challenges in the game. Yeah, this thread may seem redundant, but I'm just curious to know.
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Yes, the Sims is a life simulator and I do understand that there are many people who play it for those details and enjoy having every nuance of real life represented. But I would rather be simulating adventures or life obstacles or risk and danger or living amongst monsters and magic or engaging in activities or experiments or an Apocalypse...etc. I want to simulate things that I'm not likely to experience in real life, to see how they play out. I want challenges and surprises, as opposed to static predictability. I want to be able to play out a fantasy world or treasure hunt with pirates or build a crime-ridden town and have Sims imbued with superpowers who run across rooftops and jump down to protect citizens.
To me, a life simulation game should expand to allow the player to simulate whatever kind of life or environment or world they want to create. A base game should begin as a more fleshed out mimic of reality with parodies and some exaggerations, but add on packs should extend the possibilities in a variety of directions and the world should be malleable enough to allow the player to change and create the settings that they want. So that if someone wants to play the details of generations of families who live in a close, bustling, surburban neighborhood, they can, but if the next player wants a Tim Burton-esque town with twisted houses and curled trees and have their citizens be a variety of mythical beings, they should be able to as well.
I guess my point is, realistic play isn't the standard for everyone, so something like laundry feels like a disappointing waste of resources, especially when it seems like something that should be an optional base game feature to begin with.
I especially hate it when my Sims go take an inspired shower to get that 4 hour of inspired (to up their skills more faster) and then have that feeling OVERWRITTEN by 4 hours of playful just because they put on clothes.
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The winning theme of Eco living did have some promise in terms of the potential solar energy aspect, but somehow that ended up whittled down to a pack solely comprised of laundry. I feel it was a missed opportunity for the community to have steered the game in a different direction, honestly.
However, I am definitely not paying 10 dollars to watch my Sims to each chore. That's crazy.
My biggest problem with Laundry Day is that its appliances were not properly categorized in build mode. Instead of adding a washing machine icon, they just threw it inside "indoor activities" and not all items are there. And the machines should have had some animation (like the one with the dishwasher). Other than that...
For one thing, we didnt have to pay extra to do the dishes. Also, doing the dishes is more of an everyday task for most people than laundry is. It would be much more missed than laundry would be if it werent included.
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Nobody is complaining about dishes because it's mandatory and it doesn't take long at all, You won't be able to play the game without dishes being washed since they pile up, well you'd still be able to play it you'd just end up with a very messy house and a very sad sim. The problem with Laundry is it isn't mandatory I'd still be playing my game completely fine without laundry, heck I'm still playing it fine since I don't own the pack, Don't get me wrong i hate having to wash the dishes everytime my active family has a meal, laundry for me is just another annoying chore, I hated it within the sims 3, having to constantly run around picking up clothes and washing them, before I knew it I was spending most of my time doing laundry than actually playing the game, it was constant. Dishes, on the other hand, don't annoy me as much since my sims most of the time clean them without me having to tell them so I can actually play the game. Laundry is a big no, no in my book.