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I don't want Seasons. Please explain to me why YOU want them.
Huiiie_07
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No matter where I go, people are begging for a seasons pack for TS4. Not only here on the forums, but also in YouTube comments of ANY official trailer/promotional video, like the devs would actually read it. It's annoying me so much that I just have to ask:
Why seasons? What's so special about it? How would it influence the game so much?
The only seasons pack I ever owned was TS3 Seasons, and it was one of my least favorite ones because it seemed like it didn't add anything special to the game. The weather was more annoying than anything else.
Look, it's summer, I definitely want to go outside! - it starts to rain the whole day.
Oh, well...maybe tomorrow! - It continues to rain the next three days
I know I could have just turned off rain, but I wanted it to rain ON OCCASION, not every day.
Maybe it's because I live in a place where every season comes along throughout the year and things like snow in winter are not a rare thing to see. I'm tired of rain and snow in real life and I just LOVE summer because I'm not getting depressed like in winter. I just don't like it in The Sims to have the same 🐸🐸🐸🐸 weather I already have in real life.
Maybe they should add some really nice and NEW things in a Seasons Pack. Like actual snowboarding in the mountains, not tied to an object like in TS3 (btw, can someone please explain to me why I can buy a snowboard in TS3, when sims automatically get one while snowboarding anyway?)
What I just want to say in this post is that I don't understand this begging for seasons and I would like to have it explained. Seasons never added anything enjoyable for me to the game, no matter how hard i was looking for it.
ETA: I really don't know in which section this belongs to, so I just posted it into General Discussions for a start.
Why seasons? What's so special about it? How would it influence the game so much?
The only seasons pack I ever owned was TS3 Seasons, and it was one of my least favorite ones because it seemed like it didn't add anything special to the game. The weather was more annoying than anything else.
Look, it's summer, I definitely want to go outside! - it starts to rain the whole day.
Oh, well...maybe tomorrow! - It continues to rain the next three days
I know I could have just turned off rain, but I wanted it to rain ON OCCASION, not every day.
Maybe it's because I live in a place where every season comes along throughout the year and things like snow in winter are not a rare thing to see. I'm tired of rain and snow in real life and I just LOVE summer because I'm not getting depressed like in winter. I just don't like it in The Sims to have the same 🐸🐸🐸🐸 weather I already have in real life.
Maybe they should add some really nice and NEW things in a Seasons Pack. Like actual snowboarding in the mountains, not tied to an object like in TS3 (btw, can someone please explain to me why I can buy a snowboard in TS3, when sims automatically get one while snowboarding anyway?)
What I just want to say in this post is that I don't understand this begging for seasons and I would like to have it explained. Seasons never added anything enjoyable for me to the game, no matter how hard i was looking for it.
ETA: I really don't know in which section this belongs to, so I just posted it into General Discussions for a start.
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there's a lot of interesting subjects and i dont think seasons is one of them, i prefer new things and new experiences so... yea. i would rather have a magic themed expansion pack than seasons.
Seasons in the base game would definitely be a step in the right direction. The same with pets, so devs can concentrate more on actually interesting and new things instead of the same things all over again, because they "have to be there". Well, if they're so important, just put them in the base game. But I guess they know that these packs make lots of money, and they wouldn't want to miss out on that.
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I think seasons is a beloved addition to the game ... I personally wasn't entirely fond of Seasons either, though I am talking about TS2. I loved the addition and it was really cool, but I wasn't necessarily a "seasons" person. That being said, I did turn my town to go between Summer/Fall a lot. And I would also mimic the seasons as they were happening in real life. I'm in Canada, and we experience everything, so that was cool.
I want University more than I want Seasons though. But a majority of people seem to want Seasons. Hopefully EA can pull it off ... honestly, I would have more faith if Seasons was released as a GP rather than an EP. Their EP team seems to fail in a lot of ways, and the GP's - to me - have the best design and innovation.
I have just become so bored by this generic nothingness of spring or summer, that's just nothing real at all.
Besides, I had to suffer through the Pets ep so now how about giving us what many, many people have been clamoring for...Snow and Rain.
I can't understand why anyone wouldn't want Seasons and be happy with summer 24/7/365.
It's more that I don't really care if we get Seasons or not, it's never something I missed in a sims game. I would love to live in a place where snow doesn't exist and it's sunny throughout the year. The winter months are the worst of the whole year for me, I always feel gloomy and can't concentrate on anything. Now that spring is slowly coming along, I feel much better so maybe it's because of that that I'm not really fond of seasons in general, I wouldn't mind some weather effects though, like rain, as long as it is balanced and it doesn't rain 24/7 like in TS3.
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I definitely hope this will happen! Assuming a seasons pack will release, I hope I can atleast toggle off certain weather effects or seasons in chosen worlds. I wouldn't want snow in Oasis Springs or Willow Creek, it just doesn't fit these worlds at all. My hopes for options aren't really high though, as it seems like TS4 doesn't have it this much with options.
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Introduce weather, and my decisions feel more important. Maybe when it's snowing, I'll have them stay in for a movie night. Maybe when it's raining, I'll visit my indoor lots, like a bar. When it's nice out, maybe I'll send them to the park for a jog. And when it's hot out, off to the pool. I'd love to be able to play that way because it'll keep me visiting all my lots and getting use out of all my packs, and it'll keep me from making mindless decisions like I do now.
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When you think about it, people in the Southern Hemisphere have Halloween in Spring and Christmas in Summer.
I'm in one of those areas where we don't see much snow (sometimes get a little bit of dusting on the surrounding peaks or you can drive 4 hours to get to the closest ski/snowboard areas), but it's not sunny all the time (we get our share of rain, like over last weekend). But I like Seasons because it does give a bit of a feeling of time actually passing. In the game currently the only time you feel like time is passing is when your Sims age up, but changing seasons also gives that same feeling, the progression of the year through the seasons with different weather and activities.
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The seasons give a different feel to the game if you ask me.
To explain it with an example: me sitting on the couch in real life, eating cake and drinking coffee with the wood in the fireplace producing those typical crackling sounds on the background feels a lot cozier when it's snowing outside. Seasons in game sort of reproduce that feeling because I can relate to it as I imagine my sims feeling all warm inside when they have the fireplace burning bright as it is freezing outside.
I alter my gameplay a bit when there is weather in game, making the most of each season (having a lot of pool party's in the summer, put some burgers on that grill).
Yes, I'm sure they have a very different experience of the various holidays than I do. Many areas of the world also don't even celebrate Halloween. Blasphemy! (Haha
Since I live in New England where we do celebrate Halloween in the Autumn, I gave my own personal reasons for wanting seasons. (And a Fear emotion.)
I am super curious what will be in it besides the weather, though. But yeah, weather generally just drops the fps for no good reason. I'll turn it off or back to always spring/summer if that's possible.
Yeah, in TS3 there wasn't much going on other than annoying weather changes and sims looking out the window when it rained or getting sunburns in summer if they spent too much time outside. I never got to try the snowboard thing because the game was always so laggy. The only cool thing I thought was sims opening their umbrellas if it was raining and they had one in their backpack.
I remember in TS2 when they introduced Seasons, they added gardening and greenhouses, I loved that so much. That would probably be one thing I would bring back: greenhouses and glass roofs. It had much more impact than TS3.
Sims 3 Seasons came out just over 3 years into Sims 3. We're 3 and a half years into Sims 4.
I can see why living in a place that's almost always cold or has snow would be tiresome. myself would hate too much snow. But ponder this, somewhere, there is someone who lives in a hot climate and is wishing for snow. Life is odd sometimes.