Ahh Winterfest. A day the children have been excited about for ages, they've spent endless hours decorating the tree, making holiday decorations, looking at the presents and getting excited. The day finally arrives and they wake up early and wake their parents up - its time for presents, how exciting! They sing Zwingle Zibbs (or whatever it is) as a family around the tree, and the little girl, eyes full of wonder and excitement gets her turn to open her present...……. Inside? "Nothing but sadness and lies"! I'm sorry, WHAT??!!?! REALLY?! This makes me both annoyed and sad!
Now, I have my super excited little girl spending the day crying!
Firstly, why is this a thing? Secondly, does anyone else feel as sad about this as me? And thirdly, is there a way to turn this off so the children can actually get presents like a normal Winterfest? I love that sometimes you can be surprised by a really expensive gift, but I hate the random rubbishy gifts too, eg a lump of coal or nothing. I think it'd be cool if sims could choose a gift and wrap it to put under the tree.
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Gift giving, and even gifting flowers, can be quite tricky as well. I've had sims with great relationships give each other presents or flowers, but the recipients' reactions are always random. Sometimes they like it, sometimes they hate it. The only things I've tried so far that don't seem to trigger negative reactions are collectibles like the snow globes. I even gifted a toddler one of the rarer feathers that your pets can find, and the toddler seemed really happy with it. The gift items that can be bought from the computer are hit and miss for me.
Lol! My mum gave my sister nose hair trimmers for Christmas once in RL, and she really had no use for them at all!! I think she might have preferred sadness and lies to be honest
My sim child got a Sad moodlet and cried for hours! I seem to get it a lot in my game weirdly. I also had a teenager a few generations ago who had a really bad relationship with her mum (her mum was mean and hated children, and kept shouting and being mean to her), and then Santa told my teen that she had been bad this year, and either got pet poop, coal or nothing (I cant remember which of the 3, I get all of them lots, but I remember feeling bad for her. She had such a tough life and even Santa wouldn't give her a break!
Bad gifts are fine but no gifts is weird :P
Eh, I think it's funny. It's not like it causes any real harm to your sim, besides maybe a sad moodlet.
Bad gifts are fine but no gifts is weird :P [/quote]
Eh, I think it's funny. It's not like it causes any real harm to your sim, besides maybe a sad moodlet.[/quote]
True :) It was funny when I first saw too, haha! Then I got two more times whilst her Simbo (SIM boyfriend) kept getting computers and a microwave :I
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Life happens and also includes disappointment and exaggerated expectations (and reactions) that can blow in your face). Sims 4 is way too much about happy happy happy as it is. I’m glad to read that’s not always the case then.
A little rude don’t you think?
In my day in real life that exact gift was called socks and underwear, and it met with much the same reaction. My grandmother was usually the culprit.
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Wow, ok. I in no way meant in my original post to be hating on the game. I also don't feel like I cant handle the sadness and lies present. I appreciate your response, and its great that you find this present funny - the game is for everyone, and we're all different, so no-one's going to like everything about the game, that's to be expected and is ok. I was simply disappointed that, for me, it ruined my story and what I was trying to create in my game. It didn't destroy my life or anything, and all sims recovered! I was just posting something that happened in my game, and wondering if anyone else had that experience, no dramas, insults or expression of softness intended
I know what you mean, I get frustrated by the positive, no consequences thing too (I'm a conflicted simmer! ) In RL I tend to ask people not to buy me anything (eg Christmas is not my favourite time of year and if I want something that badly, I should buy it myself!), but if they do choose to buy me something, I'm grateful they put the thought in whatever it is, so I don't really get the disappointment thing. I guess my issue with the game was that, I found it a bit weird that it wasn't an unwanted present, or something they didn't like, it was just nothing - I found it a bit random. Maybe the next time it happens I'll make up the story in my head that its an unwanted gift that they didn't like or something.
You're right, you didn't express any softness in your op! I think I should have included in my post that it wasn't directed at you specifically, but more towards one or two other comments which leaned heavily towards unnecessary softness. I don't like name-calling, so I won't be getting any more specific. I'm otherwise going to delay the actual topic of the thread, which I don't want to .
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I find it amusing really of some of the random gifts sims get if you didn't buy a item to give to them directly. One of my sims got a karaoke machine one winterfest and another sim got a future cube (which they hated among being one of the most less used items in the game).