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Free Hot-Tub?
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I was wondering how people feel about the hot tub being made available for free? I'm happy with it as I don't have the pack but it also feels unfair to people who paid money specifically for the hot tubs, so I was wondering what you guys think if you do/or dont have the pack, are you happy with it being free or disappointed? (yay for happy, nay for disappointed)
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Free Hot-Tub? 275 votes
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Plus I never knew people brought packs to have "one" object. I thought most people wanted atleast almost everything the pack has. That's the case for me atleast.
I agree. I've owned Perfect Patio for about 5 years now, and it's about time we get new hot tub variants.
My only problem is that the 20th anniversary hot tub was just a recycled mesh from PP, and it (plus the rest of the patch) wasn't really a big enough thing to mark as huge a milestone.
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I do feel for base-game only simmers though, and I would've been less annoyed if they'd given us an in-the-ground or curved hot tub. While there would still be no new game-play involved for Patio owners (so still disapointing), it would've at least offered us a new look, instead of a frankenmesh/remesh(?) of items we could've combined ingame using moo.
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That said I'm Nay on them taking stuff from other packs that other people had to pay for, but I am Yay for the music and the patch updates to fix some of the bugs effecting peoples games.
Before anyone says I had years of enjoyment from this pack, I did not. I did not play sims 4 when this pack was released, I got it more recently.
To be clear, I don't mind if they patch in a feature from a pack that has other gameplay features left to make it worth while. I am OK with them patching in laptops and photography. Strangerville still has unique gameplay besides laptops and get to work still has plenty to offer without photography. Patio stuff on the other hand is now the only stuff pack without it's own gameplay.
Now that would be a trade off I might find acceptable, depending on the replacement feature. But let's be honest, that will never happen. They sold patio stuff to those who were interested and it doesn't make a difference to them if we are happy with our purchase. They already have our money.
To those who are saying they are happy with the free hot tub because they did not buy patio stuff : enjoy it. You turned out to be the smart ones who were not fooled by EA.
Nay got my vote though because it really is unfair to take the one premium item out of a pack and give it away for free. It's the first line of "features" for the perfect patio pack. I do wonder how they will sell copies of that pack now, might have to permanently $5.99 it since it's only worth are some CAS and BB and not much at that.
My reasoning.
1) I really wanted another hot tub skin and I love this ones design
2) I really love that ppl without the pack can have it too now. This in no way takes away anything from me. I still have what I paid for.
3) I've had perfect patio for ages, even if I had bought the pack for the hot tub only (which I didn't), that's a couple years of game play for $10 (or $5 on sale) I've already had. Not bad.
4) I can't build. Maybe there will be some more houses on the gallery with hot tubs now that more ppl have access to them, haha!
5) Even if I had bought perfect patio for the hot tub only and I had just bought it two days ago for whatever reason... I STILL Haven't lost out on much. As I mentioned earlier, you win some, you lose some. It's a stuff pack and the price of a couple cups of coffee. I bought DU and RoM 4 days before they went on sale and it cost me much more but sometimes you just gotta shrug it off and take the loss. Life goes that way and maybe next time you'll catch the good deal.
6. If it's an item I'd never ever use, well hey, it's easy to ignore and again, that's life. Sometimes you get what you want, sometimes you don't. Maybe next time it'd be an item I would. (Hypothetical as this time around I"m enjoying it)
I DO wish there had been a bit more offered for the anniversary. But I'm also not disappointed with the hot tub.
(On the other hand, usually it's whoever's anniversary/birthday it is that gets the gifts, not the guests haha! But yeah I realise that company's don't and shouldn't work that way.)
Ideally I think a variety of items should have been given out so that more users would have gotten something they would use. Maybe 20 items for the 20th anniversary, even if they were small. Could have been released in a free pack like the holiday pack so that ppl had the choice to download or not even. Maybe we'll get more for the 25th hahaha! It kinda feels to me that they forgot their own anniversary tbh and just threw something together when they started seeing posts.
On that note, I do think there's some neat things coming to the Sims 4 (free babies one day? Just a hunch that they are secretly being worked on haha) and maybe they just have been working hard on those and weren't quite ready to release them yet. I'd prefer them to release when ready than to meet a specific date, so they work properly.
But anyways, yeah: the short answer is Yes, I'm happy with the hot tub.
would be cool if they moved some stuff packs into the free section.
perfect patio and my first pet stuff should be moved there.
they'll probably get flack for it like this cause some people paid for it, like i paid for both of those, but really they should be free at this point. they've made their profit now, so like, they aren't loosing out or anything.
5 years of exclusivity on an item is more than enough for $9.99 in a day and age where most games aren’t even relevant for 5 years.
There were plenty of other nice looking and useful things included with PPS that are still exclusive. It’s a STUFF pack, not a hot tub pack. The point was all the STUFF.
I got a good laugh at the featured swatch, which was iconic Sims Tacky design, the roof brought back fond memories of sending an annoying Sim out to use a hot tub in a bad storm on purpose, and honestly, my biggest disappointment is the entitlement, and underlying “me me me” that seems to have overrun the forums.
If you can’t be happy for the people who got a little something that they didn't have, or might not otherwise have ever gotten, and can only focus on what You didn’t get... well... 😬
Playstation Plus members can also download TS4 free for the month. Was I expecting more out of EA for the anniversary? No. I just don't care.
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You do have a point there its kind of a both a win lose situation and no matter how it pans out there will always be disappointed Simmers. For example if it wasn't the hotub from patio stuff but rather one of the grills that came with that pack that was recolored people would still be mad (even though grills are in the base game) or people would be disappointed because " its just a grill".
My question to you if you believe that some packs should be moved into the free bin, then what do they do with the Simmers that already paid for the packs? I feel like you have the right idea, but maybe they should of done something like fix babies or added cars, like everyone has asked for and no one would be upset and happy for everyone as a community.