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So 3 packs having Eco Living elements wasn't enough aye?
sam123
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Island Living
Laundry Day
Tiny Living
All had elements of being environmentally conscious. And I feel what they did was good, sprinkle some eco living in each of these packs as a side thing but have the main focus be something else. But A WHOLE EP focused on this?? This is ridiculous.
If the idea of this was couped up with a farming pack this would have been a lot more bearable.
Laundry Day
Tiny Living
All had elements of being environmentally conscious. And I feel what they did was good, sprinkle some eco living in each of these packs as a side thing but have the main focus be something else. But A WHOLE EP focused on this?? This is ridiculous.
If the idea of this was couped up with a farming pack this would have been a lot more bearable.
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First we had laundry day which started as an eco friendly pack. With energy and water consuming washing machines and dryers in this pack, I wondered if ea actually considered the ecological aspect of any importance.
I was pleasantly surprised when the off the grid lot trait was patched in for everyone. And then we got the conversationist career and cleaning up beaches in island living and the ecological footprint in tiny living, additions that show someone at Maxis/ea does think about eco friendly stuff.
I don't mind to see more ecological gameplay in the sims 4 but I did not expect to see what looks like an expansion pack with eco as the main theme. I don't really know what to expect but hope it will be significantly different from the ecological game play we had so far. I willwwait to see what the pack has to offer gameplay wise before I make up my mind.
I will be waiting for more information on this as well but this is so far not going to be a must buy for me.
Atleast the Sims team can finally fill all their eco living ideas into one pack. They better not shove more eco stuff down our throats once this is released.
Am I missing something? Did they find out that a lot of players these days are environmentally conscious? All they'd talked about previously were their goals to market to teens so I doubt that. I guess now they want to appeal to older hippies?
I think they spend a bit too much time on Twitter.
There is the real world and then there is Twitter. In my experience Twitter is not the majority and that is certainly the case in The Sims community
Anyway, this pack honestly just looks like recycled code from Strangerville. If it contains anything remotely similar to checkboxes and scripted gameplay like that horrendous gamepack, eek.
I do know that expansions felt a bit lighter towards the end with each iteration. Perhaps TS4 could be close to ending. That’s the only positive thing I’m taking away from this pack announcement, lol.
Eco is a tool, an excuse for community activities. Don't focus on this detail, think about how it could change the everyday life of your sims.
People complain about their boring life, Evergreen Harbor seems to be an opportunity to do something which can change their life.
Personally, my slob sims will be happy to live in a dirty world. The other worlds are so clean.
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The Sims 4 General Discussion4 in this case I guess ahaha
Also this change in direction is profitable:
"The Sims 4 inspires an entirely different gaming audience and one that continues to grow. It provides a completely unique experience from anything else in the market and FY20 was its biggest year since launch. In every quarter this year, monthly average players in The Sims 4 were higher than the previous year. Our Sims community is diverse and highly creative and our success continues to be built on delivering a wide variety of content and ways to engage the players with very different interests."
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And so, which of these are community activities, dumpster diving, candle making, or going up ladders? Or are you talking about the reskinned market from City Living? Or voting, which is basically commanding the cummunity lot generator to spawn specific festivals?
Or do you mean, we get to clean up a town over and over and over and over and over and over again?
Good questions ! I hope they found a good way to do it but you're probably right about it.
Let's see what the livestream will tell us and judge it for what it is in real.
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The Sims 4 General DiscussionThese subjects were ok on the side, more as a choice to implant in gameplay or not. And like you said.. NOT an entire pack + world dedicated to it.
I don't really follow Sims Twitter myself. I use it for other stuff but I might have a quick lurk to see what the feedback is
and unless you really love this pack don't buy the pack for at least two weeks after it comes out that way it will still hurt there bottom line