Now hear me out. What if instead of being so specific and Star Wars ™ themed and just a SciFi/Space/Alien pack with traits and a new occult with skills... Would it have been less polarizing?
What if - It was just a generic SciFi Pack instead? 134 votes
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Personally I was excited about JTB because it was sci fi rather than because it was Star Wars although inthe end it didn't quite live up to my expectations.
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Although I'm not really an occult player, an alternative idea that I came up with was that there could have been a rival civilization to Sixam's. I believe that a homeworld for The Mother and the Cow Plant would have interesting. In my mind, that could have also served as the homeworld of the Plant Sims. Therefore, providing Plant Sims with a much-needed upgrade and permanent status in the current series, rather than keeping them as temporary life states.
Just imagine, the Plant Sims of that far off world could have sent Cow Plants to Sim Nation as spies and information gatherers. Afterward, The Mother might have been the next wave of integration into Sim society or the first step in an invasion. Once the plant Sims believed that Sim Nation had been sufficiently softened or made open to the idea of intelligent plant life, they could have made their true presence known.
Anyway, that's the kind of addition that I wish that the team had considered rather than introducing something truly alien to the Sim Universe. ::shrug::
I also almost never play with Aliens. It's not even that they don't offer as much gameplay as Vampires and even Spellcasters, but rather that aliens... aren't my thing, again.
So I wouldn't have been excited about a generic Sci-Fi pack. I would probably still be defending it if it required Get to Work and expanded on Sixam (I realize I'm more or less alone with accepting DLC for DLC as a not inherently bad thing if done well.) But I wouldn't be excited for it. I wouldn't be counting down the days until I can get it.*
I also don't think it would have appeased the people who were upset it wasn't a romance pack, or a winter vacation pack, or that it didn't include freeing the babies or cars, or address the legitimate issues with the base game. They would have been just as upset that we got this rather than whatever specific issue they wanted addressed. They would have been just as dissappointed, just as upset that it wasn't whatever they'd convinced themselves the pack was, and just as angry at the existence of the pack. the only argument they wouldn't have is that it's clearly an advertisement for Galaxy's Edge, and therefore dictated by Disney.
The only people who would have been appeased by a generic Star Wars pack would be those who don't want licensed stuff in their Sims game, but do want something Sci-Fi. Or those who don't like Star Wars.
(I'm aware of the limitations of the gameplay in this pack, I don't care. That's not why I'm getting it. I'm also more than capable of telling my own stories in the Star Wars universe. I've been playing Table Top Role Playing games - where you decide what your role is, and don't have to move according to any sort of game script - for a very long time, including in the Star Wars universe. My stories are not limited by universe.)
I tried to play a Star Trek game not that long ago, but sadly, the player was never really able to gain access to the inside of the ship. What good is that? I'm not even close to interested in a shoot 'em up type blood and guts game. I don't like horror flicks, either. I played WoW for a very short time, but mostly because my children were scattered all over the country. SC; CA and HI. It was very hard for our family Guild to get together to play with HI being four hours behind CA, let alone UT and SC. But, we had fun nonetheless.
I don't play that anymore. I don't like having to pay a monthly fee for complete strangers to murder my Gnome for grins and giggles.
But, back to the point at hand. Yes, had this latest GP been more generic in nature, I would likely have snatched it up in a heartbeat. I LOVED ITF. I'm still playing that family, too. Yeah, I brought them all the way from Sims2 to Sims4.
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That being said, I fully agree that a generic Sci-Fi pack would have done a lot more for the game itself and the player base.
In fact, I would have loved to sit down with the team and have a chat about expanding the Sixam lore. Thank you @Cynna for your ideas. That kind of stuff is exactly what I'm talking about.
I would still hope to see a non brand related Sci-Fi expansion, although depending on TS4's remaining development schedule I'm not sure if this is at all feasible after the SW DLC.
If Maxis is truly listening to what the majority of players want and are indeed planning to create content based on these requests, another Sci-Fi pack is probably somewhere near the bottom of the priority list.
Just wanted to add that I am not even a Sci-fi type fan, but I was probably more upset that I had hoped it was going to add to aliens already in game so it would help encourage me to step out of my mainly Vampire comfort zone and play them more. I just hope in the future maybe they can add something to them to give them more to them.
I also wouldn't have wanted a new occult with skills as the OP suggested. What I was hoping for was a revamping of our current aliens ... and some sort of addition to Sixam that would let us have our sims live there or make a colony there. I know though what I wanted was basically DLC for DLC and the likelihood of getting that was low without the same sort of uproar happening.
I was running my sim around the resistance area the other day and thought I could bring my Star Trek guys here. It kind of looks like a planet to spark off some sort of cross over play. I like the build buy and I really love the CAS and am already thinking of many ways to use it outside of the Batuu area. I'll be making some aliens with across the board costumes also so their "hats" don't come off when I return to my other sci-fi based saves also.
Would I have bought a general space pack that expanded on Aliens? Definitely. That's what I thought this was going to be.
Do I regret that it turned out to be Star Wars? Nope. Not even a little.
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I think they should of just expanded our current aliens and sixam. We need more lore on sims universe, not star wars
I'm not interested in Star Wars or in alien play. I would be interested in more science and in building a science center.
I've skipped this pack and unlike EL that I got later, I don't have plans at this time because I'm not into Star Wars. I'm not for bashing the gurus or people who like that pack though. It's just not really a fit for my playstyle because I don't have the urge to play with real Star Wars characters. I do think there are people out there who would and they'd enjoy collecting this pack.
I don't judge how others play but that's really not my playstyle. I don't want to see "real" characters in my game. My sims live in their own fictitious world. I'm happy to let others roll with the Star Wars pack though and I do think there's an audience for it.