If you have Generations, you should know, it is terrible, it has no new skill (chemistry could have been a skill, but instead they just made the chem. set part of the logic skill), it has no new death (i know this may sound wrong, but the deaths, controllable ghosts, and ghost types are one of my favorite features of TS3), the life state isn't that great (if you want to romantically interact with it, it has to become a "normal Sim" using a chem. potion that takes a while to learn to make, and then the "normal Sim" looks ugly), and the worst of all, NO NEW TOWN! It isn't even necessarily BECAUSE there isn't a new town in the game, but more because a few months later, The Sims 3 Store added the missing new town for $22.50 (now $24.50).
I compare doing this to buying Monopoly at full price (we'll say $20, i think that is the cost of monopoly) and then opening the box to find two things:
A) Something is missing, maybe the money, the pieces, or even 1/4 of the board.
and
That missing thing is being sold separately for $10, another 1/2 of what you already paid.
That is how I see this cheap, 🐸🐸🐸🐸 move that EA pulled, they gave us something incomplete for full price, then charged us another 1/2 of what you ALREADY paid to complete the incomplete thing.
Also, based on what I have heard, Hidden Springs isn't that good anyways, just one example that I heard is that the special "fountain of youth" isn't even placed in the neighborhood, you have to place it every time you start a new game in the neighborhood.
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Generations added stuff that is applied to families that could be for any town.
Hidden springs setting and story line has nothing to do with generations. It should not of been included.
Well, it just seems unecessary.
so not only are we shelling out $40 for the xpac but another $25 for a world they -could- have thrown in for free
and then the $2 off 'sale' was just to kick us while we were down :roll:
yes someday i will buy HS but i won't be any less bitter about the tactics they pulled :?
Robin: If dislike is the opposite of like, is disaster the opposite of aster? See, instead of things going wrong, they go right.
Its about relaxation and get a way. Which does not have anything to do with family building
Hidden Springs is a resort town. If they were going to put a town in Gen it should have been a very suburban, family style world.
And besides, just because you think something's terrible, doesn't mean everyone else agrees....
And for the hidden springs thing, when I saw the title, it brought me into the thread. I'm not trying to get you or anyone mad, I'm just stating my opinion. After learning more about hidden springs, I've realized it has nothing to do with generations, except for the fact that if you have hidden springs, you can easily use the content in generations to make it suitable.
Generations brought a lot to the game, even if it wasn't a new town or a new death. This type of EP doesn't need all of that, seeing as to what the EP was about.
Yes, hidden springs is overpriced but there is nothing we can do about it.
Also, ranting about it like this will do nothing. Glad I could share my opinions with you.
I disagree.. I mean there is that one family that has the elder who adopts children and that just goes along with generations. I dont know, I think generations just didnt provide enough. Any new world would have been better than no new world.
I think Hidden Springs is way too expensive for a neighbourhood in my opinion though, I'm just waiting till pets comes out then we'll get pets.. new interactions AND a neighbourhood
or an opportunity to expand their family in a new, larger town
and how many moms would turn down a trip to the spa if they could afford it?
Robin: If dislike is the opposite of like, is disaster the opposite of aster? See, instead of things going wrong, they go right.
since the prices are about the same, I say that it was worth it.
Besides, with your example, you need to buy the other part to play. Hidden Springs is really just an option. You don't need it to play, you just want it.
They did not put as much work into Hidden Springs, plus, they put hardly any work into Generations. With EA, it is all about making deadlines (which, if it means leaving things out, they will) and getting as much money as they can (by ripping people off).
That isn't necessarily what my expression was about, it was about paying for something and not getting the full experience, but instead, having to pay more to get the rest of the experience.
But you don't need to pay more to get the complete experience. Hidden springs is completely optional. I don't have it, and Generations is perfectly fine without it.
This mom sure wouldn't
I disagree, we vote with our wallet's. If we, the gamers, feel something is overpriced we don't have to buy it. I, myself have only paid full price for a few items from the store. The rest I watch the dd, if it is 50% off or very darn near close and something I really want I'll shell out the $$. 8)
As to new worlds/towns, I'd rather have a good version of caw that will work for me and build my own hoods than be stuck with someone else's idea of a nice town. Or at least completely blank templates to play with like we had in TS2. Currently if I want a blank template I have to strip down the town, very time consuming, and I can't always get blank lots to place where I want them. (I do keep a blank SV on perma file.)
could go on, but have a class to get to ...... 8)
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Instead, it will cost another 2450 sp.
There are two ways to sway a company, the big one is a boycott, which is hard to start on the internet (a internet boycott only consists of THREATS to boycott), and the smaller way is make sure the company sees we are unhappy by posting our complaints onto things like the companies official forum(s).
Generations is very incomplete if you ask me.
That's your opinion.
And you know, I doubt getting Hidden Springs would make generations better.
Yes they DID put as much work into hidden springs. No, they put MORE effort into hidden springs.
Compare it with the latest stuff pack. They made what? acouple buildings that weren't rabbit holes?
Guess how many homes, aka BUILDINGS they made for hidden springs?
Not only that, they had to make a whole new world, that came with new objects and even new animations.
for you to say they put more work into a stuff pack then they do into a world is hilarious.
I dont think you understand what it takes to build a world.
And WA did not have a world. A and LN had. Gen did not. Pets will have one. maybe the next one, and so on.