Such a missed opportunity not to add private/boarding school and military school options. They wouldn't even have to be a full-fledged experience, just another rabbithole the way EA likes it. But I loved in TS2 where you could invite the private school headmaster over and try to schmooze and impress them. The carnival…
Sims players: EA really needs to step up their game. They're offering us mediocre, lackluster content for far too much money and it's sickening. also Sims players: tHeY CaN sIt cRoSs-lEgGeD nOw😩😩😩😍
This is so embarrassing. I remember when game packs were our saving grace. Now look at the state of things. I blame the geniuses who decide to keep shelling out for each pack despite its issues because "cOMpLeTioNisM!!"
The more gameplay I watch on this pack the more disenchanted I get. This was the first pack in years that I was genuinely interested in too, but the actual contents seem so shallow when you consider the price tag.
The lore was such an integral part of the earlier games and really made them special. It made the worlds feel so vast and alive. I hope this update isn't a let-down and they actually go in and fix the families, add relationships with other townies, hopefully add ancestors to the family trees, maybe even fix the timeline…
It reeks of corporate greed. I do really feel for the developers sometimes, because it's so glaringly obvious that they're limited by the whims of the Suits, likely giving them ridiculous deadlines and forcing them to make cuts and limiting their budget while they sit on their piles of money.
I'm being cautiously optimistic. I really hope that this rural neighborhood isn't too clean and "polished" looking, I'd prefer if it was a bit rough around the edges with some actual character.
So what I'm hearing is they didn't even bother updating the existing premades with proper likes and dislikes that suit them?? LOL embarrassing, they really don't care at all do they
I think I'd really enjoy a nasty, grimy world to fix up, full of ramshackle houses and the like (I'm envisioning some of the houses in TS3 Twinbrook, like the swampy ones). Most every other world is so samey, so clean and perfect. It would be an interesting change at least
Vineyards and wine (or I guess they'd probably call it 'nectar') would be really neat but I won't hold my breath. An Italy-inspired world would go great with it. I do think the 'bond with nature' tease is going to end up being something of a let-down, though, unfortunately, knowing EA's track record.
Thought I'd chime in about the age thing, since I'm 24 so still technically in the right demographic. The direction EA is taking with this franchise is almost insulting, but more-so for those of us who have played the previous iterations. It just doesn't feel like the Sims anymore. It doesn't feel like "playing with life"…
Was mildly interested in the pack before the trailer, because I was foolishly holding it to TS3 standards. But I saw nothing in the trailer that even remotely intrigued me, in fact I was more annoyed than anything given the awful voiceover.
If anything these types of trailers just show how out of touch EA truly is. It reads like a cheesy Disney channel commercial. Makes sense why the game is so sanitized and lame if their target demographic is preteens. (And the name, Dream Home Decorator?? Sounds like a free-to-play Barbie game to me.)
That sounds like such a cool pack omg. Haven't been this excited about TS4 in years (probably since Seasons). I really hope the interior design career is just one part of a big Entrepreneurial pack like this. Water park sounds awesome and I've been wanting to own a functioning cafe in the game for as long as I can remember.