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What I really miss from OFB in GTW
halimali1980
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Get To Work EP is a nice one but it misses some of the nicest things we had with Open for Business EP for Sims 2
1- Inability to have home business! in OFB we were able to have a business on every residential lot. there was no restrictions. Here we cant! It has to be on a different lot. I have not experimented much yet with having a retail store but I hope we are not only restricted to the 4 lots that came with the EP.
2- Cash register and the queue before it! that was one of the nicest views to have for a business owner (of course not the customer) where you can see all the customers who are ready to pay. It gives you an estimate of how many customers can be ringed and it was more organized than the new system where you need to keep looking for the small icon above their heads.
3- The bags!! Where did the item they bought go? we had in OFB bags and they were even with colors. Brown for low costing item and Gold for a high costing one. Maxis why have you removed this?
4- The ability to restock everything at once. I am not sure if this is there because I tried looking for it but have not seen it. I hope it is there.
5- The world that comes with this EP is not even a neighborhood. It is very tiny and disappointing. It should have been the same size of the other worlds if not bigger.
The EP is nice but it is still not as nice as OFB. Its nice that we can follow our sims to their jobs but I truly feel that the retail store side has suffered maybe because more concentration was given the jobs.
It would have been a better thing if the EP was made into 2. Get To Work should have been with say 8-10 jobs more where you follow your sims to their work and school. And another EP for a better open for business remake.
What do you think?
1- Inability to have home business! in OFB we were able to have a business on every residential lot. there was no restrictions. Here we cant! It has to be on a different lot. I have not experimented much yet with having a retail store but I hope we are not only restricted to the 4 lots that came with the EP.
2- Cash register and the queue before it! that was one of the nicest views to have for a business owner (of course not the customer) where you can see all the customers who are ready to pay. It gives you an estimate of how many customers can be ringed and it was more organized than the new system where you need to keep looking for the small icon above their heads.
3- The bags!! Where did the item they bought go? we had in OFB bags and they were even with colors. Brown for low costing item and Gold for a high costing one. Maxis why have you removed this?
4- The ability to restock everything at once. I am not sure if this is there because I tried looking for it but have not seen it. I hope it is there.
5- The world that comes with this EP is not even a neighborhood. It is very tiny and disappointing. It should have been the same size of the other worlds if not bigger.
The EP is nice but it is still not as nice as OFB. Its nice that we can follow our sims to their jobs but I truly feel that the retail store side has suffered maybe because more concentration was given the jobs.
It would have been a better thing if the EP was made into 2. Get To Work should have been with say 8-10 jobs more where you follow your sims to their work and school. And another EP for a better open for business remake.
What do you think?
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1st- (what I bolded "if that is even a word") I don't know why but that made me la7gh so HARD!
2nd- I think you might want to put that in GTW section
3rd- I miss RESTAURANTS
4th- I loved the charger thing (for example when a customer enters a place they are charged good for a spa ^-^)
5th- I miss barber shops
6th- You know what I miss alot of things by the time I will finish what I miss it will be #100, so I will stop
WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?
I honestly was expecting more from the business perspective also with something like a big mall for sims to go and shop, escalator stairs, etc.
This so much. Graham and the others did a decent job with the portion of resources they probably received but I think they could have done better if the main focus of the ep for the "ofb" aspect was stores,running the store, and shopping. (edit: What I mean is have an ep dedicated to running a business and shopping there and another for the active careers)
I would have liked to see active careers separated so that the the careers also could have been given more attention.
Combinding eps could be a nice idea but in this case I think they lost out on a lot of potential.
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Agreed.
I understand wanting to make unique expansion packs for each game of the series, but why couldn't they expand on Open For Business? Get To Work is like someone took OFB, sliced it in fourths, and used that 1/4 to make GTW.
Not sure what you mean but... #TS2forlife
I played the scientist branch first. I liked it, will probably play it again.
I played the doctor next, it was okay ... I might do one again, I might not.
My third was a retail shop. I hated it. Running a business seemed like such an afterthought that was just thrown in at the end. I might have sent my sims there twice out of the week to actually run the shop.
I think scientist is my favorite career out of the pack. The detective is pretty boring (for me) and the doctor was.. well idk, felt like there's nothing really special to do? Over all I don't really care to play any of the active careers again (though I was never interested in the active career aspect to begin with so I guess that doesn't help ;/) I agree, in a lot of ways the business side does seem like an after thought. There was so much more that could have been done to it.
So yeah, for me nothing in the ep really feels complete. Baking is cool (I love any skill that creates) but the decorating isn't as good as I thought it could be and photography is nice but I feel like they could have taken that a lot further too. I wish they even added the ability to set up a photobooth on the community lots and take pictures with large amounts of sims (same for the studio). Guess that might come back with seasons or generations or something...
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1. Home Businesses
I would have loved to have home businesses in Sims 4. I don't know how they could be added now since GTW has launched. I hope they do add them somehow.
2. Cash register
I definitely agree... I miss being able to ring up customers on the cash register. I don't think that's going to happen in Sims 4 - which sucks.
3. The bags
I guess inventories have taken over bags. It's still not the same.
4. Restocking all at once
Being able to do this would have so good.
5. Worlds
Worlds have been quite disappointing. I hope they fix and add more worlds soon.
I would also like to see these things added and more jobs added to through a game pack.
Mark my words.
But yes, TS4 GTW is NOTHING compared to TS2 OFB.
TS4 GTW expanded on 3 Active careers, but the retail portion of the game REALLY lacked.
I, like many others simmers, was eager to build & run my own restaurant.
Only to find out my dream was short lived and basically non-existent.
Even TS2 trailers were better LMAO.
Yeah I'm sure this would go over well with everyone. *roll*
I don't think that's possible. No.
Edit: Actually, yes. This video shows you how.
As for the expansion being split, 8-10 jobs where we follow our Sims would have been a disaster. They would be awful and boring. The current three jobs are a good start, there just needs to be more variety in the tasks and the expansion opens up the option for even more jobs to be added in the future.
I think this expansion should not have been the first one released. Even though people have been asking for an OFB-style expac for ages, this expac would've benefited from more time to be worked on.
I hope my Sims and lots aren't too terrible!
Nope.
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