It’s getting on for two months since For Rent came out and I’m really curious as to how much those who bought the pack are actually using it. From what I’ve read, it seems that a lot of simmers are avoiding using the pack, and some are even uninstalling it. I personally haven’t touched the main tenant/landlord or rental content since I first tried it when it came out, but I have been using some of the BB, CAS and lot challenges. I haven’t actually experienced any bugs or problems in my game so far.
So how much are you using the pack right now? It would be interesting to know if your decision is based on what you’ve experienced personally (too many bugs or broken saves) or because you’ve been put off by what you’ve read others have experienced. Or if you are playing with tenants/landlords/rentals, are you actually experiencing any bugs? Our answers will hopefully all change whenever they fix the bugs.
This poll is really for those who bought the pack, but I’ve added an option for those who don’t have it so everyone can join in.
How much are you playing For Rent? 118 votes
I haven’t bought the pack.
I bought the pack but I’m not using any of its content in my game/have uninstalled the pack.
I bought the pack but I’m not using any of the tenant/landlord/rental content.
I bought the pack and am playing with everything.
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I am enjoying some of the other features though.
We weren't interested in the landlord stuff even before release so we never touched it.
But we moved to Tomarang and live there. The world is amazing and the build buy awesome
The only problems I have is that the games sometimes crashes while I build in Tomarang, which doesn't happen when I build in other worlds.
And the lot is not even a rental residential.
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World interests me very little, so this time that is not tempting me either. It will serve 100% as vacation destination in my game, whenever it is I buy it
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I did not have a save corrupted by the pack, but I gave it no chance for it to happen. I never touched the premade rental lots in Tomerang or built my own rental in any save I played in. I also only once changed a rental back to residential (which corrupted build mode until I rebuilt the entire lot, which isn't feasible If you play a lot you spent a Long Time building and decorating) and I never had a tenant die in a rental.
I never had mold again after I changed the lot type to residential.
I was able to build a Residential lot in the beach lot in Tomerang without issues.
I have no plans to ruin my save and there's not much to explorer, so after testing I got back to my regular save where I do not touch the Rental aspect at all.
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In terms of this pack, I made a vacation rental in the house that comes with Morensong that originally has a mold lot challenge. I decided to switch the mold off and made it a vacation spot. I've sent several groups there already and honestly I enjoy Tomarang for vacations but my sims tend to be travelers so they hop around to different places. With several groups, I've sent them sightseeing around the different features. They tend to frequent the night market a lot. I've also sent them to the lounge in Koh Sahpa but currently all of my travelers have been staying at that one place in Morensong which has been working for them. I added the grill cart there and I mean, I think it adds to the atmosphere. I am sure they have the fruit bowl too. They don't need the sun shade but it might find a use elsewhere in Tomarang.
I really don't mind that the streets are quiet because I interpret that as part of the culture there that locals don't tend to walk around casually like they used to be a dictatorship or something. I've sent a few groups to the tiger sanctuary and I will say that it was a different experience each time even though it's a Jungle Adventure rabbithole. I'd love seeing real tigers but I still send sims there as part of any trip. I also like the botanical garden and various landmarks. There are things to do for all ages and actually most of my travelers have brought children along to explore and play hopscotch with locals in one of the parks.
I am waiting on patches to play with more of this pack but it's on my agenda when I have time. I'll build more there and I can definitely say that more of my sims will be going there even just as travelers. I'll also use these rental features elsewhere when this gets fixed. I could see playing with it in my main save or in a new one but I'd definitely have a new back-up save when doing that. My main save is getting a bit crowded but I'd still want to use this there and actually I see it as a good solution for managing sims in a large rotation so I look forward to the major bug fixing.
This was exactly my answer too.
If/when they fix the issues with For Rent, then I will look again at purchasing it. In the meantime, I have enough content in my game that still needs exploring, so I'm fine to do that (or play something different like Baldur's Gate) until the pack is properly fixed. Hopefully that won't take too much longer, I feel bad for the people who already bought it and have to wait it out or uninstall.
I jumped at buying the pack with the excitement of building and playing in multi-family lots. During those first couple of days, I set up a shiny new save (mod and cc free) and renovated two premade lots in Tomarang. Then I set up a new tenant family in one of the pre-builds (didn't want to play as a landlord just yet) so that I could play test any new builds and try out the new rental features to see how it all works.
But within a few days after learning about all the bugs, save corruptions, etc I stopped everything immediately and deleted that new save. I've also completely stopped any and all multi-family builds.... setting any lot to 'residential rental' has been proven to cause game corrupting issues, so I'm not taking any risks, nor do I want to upload anything to the gallery and risk breaking other peoples' games too.
At this point, I've only played with some of the CAS and BB items from the pack. I will not touch the world of Tomarang or any of the EP's rental features with a ten foot pole until these dire game breaking bugs are fixed and proven to be safe before proceeding any further.
I've invested an exorbitant amount of money into this game (going on $1200 at this point) and am not willing to waste my time and energy having to repair/replace/recreate 10 years worth of my existing saves, households, or builds.... Spending endless hours searching the internet trying to find answers on how to fix things? No thanks.
All these headaches just because some upstairs 'suits' decided that ample quality control procedures are no longer a necessary expenditure?
I weep for the future of this game....
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When I saw that there was bugs as well I lost interest. The buy early grill item looked kinda nice but it's just not worth it. The sims 4 can be a very demanding game to play where you as a player have to create everything around yourself and to do that you need creativity and energy, if I encounter bugs like this pack have then all that goes away for me.
I was excited for the pack (and am sad about missing limited items)
but its just not worth totally destroying my saves
and really I cannot take another dumpster fire of a pack right now
I'm still recovering from the last few sim apocalypses
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