I love the idea of this pack! It's got the off the grid aspects, expanded gardening and crafting, without the negative bits of the farming pack idea. Yay!
It's the interesting packs that keep me playing, despite all the problems with the simulation aspect of sims 4. I wouldn't play if it was just sims nostalgia, and domesticity. I don't play with a dolls house and I'm as likely to simulate knitting and laundry as watching paint dry!
There's nothing like that where I live (London, UK). You do get rich people buying houses in rural areas which I'd presumed this was - I don't know if we have small scale actual farms in the UK at all. I've always lived in British cities. I did volunteer in a city farm quite a few years ago. They were very keen to teach…
The chances of the sims 4 going anywhere dark is nil. It will be cloyingly saccharine, nauseatingly disneyfied. What's a non-commercial farm? A toy project for people with another source of income?
But that's not really farming, though? I know this is the sims - the animals are going to be cute and not taken to an abattoir. I expect what we'll get is crops/gardening with some picking/jam/wine etc. We'll also get some toy/pet animals which will be cute and pet-like. The nearest we'll come to animal husbandry will be…
I agree that this is a particularly negative forum, with some vocal people would would never be happy. I don't think this is the community, as if they got their way most people wouldn't play. I presume their unhappiness reflects real life unhappiness, with nostalgia, need for close families, dislike of young adults etc.…