obsimmian:

prettyladybabies:

It’s like EA has set a precedent for themselves with the other EPs so from now on they all follow that path regardless of what we want, under the guise of giving us what we want. They’re trying to appeal to us by giving us Sims’ “staples” such as parties and magic and aliens, and although they might be fun, in reality that’s only because every other game has had that so there’s both an obvious market and an incentive for people to try TS4 when it’s more like TS/2/3. 

In reality what we all want is for them to grow from the previous incarnations and understand what we actually want is for the base game to be fleshed out. Instead of relying on gimmicky expansions that only add to the game in the sense of giving the player something new to complete, give something that increases to enjoyability and “replayability” of the entire game such as weather, new aspirations, new careers, etc. 

Having every game be a replica of the last is straight up lazy and when EA try to do something new it doesn’t capture the essence of The Sims, in my opinion, and proves that literally all they can do is churn out the same over and over and over because it’s an easy profit. 

I agree with this fully. My friend and I were just talking about this yesterday, as a matter of fact. It seems as though what they’re gearing the Sims 4 as this game with content that mimics mundane (and nearly useless) activities of real life. As you’ve seen with “Get to Work” and “Spa Day” instead of as you mentioned the actual playability of the game like seasons and pets and toddlers. It seems they are much more interested in giving us expansions like “Sports Stuff” (which is one we guessed will be up soon or next) just so they can churn out a halfbaked expansion with a few outfits, hairs, and a few skills and animations for $20.

We also expected them to EVENTUALLY come out with Seasons and toddlers. But they are most definitely going to slap $40 price tags on those babies because they know very well what we want as a community. They’re waiting until they can rake in as much money as possible before they drop actual content we’ve always wanted in the game. As for now, we get nothing useful.

I completely disagree. I love the way they handle EPs and how they all follow a pattern because it plays on my nostalgia. I’m getting them all in relatively the same order than I got them for TS1, TS2 and kinda TS3 even though I didn’t play it. It’s exciting for me to see the stuff I used to do years ago and see it rehashed and updated and new stuff added. 

Also, why wouldn’t they put a $40 price tag on an expansion pack? I don’t know how much expansions normally cost in dollars so I don’t know if that’s higher than normal but I highly doubt they’ll make Pets/Seasons more expensive than any other expansion. They haven’t done that before, as far as I’m aware. Pets for TS1 was 3 discs and it was still the same price-wise as all the other expansions. I think in TS2 it was 2 discs as well.

I dunno, maybe I’m alone in this but I’m still excited for things they announce, especially things we’ve had in previous iterations. Even things I’m not interested in, like heroes and villians, I wouldn’t be excited about but I’d still be excited and happy for the people that are interested in it. It would be a bummer to me because it’s something I don’t want but other people do and that’s cool.

The stuff that’s come out so far has been useful to me, personally. I think Outdoor Retreat was fantastic, Spa Day is brilliant and I love all the build/buy additions. GTW was slightly disappointing for me because I’m not huge on active careers and I felt like some things were missing from retail but I’m still happy with it overall. I mean, I sue photography all the time gotta get those selfies.

I am disappointed thought that they haven’t given us any new aspirations/traits since January, after 2 stuff packs, a game pack and an expansion. I’m hopeful that they’ve taken our complaints about that on board though. We’ll see what happens next week at Gamescom.