I appreciate the Gurus for doing this, and I like how warm and inviting they were. I have no complaints about the presenters themselves and I think they're great. They did some cool things, like going into detail about painted ceilings, the new swatches and how the system would work. I like how they showed off a decent amount of CAS items and explained some of their ideas, without dragging things out for too long.
That said, I feel like the presentation itself made a bunch of questionable decisions.
- They didn't show off that old man from the gameplay trailer.
- Things weren't properly scheduled in-game, so competitions were completely missed.
- The competitions are a big part of the horse gameplay, yet almost nothing about it was shown off.
- They had to show off things at night, when it would be hard to see things.
- I felt like they didn't go into enough detail with the BB. I don't want them to go through each item and show them off, one by one; that would be long and boring. But it would have been nice to see more. The infant update stream was perfect - they had a big room and showed off every item & their swatches, and just showed them without going into excruciating detail.
- We didn't get any examples of the breeding system and the special traits foals could get.
- They didn't explain what the occult nectars did. I get wanting a surprise, but the Spa Day refresh stream talked about the vampire-exclusive masks.
- We have new events, but they didn't show us how they work.
- There's lore, but they barely told us anything about it.
- I don't think they went into detail over what the new aspirations include? Like what are the steps and each goal? But maybe they did and I just missed it.
Since this was pre-recorded and not a livestream, I felt like they could have cut out them faffing about, and just give us the pack's highlights. Much of what we got was stuff we already knew. And they didn't even go into detail about much of them.
It would have been great if they answered FAQs from the sims community. Like with livestreams they could check the chat, but here they had the chance to pick popular questions and go into depth on them, and they wouldn't be put on the spot to come up with an answer. But I guess it would be a bummer to answer some of those questions. Like imagine they dedicate the last few minutes of the stream to say that unicorns aren't coming back, competitions are less interactive than Sims 3's, there would be no festivals, and there might not be much cross-pack compatibility with previous packs' animals.