October 26th - Inside Maxis Livestream

IF YOU WANT TO ADD PACK EXCLUSIVE CONTENT TO THE BASE GAME AT LEAST TWEAK THEM A LITTLE SO THEY ARE NOT THE SAME!!!!!!!!!

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It's like they're trying to teach players how to play the game.

It doesn't add anything since you can already play any scenario you want in your head.

Sounds like content creator fodder.

OMG, that was awful

There was so much potential with a concept like the scenarios and they added NO gameplay with it. I don't understand.

I little bit disapointed by the news. How scenarios will work with rotational gameplay?

This livestream was really a waste of time. Nothing interesting, nothing really new.

To be interesting, Scenarios would have to be way more complex - also far more complex than the aspirations.

When I heard scenarios, I thought that, nice, they found a way you can play challenges and add limitations to the game. But it looks like it's just... a goal?

Again, a good idea limited by no development put into this game.

"Skyrryx;c-17998441" wrote:
I little bit disapointed by the news. How scenarios will work with rotational gameplay?

This is exactly what I'm thinking. I mainly play my one rotational save and if it can't be started with an existing sim, there will be very little use for it.

Making Money is basically the Rags to Riches challenge, canonized. Not even made easier or anything, it seems to be just as easy to access as simply typing in "money 0" into the cheat box. It might actually be more annoying, if that little tab on the top stays on your screen. So? I mean yeah, we get aspiration points for completing it. But those points are already way too easy to get.

The heartbreak scenario might be interesting, but I'd have to see it in action to see if it's worth it. If it's just a prompt I get after my sim has a break-up, then I could just do that myself without needing a prompt. It doesn't sound like it's actually making my sim's life more realistic or adding a new layer. But as I said, it might be more in-depth and involved than Making Money, so it could be fun.

The limited time scenarios bug me too. They sound like they're reskinned challenges, which... There's a reason why most people haven't been clamoring for their return. And I can't help but feel like there's an ulterior motive; like they want people to log in and play them for a couple of hours, so they can go to their investors and say that the game had a huge spike of player engagement.