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LillyPutian
New Scout
4 months ago

Wish List Item: Please give us a choice with add-on packs!

The Legacy Edition came with the edition of certain "Packs" that were never a part of any of my disk games.  Never.   You could download the characters from the commercials, if you chose.  I chose not to.  I've never heard of this massive group of mutant/army/futuristic skins that fill my skin data folder.  I would rather not  a) have NPC Sims randomly spawn looking like that in any of my places (Downtown, Magic Town, Studio Town) nor b) have to scroll through endless amounts of non-desirable faces and outfits that are better suited to a war game than the Sims. 

Choice is a wonderful thing.  It's much of the appeal of The Sims:  You tell your story your way, you choose how to play, you even choose which custom content to include.  Frankly, having these packs automatically included limits my choice.  I pull them out of the folder and then the program "nags" me about needing file repairs.  Not being able to trust that my files have not become corrupted, I need to periodically "repair" them, which means the EA app will reinstall them.  It's time consuming, bothersome, and limits my enjoyment of the game. 

Please, please, please, EA, consider making this a choice - a tick box even, for installing the game. 

Sincerely, 

A long time fan since 2000

2 Replies

  • Leo_Gruen's avatar
    Leo_Gruen
    Rising Traveler
    3 months ago

    The Command & Conquer skins were included in Complete Collection and this has been a long running complaint lol. You can just delete the offending skins from your GameData/Skins folder.

  • LillyPutian's avatar
    LillyPutian
    New Scout
    3 months ago

    You can delete them and that takes a bit of work, but then the game nags you that it needs to be repaired.  It's impossible to know if files need to be repaired or if it's the pulled skins causing the issue.  It's non-trivial to maintain the game of file shifting. (I keep two sets of skin files on my desk top).

    The complete collection?  Oh, that could be.  I never had that - just bought all the items as they came out. 

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