📝 EP Survey 2025

Do not take offense with what I'm going to say, everyone has a different opinion and I respect that, I'm not here to argue with people, I know my opinion might be unpopular and that is fine. Just know I love aspects of the game and that is why I want it to do well and make people happy.

Some of these concepts sounds like something that could of been a pack refresh, community careers (Get to work), Ocean exploration (Island living), Reality TV (Get famous) and Van life (Outdoor retreat). I know that they stopped doing pack refreshes after their first attempt at it with Spa day, however I still feel like pack refreshes can do well if they pick less niche packs to refresh. Isn't there new players joining after the base game became officially free? It will be more tempting for new players to buy these older packs if they get refreshed and overall more well-rounded than before, and people would have more reasons to recommend them as well, especially Island living, Get famous and Outdoor living.

As an example: Island living's whole thing is about the sea, the people of Sulani and mermaids. However, the gameplay for the mermaids and the sea ended up being very lackluster, people were disappointed that you couldn't actually explore underwater, which seems to be the idea for Ocean exploration including the boathouse, unless I'm reading it completely wrong. The metal detector would be perfect to use on the beach while your also cleaning the beach, you would be able to explore underwater as either a regular sim in scuba gear or a mermaid, and you could live on the ocean or next to the beach in your boathouse, and they would have a reason to revisit the mermaids and make them more well-rounded like the rest of the occults of the game (except for aliens and plant sims).

However, Suburban living, Car life and Work on wheels are completely new ideas for Sims 4, and something I would be interested in as a single big new expansion pack with a lot of gameplay, they go well together with the overall vehicle theme and I see no reason to why they would be separate packs.

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Half of these sound like pack refreshes or game packs. 

Ocean Exploration is simply Island Living with houseboats, Community Careers is Get To Work Part Two... Suburban Living? Sims is already mostly about suburban living, what on earth is "the ultimate house-spouse with top-notch homemaking expertise" that isn't covered in the game already, especially with packs like Parenthood? I actually really like the description of that one on paper, but how is it a new pack rather than a set of updates? How are its "dark secrets" different from uncovering secrets with For Rent, which are completely random and have nothing to do with a sim's personality?

Reality TV and Car Life sound fun but I can't see an entire expansion pack based on these things. Remember Sims 2 Nightlife? It was basically Lovestruck + Car Life + Vampires + Dine Out. If we're chopping up packs at least have the decency not to put something like cars in an entire expansion.

Lastly, seconding everyone who dislikes the "closed survey" system. 

I need modern monarchy.

alanmichael1 wrote:

A closed circle survey is a really bad idea.

I also didn't get the survey. Too bad. 

Some of the cool ideas from the survey last year seem to have gone like a futuristic pack. I am surprised to see a pack named suburban living. That's all the sims is about, a suburban lifesimulator. So is that pack a base game refresh? 

They should combine all the car packs into one Expansion. 

If we get aquarium exhibits you'll be able to upload to the gallery. 

I wanna see bands, dance forms, and more talents!

A lot of these sounds like potential packs that they can do once they have implemented cars in the game. Which makes me happy, I have wanted cars for a long time.  I think they would benefit from implementing some sort of travel and carry system in the game too because I think that would improve the packs they suggest here. Give sims buffs when traveling together with vehicles or something, some benefits so you want to use vehicles instead of just teleporting.

This is probably how I would rank them:
The Sims 4 Car Life - Good car ideas, I think they should implement cars as base game so all packs can benefit from them.
The Sims 4 Work on Wheels - Sounds like a good addition to Car Life.
The Sims 4 Suburban Living - It could add a lot to every World by adding things like lawn mowing, truck driving, fixing cars but I'm not so sure about the secrets thing, I don't think it worked in For Rent where they were just random things you found.
The Sims 4 Community Careers - Fire fighter, hair salon and dentist sounds like interesting careers to play.
The Sims 4 Ocean Exploration - As long as not everything turns into rabbit holes and we have real underwater areas and real houseboats and some sort of travel system I think this one could work well.
The Sims 4 Van Life - It could work but it needs some sort of travel system, buffs, allowing us to carry and customize things I think.
The Sims 4 Reality TV - I don't think this one will work.

A closed circle survey is a really bad idea.