Becoming a Fairy- WAY too simple! (AND EVERYTHING ELSE, TOO!)

I watched that video James Turner posted too!!!

I think they make it that simple for people who want to get into the meat of the gameplay without much effort. Like how it doesn't take much to transform into a mermaid. The EP occults are more simple to access.

and my feedback is that those people need to stop being catered to first and foremost because this is a video game and it requires structured rules and goals to be a "game" and not a "toy".

If they want to skip all the gameplay there are always cheats. There are no cheats to make the game have meaningful complexity for those of us who want to actually PLAY the game.

Wow! Thank you!😁

I agree with this So Much!

I'm pretty sure some people will want to turn off fairies because they bought the EP for build/buy....🙄

Intern_Waffle_64​, Unfortunately it is a sandbox style game and not a traditional rpg style. They are trying to cater to casual players and not players like you that like more structured rules and goals. I am a more casual player, but I also do not play with occults. My kids are not so casual players, but prefer simpler gameplay when it comes to all sandbox style games. They like the not so hard way to become occults.If they want more structured or rules based games, they have other games for that.

 Then play with cheats. That's what they're for. "Sandbox" does not mean "mindless" and it doesn't mean "simple" and it doesn't mean "easy" and it doesn't mean "absolutely no structured content whatsoever". It means choose what you want to do, not "everything you can do is super easy just in case a toddler wants to play". 

If YOU want LESS structured games, you have cheats for that. I like modding but I don't WANT to have to mod the game myself for tens of hours just to get expansion packs to have actual proper gameplay systems in them. They should be there from the start.

We're 11 years into this game and while a lot of it is much easier than earlier games, nothing's been this bad before. Everything you can do in this pack is just wild wish fulfillment pretend nonsense that completely breaks the entire game. From the Natural Living skill basically making owning a house pointless (And even saying in its description that you can just not have a house anymore) to everything fairies can do being so overpowered they never need to do anything anyway, why even play the game at that point?

If you want to play with no motive decay and infinite money we have, and have always had, two cheats for that. They need to be making a good game with good balance and good gameplay structure and design FIRST, and the people who want to ignore all that can press ctrl-shift-c and type in motherlode like they always have! It's ridiculous how dumbed down and simple all this stuff is.

Why bother having a luck system, a balance system, an ailment system, if none of it matters because everything is so easy to do and solve and ignore? 

I entirely agree. If you want to be a fairy right away, you can always make one in CAS. Why even have an option in gameplay to become a fairy if it's not any amount challenging? I wish the seed wasn't available to purchase at the very least. I would also be fine with having to grow the plant for a week or also having to get your friendship higher with Mother Nature for her to bestow the potion.

I also don't understand why they created two new deaths specifically for fairies but it's extremely difficult to have a fairy sim die either way. You have to actively try to overload or starve emotionally. I'm not a huge occult player but I was partially interested in fairies once they revealed the skill tree. It's the most detailed skill tree of all occults in the game, but not having any challenge in trying to manage your emotional levels is really disappointing. I'm not buying this pack ever unless this is tweaked. No matter how much I want functional indoor plants.

Slightly related: I remember a survey from after Businesses and Hobbies asking about the difficulty level in leveling up your business, and it made me think they heard everyone complaining about how easy the Bucket List is in Life and Death and tried to learn from that in the next pack. Why apply lessons to a whole new gameplay mechanic instead of just fixing the tuning in the previous pack or giving us difficulty options? We can choose the lifespan settings. Why not let me set the difficulty of the Bucket List or my small business ranking or my sim's needs? Then everyone can just choose how they want to play instead of EA dictating it to us.

Not an occult player by any means, however, the gameplay from this pack is lackluster in my opinion as well.   My sole purpose for buying the occult packs is exclusively the CAS & B&B.  

Maybe EA/MAXIS trades off the "teen and above" thing to draw a new and younger clientele base.    ?How many gamers today started playing the Sims at 8 and 9 years old?    Just a thought. 

So simple. 

I prefer in game cheats instead asking EA to turn off a major features in an EP or Pack. 

You need to Play the game it's not a toy.

Edit: players need to beat every aspect of this game from collections, skills and family trees(which need updating).

i know i said this in the "Enchanted By Nature" negative threat but i 100% agree with you on this one

ask mother nature to become a fairy, drinking potions and becoming one at the water right after doing these are way too easy to become one

i can understand drinking the potion part sure (we do need some difficulties so it will be a challenge) but visiting the water to become one? really? the pink water we have Ravenwood for it already, no need for an another pink water to become something in an another world (innisgreen)

fairies throwing fairy dust on a non-fairy and a potion would've been enough for me already, the pink water to become one is so unnecessary

EA is definitely lazy for this, it's just way too simple to become a fairy

as for the fairy needs: why dissapear the bladder and hunger and create this other one you'll die by the emotion force instead? (or whatever the needs are called once you're a fairy)

i've wanted a fairy pack since i discovered The Sims 4 back in March/April 2020 which didn't had fairies in it but i never ever asked for its emotion force needs

i asked for lots of things but emotion force needs isn't one of them on the list i've wanted in the game