Daily Login Rewards are Confusing
I just found out about the daily login rewards from social media and I'm already confused. There's no dedicated, official Sims 4 announcement explaining them on twitter (at least not that I've found)...
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So, I've never posted or replied to anything on this forum before. But this issue motivated me to post here for the first time. For context, I have an embarrassing number of hours in TS4, and I've been playing since 2016. I have almost every expansion pack and game pack. I've had a lot of patience for issues with the game in the past. But this is a direction that I'm REALLY not happy with.
Here's my reason. I like to post things to the gallery, and I like to download things. I like making things easy to download - choosing a handful of packs to use for any given build. And I appreciate finding builds and households that use only packs that I own (to avoid hairless sims and unusable lots). The gallery is already unfriendly towards downloading compatible builds. It doesn't let you filter by packs owned (the filter that says "packs owned" shows you every build that has at least one of the packs you own, regardless of how many other packs it uses), and the onslaught of kits has made finding builds I can download very impractical.
But that's nothing compared to login rewards. From now on, gallery posts will not only be uploaded with content that I don't own, but also with content that I can NEVER own. At least with the kits, I have the option of buying them if I really want to. Plus, it's very likely that I won't be able to filter these builds out of my searches. I was already discouraged from posting or interacting with the gallery when they removed notifications - making it difficult to tell if someone commented or posted. But this is even more heartbreaking. I like playing the game by myself, but gallery interaction was a huge aspect I really enjoyed.
I don't really care when some other games I play offer limited time rewards (for example, Forza Horizon 5). If I get the rewards, great, but I don't get FOMO when something passes me by. But that game doesn't have a content hub that gets ruined if you don't have every item - like TS4 does. Also, you can get a lot of those items at the virtual auction house if other players want to sell. There are no ways to trade in this game.
I don't plan on claiming any of the daily rewards. I don't care about content that gets locked. And while part of me knows that nothing will change, I really hope that if enough people say something and/or don't utilize the daily rewards, the Sims team will change their minds about this.
You seem not to understand how this works. Since day one there has been locked content in the game. Meaning that the items are in the game just locked. This has always worked fine if you downloaded something with a locked item from the gallery it will still be there and your sims can use it, You are just limited in what you can do with the locked item. You can move it but not copy it and if you delete it you can't get it back.
I hope this relieves your fears of what will happen when you download a locked item from the gallery.@tarshishjupiter I understand your concerns and have thought about that myself. I fear the integration with the gallery hasn't really been thought out properly...
I wonder if reward items will even be labeled somehow or just count as base game.
Currently I can imagine that it works fine with all the glitches involved (finding the objects in the catalog without unlocking them).
@jpkarlsen That doesn't make any sense. Maybe you are talking about career unlocks. These are fine in case you own the pack. But unowned objects will just get removed from the build or will get replaced by ugly basegame objects once you place a build.
It's hard to tell right now how the event rewards will get handled, but the concerns are quite valid.
