Disappointment in Businesses and Hobbies EP and 25th Anniversary

There was a lot more you can do candy, the art museum heavily needed a redo so I'm happy that we can now run an art museum if you want to you run a gym, a spa, a cafe. Also simmers like have ask for pottery yes we had clay but there's was really nothing to do with clay just like there was nothing to do with the crystal until we had crystal creation. 

You are not incorrect. I just would have liked to see a little more than a redo of what should have been available already with the packs we have. There are SO many ideas fellow simmers have posted just on this forum alone! But EA doesn't seem to listen to those who have supported them. 

Oh I know about EA not listening to simmers as well I've been asking for more gameplay for ages. Now I'm happy that they rereleased Sims 2 so the new simmers can see why veteran simmers be so wound up about not having certain gameplay in the game when we had it before. I would suggested a hobbies pack with ballet, karate, sculpting making a statue we used to make that in Sims Bustin Out on Console and I used to love it. However with this pack they did a little more then I expected. 

The make a business idea is good and I do like what they have done with it and the ticket machine.  What I don't like is that many items and clothing are things we have.  I hated it in the Sims 3 and I loath it in the Sims 4, having 40 couches, tables, chairs, kitchen sets ect.  Why don't you quit trying to sell us what we've bought several times over and put out new stuff.  In the Sims 3, we got new stuff and 30x what you give us in the Sims 4.  I have wanted new gym stuff since the Sims 3.  The last thing I need/want is another type of what I already have.  That is what the new games that are not the Sims will get right; giving customers stuff they don't have, not copies of junk they've already bought.  This should've had all new stuff.  New gym equipment like the trampoline, a chin up bar, a stepper, the large ball for exercises, the skying machine, hand weights, jump ropes, hand exercisers, ect.  And all of that in one pack not spread out; quit being cheap skates to your long time customers.  I use to love doing the sculptures in the Sims 3 and there are many jobs they could've added.  Sims 4 is so lazy and money hungry and I always wonder why fans don't get angry.  If you were around for the Sims 3 at all, then one knows there was a whole world with businesses, new skills, new traits, and when they did a pack, it was at least pretty well rounded, not just two things or so.  All supernaturals were in the supernatural pack.  I have zero excitement for the Sims 4 anymore and I'm not interested in #5 either, because if I get it right, there is no open world and it will be them trying to sell me the same items over and over.  I think whoever owns the game should fire a huge section of people and hire some fans that know why the game has problems and I'm not talking about hiring simmers that play who make houses and design.  I haven't been impressed with that.  They should start putting new items and new stuff in packs especially EPs.  The whole point of EP's is to get a bunch of stuff we don't have at all and all the current new EP is trying to take stuff we loosely have and remake it.  Some I like and the concept, but not the use of junk we already have too much of already.  Also there should've been more than 2 hobbies; there should've been several for $40.  Quit wasting the $40 bucks worth of energy to copy junk we have and put it towards new stuff we don't have.  Packs should have many things we don't have and very little copying.  That might be ok for the small packs, but EP's should be new stuff and lots of it.  You all need to go talk to the people that did the Sims 3, because that's what the other companies are doing.  Open world, loads of stuff, loads of possibilities.  I never considered the $40 for an Ep to be bad, but in the Sims 4, it is down right crazy.  We don't get our money's worth anymore.  Gameplay looks great, but it should've been all new stuff too.  All this 30 beds/loads of copies of stuff we don't need is one reason I'm not excited at all about a Sims 5.  I don't want to rebuy.  I'm not satisfied with the Sims 4.  It is just now getting to where it has some options for play since more content has come out, but you are always stingy with every single pack you put out.  Less copies; more of what the pack is really about.             

I agree with everything you said! My game is so full of CC that I have added to either fix something the latest update broke (or never worked), or adding items from content creators to make the game interesting. There is no challenge to the game, and new packs only add more recolors of broken items or add BACK to the game what we had in the other versions! Having played all of versions of the game since the beginning, I expected this to be even better than the 3 previous versions, as MOST would keep the things that worked but update them, then add NEW gameplay and items we have not seen in previous versions. 

Inzoi is released later this month. I am seriously going to check it out. I have only seen their CAS, but no gameplay. If the gameplay and building is as good as the CAS, I probably won't be back.

Not everyone uses Mods. 

Sincerely,

A Simmer Since 2000

Not everyone has access to mods either.

The game(Inzoi) might have bugs like any other game but I feel you!🙂

I disagree.  This pack will likely be one of their best that will be as foundational as seasons.  The title of the game is poor.  It really should be called "From your Hobbies (All expansions like Gemology) to Small Business".  It's not a business as much as taking all the crafting, collectibles and skills and giving a way for players to interact with all those skills.

I think this will be one of their best expansions because it looks like it operates like the Club feature where you make a club and pick people to join it.  People in the club do things that the club enjoys doing.  This is basically a owned club tied to skills so your townies and sims can go and visit and the sims should all be doing those things which will add a ton of ambient value to the game.

And you have more than two hobbies.  You have all the hobbies and potions etc from all the other packs.  It's not about just the two hobbies.  It's about all the craftable items from all the expansions.  This is a cross pack support DLC that can help players make their own types of communities that are more interactive to be in.

I feel really excited for the features of the pack, but I'm continually disappoint in the pricing and the lack of free updates and bug fixes. The Small Businesses feature could have been a free base game update. If it were, I'd feel better about paying $10 for a Tattooing Stuff Pack and/or a Pottery Stuff Pack.

In general, I'd be a lot more likely to spend money on new paid DLC if the Sims were doing more free base-game updates and bug fixes.