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Hi, It could be a good opportunity to be less serious and more focused on humor. Maxis could try to focus on male sims and masculine activities, on having fun more than just copy/paste the boring I...
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Occult is already a part of the fantasy and RPG quests were in The Sims 1 so it's in the DNA of The Sims, it's not limited to Barbie dollhouse. In fact The Sims games on console and spin-off games were anything but a dollhouse.
It's "popular" but not that much sadly, Minecraft has a 10 times bigger community and way more active players.
The Sims must grow up and learn new ways to think. It's not about turning The Sims into GTA but a little more of freedom and variety of lives would be appreciated. Mods already do a lot of things that could be included in the game.
Just because you don't see a lot of action in the community doesn't mean it doesn't have players I barely got into the community when Sims 4 was in its early stages but I played the Sims 1-3 not knowing there was a community so there's most likely that doesn't know the community and just playing the game.
Occults are apart of fantasy but is it selling? The only popular occult pack selling is real of magic, EBN didn't sell well and they are still advertising that pack. They even tried putting Star Wars in the Sims and that was received very badly in the Sims community.
I honestly think the Star Wars pack was a big mistake (I don't mind the Build/Buy/CAS) as I am an occult/fantasy/sci-fi player, but I am not interested in the gameplay of this pack.
If they were going to do a fantasy collab (but maybe they shouldn't have at all, and kept it Sims canon), it should have been like Harry Potter/Fantastic Beasts, Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass, or LoTR/The Hobbit. I think RoM is the best occult pack, and there was still complaints of it coming up short. But I didn't even try Sims 4 till L&D (and bought with RoM/Vampires).
From what I see there is a balance of realism vs. occult players, as some players admit they like both, and some realism exclusive still don't mind getting some occult packs like Vampires for Victorian Build/Buy/CAS.
But I think Fairy occults were the least favourite occult, so that might be why EbN fell short. I mean I tried a fairy, but I am a spellcaster/human player. I think that EbN/CoL are great complimentary combo, and I believe CoL is a favoured pack for both realism players and occult players.
I do think that if we get a pack that give Genies/Djinn, update Mermaids (like an ocean exploration pack and giving them an ability tree), and/or update make PlantSims a perma state with ability tree they will do much better than fairies.
It wasn't farise,but it felt like it was gamepack stretch to expansion pack.
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