Want to turn off Romantic satisfaction
Lovestruck made my sims (and me as well) very unsatisfied... 😞 You just playing your game, trying to do some things, make some money, grow roses, KIDS, get promotion and all of this staff... And yo...
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Amen to that!!
I'm being completely serious when I say this pack feels like it was designed by a 13-year-old girl, mooning over her very first boyfriend. What this game is calling LOVE, is actually quite disgusting and unhealthy.
Co-dependency is not healthy in relationships. Being jealous of your partner's every move is not good. Threatening your spouse with divorce is not how you communicate. And if it only takes mere days to fall out of love with your significant other, then that's not love.
Seriously, this is what crazed, hormonal, naive teenagers think love is. This is the life you daydream about, when you're young & dumb, inexperienced, and convinced you'll spend the rest of your life together because you just celebrated your 2-week anniversary, and you're giddy AF.
Or worse than that, it mimics abuse ...
These new relationships require micro-managing to sustain, leaving no time to pursue other interests — just like the abuser who isolates their partner from outside influence. They now require WAY too much screentime — like the abuser who possesses their lover. The new pop-ups that have mates threatening each other with serious issues — as abusers do to their victims to scare or gaslight them. And Sims relationship bars now go up and down like a rollercoaster — Eerily similar to 'love bombing', the worst psychological weapon in an abuser's arsenal (victims rarely fully heal from this grotesque form of torture).
So ... yeah. This pack is problematic, not just in the form of gameplay (which obviously sucks), but how it can be conceived by others. And yes, as someone who HAS been in an abusive relationship, there are some aspects to the pack I have found triggering.
The worst part is, they barely added any new animations or interactions, just some pointless menus and labels that don't really change anything. Instead of enriching the interactions to make the visuals more engaging, it now feels more like a text-based adventure.
They really need to dial down the public displays of affection too. People necking in the library, stargazing on every available bench. And get rid of the "Romantic Introduction", too. We already have a Flirty one and that's overused. I don't need strangers walking up to me and throwing love-heart shaped rose petals all over me. If that happened to me IRL it would ilicit a very hostie reaction.
I'm not a big fan of mods becuase they tend to be there to fix stuff that shouldn't need fixing, but I've now installed MCCC with the sole purpose of turning off automonous flirting altogether, and that's only prtially successful.
It's too much. Especuially for a pegi 12 game.
