We Need the Ability to turn off vampires in (Gameplay) Settings…

Yes, we really need an option to turn off vampires and other occults. Then I could finally buy the packs.

frostysbae​ I've deleted all Vampires from my game and add the No Trespassing option for Vampires on all front doors. I clear new Townies daily anyway to stop my game bloating (on console) but especially after visiting Forgotten Hollow incase it's caused any to spawn. The only time I've had any spawn outside the world is when I forgot that door setting and one arrived on the doorstep. My Sim chatted with them and they walked in. When I realised, I exited to Manage Worlds and deleted their household from Other Households.

I only wanted the pack for the content but not the Vampires. I'd like a setting like the one for Werewolves where they don't spawn outside of their world.

Wow. I have had the vampire pack and only recently decided to turn one of my sims into a vampire and try things out. Vlad shows up at my sim's door on occasion and once or twice I have gotten a wall notification with him saying something about my sim's neck, but he has never actually done anything. I know there is an option on doors to not allow vampires but I have never turned it on because I have never had any problems. And this is across many households in same game and many other saves as well. So either I am really lucky or I just don't know. However, I do have a suggestion that I think would make things easier for you and solve problems for your sim. Go on a computer and start with research vampires. Then access the vampire secrets option on the computer and buy book 1 and progress through all of the books until you can't learn anymore. Then you will be able to make a drink using a bar to cure vampirism and one to ward them off. It is only temp, but it isn't like you should have to use it often. Heck I think you can even give the cure to Vlad if you wanted. But as much as it aggravates you maybe it all wouldn't make you so upset if you just kept the ingredients for the cure handy in case you need it for your sim. Caleb and his sister will not even drink from sims without permission so they are harmless. Until I made my sim a vampire I honestly hadn't met any other vampires outside of those three, that I know of anyway. Anyhow, maybe you already knew this and just don't want to deal, but if you didn't, it should help so you don't have to make those garlic items and such. 

If you click on the entrance doors to your Sims' home you can disallow vampires. That somewhat prevents them from visiting. I always do that and it seems to work.

I'd prefer to see a vampire hunting option. Let sims stake vampires in their coffin! 

I might have guessed that from your name lol :) I'd be down for that if vampires were able to take some kind of precautions to protect themselves while they sleep. I would be hella mad if my sim were easy to get to and stake and even though he has a large house, I wouldn't want to have a mess of vampires or anyone else living there to protect him. It would be cool also if the older a vampire gets the more powerful they become. Nothing has really incentivized me to turn on aging but that would probably get me there hehe. The vampire pack really is too simple as I think I have exhausted everything it has to offer. Not sure what I expected but definitely more. Like vampires challenging each other and stuff. but outside of the initial initiation, I see nothing like that. Vlad seems to have disappeared and there is a former butler living in his house. Not sure what is up with that. So another disappointment. My sim is a grandmaster and has completed both vampire aspirations and nothing to challenge him. I haven't changed family and friends into vampires or had him create any other vampires because I haven't decided exactly where I am going to go with it. So unless creating offspring brings new challenges, I'm pretty much bored with it after a couple of days of playing him as a vampire :(

Don't  invest in a game pack if you know you will be unhappy with major DLC like vampires or... use cheats...

I love vampires. I played werewolves in recent versions of the game and that's why I didn't invest this time around plus I don't want them in my game this time even though I appreciate their occult existence in the game.

EA has toned down vampires. The game design is fine. 

I don't play with occults. The only reason I own the vampire pack is for the Victorian style furniture. It also was one of the first packs with wall crack decals for my fixer upper builds. I used to hate the Vlad intruder, until we could disallow vampires on the doors. That works about 99% of the time provided Vlad doesn't have the hidden trait to alli a him to phase through walls. Vampires are still annoying, but I have found that if you delete them the game just renegerates a replacement.

All sorts of 'Game Option' selectors should be created - to allow us to turn on/off ANY added game play or the pack entirely.  Since you can't really try out the pack until you buy it, and once you buy it you're stuck with it, we should have more control over every aspect of what was in the pack.  Not saying an on/off setting for each build/buy item or each piece of clothing, but an all or nothing option to allow all the pack's build/buy items, all the packs clothing, and all the pack's added gameplay like Vampires, Werewolves, etc. (grouped logically by pack).  Should also allow us to turn off things that were added that have (in my opinion) ruined some aspects of game play - like making babies more trouble than they're worth.  Being able to select the components I want to use and leave off the garbage I don't want would be a nice feature.

It would also be nice if EA made every DLC free for 30 days so we can try it out.  If we like it, we buy it, if we don't it goes away.  Especially as it relates to items that are not included in the 'Great Game Guarantee' since most of what's coming out any more seems more lackluster than anything 'Great.'  How many times has one of us purchased a Sims add-on only to discover that it's really not even close to as good as we thought it was going to be once the download ended?  A 30-day "try before you buy" option will also force improved quality of product and service when new packs are released - if it's buggy, broken, or just sucks, people won't buy it.

What's the point of playing a game if you want to turn off half the features?

Barbies are great for those that don't want to play a simulation game...but that's just my opinion. We love the barbie doll.