@Kompletionist92, depending on where you live, bowling is still popular!😎 There is a large bowling alley right by my house that is always crowded, despite there being other forms of entertainment nearby. Also, it is a fantastic family activity! 🥳
I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure Mixology has been in TS4 since the beginning as one of the branches to the Culinary Career path.🤔
But I agree with you in that we really could use pool tables in the game! ❤️ Back when we had the chance to vote on a stuff Pack Theme, the vast majority voted for Laundry Day, but one of the options was an '80s style arcade. That would have been the perfect opportunity for EA to introduce pool tables, but most people wanted laundry, so that isn't EA's fault! 🤨
But I think one of the main reasons we have bowling alleys in the game and not pool tables is because with bowling comes the wonderful bowling shirts and the Mid-Century Modern themed items! 🙂 Until the Get Famous EP was released last Fall, the Bowling SP was our only source of the Mid-Century Modern design aesthetic that so many people love, especially builders! As for the bowling shirts, not only are these clothing items appropriate for children and adults, both men and women love them (and we need as much clothing for males in the game as we can get!) 😃
For the future, I think our best chance to get a pool table in the game would be with a University pack! 🤞😉
Happy Simming!
Great response, @PugLove888
I know Mixology was there from the start, I meant when they were making the base game and added in bars they should have thought "Gee, pool and "juice" sure would go together well"
I am actually very surprised that the Laundry Day Pack was voted for by fans. Sure it seems pretty strange not to have a laundry anywhere in the house but it's one more chore that's annoying enough in real life, in my opinion. To each their own, obviously!
I would have loved '80s arcade, I need more stuff to fill out my ridiculously oversized mancave/basement.
@Kompletionist92, true, they should have put pool tables in the Base Game, but then again they didn't even have swimming pools or Toddlers! 😮 So, without the obviously necessary toddlers, the pool table just wasn't as important of something that wasn't included in the base game. 😉 But they would have made a great addition to Get Together! That is where they messed up, IMHO. 😉
Laundry Day's gameplay is my least favorite pack, but I do really love the clothing, furniture and décor items in that pack, so in the end I think it was worth it. 😎 But I prefer more of a fantasy approach to the Sims. I wash clothes in real life and don't enjoy it, so I don't want to waste Sim time doing something I don't really like anyway. But I did have fun when one of my sims caught fire from not cleaning the lint trap! 😮👿😃 My Sim was fine after a shower, so all was good! 😉
A lot of people also wanted non-controllable pets for TS4, at least from al the posts and polls that I saw. It was about 3/4 of the people, while I was in the 1/4 minority who wanted to be able to play as our pets, like we did in TS3. I actually prefer TS4 to TS3, but controllable pets was one of the best things about TS3! 🐶🐱
The arcade pack would have been much more fun than the laundry pack.🥳 Besides, I've have seen people make washers and dryers before Laundry Day was released by using the " bb.moveobjects on " cheat and then using "9" and "0" to scale up the size of a pool light to look like the front of a washer or dryer. It's pretty clever, really! :
Those DIY washer/driers are very clever, it's a shame I'm on PS4 so I can't do any creative stuff like that.
I'll just have to keep my fingers crossed that eventually an expansion will have pool tables I guess.
I actually had to do some Googling to confirm that they weren't just in a pack I don't have yet.
As for pets, I definitely prefer the pets uncontrollable. It gives them a personality of their own and it's more true to life. I love my "catcoon" with all of its flaws and habits.
