📝 EP Survey 2025
Hi, New ideas of EP have been reported : https://simscommunity.info/2025/02/19/sims-4-expansion-packs-survey-2025/
Forum Discussion
Do not take offense with what I'm going to say, everyone has a different opinion and I respect that, I'm not here to argue with people, I know my opinion might be unpopular and that is fine. Just know I love aspects of the game and that is why I want it to do well and make people happy.
Some of these concepts sounds like something that could of been a pack refresh, community careers (Get to work), Ocean exploration (Island living), Reality TV (Get famous) and Van life (Outdoor retreat). I know that they stopped doing pack refreshes after their first attempt at it with Spa day, however I still feel like pack refreshes can do well if they pick less niche packs to refresh. Isn't there new players joining after the base game became officially free? It will be more tempting for new players to buy these older packs if they get refreshed and overall more well-rounded than before, and people would have more reasons to recommend them as well, especially Island living, Get famous and Outdoor living.
As an example: Island living's whole thing is about the sea, the people of Sulani and mermaids. However, the gameplay for the mermaids and the sea ended up being very lackluster, people were disappointed that you couldn't actually explore underwater, which seems to be the idea for Ocean exploration including the boathouse, unless I'm reading it completely wrong. The metal detector would be perfect to use on the beach while your also cleaning the beach, you would be able to explore underwater as either a regular sim in scuba gear or a mermaid, and you could live on the ocean or next to the beach in your boathouse, and they would have a reason to revisit the mermaids and make them more well-rounded like the rest of the occults of the game (except for aliens and plant sims).
However, Suburban living, Car life and Work on wheels are completely new ideas for Sims 4, and something I would be interested in as a single big new expansion pack with a lot of gameplay, they go well together with the overall vehicle theme and I see no reason to why they would be separate packs.
Since they are not making a Sims 5, they've got to rake in the money somehow. It wouldn't surprise me if we see a lot of packs in the future that seem like they should be refreshes or "already used" concepts. Lots of players are beginning to see B&H more favorably and not so much as Get to Work refresh material or rehash upon learning more about how the business system works. So, one can only hope these concepts are well considered and fleshed out enough to stand on their own and not be, "This should have been added to [previous pack]" or "This should have been a free update".
I didn't really have a strong hate or love relationship with the business and hobbies pack, I'm more so reacting on the lack of actual hobbies. I like the idea of the tattoos (which is honestly what I'm most excited about lmao) and being able to create your own little hybrid business and to be able to live on the same lot as your business, but this pack relies so much on other packs when it comes to the business aspect and it is very misleading with it's title.
So as you, I do hope that they start to really make their packs more well-rounded and more unique to stand out from the rest.
KatterayuI agree, though I'm the inverse: I'll play pottery and not tattoo. I'm looking forward to the business ownership part of the gameplay and agree that the "hobbies" part feels limited for a new pack with "hobbies" in the title.
