30% sale on Origin - still unsure whether to purchase 'Get Famous'

"icmnfrsh;c-16870305" wrote:
I found out about it when I was idly browsing the Origin store. I got GF at once :D

I'll let you know how it is when I get off work

I'm looking forward to reading about your experiences! :)
I will probably buy it but am waiting until later in the week, hoping that the patch will be released and fix some of the annoying bugs, as @LaBlue0314 suggested above.

Gonna vary in personal experience with the pack, but celebrties have only been obnoxious when on a lot with the new lot traits like Orchid a go go. Thorne is usually there due to being in the entertainment career so he ends up being a NPC for an entertainer. So any chance for any musically inclined sim to be in the spotlight is low. Which is fine since my sim has to struggle for awhile. Tend to send them elsewhere to play.

One celebrity might show up on a regular lot Had the Bailey-moon family appear at Chez llama and everything was fine. Waiters didn't freak out or get excited they did their job. My sim was able to get their food with no interruptions.

I might see one sauntering outside of a lot now and again, but that's about it.

I don't have much trouble with them invading, though granted I don't run restaurants or stores so I don't know how bad it could be but, in my experience the celebrities don't stay for too long anyway. Even then the crowd seems to get bored after a short while and go back to doing what they were doing with the odd one or two being persistent. It does get a bit annoying in clubs when the dj stops but that just gives me a chance to get my sim in the booth when I have a dj sim so it can be beneficial.

I hope the patch drops today so that I can try it with the most annoying issues squashed.

I do plan to use the setting where you have to be actively looking for fame to gain points. I'll see how disruptive celebrities will be that way

I din't havr the issue of sims not doing their jobs ehile there is a celebrity. I recently got my sim to a nightclub where Izzy Fabulous and the Lady with white dress premade Celebrity Spawn(I think she is a global Celeb) yet mu sim still party all night long. If there is an issue with the DJ, that is the DJ are no longer changing tunes/remix songs autonomously unless you request them, one if the patch in 2017 caused this issue.

Back to Gwt Famous its enjoyable. I definitley recommend getting it. Its challgenging and a fun pack. Currently I am creating a famous Writer, and I love the ups and downs she experience on his road to fame.

"Jordan061102;c-16870565" wrote:
It's a pity I could have bought it on sale if I had waited a couple of weeks more.

But that's always the case, at some point everything goes on sale. Obviously you were excited about the expansion and wanted to play and I hope you got some enjoyment out of it. I have bought expansions at full price before too. But with this one, my first feeling was disappointment, so I knew from the start that I was going to wait for a sale, no matter how long.

I got it at 50% off and I don't think it was worth any more than that IMO. I don't find the gameplay additions interesting at all (really... it doesn't add much to your game to be a celebrity) and the acting career is slow and repetitive.

"Jordan061102;c-16870585" wrote:

"Netzspannung;c-16870576" wrote:

"Jordan061102;c-16870565" wrote:
It's a pity I could have bought it on sale if I had waited a couple of weeks more.

But that's always the case, at some point everything goes on sale. Obviously you were excited about the expansion and wanted to play and I hope you got some enjoyment out of it. I have bought expansions at full price before too. But with this one, my first feeling was disappointment, so I knew from the start that I was going to wait for a sale, no matter how long.

I wasn't really excited, I just bought it two weeks ago. But I enjoy it, it's just the world that I don't like, it's too tiny.

That's exactly my problem with it. I was waiting for another world with mild climate like Oasis Springs, but the number of lots is ridiculous. I have to wonder if we will ever get another world the size of Windenburg with well over 20 lots.

"Jordan061102;c-16870565" wrote:
It's a pity I could have bought it on sale if I had waited a couple of weeks more.

Don't feel too bad, this happens to me a lot. There was this one game that I didn't buy right way, forgot which of the sim series or pack it was, I bought the game around 9 pm my time, and the very next morning it was on sale for 75 percent off.

"Netzspannung;d-952729" wrote:
As the title says, there is a storewide sale with the promo code "SAVE30" (until 18 December). But I am still unsure whether to get "Get Famous" due to the many reports of invading celebrities. Anyone else having second thoughts?

Get famous, i certainly found the celebrity's invading but i am hoping the distraction is toned down outside there own world. I like the premades that live in that world. Unfortunitly the game does not seem to reconise celebrity off, if they excist

In my non celebrity saves i found deleting all the pre made celebs and removing the celebrity traits worked, had no celebrity's spawn at all in that save, only thing that was overlooked was the paparazzi. Which continue to spawn. All paparazzi have the kleptomaniac trait and my unmodded game continuously spawns them when i travel to a different lot, even though i have no celebrity's in that game. Unless you want a world overrun with kleptomaniac Sims, i suggest you delete them regularly as the game does replace them regularly, even if not deleted.