Anyone else concerned by the way Sims 4 is being broken up and sold?

Am I concerned by the packs? Nope. If I don't want them, I don't buy them. It's simple, I know. But you'd be surprised how less stressful life is when you keep things simple. ;)

I didn't buy Vampires for quite awhile, until I looked through a guide showing all the bb items and saw those wall tears/stains/cracks and had to have them. I always research a pack before buying. Quick, easy, and I don't need others to come to my own conclusions, lol.

I actually rather like it! The thing with the stuff packs is, if there is content I like, it's 10$. I can easily afford that, even if its only for ahandful of hairstyles and clothing options I want, $10 justifies the hundreds of uses I'll get out of a hairstyle I CANT live without.
It's more gamepacks and expansions I worry about, but only because the numbers for them with Sims 2 and 3 were relatively even, for every EP, there'd be a stuff pack, not every 2 stuff packs an EP or GP. That's my only worry, but then my solution is wait until ones I don't love go on sale, or don't bother. My Sims don't need to go bowling, hold fancy parties, go to the movies, have spooky things or go on outdoor retreats, have clubs or even go to Selvadorada. I tend to play the most with City Living, and use the most CAS from Cats and Dogs.

The way to see it is that you hve a chance to save money by prioritising and choosing what features you do and don't care for. Don't want laundry? save $10 and don't bother! Don't need clubs? Save $40 and don't bother :)

The way I see it is that theyre only options, and the game still feels fun without some features.

@Chazzzy Woah, I hadn't eve thought of it that way when it comes to repurchasing content for different iterations. That part didn't bother me. Also I understand prices would increase with time. Prices increased from TS1 to TS3 as well. It's supposed to happen that way, due to inflation, and production costs as they go more and more in depth with both graphics and gameplay mechanics. However, let's say they introduce the other supernatural life states one GP at a time. Someone who absolutely loves having Witches, Vampires, Werewolves AND Fairies, would end up paying $80, twice the price of an expansion. On the other hand I did enjoy how they fleshed out the vampire state more in this iteration, which DOES make me look forward to the prospect of having the other states treated in the same way. This doesn't make me think it's worth double the money though.

Also, some of these packs, while fleshing out some aspects, still feel very incomplete. This isn't entirely due to the piecemealing though. Like the Jungle Adventure. At first it seems like a nice reintroduction of the cultural aspects of Bon Voyage, and the exploration of World Adventures. I'd compare it to Vacations too, if I had a clearer memory of it lol. As I kept researching the pack, I noticed neat little things that were done a little differently, like the culture skill and certain item interactions. On those merits it seems like a solid enough pack, but when you think back to the amount of interactions and options found in just one destination of either the TS2 or TS3 packs, this doesn't feel like it's added anything new and worse, it feels limited. I shouldn't feel that way about a pack where I paid more than what it was worth in a previous iteration. In a new iteration, I don't want just a reintroduction of the older gameplay, especially at these prices. There should be more expansion to it, more in-depth interactions, or fleshed out positive and negative consequences. Or perhaps more complex puzzles for the tombs, or more cultural aspects to explore than dance, clothes, and food/drinks. How awesome would it have been if you could learn a local trade skill, alongside the culture skill? Something random, like having the region be known for making fabrics or certain kinds of objects from Llama wool. It could be like a hidden "weaving" skill that can be mastered while studying the culture of that region and there could be certain objects or clothing you could only get through that skill... or something. It would certainly add another layer to a pack that honestly feels like they're just going through the motions, and make these prices more agreeable.

Heck, now that I think about it, I probably wouldn't be whining quite so much about the prices if GP were $15 instead of $20. That way, if they piecemeal things like the supernatural states like I said earlier, then it would only cost $20 more instead of doubling the price. Or even if, instead of having them separated into game packs, they created the full expansion and sold that for $50 rather than $40. An increase in price like that wouldn't have bothered me either... But this piecemeal approach that basically splits up what I loved from previous games into so many different packs, especially putting things like laundry and such into stuff packs, just feels like a scummy cash-grab.

Not really concerned. If I don't want it I won't buy it.

As others have said, I feel it gives players the chance to fully customize their game by picking features and items they want, and there are always sales so that if you want some of one pack but not everything in it purchasing at a discount is kind of like only paying for the parts you do like.

This been happening since Patio Pack.. in the past Hotubs&Butlers came in EPs.. but now they come in Stuff Packs. But nobody but me batted an eye about it until now. I did try to warn people about it but it like I was the Greek Cassandra

I agree about the My First Pets pack, but not Jungle Adventure. I think the idea for that pack is relatively new (Graham Nardone stated in the early days of Sims 4 he’d be surprised if they’d ever do an adventure pack like WA because it seemed too much of an love it/hate it pack), so I don’t believe they had it in the planning when OR was released, it has nothing to do with that pack. That’s clearly different for C&D in relation to MFP.

"TheGoodOldGamer;c-16399950" wrote:
Am I concerned by the packs? Nope. If I don't want them, I don't buy them. It's simple, I know. But you'd be surprised how less stressful life is when you keep things simple. ;)

I didn't buy Vampires for quite awhile, until I looked through a guide showing all the bb items and saw those wall tears/stains/cracks and had to have them. I always research a pack before buying. Quick, easy, and I don't need others to come to my own conclusions, lol.

I think we can assume people coming here would like to purchase and if they feel they shouldn’t, that’s in fact the problem. Not the solution. There are a lot of games I don’t feel like buying. I’m not visiting the forums of those games though, because I don’t have any issue with not liking those games.

When you think about it, Sims 3 was just as broken up and subsidized. Instead of GPs we had the Sims 3 Store, including additional worlds (and if you wanted special content you had to pay more for the Gold Edition, and sets with premium items where you had to get the whole thing even if you just wanted the premium item.

"Pamtastic72;c-16400206" wrote:
As others have said, I feel it gives players the chance to fully customize their game by picking features and items they want, and there are always sales so that if you want some of one pack but not everything in it purchasing at a discount is kind of like only paying for the parts you do like.

You really think it’s a good thing people could buy C&D with only cats and dogs and a vet career (for the same price as cats, dogs, rodents, birds, reptiles, horses, unicorns and a jockey career in the previous game) because that way they don’t have to deal with extra furniture, pet suits and four rodents if they don’t want to?

"stilljustme2;c-16400763" wrote:
When you think about it, Sims 3 was just as broken up and subsidized. Instead of GPs we had the Sims 3 Store, including additional worlds (and if you wanted special content you had to pay more for the Gold Edition, and sets with premium items where you had to get the whole thing even if you just wanted the premium item.

@stilljustme2 but were hottubs or butlers add in a Sims 3 store?