Anyone not excited for Eco lifestyle

At this point, I just kind of feel bad for EA and how out of touch they seem to be. There would have been much less complaining (not none mind you XD) if this had been the theme for a game pack or stuff pack - as others have pointed out, the original context was a stuff pack vote. To me, it just seems a waste to put an expansion pack's worth of time and resources into this kind of theme... knowing that other highly desired features were de-prioritized because of this. Hoping they prove me wrong tomorrow.

I was a little dismayed when I read the brief description from the leak-

"Ready for your Sims to impact their world? Move into a community of fellow collaborative makers in The Sims 4 Eco Lifestyle Expansion Pack!* Play to change and make a difference in the new world of Evergreen Harbor. Help your new neighbors decide on a Community Space Project, reduce your eco footprint, and watch your neighborhood transform. You’ll be surprised by what happens when your Sims start making the rules."

It sounds too much like a fad, much like Tiny Living. I don't want it to be solely about reducing our sim's carbon footprint, it just doesn't appeal to my overall gameplay. But I do remember I liked some of the features that Scobre mentioned above, such as all of the Food Preserves, some of the Off the Grid and the composting from the Carbon Conscious. I guess I'll have to wait until tomorrow to see.

It seems more interesting to me than country living. I'm gonna wait and see what features the pack has to offer before judging it.

Just not digging the name to be honest. They could've called it Back To Nature or something else.
Country Livin' at least had some theme going on. Eco Friendly just sounds plain for a Sim game.

"elelunicy;c-17481987" wrote:
I’m reserving my judgement until I learn more. The description mentions a "community space project". It sounds like it might incorporate some elements from Town Life (an EP from an old survey)?

TOWN LIFE

Create a vibrant and evolving new town for your Sims to explore! Build out your town with new venues including pop-up restaurants, coffee shops, farmers’ markets, amongst others. Change the rules of your town by becoming Mayor and making your own laws or use new neighborhood editing tools to fully customize your town as you see fit!

Details/Features

Brand New Venues: Visit a variety of new places around town including restaurants, coffee shops, and laundromats.
Community Events: Participate in new events happening all over town! Buy fresh groceries from the famers’ market or have a fancy dinner at an exclusive pop-up restaurant.
Be the Mayor: Get into a career as a local politician! Start off as a community organizer, setting up protests at the new City Hall venue. Get enough support and become the Mayor, making new laws that affect the whole world!
Customize the Town: Decorate your entire town with the new neighborhood editing tools. Control which Sims visit the town and even which ones move in with a variety of new options.

This is official info right? Not a single farming aspect insight except for Farmer's market.

I guess this means that Farming will become a Game Pack. How disappointing.

"Satell8ite;c-17482815" wrote:

"elelunicy;c-17481987" wrote:
I’m reserving my judgement until I learn more. The description mentions a "community space project". It sounds like it might incorporate some elements from Town Life (an EP from an old survey)?

TOWN LIFE

Create a vibrant and evolving new town for your Sims to explore! Build out your town with new venues including pop-up restaurants, coffee shops, farmers’ markets, amongst others. Change the rules of your town by becoming Mayor and making your own laws or use new neighborhood editing tools to fully customize your town as you see fit!

Details/Features

Brand New Venues: Visit a variety of new places around town including restaurants, coffee shops, and laundromats.
Community Events: Participate in new events happening all over town! Buy fresh groceries from the famers’ market or have a fancy dinner at an exclusive pop-up restaurant.
Be the Mayor: Get into a career as a local politician! Start off as a community organizer, setting up protests at the new City Hall venue. Get enough support and become the Mayor, making new laws that affect the whole world!
Customize the Town: Decorate your entire town with the new neighborhood editing tools. Control which Sims visit the town and even which ones move in with a variety of new options.

This is official info right? Not a single farming aspect insight except for Farmer's market.

I guess this means that Farming will become a Game Pack. How disappointing.

Not really. Game packs seem to be more popular than expansion packs during this iteration of the Sims. I rather have a deep focus into one theme with farming, than focus on three different things that have nothing to do with each other usually with expansion packs. So unfocused pack over focused pack for farming, no thank you.

I went to official link of this upcoming pack, which I am not excited for, says "error 404 - page not found". Is it just me?
However, I knew that it was supposed to be a stuff pack and I do think it shouldn't be an expansion pack. It is an illogical decision and will be a chaos.
Farming pack could be more pleasant and entertaining because the theme itself seems to be highly requested and a good idea for an expansion pack.

"Gordy;c-17482624" wrote:

"popstarissa;c-17482511" wrote:


@gordy your boundless creative ways to shoehorn dragons into any theme is cause for celebration ??

We can celebrate by going to the devs on Twitter and asking for dragons. ? #UnleashTheDragons #MyBoyTorch

Lol @Gordy I personally don’t play with occults or supernaturals but I commend your tenacity and will join your cause!

     

"Scobre;c-17482821" wrote:

"Satell8ite;c-17482815" wrote:

"elelunicy;c-17481987" wrote:
I’m reserving my judgement until I learn more. The description mentions a "community space project". It sounds like it might incorporate some elements from Town Life (an EP from an old survey)?

TOWN LIFE

Create a vibrant and evolving new town for your Sims to explore! Build out your town with new venues including pop-up restaurants, coffee shops, farmers’ markets, amongst others. Change the rules of your town by becoming Mayor and making your own laws or use new neighborhood editing tools to fully customize your town as you see fit!

Details/Features

Brand New Venues: Visit a variety of new places around town including restaurants, coffee shops, and laundromats.
Community Events: Participate in new events happening all over town! Buy fresh groceries from the famers’ market or have a fancy dinner at an exclusive pop-up restaurant.
Be the Mayor: Get into a career as a local politician! Start off as a community organizer, setting up protests at the new City Hall venue. Get enough support and become the Mayor, making new laws that affect the whole world!
Customize the Town: Decorate your entire town with the new neighborhood editing tools. Control which Sims visit the town and even which ones move in with a variety of new options.

This is official info right? Not a single farming aspect insight except for Farmer's market.

I guess this means that Farming will become a Game Pack. How disappointing.

Not really. Game packs seem to be more popular than expansion packs during this iteration of the Sims. I rather have a deep focus into one theme with farming, than focus on three different things that have nothing to do with each other usually with expansion packs. So unfocused pack over focused pack for farming, no thank you.

Rural-town living is a lot more connected with farming than you think.

There are big towns and cities out there that consider farming to be the heart of a community. Farms and mining are what helped small towns prosper into large cities. I live in a city that was a town and considers farming to be central and the big businesses here help farmers. Separating things that actually did have something to do with each other(similar to what they did with Cats & Dogs and My First Pet pack) just made EP09 at lot less decent than it should've been.

But yeah I understand its all business. EA needs to make a Game Pack every year. Its just sad that Farming might be relegated to that instead of being an iconic focus of an EP.