Are You Buying Growing Together?

I have plans for this so I’ll get it fairly early but after I make sure that it won’t break my game and that the mods I use are fixed.

I will wait for more in depth gameplay videos from creators and then decide if this pack is for me.

I’m not a huge family player so the kids activities don’t interest me really, but the new category of likes/dislikes and preferred sims personalities seems neat. Still I’m aware that Sims 4 tends to go from 0% to 200%. If this isn’t tuned well it could make getting friends and lovers a real nightmare. I don’t want a pack with another feature that I will need to turn off.

At this point I’m more excited for free patch (hopefully not game breaking this time) with science babies, because I’m currently playing with trans sim and before the stream I wanted her and her boyfriend to adopt a kid at some point, but now there will be new in-game option. Very happy. ?

Yes, I'm getting the pack, but first I'll wait for basic mod updates and game hot fixes. As usual, I'm sure they'll be needed. But I'll definitely buy Growing Together before April 27th. I want that extra infant carrier. ?

If I don't win it, I'm hoping to purchase it on release day - unless I'm out of money, then it will be end of the month/beginning of April. :)

There are a lot of things I liked, but I am trying to save money at the moment so it will be a sale purchase for sure.

I want to say I'd buy it on release day because of all those dynamic systems that seem super cool, BUT sometimes they get things wrong and systems like that can end up being annoying. So I'd like to see at least some opinions before I buy the pack. Although on the other hand the feeling of annoyance can be very personal and eventually I can only find out about it myself anyway... so maybe a release day purchase depending on my mood.

My initial response would be a YES: Most of the gameplay objects I’ve seen so far will be very useful in a bunch of my stories.

What makes me hesitant to buying it is the family/ social dynamics system. This system could either make or break the way I play my game. Although I regard it as an essential gameplay component, I’m aware that Maxis tends to implement these kind of features in ways that could lead to getting bombarded by intrusive pop-ups and non-sensical situations.

I’m not sure if walk-through videos can help me make an informed decision (I’m sure they can, but I don’t like most…they are too loud and go too fast, whinge) or… I could just stop whinging and wait and see how this one plays out! ?

I am looking forward to this pack. I skipped high school years so the last EP for me was in summer 2021. I think this will be one of those packs that can change the game dynamics completely. I will wait a few days or weeks to see how mods are affected before updating and to get the sims in my game ready to start a family.

Not at the moment, at least. I'm only hunting for Occults these days. And I haven't really heard of anything that I desperately want in my game from this pack.

I'm wary of that new family dynamic system (any system that is confined to a single pack, anyways), but if it shows itself to the best thing since the sliced bread and really give your sim families more depth, I reserve the right to change my mind down the road. But for now, I'm content to sit this one out.

I'm not sure how much more I want to invest in The Sims 4, both time and money, because I feel that it's not giving me a lot back and the game feels really old now for me. I booted it up yesterday and I had forgotten how poorly the game actually runs compared to other games that I have played recently.

I feel that my sims have overstayed their welcome and I don't really have the patience to repeat everything that we have gone through with lifestyles, sentiments, wants & fears... I'm going to be honest, based on what we have seen from previous years, I am expecting this pack to be a disaster at launch and it feels like EA/Maxis have become too comfortable to improve this and I also don't want to experience the same things again, over and over again since 2014.

So I'm probably just going to watch this one from the back row, and see what happens. It's not a definitive "no, I will never buy this pack" it's more like, "I'm not sure." the issue is not with the actual pack, it's with the whole game and the fact that it's 8+ years old.