Are You Buying Growing Together?

I took a leap of faith and ordered my copy yesterday.

My daughter knows how much I enjoy my sims (as she does too) so I got a gift card for my birthday last month. I preordered Growing together after learning what some of the features were as any pack that has so much family related activities is a must for me! I can't wait to get it! I felt the same with Cottage Living and never regretted preordering it.

I will get it, but I am holding off to see just how buggy it may be. If it's fine I'll get it quick - I'd like to get it while the add ons are available, but they are not vital.

Probably. I will make my choice before April 27. I mean, I bought Journey to Batuu.

I just don't see the point in pre-order. You can't play it sooner, you can't see it sooner. I just don't trust trailers, is all.

Maybe, probably. I usually get all expansions eventually. Waiting to see early access and such first though.

I don't have any money until the 22nd of March but I plan to buy after the livestream as it looks like quite a solid pack.

"logion;c-18236571" wrote:
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

This exactly. The previous attempts at deepening the gameplay with things like wants, fears, sentiments, likes and dislikes, have all fell incredibly short from the mark of what they should have provided for the gameplays depth. Not only do these systems lack any sort of meaningful influence or consequence on the game, they also lack compatibility with the majority of the DLC collection that's available making them completely useless unless I play with a very niche selection of content. What Growing Together is trying to attempt with deepening the gameplay, relationships, compatability and so on, should have already been done with the previously mentioned additions to the game.

Not a chance. Sounds nice but that would mean updating my experimental installation to the latest update configuration, which means all the brokenness that fills the forums with woeful laments. Not worth it.

I really want it but since every new pack seems to launch as a dumpster fire of bugs I’m waiting.

I get it as part of the Creator Network, but would be buying it immediately even if I didn't.