Are You Buying Growing Together?

"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.

No. I'm not buying anything from this franchise again until the game is fixed for real.

100% going to buy it, but when is entirely dependent of what the patch and pack break, and when it's fixed. I am hoping to get it sooner rather than later. :)

I'm very interested in this pack and most likely will buy it at some point BUT I still want to check out reviews and gameplay videos. If it ends up being a shallow buggy mess then I'm in absolutely no hurry to get it or might even skip it. I'm really looking forward for some depth in the family gameplay so if it turns out that all these new dynamics and quirks and whatever are basically just text flavour and redundant moodlets then... ugh. Also, I really want to see some cross-pack features. Apparently there's going to be but we'll see.

I'm still undecided. I'll be checking the positive and negative threads after it's been released. I always wait for a few months

Yes, I plan on buying it. The gameplay looks interesting to me and will fit with my playstyle. That said I'm fully anticipating a modpocalypse and a bunch of little hotfixes, so I'm going to wait a bit for things to update before purchasing it. I've got a long weekend coming up at the end of the month so I'll probably get it then.

It's so preordered. Just wait for March 16 to download the pack. ;)