Bond with nature in this charming expansion pack means...

Am I naive to hope for more interactions with wildlife? Y'all don't seem to think it's gonna be about that.

People mentioning fairies and werewolves although it's nice but this is an expansion, they do occults in sims 4 as each in it's own gamepack so I dont think it'll include occults (maybe if its farming plant sims)

I wish it was farming and horses and wildlife and improved plantsims, but I think it’s gonna be bloody fairies and cottages.

I’m happy for fairy loving folk out there, but it’s a niche thing for an expansion pack. Hopefully I’m wrong, because I love nature and the outdoors so there is potential for it to be great.

Just not in EA’s hands.

I think they just referenced an overall style of the pack, but maybe it's fairies. I don't know.
I feel like it's not farming, but more like cottagecore/countryside living, maybe with more off-grid options. I hope that bonding with nature means wildlife, but I'm not sure... They certainly have to do something new to make this pack stand out, we have quite a lot of eco/off-grid themed options already.

“Bonding with nature” makes me think of Outdoor Retreat meets Seasons + further expanding the off-the-grid content.
Farming doesn’t come to mind unless we’re talking permaculture as opposed to conventional farming.

Perhaps our sims can become a Park Ranger to ensure the forests stay clean, although that does sound a lot like Island Living & Eco Life Style...in the forest.
It does make sense for The Sims 4 to continue this “look after the environment” trend with their summer expansion packs.
After Island Living & Eco Lifestyle it could very well be the third in line to have something to do with: “clean yer ssshite up after yerselves!”

See...there are many different ways to say the same thing...

Perhaps in this EP our sims have to stop other Sims from cutting down too many trees. Which makes me hope for a lumberjack dude...
I’m in desperate need of a sim with an axe....

I strongly believe that there will be a supernatural element to this pack, may it be being blessed by fairies or nature spirits for looking after Mother Earth, getting tricked by folks like Leprechauns, or getting cursed by darker energies when messing with the environment. Not sure if darker energies equals Werewolves though. I still hope they get their own pack...however...

Someone who bonds with nature is most likely someone who tries to communicate with animals and who’s also guided by the stars, the moon and the sun. They will have a strong understanding of how nature may affect behavior. In that case it’s possible we’d get some kind of astrology career and the “hidden trait” slot that keeps getting leaked is in fact a horoscope slot which will come in a pre-patch that includes favorites and dislikes.

Anyway...I’ll be off for a walk in the woods so I can contemplate this one a little further..

"SERVERFRA;c-17882805" wrote:
An Irish World with Fairies & Farming.

Ok, then I’d be totally down for this pack!

I have no idea what it means. I only hope it's not something that makes my teeth hurt from too much cute.

It might be something I like (Farming), but I am disappointed it's no family gameplay AGAIN for another endless months. I really thought we'd get active school gameplay (which the career gamepack won't be) at last as it was teasered several times (Knifty Knitting trailer, survey, a school music video from some Korean singer they cooperated with). And people have been asking for updated babies and Generations for YEARS, but especially since the JTB-fiasco happened. Still nothing.

Why don't they just give us what we ask for? I know many people asked for farming and I'll be happy about it too when it comes, but honestly, I still fear it's something random like Eco Living which is the worst EP we got in my opinion. And I really don't need a safari/zoo pack and I didn't see many people asking for it, it's a kind of niche theme and I don't think EPs should be niche, they should broaden the whole gameplay experience. This sounds like gameplay tied to one other world only AGAIN. NO thank you.

For the base game updates I think we really might get cars ("ride") and swimming in open waters of all worlds ("waves"). I don't think we'll get babies, even though people have been asking for a long time. I know not everybody wants them, but lots of people do (not everyone likes everything - there basically is nothing everybody likes except better personalities which could come with a Generations EP).

I hope it’s Farming. You’d think with EL, IL, SE, OR etc we’ve got a lot of bonding with nature already, so I hope it’s not anything else than Farming! Ideally, if we could get horses too....

I’m sad because I was really hoping for Generations and a school GP though.
Also I want my sims to get cars at some point!

I really really really would love for this to turn out being werewolves or fairies but I think it is more likely to be a farming pack, with normal real life gameplay like growing crops, having life stock. Or something off the grid like, perhaps eco lifestyle 2.0.
With nature as a theme, it would be perfect to update plantsims to a proper occult lifestate.