Depth or Variety?
Some times DLC is criticized for being too focused on one specific aspect of game play (e.g. "They made an entire pack about vampires!?"). Other times, DLC is criticized for lacking depth (e.g."They s...
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Both depth and variety can be found in all packs (you can't have 0 variety or 0 depth) but I would say that what I have found lacking is depth. Variety can often be achieved with the tools that the game is providing to us and Maxis are also creating a lot of variety by adding a lot of content to this game.
But for me content that have more depth gives me more motivation to use it and therefore create variety, when I get a lot of variety but I discover that there is not much depth to it I lose interest in playing. The packs that I liked the most had both depth and variety to them but I often ended up liking them more because they had game mechanics that had more depth and made me interested in playing them for longer.
It depends a lot on what they chose to focus on in the pack. I never thought that I would like Dream Home Decorator but I really liked it because they focused a lot on making use of the likes/dislikes system and you could renovate any lot in all of your worlds. I thought that I would like High School Years but I really disliked it because they didn't focus on the actual High School, instead there was some depth in creating outfits on Trendi and other things.
But for me content that have more depth gives me more motivation to use it and therefore create variety, when I get a lot of variety but I discover that there is not much depth to it I lose interest in playing. The packs that I liked the most had both depth and variety to them but I often ended up liking them more because they had game mechanics that had more depth and made me interested in playing them for longer.
It depends a lot on what they chose to focus on in the pack. I never thought that I would like Dream Home Decorator but I really liked it because they focused a lot on making use of the likes/dislikes system and you could renovate any lot in all of your worlds. I thought that I would like High School Years but I really disliked it because they didn't focus on the actual High School, instead there was some depth in creating outfits on Trendi and other things.
