Disappointed with City Living
I purchased City Living a little over a week ago while it was on sale for 60% off. What I've now found in my shortish time playing the pack, that this City Living is but a shadow of what it could have...
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"agustd;c-16595684" wrote:"drake_mccarty;c-16595423" wrote:"jooxis;c-16593875" wrote:"drake_mccarty;c-16593070" wrote:"jooxis;c-16593045" wrote:
I'm so disappointed that 2 years later the festivals (one of the MAIN features of the WHOLE expansion) still spawn on top of each other (yes, happened as recently as yesterday). Since it's been this long they obviously don't care about fixing it.
Their only suggestion was to stay at each festival until it ends. Bad workaround to a badly designed feature. The whole expansion is a mess honestly. I still haven’t seen any guru respond to the fact that dogs route fail in most of the apartments when you try to house train them.
Yeahh, not good enough. :neutral: I'm usually glad to try out a workaround for something but that one is too much of an inconvenience in gameplay.
I agree completely. Personally I don’t play in the city world very much, it’s poorly designed as a whole. The festival workaround is a major inconvenience, but I just ignore festivals entirely. They have always been just a means to get people to use content the game already had that people already weren’t using. I don’t know how plumhurt the developers had to have been to create events centered around unpopular content, but they did it and then proceeded to make sure the game shoved it down your throat every other day. I’m always amazed when people praise the CL expansion, it’s the most lackluster and uninspired expansion pack I have ever seen, and creatively it’s an absolute disaster.
What do you mean centered around unpopular content people weren't using? As in, the objects we can find at each festival?
Like, was that a legit explanation for the festival concepts that gurus gave? Because if so then I have no words. That's just so low. I do recall them saying the voodoo doll was among some of the least used objects from base game so I guess that's possible festivals were never meant to be a fresh, exciting idea but just a way for them to force stuff down our throats because THEY felt proud of certain objects and felt personally offended that players did not find them that interesting.
Cynna Remember when Grant said on twitter that MFP Stuff "sold well despite community's sentiment"? Looks like the next stuff pack is going to be called "My first exciting summer in The Sims 4 stuff". Even with the added content of older stuff packs summer is still underwhelming. I don't care for heatwaves if my sims don't really suffer any consequences of them, like sunburns. Summer is nothing more than a moodlet, it goes by unnoticed.
No the gurus never presented festivals specifically in that light, but awhile back they did share some info pertaining to unpopular content that players didn’t use in the game (like the voodoo doll, mischief, the game pad thing, etc). Tbh it’s not a coincidence that festivals were assembled with base game stuff, especially the things that Maxis knew the players didn’t use. I mean the only new concept was the yard sale, the rest of them are repurposed from the base game (not saying that every festival is comprised of only unpopular content, but they all are made up of bg stuff - even the yard sale is just bg recolors). Given how they used to think telemetry was the best way to collect data it wouldn’t surprise me if their usage stats decided for them that they could save some $ by repurposing existing content players weren’t using and spend that money elsewhere, like on the city decorations.
I don’t know if they will release another paired SP, but I agree that summer is nothing special for how Grant said they focused on it.
