Disappointed with City Living

"agustd;c-16595684" wrote:


@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.

I have very little doubt that a pool or a beach pack will arrive fast on the heels of Seasons. At this point, it's a no brainer. There was already a need for these things. Seasons only compounded that need because those things are now conspicuously absent.

"MaggieMarley;c-16595685" wrote:
On the topic of only including objects necessary to one pack in another, the following have annoyed me:

- Tents not included in jungle adventure. Must buy Outdoor Retreat.
- Pumpkin carving not included in Seasons. Must buy spooky stuff.
- Fireworks not included in Seasons (I wanted to do firework night as a holiday, which is big here in the UK). Must buy City Living).
- Bonfires not included in Seasons (again, I wanted to do firework night which traditionally has a bonfire). Must buy Get Together.
- Small pets not included in Cats and Dogs (I know, clues in the name, but I’d have liked a Pets EP). Must buy MFP.
- Horses not included included in Cats and Dogs (as above). Must buy God knows what future pack.

All by design, I'm sorry to say. :/

I'll also add:

- no bunk beds in Kids Room Stuff or Parenthood
- no lounge chairs, anywhere.

"drake_mccarty;c-16596109" wrote:


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.

I'm not exactly a fan of CL. However, I enjoy the pack because I enjoy city-living. I was raised in a row house. I'm a city girl, through and through. City Living (particularly the Spice District) is the closest thing in TS4 that I can personally identify with.

That said, I couldn't agree with you more about the Festivals. One of TS4's most egregious mistakes was releasing festivals so quickly -- with only BG items to choose from -- and making it so that the festivals can never be customized by the player. The festivals quickly became rote, irrelevant, and an honest to goodness pain in the rear. The festivals will forever remain so because they're unchanging, frozen in time -- the most boring period of TS4 history, at that. What a misstep.