Do Occult Simmers Need to be More Vocal in Demanding Content

It’s sad it’s got to this point that this is even a question. Occult players should not have to do this. As someone who rarely plays occults I feel I am in the realism minority of not being fussed about occult stuff (in a good way) when it comes out. Occult gameplay has been in the game since sims 1 and makin’ magic so it’s a big part of the game and sims 4 has so little of it. I hate seeing other realism sim players screeching about occults as everyone has different play styles and occults are a big part of the game. It may not be my playstyle but the game needs more of it and to me this is on the level of pets/seasons/fame etc where it’s a must have in the game.

I turned on the data sharing in my game for this very reason. I want Maxis to see that yes, I am playing with mermaids who are populating Sulani with well-raised kids, spellcasters who are starting massive gardens and farms, and vampires who struggle to figure out how to pay the bills in their massive mansion while raising children and finding plasma donors. Occult play doesn’t necessarily mean that I can’t also have family gameplay; I have plenty of spellcasters who just have magic but don’t really delve into it, but it’s part of their heritage and I don’t want to give it up. I want werewolves so I can have rival vampire and werewolf families whose kids have a Romeo and Juliet love story.

Even the dust kit has the dust bunnies that can turn evil - the game has tons of quirkiness that goes beyond realism, and that quirkiness has always been part of the charm. Go have a baby at a hospital? Prepare to watch see your heart get pulled out and a robot operated by a doctor glue you together. Want to work from home as a botanist? Half of your assignments require you to feed sims to a sentient plant. Have an easel and no formal art training? Prepare to be a millionaire via Plopsy. Maybe it’s just because the people who are content to play the game as it is aren’t on the forums and Twitter asking for different, but I’m amazed at how many people seem to actively dislike this version of the game while continuing to purchase new content for it.

Ever hear the saying “the squeaky wheel gets the grease”? Whether you like occult’s or something else it never hurts to be vocal about it. If EA thinks they are going to get a lot of sales for a pack, they are more likely to make it. I’m not really an occult player, but I buy all packs anyway, snd sometimes the occult packs have build buy stuff I can’t find in other packs ( like bramble vines crawling up the wall ) that I love using in some builds. The more sales they make off of an occult pack, the more likely they are to bring out another, the same goes for more realistic play as well. I have to say, I’m really looking forward to body hair, which will most likely come with werewolves.

I love the occult, and it was always nice to get them in previous games, and in Sims 4.
I feel that we do push to be heard when they take things out of packs, like alien abduction, but we also tend to get buried under other complaints.
So, not to sound petty, but I want what came with my occult packs, and I want werewolves back, along with fairies, some dragons, and maybe new occults. They were in previous games like the Sims 2 where players could seek out the occults, and even thought Vampires were in another pack, Sims 3 had the supernatural pack.
I like that I can create an occult Sim in CAS, and most of my Sims fall under the occult, with very few normal Sims.

Honestly every single time I see someone demand for occult content to be nerfed in an occult pack (because apparently that makes sense) I want to just demand for random non-occult things in packs to get nerfed too. Nerf the festivals. Nerf the kids asking their parents for advice. Nerf the cats and dogs. Nerf the chickens. Nerf jungle exploring. Nerf holidays. Just nerf everything that is getting in the way of my occult shenanigans. Seems pretty fair if you ask me! :|

I do find it kind of strange how the riots mostly come from the realism side :lol:

and how some of the wants eventually get noted and added while occult side keeps being ignored :/

but eh. idk
i don't really like being noisy to the point annoying

but if thats what one must do to get dragons werewolves fairies and improvements(+bug fixes) to existing occults then

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
*chandelier falls down from the ceiling*

i mean at very least since they made this lot challenge thing they should add vampire break ins and alien abductions there instead of nerfing it. also they could nerf bugs if they want to nerf things so much.

Any riot, protest, or complaining that occurs on the forum is meaningless. It will only matter if you do it on Twitter. Take your energy there; no one is home here. Occasionally the gardener stops by, but that's it.

There isn't a enough occult life states in this game and I usually play with a lot of fantasy sims

I'm surprised fairies and werewolves are still not here yet and it gets pretty boring sometimes to just do realism only stuff (if you like that stuff it's totally okay!)

My kinda play style is "weird fantasy sims doing totally normal things" I just kinda miss that feeling sometimes

I do have packs that do introduce new life states but it isn't enough

I loved occults in previous versions. If I thought that begging, demanding, or pleading would get more occults, specifically well fleshed-out occults, I'd say yes. EA's motto for Sims 4 seems to be "We'll get to it when we get to it. Or not."

We can be as loud as they want, but they won't listen to anything unless lilsimsie agrees with it.