Does this pack feels like PSa ?

"Placebo7;c-17507255" wrote:
This is what I don't understand. I have seen on these boards people defend TS4 on the grounds that it somehow "allows them to be the storyteller," meaning, I suppose, that the game is so empty that they can imagine whatever they want onto it.

But this pack--and others before it--are clearly being marketed as a pre-scripted story. Yes, you CAN live in trash, but look at the gameplay video; the whole intent behind this is that you will create do-gooder Sims who have a nice story about cleaning up a neighborhood. There is ONE story here, and it's about young adults "changing the world," in a very naive way.

It is so forced, so pedantic, so NOT a sandbox. Its simplistic representation of "changing the world" and "activism" is, yes, very PSA-like, and honestly, it is an insult to the intelligence of adult simmers.

Yes, this. 100%.

IF I get this pack, and it VERY MUCH depends on LGR's review and the Guru livestream tomorrow, I'm going to use it to make the game world dirtier. The Spice District will be the "bad" part of town, and everything will be generally less of a Happy-Smiley-Sunshine Land.

I have NO interest in following EA's story of cleaning up the town, as the reward to cleaning up our worlds is to make them look exactly as they would've done if I hadn't bought the pack.

What's that? I can clean up the trash in Willow Creek and give it clear skies and greenery? Cool, my game is already like that. There's no value for money in paying EA to make the game the way it already is, and it's naive of them to expect us to want that.

By the way, I say this as somebody who has voted Greens in every election I've ever voted in, and who believes VERY strongly that we need to dismantle capitalism and make everything a little more socialist.

I AM the target audience here, and it has zero appeal for me. So who is this "go green" message for?
I'm also pretty disappointed in the underlying pro-gentrification theme present if one looks past the surface environmentalist angle.

You start out in a poor, dirty neighborhood, and turn it into a clean, bougie one.
There's no evil corporation to take down, it's the Sims themselves who live in this town who are causing the dirtiness.

Say it with me, EA: IT IS NOT THE FAULT OF INDIVIDUALS THAT THE WORLD IS ON THE VERGE ON ENVIRONMENTAL COLLAPSE, IT'S THE FAULT OF THE 1% WHO PASS THE BUCK ONTO THE LITTLE GUY