"Aquarius94;c-16976424" wrote:
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As for this mystery pack with zero mystery (Seriously. Some of y'all are really going nuts with this "no spoilers" nonsense. They already give the whole story away in the trailer) while I do appreciate them wanting to try something new....or rather something everyone keeps calling new even though literally every iteration of the Sims has had some sort of storytelling spinoff, I can't help but feel like they didn't really put their hearts into it. Everything about this pack is so basic and uninspired that I wonder if it only exists because of some weird executive mandate and not because it's something the team actually wanted to do.
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This. I just...has everyone forgotten that Millie Bobby Brown did that Kindness Week thing last year? I realise it sounds a bit like a conspiracy theory, but Strangerville appears to lean heavily on the TV series she was in. :o
One thing I have noticed in these (often heated) discussions is that players seem divided into two groups: one that has played previous iterations and one that has not. I belong to the latter, so I have nothing to compare my gaming experience with and so far I have been happy with what has been released. What does surprise me are the many bugs that are left unfixed for so long or that new packs don't seem to have been tested for bugs or clashes with previous packs (Seasons/City Living being the obvious one right now).
I don't know where I was going with this, to be honest, other than that I feel a discrepancy between what players have been asking very vocally for in the game versus what is being released, combined with a lack of quality testing before release. (Honestly, the series that SimSupply is doing right now with a dev building a house just highlights how obvious it is that they don't even test their own stuff. Half of it is James going "No, you can't do that. That's not possible. Sorry, that door doesn't match anything.")
I suppose the questions is: did anyone actually ask for this type of content pack? If not, why was it released?
