For Rent Negative thread

"bizuktag;c-18322978" wrote:

"Goldmoldar;c-18322973" wrote:
EA/Maxis has caught my interest, but I am wondering is this theme restricted to the EP or can we build from scratch in other neighborhoods?

According to one of the accompanying blogs, residential rental lots can be placed in any of the worlds, not just the new one in the EP.

If true that is a plus for me and is a buy for me. :)

"Goldmoldar;c-18322980" wrote:
If true that is a plus for me and is a buy for me. :)

I would be surprised if they were wrong! The relevant bit:

For the first time ever in The Sims 4, Simmers can build a fully customizable multi-unit dwelling where multiple Sim families can live on the same lot. This is possible in ANY liveable The Sims 4 world!

From here: https://www.ea.com/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/news/for-rent-expansion-pack

I wish I could be more excited but with every feature I saw I just kept thinking, "This is going to be so full of bugs".

I don't get it.

I am not sure if it will play anything like they showed in the trailer and I am not sure how tenants, sims snooping, sims breaking and entering and how mold will actually affect the game and if it will be more annoying than fun.

I can't help but suspect that this will feel like horse ranch where they have spent most of their resources on making a larger feature, in this case the residential rental lot and then they have added some smaller features around it, together with a pretty but empty world.

I'm not sure if I will buy it, I do miss having a new sims pack to play over the holidays but I also have many other games that I would like to buy and play as well...

I like the mold as a concept. I hope mold will have some serious effects on your sim before it turns lethal. Though I imagine it will be very easy to deal with, so you'll have to go out of your way to ignore it and let it grow before you can have any fun with it.

But aside from having a very cool animation, I'm meh on the new death and ghost. New deaths don't mean much when they're annoyingly hard to trigger, there's no element of surprise because you have to plan everything. And the "reward", ie Ghosts, are boring to play with. Having one singular gimmick power won't make me play them.

I mean the ai leaks were motorcycles and petting panda bears & wildlife and instead we get duplexes and black mold. Very realistic, as in life- but it doesn't feel that fun.
I don't really what to excuse the 6 figure game developers excuses on why there has to be so many limitations expansions pack dont feel like expansion packs so they can go home early. I mean the game should feel fun and like a game.

The are supposed to push boundaries to make the game feel like entirely new gameplay. I don't really see it in the trailer. And the spicy hot - that is a city living feature and should not be repeated on this expansion pack as a feature.
I am very curious on the details of how the gameplay between, only the two different household will be experienced in game.

They shouldn't tease us with an animal sanctuary at all if it's only a rabbit hole. I hope the next expansion is a safari proper.

The gross mold & mold death is just so wrong. :s

Seems like Pack Refreshs aren't death, but will be upsold as Packs in the future.

I fear the animal sanctuary won't be more than a side note. These days, the trailers basically show everything that comes with the Pack already. I don't think they'd reserve any animal that can be interacted with to the gameplay Trailer, they would at least have shown a first glimpse of it If there where any. So I assume there will be rabbithole cages plus a few small animals like the birds, lizards and rodents (similar to those in Jungle Adventures and Granite Falls) that aren't interactable at the maximum. I'd really love to be proven wrong.

How do they even decide what's an expansion pack or a game pack? Like, they first sell vampires in a game pack, then they think cats and dogs are a huge expansion. The term "game pack" makes it a lot of confusing.

I will not rent the houses themselves, I will rent each of their room separately, just like EA. >:)