For Rent Negative thread

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. >:)

"catloverplayer;c-18322725" wrote:
I'm really excited about this pack but I see some negatives as well.

Pool parties being introduced but no pool slides or pool waterfalls.

No hotels.

I feel like they may have decided this was the next best thing. We can't give you hotels instead we will give you this?

"deedles64;c-18323079" wrote:

"catloverplayer;c-18322725" wrote:
I'm really excited about this pack but I see some negatives as well.

Pool parties being introduced but no pool slides or pool waterfalls.

No hotels.

I feel like they may have decided this was the next best thing. We can't give you hotels instead we will give you this?

Strangely enough I now have more hope for hotels than before. The sims team has figured out how to assign different zones in one lot to different households. I can see them using this as a base for hotels. With this pack they obviously focused on actually living in those multi household lots but I don't think this means we won't ever get hotels.

"Eca;c-18323078" wrote:
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. >:)

I don't know how EA decides what's a game pack and what's an expansion pack. But it feels like the cost to make a pack is a more important factor than the impact on gameplay. Whatever the case, I won't make any calls on what for rent should have been just yet with only one trailer.

I have a phobia of mold. I am unsure as to whether or not someone will make a mod to remove this, but I hope they do. This is the first time I've felt uncomfortable playing The Sims, ever.