Free Hot-Tub?

I have perfect patio, I bought right when it came out but it’s been a long time ago and I bought the pack for more than the hot tub, I buy packs for everything in them. So yay for me!

I'm ok with it at this point. I also like the furniture in PP and actually use it sometimes. Maybe they can patch a new feature into Perfect Patio?

I'm a little torn, I was one of the ones who bought PP for the hot tubs. On the other hand I'm happy for the people who get to use the item now too So I guess I'm more in the Yay! column.

I bought patio stuff as a pack that adds gameplay namely hot tubs, but now it is a pack with only re-skins of base game objects. I would never buy a stuff pack that has only re-skins and recolors, and yet as of this patch it seems I have. They emptied out the pack by stripping it from it's main gameplay feature (and by stripping I mean removing the exclusive nature of the item)
Before anyone says I had years of enjoyment from this pack, I did not. I did not play sims 4 when this pack was released, I got it more recently.

To be clear, I don't mind if they patch in a feature from a pack that has other gameplay features left to make it worth while. I am OK with them patching in laptops and photography. Strangerville still has unique gameplay besides laptops and get to work still has plenty to offer without photography. Patio stuff on the other hand is now the only stuff pack without it's own gameplay.

"ChampandGirlie;c-17393231" wrote:
I'm ok with it at this point. I also like the furniture in PP and actually use it sometimes. Maybe they can patch a new feature into Perfect Patio?

Now that would be a trade off I might find acceptable, depending on the replacement feature. But let's be honest, that will never happen. They sold patio stuff to those who were interested and it doesn't make a difference to them if we are happy with our purchase. They already have our money.

To those who are saying they are happy with the free hot tub because they did not buy patio stuff : enjoy it. You turned out to be the smart ones who were not fooled by EA.

I don't have the pack so I'm actually getting a free item so yay for me. :)

Nay got my vote though because it really is unfair to take the one premium item out of a pack and give it away for free. It's the first line of "features" for the perfect patio pack. I do wonder how they will sell copies of that pack now, might have to permanently $5.99 it since it's only worth are some CAS and BB and not much at that.

I'm happy and I own the patio pack.

My reasoning.
1) I really wanted another hot tub skin and I love this ones design
2) I really love that ppl without the pack can have it too now. This in no way takes away anything from me. I still have what I paid for.
3) I've had perfect patio for ages, even if I had bought the pack for the hot tub only (which I didn't), that's a couple years of game play for $10 (or $5 on sale) I've already had. Not bad.
4) I can't build. Maybe there will be some more houses on the gallery with hot tubs now that more ppl have access to them, haha!
5) Even if I had bought perfect patio for the hot tub only and I had just bought it two days ago for whatever reason... I STILL Haven't lost out on much. As I mentioned earlier, you win some, you lose some. It's a stuff pack and the price of a couple cups of coffee. I bought DU and RoM 4 days before they went on sale and it cost me much more but sometimes you just gotta shrug it off and take the loss. Life goes that way and maybe next time you'll catch the good deal.
6. If it's an item I'd never ever use, well hey, it's easy to ignore and again, that's life. Sometimes you get what you want, sometimes you don't. Maybe next time it'd be an item I would. (Hypothetical as this time around I"m enjoying it)

I DO wish there had been a bit more offered for the anniversary. But I'm also not disappointed with the hot tub.
(On the other hand, usually it's whoever's anniversary/birthday it is that gets the gifts, not the guests haha! But yeah I realise that company's don't and shouldn't work that way.)
Ideally I think a variety of items should have been given out so that more users would have gotten something they would use. Maybe 20 items for the 20th anniversary, even if they were small. Could have been released in a free pack like the holiday pack so that ppl had the choice to download or not even. Maybe we'll get more for the 25th hahaha! It kinda feels to me that they forgot their own anniversary tbh and just threw something together when they started seeing posts.

On that note, I do think there's some neat things coming to the Sims 4 (free babies one day? Just a hunch that they are secretly being worked on haha) and maybe they just have been working hard on those and weren't quite ready to release them yet. I'd prefer them to release when ready than to meet a specific date, so they work properly.

But anyways, yeah: the short answer is Yes, I'm happy with the hot tub.

I am happy for the people who hadn’t or couldn’t buy PPS, which has been available for 5 years.

5 years of exclusivity on an item is more than enough for $9.99 in a day and age where most games aren’t even relevant for 5 years.

There were plenty of other nice looking and useful things included with PPS that are still exclusive. It’s a STUFF pack, not a hot tub pack. The point was all the STUFF.

I got a good laugh at the featured swatch, which was iconic Sims Tacky design, the roof brought back fond memories of sending an annoying Sim out to use a hot tub in a bad storm on purpose, and honestly, my biggest disappointment is the entitlement, and underlying “me me me” that seems to have overrun the forums.

If you can’t be happy for the people who got a little something that they didn't have, or might not otherwise have ever gotten, and can only focus on what You didn’t get... well... ?

I've owned that pack since it came out. This hot tub wasn't pulled from the pack. It's about time base game gets a hot tub.

Playstation Plus members can also download TS4 free for the month. Was I expecting more out of EA for the anniversary? No. I just don't care.

Got PPS as part of a bundle when I started up with TS4, don't mind that other people are getting it now. Your having something doesn't take anything away from me. Plus, I want the developers to feel comfortable revisiting ideas from previous packs. I'm really uncomfortable with the idea that just because I paid/worked for something, it should always be at least that difficult for someone else to get.

It's been 5 yearsish since I paid for Perfect Patio. I got enough use out of it since then, including the furniture (which is what I most wanted the pack for) that I don't feel ripped off.