Get Famous Owners: Would you buy it again? Pros? Cons? [Decision made]

Personally, I wouldn't buy the pack again. The game play for me got way too repetitive and annoying.

And yes, celebrities do take over and ruin venues, and if you are a celebrity, you honestly can't do anything in public without being mobbed by paparazzi and fans. Even when you are taking a vacation, you will be mobbed, which really just ruins the whole vacation. And if you have Dine Out, that pack is already broken as it is, and when there is a celebrity in the restaurant, you can count on nobody doing their job and no one sitting down and eating.

Del Sol Valley is a decent world, but isn't my favorite. Too small, and unremarkable.

Celebrities aren't fun for me to play because as I said, you will be mobbed wherever you go and that will annoy you. And it just takes way too much work to play as a celebrity in my opinion, and just get's extinguishing, repetitive, and boring.

Besides celebrities, Get Famous isn't anything special. The acting career is fun for the first few weeks (in game), but then you get the same gigs over and over again, which get's boring. The Create-a-Sim items just aren't my style, and the build mode items don't really interest me, and even if you like them they don't justify 40 dollars.

There aren't as many glitches as there are with other packs, but there are some minor ones here and there.

Overall, as you can see, my opinion is unfavorable about this pack. Out of all the expansion packs, I would rate Get Famous the lowest because the game play just does not interest me, and everything else about the pack doesn't justify the price. If you would like a more in depth review, I would recommend watching LGR's (Lazy Game Review) review on the pack. He would do a better job giving a non one sided opinionated review than me. :)

I’d buy it. It’s fun and if a pre-made celebrity is annoying, you can take out your frustrations by swapping over to their household and tank their reputation! ?

It's hard to say if you will like it, but a 50% sale sounds good to me. I was hoping there would be a surprise new expansion for the anniversary, but it doesn't look like it though, so I would say Yes if you like the build objects and want to make celebrities. Personally, I really enjoy it and don't regret buying it at all. I love the acting career and some of the build objects I use all the time, like the dressers and sofas. The acting career is one of my favorite careers in the game. I love all the active lots. I never get bored of it because I play on rotation. I've never had a quirk stick with my Sim, so I'm not sure about that. My families had no problems that I noticed. If you have relationship points with them, I think you should always be able to talk to them. For the build objects, some of them I use a lot, but worth the money on that alone is hard to say. For me, the acting career makes it worth it, I really like it. I don't really build elaborate homes, but the decorations are really nice I have to say. The squaky bubbles though, now that sits on top of all of my washing machines in the whole game. ;)

Howeverrr, it was true that for a long time it was really almost impossible to go to a restaurant. A celebrity would show up and everyone would stand up and stop eating. It drove me up the wall, but I don't notice as much now. Maybe a patch improved it. Actually I can't remember the last time it happened. Most of my celebrities stick to the celebrity world now. Also, you can turn the fame off for the whole game in the settings menu if you don't like it. And then if you just want your Sim to gain fame you can click on "Step in the spotlight" and that Sim will be able to start gaining fame. I turned it off in my current game, but I still love doing the acting career and choosing the options that used to gain fame, but I'm not really interested in making my Sims famous anyway. It won't turn off fame for the existing celebrities though, so if those still bother you, you can just stick them in a lot, turn their fame off from their personality screen, and then evict them back to the bin. That's what I did when I accidentally moved two Sims into another world without realizing they were famous and they created mobs at my gym.

I would say overall the celebrity / fans / paparazzi thing I don't really like, but I figured out how to turn it off / manage it, so it doesn't bother me at all now.

And Happy Birthday!! :smiley:

First of all, best wishes for your birthday! I can't answer if GF is for you, but I'm a builder, and I personally use a lot of items from this pack. The more gaudy/rococo stuff works nicely with historical or fantasy builds, while the mid-century items go well with retro, or elderly-home builds. The modern items work with both traditional and contemporary homes, so all-in-all, BB is pretty versatile.

In terms of CAS, there's a lot of nice items, especially if you like historical/fantasy play (from the acting career), or simply want your sims looking like they belong in this century (unlike what's in the base game lol).

Gameplay-wise, I do run into celebrities regularly, but restaurants, provided you have a good kitchen, and a small number of (working) tables (the restaurant I use has 3 tables with four chairs, using couches and coffee tables to act as 'set dressing'), celebs come in, but non-famous sims'll get food okay. You can turn off fame for your played sim/family, and unless you directly approach a celebrity, you shouldn't be affected with the fainting etc.

If you are a celebrity, the negative traits add challenge/fun - unfortunately, the papparazzi can be super annoying. It's hard to go out (eg. to a restaurant) if you're famous, because they're continually taking pictures. When you level up in fame, you can influence sims to do things, like make paparazzi leave, though another one always seems to pop up after.

Re non-celebrity gameplay items (recording station, drone, media station) help storytelling, but you unfortunately can't view or listen to what your sim has created. I haven't tried the acting career yet (although I've had the pack for a while...), so I can't really comment on it, but a lot of people, (including @Elliandre in the comment above :)) have said they like it.

I personally think $24.99/w/ever the us price is isn't bad, but it depends what you want :) .

I love Get Famous. The world is small and celebrities can be intrusive but the build and buy is amazing and so is the cas. The reputation system is something unique and operates regardless of whether you are seeking fame. I have had sims earn fame as actors but also have a famous author, musician and programmer. It is nice to make sims like Diego Lobo and Penny Pizzazz truly famous.

The acting career is fun for an active career and the starlight accolades are great especially when your sim.wins one.

It also adds the rabbithole of drama club for teens which they can win awards for too.

Charity benefit partiesxare another feature of the pack I like.

The celebrity premade sims are fun string characters. I enjoy them as they dp feel fully fleshed out.

There is also a new death and woohoo in the pack

I would recommend Get famous if you use mods, otherwise you might find it annoying when you are not playing as a celebrity. I think playing as a celebrity was quite fun, the road from being a poor actor to becoming a famous celebrity is quite fun to experience. I played with the premade sims Venessa, Kayla and Dustin.

Get famous can be pretty annoying to play if you are not a celebrity though, they will show up on lots and interrupt sims and have paparazzi around the lot, I would recommend bienchens mods lesscelebreact and nocelebritywalkstyle. The second disables the walkstyle that sims who have a certain fame will walk. It is a slow walk that for some reason Maxis did not add as a walkstyle you pick in CAS, it turns on and off all the time and is super annoying. Just disable this awful design with a mod. I think there are mods that makes the paparazzi less annoying as well. I found out that I could disable some of their annoying animations with mc tuner.

Celebrities also have fame quirks that they can get, some people find them fun because they add some challenge and personality to the sims. Some quirks are just bad though and occurs way too often. Octavia is a premade sim who has the juice enthusiast quirk and it triggers everyday and gives her an angry buff constantly.

The actor career is surprisingly well made...until level 7, then everything new just ends... and you will do the same old gigs over and over again to reach level 10. It feels like they cut some content there in the end.

The world in my opinion is really nicely made, but there is a neighborhood missing. There is a neighborhood when you are a new, poor actor, and then there is a neighborhood when you are a famous, rich celebrity. There is no neighborhood for sims who are something in between.

Speaking of rich, unless you are creating a celebrity who focuses on social media and making music and videos you are not going to earn that much money. You get paid surprisingly little for every gig and every gig takes three days to do. In the beginning you will think this is a fun challenge because the gigs require skill and preparation but when you are a skilled actor this is way too much time and you have to find something else to do between gigs.

I think Get Famous is an okay pack, but it requires a lot from the player to have fun with it, the devs made no effort when it came to the houses and they made some bad design decisions. But if you replace or change their houses, use mods and play with the celebrities and come up with fun things to do with them then you wont find these things that annoying.

And finally, there is right now a bug where you can't play the actor career properly because their completed tasks reset on traveling...so yeah...a pack that is fun to play but has a lot of bad design.

I bought Get Famous 50% off and I'm happy with that purchase. The theme didn't interest me much in the first place, but what I enjoy is that the pack gives you a lot to do. I play rotationally and I'd like to see my own sims replace the premade celebrities eventually and even place down their own stars on the boulevard. It's a huge amount of work to get all their celebrity levels up. There are many ways to go about it though and I'm not bored with the system yet.

About your concern I do have celebrities to show up in my restaurants and other community lots, but they haven't been major problem for me. At first it bothered me more when I didn't know who those celebrities were. The more I've seen them around and my sims have became their fans the more tolerant I find myself. I sort of accept their status and that sims go crazy sometimes. Here as well I'm wondering what it will be like when it's my own sims that are causing the chaos.

I must confess I haven't lived in Del Sol Valley with any sim. The world looks nice to me and the size doesn't bother me too much. The poor neighbourhood fits my taste quite nicely. I have redone the whole commercial disctrict and really like visiting there. There's a gym, arts center, restaurant, cafe (with a movie theatre) and a lounge.

What I don't really like about the pack is that it's quite easy to make it to one star celebrity and that the sims who have reached that level are instantly harder to communicate with. In rotational play it's a little bit weird when half of my played sims are suddendly impossible to get to know... Yes they can always step out of the spotlight and that's the choice I will have to make for some.

I bought the pack at half price only really for the CAS and BB. Would I buy it again.......probably not.

Okay, again, I didn't buy it for the fame, so I really didn't care much about that aspect of the pack. And honestly, I can live without the CAS and BB. Still, I felt the need to try the fame stuff out at least once, so I did.

Gonna be honest, the celebrity gameplay is very repetitive and can be downright boring. Unless you're playing an actress or actor, it's very hard to earn fame. Usually you'll just end up doing the same thing over and over and over until you slowly build up your fame bar to get more perks to make becoming famous slightly easier. Once you do become a maxed out worldwide famous celebrity, there's pretty much nothing left to aspire to, and once I reached that point I dropped the family I was playing and never touched them again. It's basically a tedious grind to get to the end and once you reach it, there's nothing left to do. You can only have so many celebrity events and parties and buy so many golden furniture items before it becomes dull.

Keeping your fame is also really annoying, especially at the lower levels and I don't like how it's basically programmed that if you're not constantly streaming online or performing out in public, your fame can just drop like a rock. I get it, we're in the tech savy 21st century, but c'mon not every celebrity sits on a computer 20/7 and they don't become instantly forgotten when they aren't online.

The acting career itself is also very glitchy and became boring and repetitive after like 6 gigs. Seriously, once you've done one, you've done them all.

Celebrities are everywhere and crowds of people ALWAYS stop to fangirl over them. There's no way to turn this off and its annoying as all heck.

Del Smol Valley is utterly useless as a world. There's very few lots and the sizes are really ridiculous.

Overall, I don't recommend Get Famous unless you REALLY want celebrities and plan to play them a lot. Even still, I'd get it at half off. I don't regret buying it, since again, I think half off was okay for the CAS and BB. But if I could go back in time, I'd probably be fine sacrificing those things since I don't really need any of it and the rest of the pack doesn't appeal to me at all.

I bought it at half price. It's interesting especially the BB, but it's not necessary for overall gaming experience. I'll probably buy it again if only they offer more than 50% discount this time.

Personally I love the acting career. It's my favorite active career. I play in rotation, and I was only able to get my actor to one gig per rotation for a while until I changed the number of days with each household, so he has not yet actually gotten his third fame star yet.

My other sims not being able to introduce themselves to him is a minor annoyance I have had for a while. I can introduce him to anyone I want when I'm playing him though. So far his family hasn't lost the ability to talk to him or anything.

It does take a long time to build fame for anything but acting, especially in rotational play. But I find it pretty fun. I do use the drone a lot to stream so that my sims can use their online presence to get fame without always having to be sitting at the computer to do it. I enjoy the open mic nights and the award ceremony. I haven't tried the meet and greet yet.

Celebrities have very rarely gotten in my way on community lots. It is annoying when it happens, but I've had a lot less trouble with it than others appear to. At 2.5 fame stars my actor is getting a small number of fans when he goes out in public, but no paparazzi yet so I can't say how annoying that will be.

I rarely pay attention to the little pack icons in build mode or in CAS but I do know that a couple of my favorite hairstyles came with GF. I also use the costumes a lot because I like to throw costume parties by making everyone's party outfit a costume of my choice, using all the options from every pack that comes with costumes.

I bought it at 50% off last year and would do it again for that price without hesitation.