Growing Together Negative Thread

The name is horrible. I guess maybe they want to make their products stand out from past packs, or make them easier to search. But Sims 4 has the worst pack names, for real.

I'm excited for the traits and additions, but I'm worried about the features made to make sims deeper. The majority of times they tried this (ie sentiments, lifestyles, wants and fears, childhood phases, preferences) were either shallow or total flops. They sound nice on paper, but will they actually do anything?

And we're not even guaranteed that the pack will even work on release, since 2 of the 3 major releases last year were borked.

Not so much a negative but really Im not feeling much hype for it. Its nice, but this is probably going to be one of those packs where Im probably going to like the build/buy and the world more than the gameplay so Im not feeling much need to have it now. I'll probably get this on sale or if I have amazon giftcards lying around by the time of release.

Unfortunately the world looks like again like the same size, suburbian-style neighbourhood with the lots in the middle of empty space which i surrounded by the fake houses. Even the functional houses look worse in my opinion.

The features of this pack have a couple of red flags over it...

We already have lifestyles, sentiments, wants & fears (unless you have turned them off), neighborhood stories, random invites, etc. and now we will get key choices, milestones and midlife crises, I worry a lot that these will be just as intrusive as all the other features we already have.

Sims will now have chemistry, that sounds like some sims will like and dislike each other by default, that could change things a lot, and I wonder how players will react when it turns out that the sims that they want to be together doesn't like each other.

It looks like family members can call each other and events like them wanting help to take care of their kids can happen, sims are already calling the player for loads of things, neighborhood stories, wanting to hang out... etc.

So yeah, I'm skeptical how well this will all work.