Growing Together Negative Thread

It looks like our sims won't be able to throw infants to each other like a football. I don't know how this didn't make it in.

"Gordy;c-18225028" wrote:
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.

Agreed, the name is just meh. They could have called it Family Life or Family Time.

A lot of the content does look good to me but I'm inclined to wait a while and see what other people think first. I can live without the preorder stuff.

I thought there was supposed to be something about the Grim Reaper. I was hoping we could play as the Grim Reaper or they would have funerals.

"Gordy;c-18225028" wrote:
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.

I think the English name "Growing together" is pretty good because it links the pack to the "Get together" EP and that is probably a very sensible combination and good cross-marketing.

However, here you can see the challenges of international product translations (something I have often to deal with in my job as well). The German title "Zusammen wachsen" is an extact translation of "Growing together", but it corresponds with nothing and is really strange. I would have thought of a gardening pack.

The trailer made the new world look nice, but I'll be surprised if it'll have 12 or more lots to it.

"auroraael14;c-18225102" wrote:
The only complaint I have and it could be in the game is kids playing together. I didn't see any kids really playing like tag, cops and robbers, catch, and things like that. Otherwise I'm really excited for the pack.

That would have been awesome, it seems a lot of people miss those interactions, me included.
I'm also a little sad that infants do not get a blanket in their crib. All through the sims series they always have to sleep in the cold :(

I hope that NPC families will finally bring toddlers (and infants) to the park when visiting with our own families. The trailer seemed to indicate this was possible, but I have my doubts.

"Simmingal;c-18225223" wrote:
yeah also missing strollers
tbh those were like top 3 baby/toddler item I actually miss but seems like its not gonna be there *sighs* fine I'll just break my sims backs dragging their kiddos to the mother
I wonder if I can fight Greg or MOTHER while carrying infant backpack that could be interesting

Oh my god. I'm so here for that.

Suddenly, infants are interesting. >:)