Growing Together Negative Thread

Half of the features sound like they should be part of existing packs and kits. And knowing EA there won't be any Pack interactions and we will get yet another set of mechanics that do nearly exactly the same as already existing ones.

Does someone really believe that the social combability will in any way play nice with high school crushes, werewolf soulmates and social bunny?

"Chicklet453681;c-18225178" wrote:

Obviously some people wait until others review it and discover the bugs

*raises hand*

There are benefits to being a late adopter >:)

"Simmingal;c-18225115" wrote:
oh yeah, those dang phones, saw those in trailer too don't we phone enough as it is please just add " turn off phone notifications" toggle thats all phone interaction i want at this point

This, this, THIS!

I might be able to buy another pack one day if we could just shut off the frakking phones. A toggle or in-game choice for no notifications and no Sims animations on auto-phone use. I'd even do it Sim by Sim if I had to, and I play with over 200 Sims in my game. I hate those idles so. much. Some of us don't want to play "ultra modern teen dystopian tech addiction" 24/7 in our own games, y'know?

So far the trailer has intrigued me, but I have two major issues that I hope are explained before the pack is released for purchase:

1. Kids get the pillow fight animation.....in an entirely different expensive EP. That's $80 total if you wish for all of our family to pillow fight? A full scam. I hope That is a BG update.

2. The infant carrier- I hope the one you get for ordering by the date in April is an extra one with a different design, because if that's the only way to get it, but it's advertised in the trailer, then that to me is full on false advertising and I would never trust to purchase anything from the sims literally ever again. Can't support a game that would do that to their audience/consumers. Too scummy of a move. So I hope that is not the case.

Those are my complaints and worries right now, otherwise some of it looks really cute and I am interested to see the gameplay trailer.

"Coconut27;c-18225329" wrote:
So far the trailer has intrigued me, but I have two major issues that I hope are explained before the pack is released for purchase:

1. Kids get the pillow fight animation.....in an entirely different expensive EP. That's $80 total if you wish for all of our family to pillow fight? A full scam. I hope That is a BG update.

2. The infant carrier- I hope the one you get for ordering by the date in April is an extra one with a different design, because if that's the only way to get it, but it's advertised in the trailer, then that to me is full on false advertising and I would never trust to purchase anything from the sims literally ever again. Can't support a game that would do that to their audience/consumers. Too scummy of a move. So I hope that is not the case.

Those are my complaints and worries right now, otherwise some of it looks really cute and I am interested to see the gameplay trailer.

In regards to your second concern, SimGuruNinja already stated on twitter that there will be (other) infant carriers in the pack, just the preorder one is a special variant/unique one/an extra design from the ones in the pack.

"Darren;c-18225237" wrote:
Half of the features sound like they should be part of existing packs and kits. And knowing EA there won't be any Pack interactions and we will get yet another set of mechanics that do nearly exactly the same as already existing ones.

Does someone really believe that the social combability will in any way play nice with high school crushes, werewolf soulmates and social bunny?

The child pillow fight animation should absolutely have either been patched into HSY as every other older life stage got to do them with that EP. OR that specifically should be a BG animation. I do not find it in any way okay to charge $80 in order for your entire sim family to be able to pillow fight. I truly hate how cash grabby and horribly priced the Sims franchise has become for so little of content. It actually makes me so sad.

> @chickenow said:
> Generally I'm excited for this pack but.....
> Did anyone else feel a little skeptical about the major focus on Infants? Yes I'm excited for infants but I'm still not fully clear on what infants do any how the EP adds to infants...
> My concern is that if you take away the infants from the EP what do you have? A lot of....stuff? I feel that the Parenthood GP rode off a lot of the hype that toddlers brung and now the novelty wore off from Toddlers Parenthood really doesn't bring anything impactful other than some neat stuff.
> Also like others have said...how does this stuff work with character traits and sentiments? Have they factored these things in or is this going to be an overblown messy AI?

These are my sentiments as well. Especially about the content involving infants this pack will contribute. Someone above mentioned this is giving off a Parenthood 2.0 vibe, and doesn't look like its anything distinctive from that pack.

I am rather bias, because I couldn't care less about infants in general. The new world also doesn't seem like anything spectacular, but I'm remaining tentatively optimistic about that.

"Dianesims;c-18225050" wrote:
I think we shouldn’t have to buy another EP for kids to ride bikes and have pillow fights since it’s already available for adults.
Also, I didn’t see teens in the trailer so now I’m afraid there will be nothing them.

I'm hoping that the Movie Theater rabbit hole will at least add a new PT movie theater job for teens, but not getting my hopes up lol.