Growing Together Negative Thread

I hope there's a small treehouse as well as the large one.

"chickenow;c-18225320" wrote:
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?

I agree. This feels like a paid update for Parenthood. I guess if it wasn't for whatever the new world offers and the new system this should have been a GP. For me it feels like a GP. They are just unlocking some existing interactions for children and adding some new gameplay.

"LeGardePourpre;c-18225555" wrote:
There is a little problem of size and design for the treehouse ...

TS4

https://i22.servimg.com/u/f22/15/54/71/55/ts4-ep11.png


TS3

https://i22.servimg.com/u/f22/15/54/71/55/kid27s10.jpg


The builders can already build treehouses like this ...

https://i22.servimg.com/u/f22/15/54/71/55/mts_pu10.jpg

If sims can live in it, I will be building one of these in Granite Falls. A treehouse in the forest is like ultimate airbnb.

"Horrorgirl6;d-1006241" wrote:
Just starting the thread for the next expansion pack.
This is the negative thread for complaints, concerns and criticism.
Just a reminder this is not a place for bashing simmer or gurus.Also this not a place to bash the thread itself .

I don’t like the preorder thing that happens. ?
A base game bicycle for young adults would be nice!

I am concerned about bugs with all the proposed animations.

Cross pack compatibility isn’t clear.

It sounds more like a game pack than expansion.

To me it’s sort of like TS3 Generations. We’ve got some features spread out over several packs already though.

I won’t be buying simply because I mainly play young adults and so wouldn’t be using the main features. It’s not grabbing me to try them either. ??‍♂️

"lunaoddity;c-18225599" wrote:

"chickenow;c-18225320" wrote:
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?

I agree. This feels like a paid update for Parenthood. I guess if it wasn't for whatever the new world offers and the new system this should have been a GP. For me it feels like a GP. They are just unlocking some existing interactions for children and adding some new gameplay.

If you remove all scenes with infants in them because they will be a base game update and also remove the scenes when they use the same feature again (like the slumber party and the small table to play board games on) then the trailer becomes very short.

Several of the features are also kinda related to travel, (power walking, bike for kids and the infant carrier), in a game where travel doesn't have a lot of meaning... and a lot of the scenes in the trailer are in the same neighborhood, you can tell because of the bridge in the background.

"logion;c-18225617" wrote:

"lunaoddity;c-18225599" wrote:

"chickenow;c-18225320" wrote:
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?

I agree. This feels like a paid update for Parenthood. I guess if it wasn't for whatever the new world offers and the new system this should have been a GP. For me it feels like a GP. They are just unlocking some existing interactions for children and adding some new gameplay.

If you remove all scenes with infants in them because they will be a base game update and also remove the scenes when they use the same feature again (like the slumber party and the small table to play board games on) then the trailer becomes very short.

Several of the features are also kinda related to travel, (power walking, bike for kids and the infant carrier), in a game where travel doesn't have a lot of meaning... and a lot of the scenes in the trailer are in the same neighborhood, you can tell because of the bridge in the background.

I think we will be able to see the bridge from all neighbourhoods. You can see the park neighbourhood in the beginning of the trailer, it's pretty big, with a park with lake and a hothouse.

When Cats And Dogs came out, we got My First Pet, a pack that not only focused on extra animal stuff but actually had items from the furniture sets from Cats And Dogs in it.

When Toddlers came out, the Gameplay Pack following was Parenthood, a pack that focused heavily on Toddlers and children.

So I really can't imagine why people are surprised that we're getting a big pack focusing on Infants. And you gotta admit, they will have fallen behind. It's a money grab, but it depends on the size of the world we get, cuz man am I tired of rolling vistas I can't build on, on whether I'm okay with it or not.

The question is always how much of what we're seeing is free, and how much will be with the Infants update.

I thought that treehouse looked familiar.
Oh sorry was I supposed to be negative about the pack.
Ok, here goes: Why oh why did it take over 8 years to finally improve on babies. :( Oi!

"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 have to agree on that and EA putting all that behind a paywall too.