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4 years ago

How I feel towards the majority of anti-occult players

Alright, this post isn't meant to attack anyone who's anti occult or doesn't want fantasy aspects in their game but I just want to address some major point the majority of them make when they tell us to play fantasy games instead of the sims.

1. The reason I play the sims is because it allows me to do things the majority of most games don't allow me to do. You can create houses, create people give them jobs raise a family. Design what they look like, go to college, etc. Name me one other game that reciprocates that. Exactly just the sims, and what's wrong if I want to incorporate some fantasy aspects into it. Maybe I'd like a family full of werewolves who are athletes or fairies who are gardeners, how about a spellcaster who is an evil scientist as well?

2. "why do you want dark things like werewolves, zombies, etc in the game anyway" Well I don't see why not, real life is just as dark if not darker and who said they need to be dark or scary? I wouldn't mind some goofy sim friendly zombies in my game who eat faux vegan brain substitutes.(I'm vegan btw) We're not asking for blood and gore in the game lmao.

3. "I don't want fantasy stuff in my life simulation game" That's perfectly fine believe me as someone who's an occult enjoyer even I get annoyed at seeing ghosts who just died calling my sim on the phone every 15 minutes to inform me they became best friends with Bob Pancakes. What's the solution to this you may ask? Simple don't buy occult packs if you don't want fantasy in your game so let us have that werewolf, fairy and dragon gamepack sometime in the future EA. Or at least create a toggle to delete all fantasy aspects of the game for those who don't want it.

My purpose of this post isn't to attack those who don't like occult stuff for the sims, but to express why those of us want it, Skryim, WOW, none of those games allow us to do things we can do in the sims. The majority of us just want a cuddly werewolf and pretty fairy family to play with.

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  • "Cynna;c-18089192" wrote:
    Throughout the franchise, I've never played with the occult. That hasn't stopped me from purchasing packs, however. As a PC player, I know that there will almost always be a mod to help me to control what does and does not occur within my game. Having said that, I still prefer official options. I'm always pleased to see those.

    ETA: Had I been a console player with no access to mods, there would have been quite a few packs that I'd have to miss. In TS4, occults are quite a bit easier to avoid. Except for ghosts and aliens, they only make appearances in dedicated packs. That means that a player may have to bypass an object or a mechanic that they really want. Toggles are the fairest option all around.


    But it's Maxis that decides to put particular features or thing in a pack along with occults in order to sell it....maybe the blame lies with Maxis and how they market things. Like the slow dance feature...No way I'm buying a task filled pack just to get the slow dance animatons...but Maxis decided to market that pack with that feature included instead of in a romance pack where it would have made sense with a chemistry and attraction feature/mechanic. Yes, it does also belong in a wedding pack because that's what people do at weddings with the couple dancing first...however, it was Maxis that decided to add it to a pack that might not otherwise sell so highly of just filled chores and tasks and hardly any room for actual gameplay other than point and click.

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