How in-depth really is the new holiday system?

no clue, best to wait on reviews and watch lets plays.

I think creating our own holidays would be similar to creating clubs. People love creating clubs so this means creating holidays should be well received :D

It was confirmed we can choose what season each holiday is on, more info will probably come in one if the next trailers. This looks like one of the main features of this pack.

"TresaofPern;c-16495557" wrote:
Maybe it'll be like social events and parties, with goals to be met within a specific time frame.

If you're not interested in the rewards, you can turn off the goals and just go with a regular party. That can be just as fun.

I'm with Brindleton -- you create the event, choose the activities (give gifts, eat, etc.). Instead of a trailer, there might be a blog about it; it's the kind of activity that doesn't lend itself well to a visual but more of an explanatory feature.

"Brindleton;c-16495609" wrote:
I think creating our own holidays would be similar to creating clubs. People love creating clubs so this means creating holidays should be well received :D

It was confirmed we can choose what season each holiday is on, more info will probably come in one if the next trailers. This looks like one of the main features of this pack.

So I guess I can have Christmas in July and Halloween in March

Honestly, the first thing I thought when hearing about the custom holidays, was how I could expand a Get Together cult. Now the entire sims world will celebrate my leader's birthday :troll:

Strictly judging by how EA has delivered packs so far, I have a strong feeling that holidays will be a combination of systems that we have already. Specifically, holidays may be a hybrid of planning parties and determining club-like activities. As a bonus, I suspect that, from now on, all parties will be able to be planned in advance with the new calendar or by days of the present week.

Because the game has already introduced diversity in clothing, it's possible that we will be able to determine which types of these clothing assets would be appropriate for the holiday -- Indian-inspired, Asian-inspired, Hispanic, etc. From what I've seen of Sims 4 Studio, CAS assets can be tagged by culture, so it seems possible to plan holiday gear from the cultures already in the game or added by a patch.

Anyway, that's my wild guess.

As a bonus, it would be really cool to be able to plan birthdays in advance now. Each of our Sims could have their own "holiday".

I don't want it to be like social events, I want something that would feel special and the social events seems so ordinary for me. Waiting to see what it will be like...

My only concern is, let's say Christmas is on a specific day in winter, does that mean I will only celebrate it with the one family I'm currently playing, and have to wait for next sim year to experience it with another family? If I remember TS2 correctly, every lot had its own calender so to speak, you could play with one family in autumn, then switch to another that was still in spring, and time wouldn't move on for non-played families until you returned to them. I'm not saying I'd like to have that system back, it was a little immersion-breaking, but the consequence is what I just explained.

I also wonder if holidays will be the same in the entire sim world, or if different families can celebrate different things.

Maybe it'll be like social events and parties, with goals to be met within a specific time frame.

I really do want to know more about how this works. I'm afraid to speculate too much though because I might disappoint myself doing it. It sounds promising for sure though.