How is this a gamepack?

"Evilyn_1007;c-17899071" wrote:
If Likes/Dislikes and bunk beds would have been exclusive to the GP. Do you guys think it would have been worth the money then? I go back and forth on this.

"Gordy;c-17899377" wrote:
You know what the saddest part is? No one outside of the fandom cares. Gaming news YouTubers almost never report on The Sims' shenanigans, unless it's stuff like Batuu. Other games have had far less issues, but they get their issues brought to the general public's light. It's real sad that we don't have more people outside of the fandom shedding light on the issues the franchise is facing, because their voices could be a big help towards us getting heard.

"Simburian;c-17899990" wrote:

"kwanzaabot;c-17899983" wrote:

"Evilyn_1007;c-17899071" wrote:
If Likes/Dislikes and bunk beds would have been exclusive to the GP. Do you guys think it would have been worth the money then? I go back and forth on this.

Well at least then favourite colours would have a point.
What gameplay benefit do you get from wearing your favourite colour or being around objects coloured the way you like? Nothing, unless you buy Dream Home Decorator.

The colour preference's only use is for the interior design career, and even then it doesn't really matter because you don't even have to build rooms they can use. You can build a bedroom without a bed, a bathroom without a bath, or a shower, or a sink, or a toilet.

You can destroy their home, and fill each room with dog poops you've collected off the sidewalk, but they'll still applaud you and give you a promotion so long as they like the colour brown.

But if the dog poop was put there by using a cheat might they not register it? Only recognising objects taken from those shown to use normally? Maybe they might take such stuff to take exception to in a patch some time later. If you want to take a game to destruction you can do it easily if you use a mod or cheats to do it.

"kwanzaabot;c-17899992" wrote:

"Simburian;c-17899990" wrote:

"kwanzaabot;c-17899983" wrote:

"Evilyn_1007;c-17899071" wrote:
If Likes/Dislikes and bunk beds would have been exclusive to the GP. Do you guys think it would have been worth the money then? I go back and forth on this.

Well at least then favourite colours would have a point.
What gameplay benefit do you get from wearing your favourite colour or being around objects coloured the way you like? Nothing, unless you buy Dream Home Decorator.

The colour preference's only use is for the interior design career, and even then it doesn't really matter because you don't even have to build rooms they can use. You can build a bedroom without a bed, a bathroom without a bath, or a shower, or a sink, or a toilet.

You can destroy their home, and fill each room with dog poops you've collected off the sidewalk, but they'll still applaud you and give you a promotion so long as they like the colour brown.

But if the dog poop was put there by using a cheat might they not register it? Only recognising objects taken from those shown to use normally? Maybe they might take such stuff to take exception to in a patch some time later. If you want to take a game to destruction you can do it easily if you use a mod or cheats to do it.

Can you repeat that? I don't really get what you're trying to say.

"Loanet;c-17899971" wrote:

"Simburian;c-17899959" wrote:
I think from now on the Maxis team will be making packs that suit some Simmers and not others, like this pack. I will be spending a lot of my time on decorating other Sims houses whereas I am not interested at all in getting a werewolf one. It's worth buying for me but not for others.

It is depressingly not up to the Maxis Team. A Dream Home Decorator pack doesn't have to be bad. But if they don't have enough of a budget or more importantly, enough people, they won't be able to make a good pack. Oh, they choose the theme and they make the pack and they do all the work, but it's the Top Shelf at EA that decides how much money they have, and how much time they get.

"Felicity;c-17900157" wrote:

"Simburian;c-17899959" wrote:
I think from now on the Maxis team will be making packs that suit some Simmers and not others, like this pack. I will be spending a lot of my time on decorating other Sims houses whereas I am not interested at all in getting a werewolf one. It's worth buying for me but not for others.

It takes all sorts and Maxis has so much free stuff coming out in Patches that Simmers can still get what they want in future without having to buy their own pack until another one interests them enough to buy.

I've never really considered "The Sims'" iterations "games". They are much more than that. They are an interesting long lasting experience in an alternative universe that you can never completely finish and it keeps changing, sending you in new directions, not like games at all. They are a genre all of their own. Even "Simulation" doesn't describe them as that's more like real life and they aren't.

I think the one issue is the gallery. Being able to screen out packs you don't own via filters should be trivial to do, yet you can't, which makes me think it's a way of getting people to buy packs they otherwise wouldn't.

"CelSims;c-17900205" wrote:

"Simburian;c-17900166" wrote:

"Felicity;c-17900157" wrote:

"Simburian;c-17899959" wrote:
I think from now on the Maxis team will be making packs that suit some Simmers and not others, like this pack. I will be spending a lot of my time on decorating other Sims houses whereas I am not interested at all in getting a werewolf one. It's worth buying for me but not for others.

It takes all sorts and Maxis has so much free stuff coming out in Patches that Simmers can still get what they want in future without having to buy their own pack until another one interests them enough to buy.

I've never really considered "The Sims'" iterations "games". They are much more than that. They are an interesting long lasting experience in an alternative universe that you can never completely finish and it keeps changing, sending you in new directions, not like games at all. They are a genre all of their own. Even "Simulation" doesn't describe them as that's more like real life and they aren't.

I think the one issue is the gallery. Being able to screen out packs you don't own via filters should be trivial to do, yet you can't, which makes me think it's a way of getting people to buy packs they otherwise wouldn't.

I thought you could? I don't use others' lots myself but can't you untick them on the list of packs when offered as a list? I did see some changes when I tried it.

Unfortunately no. When you uncheck the ones that you don't own, what happens is, it looks for lots which do contain the packs you have checked as you own them, but does not filter out the one's with packs you don't have. It actively looks for what you have and pays no attention to ones you don't, if that makes sense.