How's the Cottage Living so far?

"Schantal;c-17945192" wrote:
Im torn....the amount of bugs introduced is ridiculous. As far as the pack, I have the same sentiment as many others, this is 100% without a doubt a gamepack. If this was a gamepack for $20 I would say this was my fav gamepack since Jungle Adventures. As an expansion for $40 plus tax? No.....I wrote a list of new gameplay and compared it to other expansions and gamepacks and there just isn't enough there. My fav part of the whole pack other than the world, clothes, and furniture are def the chickens. They were so well done. So well done in fact that they almost make the cow and llama useless.....they don't even feel like they are from the same pack. You can own multiple chickens, breed them, show them at the fair, collect eggs, and more....the cow and llama.....meh.

Also, the whole canning thing, such a big thing they kept talking about and I was absolutely shocked to find out you cannot spread jam on bread or baked goods....there is even a mod where you can. It is ridiculous that all you can do is eat the jam straight out of the jar.....no one does that (I mean, Im sure some do, but you know what I mean).....also, picnic baskets are ridiculous. You literally can only use them on a table which to me, defeats the purpose of a picnic. I find it hard to believe they couldn't have coded spreadable jam and picnic baskets usable on the ground.....then again my husband works in the gaming industry as an engineer and despite knowing what goes on behind the scenes, some of the decisions made by this team or the higher ups always baffles me. If you can get this when it goes on sale for like $20 bucks, def get it, but at $40? Nah

People keep saying this... and I'm the first to say when I think a pack should have been another type of pack, so I get it. But here's my counterpoint: I don't measure the value of a pack by a list of features, but by how much time I want to spend actually playing it. In the last week (despite almost a full day of download frustration), I've already spent more time playing this pack than I have played TS4 total in the last two years. It's already well under $1 per hour for me for entertainment value, and I'm not anywhere near bored with it yet. In the end, I suspect it will be closer to mere pennies per hour of enjoyment.

Other people's mileage may vary, of course. If you won't get that much gameplay out of it, then it's not a good deal for you, and that's always a fair assessment. But for me, and clearly for a lot of other people, it has been an excellent value even at full price.

ETA: It's incredibly rare that I buy a pack at full price, so I fully identify with anyone who wants to wait for a sale. And I have commented in this thread and others about things that I think were missed opportunities in this pack, things I hope they'll fix, etc. But overall, speaking only for myself, this is something I wanted for a long time for them to make and I love what they did with the theme, so it was worth it to me to send a message by paying the full expansion price.