Is TS4 Cats & Dogs worth it?

I haven’t fully explored the expansion yet, so I can’t give a solid yes or no. But I have noticed a couple of bugs which is really annoying (but whether that’s the patch or so I can’t say) Also I can’t decide whether I like the no motives available or not, I haven’t yet made up my mind.
I definitely don’t like the loyal trait it makes them too needy and whiny.
I haven’t yet explored the vet career.
I love the cas items for pets and sims and I love the new option in pet cas.
Adopting a cat was easy and making a dog in cas was fun.

I do not play TS4 myself so I cannot give much of an opinion but after hearing that horses where omitted I did feel that to be a shame.

From what I have seen a lot of players have been having fun with the EP and some cute pets pictures are going around but it would have been greater had they included more than in TS3 such as the much suggested 'Farm Life' EP that probably won't be seen for a long time in the series if anything.

I do know that players have always enjoyed Pets in the past so I will not want to throw my opinions around too much but while I am here I do feel that the time would now be right to see pets, at least cats and dogs to start with in a base game and then add other animals in later EPs as a game progresses. The same could be said for Seasons and weather.

Well... I voted for "kinda" because at the moment I cannot see myself spending the full price on the pack.

Why? Because I miss too much. The pets are very cute and hit the perfect balance between being realistic and matching the cartoon style of the game - but: there are only cats and dogs, no other pets. That's a pity because in the past we always got a full pets pack. And furthermore: They say they wanted to focus on cats and dogs only because they wanted to do the best job ever on them - but there aren't even dog houses or proper pet beds? I also miss pet contests. We have objects to train our pets, why can't we have contests - something to train FOR? All in all the EP looks like it missed some chances.

Furthermore, the usual stuff: From what I've heard this pack seems to be quite buggy again. This is becoming an impudence. I'm not paying the full price for being a beta tester of an unfinished game. From this perspective it seems quite plausible to wait because this way I might get it on sale and some of the bugs might have been patched already.

I'm waiting. So many things are going wrong right now.

Not for the hefty $50 price tag. I might buy it when it goes on sale, it will have to be at least 50% off.
All I’ve read so far is that it is totally buggy and I feel like it’s lacking a lot.
Com’on who just wants cats and dogs. What a waste of a potentially amazing game...

We’re being robbed again.

That make me laugh people that say it worth it, but that people should wait for a sale, it's contradictory, if it was worth it you wouldn't suggest people to wait for the pack to be cheaper.

Yes! I'm happy with it. Besides the pets, the new world Brindleton Bay is gorgeous.

"Falynios;c-16159811" wrote:
looking through the posts in this topic, most of the "no's" are from people who don't own the pack. Can we please hear more opinions from people who actually have it and don't like it?

I have it and like it a lot.

"MissCherie;c-16157612" wrote:
That make me laugh people that say it worth it, but that people should wait for a sale, it's contradictory, if it was worth it you wouldn't suggest people to wait for the pack to be cheaper.

I just really like sales. Sims are an expensive hobby, so paying full price on every pack adds up fast especially when you've been playing multiple iterations. Like ok fine to do it in your first iteration, but after that, it is like ok why didn't I buy these packs before on sale?

Some people like giveaways. I don't think anyone should be ashamed of paying sales on packs or entering giveaways. I rather people acquire packs that way than by other means.

I voted No for the very obvious reason that is the expansion, if you can even call it that, is drastically unfinished.

From just opening the game and having it running for twenty minutes, you can figure out this is not worthy of being called an expansion as it lacks a variety of features, gameplay and such. You can just call it a gamepack as it introduces a new element to the sims lives however it does not really affect or change anything as pets did in the sims 2 and 3.

For me, these are dumbed down, glorified NPC’s without the ability to make them playable as you can regular humanoid townies.
I purchased this game on the over commercialization, gifs and videos of pets being portrayed as more than animated clutter, which they are with all due respect. I do enjoy the company, instead of it being my sim alone in their house or bothered by other sims, they can wander around their apartment as they please and still have some presence of low maintenance company.

If I may say this and plenty of people will sigh at the mere mention, but this feels like what we should have received in terms of interaction with baby sims, by that I mean being able to pick them up and walk around and do more than feed them, give them a quick cuddle and then put said baby back into the crib where it stays an object until toddlerhood. It feels like that, however instead of realising a patch freeing them from the confines of a cheap bassinet (that is the correct word, right?), EA have decided to apply this feature to a completely different creature and make us pay for it, rather than do the obvious.

Yes it sounds off topic but just consider the fact you cannot control pets, all you can do with them is interact and carry them around, speak to them, train them, instruct this and that, it clearly isn’t enough gameplay for an animal and feels very out of place.
This is why I bring up baby sims because again it seems like rather than simply throwing these features in a patch, EA have said to each other about constructing an expansion with these said abilities and gone backwards instead of forwards.

Next to that, the lack of dog content, I’ve only played for a few hours and already it feels more like CATS than cats and dogs, there is more for your cat than there is for your dog and that is infuriating as a dog person because I want equal items and feature gameplay for both animal species, instead of one being the main priority whilst the other sits and rots.

With clothes and hair and the color wheel, it’s evident a lot of attention has been placed on these things, for the first time I can say I am happy with the collection of wearables and hair styles instead of quietly seethe from the lack of variety, however that is where I believe a lot of the developers time and effort went instead of being placed into the actual main feature. I know, many of us are as excited for new fashion as we are for new gameplay and creatures, but when it’s shown they put more time into a shirt than the animation and interactions of a dog, then I take issue.
Don’t get me wrong, the styles and such are fabulous, I cannot find fault with any of the clothes this expansion, however the fact my animals are basically walking items does grind my plumbob.

Moving into the vet career.
Today I had to run my cat Mayor Whiskers to the vet to deal with his epic case of dry mouth, the one vet up and left the moment I entered my cat into the computer and then a dialogue bar appeared saying they were asleep, leaving myself and Angry neighbors to head home. I had to squeeze all of the medical machines into my tiny apartment and preform surgery myself because the vet option was utterly useless. It made the overall experience of the game unpleasant and I’m already regretting spending the 30 pounds on a pack that was advertised to be exciting and new, for once I believed sims 4 was on track and again I was disappointed.

These are all reasons I vote no on the expansion, or overpriced gamepack.
If this expansion is to be redeemed it’s going to take many large patches repairing features as well as adding them, even then it will take time and real effort to repair the damage the lackluster result has caused.

I will always be a fan of the sims but as for this generation, it’s gone downhill at a rapid pace.