Island Living is a good “Expansion Pack”

"GalacticGal;c-17136146" wrote:

"Writin_Reg;c-17135936" wrote:
It was not designed to change your sims world it was designed to show a different way of living and new sims and their culture. That is the problem is too many expected it to change their present sims world like IP did. That is not at all what this ep is about.

Yes, but as stated by the OP, expansion packs are meant to expand the base game. This one actually doesn't.

Ok but by that logic, an EP can never really be dedicated to a new world with a unique set of characters and features at all - like, as I would have wanted them to do it, a magical world. Turns out that magic will be a GP, but the way I imagined it as an EP, it would have also come with its own large magical world full of unique elements (like a magical market, a street with potion shops, a broom arena, maybe even a school - yes, yes .. dream big :(). Elements that honestly wouldn't translate well at all to, say, Oasis Springs.

I think that her point is still valid to her in the sense that, yes, the addition of a unique world with distinct features and its very own 'vibe' - different from the vibe of other liveable worlds - can be viewed as a way of expanding the "universe" of the sims.