If they are using this excuse I'm expecting more than making holidays and a spashpool. Just saying :/ Wonder if weather will be dynamic or was that also left out for 'amazing' features?
"lulubadwolf;c-16502930" wrote: Does this mean that we are not getting any "Snow day" ? Because it would be weird if the game tells you that there is too much snow to go to school/work if there is no snow depth ...
You've never been to North Carolina then I take it? We had snow days declared before snow had even hit the ground. I remember one year they said it was a snow day because we had literally gotten a dusting of snow (you could still see the grass and asphalt) and then it was gone by twelve o'clock in the afternoon.
Nope, i live in the mountain, where you can literally lost your young child or pet in the snow. And in my entire scholarship i had like 5 snow days because the bus didn't came (the school wasn't even closed in fact. If you could walk to it, then you'll have to go to classes)
The depth of the snow almost never cancels school here in Maine - we often get 1-2 feet or more every storm - but school gets cancelled if it is heavy wet snow or contains freezing rain because that is far more dangerous in Maine then deep snow. Around here Mainers all own 4 wheel drive vehicle and snow mobiles - getting to school is never a problem with 2 or 3 feet of snow - it becomes a problem if it is very wet and heavy - even the best built school cannot handle the weight and there is always danger of collapsing. Powerlines and trees fall from the weight as well. It's like winter creates a war zone in our neighborhoods here some years. Ice and freezing rain speaks for it self - even 4 wheel drive or a snow mobile does not help you on black ice. Where there is black ice - there will be death on the roads. All businesses - everything closes - all stores, all gas stations - schools you name it. Travel the road and you may get arrested if the cops even dare to be out. Even snow plows don't go out much and we have huge construction size plows until the chemical and salt truck have made the roads driveable. They generally wait for the storm to pass as no one is allowed out anyway..
But on the other hand this is a game and not real life and real winter. LOL. Thank goodness.
I personally care more about the plethora of activities and seasons themselves--deep snow I don't care much about. Besides, some parts of the US and world only get small amounts of snow anyway. *shrug*
"@ichchen;c-16502206" wrote: How often will this pattern repeat itself?
Something is missing and without the community pointing it out and debating about it EA probably wouldn´t tell us anything.
I will still buy this pack but it is definetely a dissapointment - once more...
It has always happened and always will happen.
If they never sacrificed anything, it would mean we would get the exact same packs every Sims game.
Sometimes they will sacrifice something in order to provide something new.
They’re choices may not always be ideal, but they’ve always made them.
Sims 3 Seasons ditched content that people loved from Sims 2, it happens.
This is true, but can't it also be said that this would be the ideal game to have multi-depth snow? Considering that there is no open worlds, it's easier on loading times+ computers and would probably run much more smoothly with limited individual "playing areas" then compared to Sims 3.
True, Grant said performance wasn't a factor, it just didn't look as visually pleasing when they experimented with it.
I can see what he means, some parts of TS3 seasons was just flat white everywhere and lots of details about the world were lost. '
It isn't affecting gameplay features, so I'm okay.
If we lost Snow gameplay, I would be mad.
As someone who lives in an area that gets a moderate amount of snowfall every year this bolded part sounds ridiculous to me. Snow is flat white and it covers up everything. You don’t see the details of everything underneath. Snow in Sims 4 is flat white and the details are also gone, it’s just flush along the ground like a piece of paper.
"Quaay;c-16503598" wrote: They could still possibly have deep snow in a new winter world in a future game pack. I know that won't satisfy everyone but keep an open mind.
From the reasoning behind it’s exclusion in the seasons pack that doesn’t seem likely. If it’s an issue getting it took look acceptable, that isn’t going to change for another pack. I honestly think that would be a bad move, because of the reasoning given here.
-No Festivals -No sun burns -No tanning -No tanning booths -No snow depth -No life state -No diving board -No swimming in bodies of water -No pool floats -No ability to choose what seasons you want -No ability to disable certain types of weather -No kissing booth -No haunted house -No eating contest -No soccer net -No picnic basket -No ice staking on frozen bodies of water -You're the only one who can throw parties still so so much for relatives and friends inviting your Sims over for the holidays -The weather is just a screen effect and not 3D like Sims 3 had and is like Sims 2 fake weather -Snow mounds are just for pointless collectibles (lame!) -Snow is a plain white texture and not real snow (Sims 3 did it better) -Pets don't get anything to wear for the weather (it doesn't affect them) -Leaves don't decay or fall off the trees its all fake effects to fool you into thinking its Fall
Man Sims 4 continues to be a failure and makes even Sims 2 look good. lol Go buy Sims 2 and Sims 2 Seasons, thank me later. Much better experience and that game is over 10 years old!
When they added pet clothes on a stuff pack people complain about DLC for DLC, now after you are complaining that pets don't get anything from the weather?
Also each sims game and expansion packs are supposed to be different. If Seasons in Sims 3 was about going out and exploring with your friends to different seasonal festivals then Sims 4 is different, it emphasizes about holidays, and gardening. I would rather have new things than rehash of the past experiences.
But the sims 4 seasons is a rehash of past experiences. Everything we have seen except the thermostat and the kiddy pool was in the sims 2 or 3. Ice skating, snow angels, building snow men, snowball fights, being struck by lightning, gardening, holidays have all been done before which is fine as it wouldn't be winter without the above activities as an example. But the more I read, it appears we lose things more than we gain.
This is how I feel. I don't see that what has been given up, snow and a new world is worth what we got. I was happy to give up an new world in sims 3 because we got nearly 20 activities and that doesn't include the holidays, parties and all that. We got amazing seasons with that and aliens that I prefer to the annoying gtw ones. Sims 4 leaves me feeling we keep losing stuff to gain little.
1: Festivals 2: Basic Set Holidays 3: Ocean Swimming (Patch, also note that pets cannot swim unlike sims 4) 4: Diving boards (added in patch) 5: Snowboarding 6: Illness (Honestly was pretty bad, just like sims 4 illness, sims also did not get days off from school) 7: Weather Machine 8: Umbrellas 9: collectible wild flowers 10: Sun tanning/sunburn 11: Rake leaves 12: Snowball fights 13: Soccer 14: waterballoon fights 15: Greeting card booth 16: eating contests 17: carving pumpkins 18: ice skating 19: roller skating 20: egg hunt 21: slow dance 22: love tester machine 23: snow cones 24: horse shoes 25: trick or treating (I don't know about anyone else, but it was horribly bugged for me and nobody was ever home and no kids ever came to my house)
Now keep in mind the point of this wasn't to Diss sims 3 seasons, I absolutely loved that pack and still do. The way that seasons gradually changed, and all the little details like water on the road and foggy windows in winter were absolutely amazing. There are plenty of things it's "missing" though like green houses, sprinklers, etc. I'm sure I missed a couple things for both sims 3 and sims 4, but they roughly have the same amount of content so far at least with premium gameplay objects. Sims 4 isn't even done announcing stuff yet, we just learned about the thermostat yesterday.
The flat snow is a personal aesthetic appearance, it's 100% fine if you dislike it, and it's fine for you to be upset about it. I actually ENCOURAGE you to voice your discontent, just like people with the toddler ball pit did and it wound up getting fixed. IF enough people speak out there's a good chance they'll patch it.
I want to end off with that overall, the sims 3 expansion packs seem to have a lot more content than sims 4, and I admit that. Cats and dogs should have had other pets, it was a complete cash grab whether they say it was or wasn't. Seasons looks like it's the first pack that has a decent amount of content though, and I am very happy about that.
First of all, scarves don't count as activities.
Second, you forgot the haunted house in sims 3 as well as igloos, face painting, festival tickets/rewards system, pumpkin patch visiting (not just carving), the spring dance, costume parties (that our sims could get invited to) as well as other types of parties, apple bobbing, online dating, love letters, attraction, leaf pile wohoo as well as igloo wohoo.
I really couldn't care less about the snow depth. maybe if I saw it IN game I'd be kinda "ehhh..." but for now, I don't care. can we appreciate the fact though the Kate is ANSWERING our questions (unlike her predecessor) and actually giving us real facts about why the left some things out? instead of "WE'RE LISTENING" blah blah. Kate talks. she doesn't just listen.
We only get snow days in Colorado if the RTD buses don't start and the roads are frozen/dangerous. Doesn't matter how much accumulation there was. So I think we could still get "snow" days when its really cold.
