Lazy Gamer Reviews My First Pet

"Loanet;c-16382773" wrote:
Disagree as you will. He's supposed to review the pack, not the way EA takes advantage of loyal customers. We already know they do that. Also, a lot of people rely on his reviews. A good review shouldn't leave a person uninformed and needing to look up other reviews to learn the whole truth - good or bad. That's the whole point of a review.

For an item like the Rodent Rug... well, that's downright misleading, because it swatches into multiple animals and shapes. Some pet beds also have multiple shapes and markedly different designs, and he doesn't mention this.

He also says "This stuff just acts as a constant teaser to buy more content so you don't feel left out and I assume thats's the point." Yeah, it kind of is - definitely is, in fact - but you don't buy Cats&Dogs to be able to use another pet bed that came in the expansion - you buy it to play with Cats&Dogs. I mean, it keeps Cats&Dogs in the light but it's not holding a gun to your head simply because it's so specifically aimed at people who did buy Cats&Dogs and even then I'm sure most people can live without a hamster in their lives.

The Gameplay object, ultimately the most important object in any SP, got like, a minute, and the disease - considering that people have been asking for more deaths - got about thirty seconds. Compare about four minutes spent ranting about EA, and how it takes almost two minutes at the start to get to the actual game content - about half of this is spent assuring us that LGR doesn't hate The Sims.

Gotta say a lot of that furniture totally annoys me though. Okay, NOW I am convinced that there was stuff directly stripped from the C&D pack. You want to get cross about any aspect of the pack? Get cross about THAT. No wonder this pack came out so fast.

He showed all of the CAS content, all of the build/buy content. He went into detail on the C&D requirement, the hamster cage, and the new death. What vital information did he miss? I see no reason someone should have to search out additional information unless they are looking for a content overview.

"Aine;c-16382797" wrote:
Yeah what bothers me the most is that they might try doing the exact same thing with the next expansion pack - cutting up content and selling parts of it in stuff packs etc. It worries me tbh.

I hope not. I'd rather we get new content in SPs then something from expansion packs granted I really do like this pack. Even though my opinions on this pack are different then Lazy Gamers the way he did this review made me laugh.

I agree with him. I will admit that what bothers me most is the broken-up furniture set and I'm glad he showed that. C&D felt slim to me content-wise (I even complained about that here). Finding more items that are a part of a furniture set from C&D really makes me feel like they took content out to make a stuff pack.

I don't mind the recolors of existing clothing so much, but I'm glad he highlighted that as well. Just.. bah humbug ;)

"Aine;c-16382797" wrote:
Yeah what bothers me the most is that they might try doing the exact same thing with the next expansion pack - cutting up content and selling parts of it in stuff packs etc. It worries me tbh.

This stuff pack was especially blatant about it. That's not good and it concerns me too.

"Sk8rblaze;c-16382984" wrote:
....This pack, in every regard, is the lowest point of The Sims.

Yes, that is right -- even after Katy Perry: Sweet Treats.

I never thought I'd see a pack as bad as that one. But here we are.
In fact, after all these years, next time I see a copy of KPST, I'm going to buy it. And know that I haven't purchased the worst pack in the Sims series after all.

So, I guess My First Pet review by LGR is a thumbs down. I wasn't planning on getting it anyway. After watching his review, I'm glad I didn't. This is probably my "Katy Perry: Sweet Treats" of Sims 4. Didn't buy that one either. :D

"Aine;c-16382797" wrote:
Yeah what bothers me the most is that they might try doing the exact same thing with the next expansion pack - cutting up content and selling parts of it in stuff packs etc. It worries me tbh.

This !

And also, I agree with LGR's review. I didn't buy the SP, and do not plan to do so, unless it comes on sale for 5$ which I believe is it's true value price.

"Loanet;c-16382699" wrote:

Also, that $50? WHY? A guy already has C&D and thought it was pretty good, then bought MFP... How about he start a trend of donating that $50 to a children's charity instead? Cuz y'know, FIRST PET? All that kid-based stuff? It was a publicity stunt.

Really, a publicity stunt? LGR is not trying to impress anyone. Plus, he's not in the public eye, only in the eye of the gaming community. I'm sure most people in the simming community know who he is and know what to expect from his reviews.

Anyways, I agree with everything he said in the video. I've been playing for nearly a decade and this is by far the worst pack I've seen. I thought Katy Perry was bad, but at least it was somewhat original. The review pretty much correlated with what I thought.

"Kurotard;c-16383159" wrote:
Ah snap. Someone beat me to it.

Don't worry about it. I put mine up this afternoon but your welcome to join it.

"Loanet;c-16382803" wrote:
If you're going to donate your money, donate it to a kid's charity or something instead of going with a fad to give it to animal charities.

Also, I should warn guys that those charities will hand your details around as somebody who is charitable so you might just want to stuff $10 in your local charity store charity jar rather than giving online.

To be ABSOLUTELY honest, now that I've seen some reviews of this pack, I don't know how keen I am to get it. I mean, I was hopeful. Totally hopeful. I hoped that the furniture would be properly new for the pack. While everybody else (okay, not everybody, but all the really loud people) was saying the pack would be terrible and they'd never get it, I was saying, "Let's not base our judgements on a trailer. Let's wait until it comes out."

Then I end up looking like a chump because they're all right.

It's a pack...about (one's first) pet(s)...of course he's going to give to an animal charity, out of all potential charities. Any type of charity is worth donating to in theory, kids vs pets it doesn't matter. If the cause is real and the charity is legit; then it's a good thing to do. Online just gives you a (much much wider) variety of choices.

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Anyway, I agree wholeheartedly with the opinions in the review and thought the review was decent. He could've gone in a bit more details about various things, but it was pretty obvious he was still very tired/heated over the whole thing and honestly I don't blame him.

And tbh, I was even more surprised how bad the pack was in terms of proportion to objects that were essentially required to have C&D to have versus ones that were just universal and you could use without having to buy C&D. Like, nearly 50% of the items of the pack. Non-pet CAS stuff was absolutely bare bones, much of which was just reskins; which isn't THAT big of a deal normally but when you have such a small selection...it just makes it much more frustrating especially if you don't have C&D.

I'm gonna agree with him in that I think the pack should've just been 100% catered to C&D only or at least content should've been much more spread out throughout various other packs (he talks about this in the comments, and brings up a good point).

Both hairstyles look like messes. The female one wouldn't be too bad if it didn't have 3 layers in the back, what on earth. The furniture looks nice and the rodents are cute, but it really is just hard for me to justify the price when a good portion of the content should've been in C&D.