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ill take the one with the sim dancing and hitting himself in the head. but for me ill skip star wars. im not into space stuff. but i guess ill still buy it like i always do.

I think the simmers and the sims team seem to be in 2 different worlds...

There have been multiple suggestions and polls as to what the next packs should be, with a huge list of suggestions--never once was Star Wars on it. Just becuase it's never been done before doesn't mean it should.

Trying to be positive, but, uh, why was this even an idea? I have to admit--now we have proof EA has lost touch with the game's base. Personally, TS takes place in an alternative universe, one where Star Wars doesn't exist, and most definitely, not in Star Wars universe. Gonna be real weird having Star Wars stuff in the main game worlds. This pack, and Star Wars in general just has no place in the Sims universe. It's so out of place. I think it's what happen when you let marketing, and not fans make decisions. I guess their idea was to get the huge legion of Star Wars fans to buy the game.

While I may get this pack for the droids (and am hoping, Jyn Erso is among the premades, but I doubt it), I sure hope their are tons of toggles to get this stuff out of the game. We wanted vehicles--cars and trucks, not speeder bikes an Millennium Falcons. And I'm betting like the REDACTED Lab and Community Spaces, you really can't mess with the structures in whatever world we are getting. Not a fan of violence that much either in the game. I had mods that did allow it; but eventually got rid of them.

"bluelighting;c-17630944" wrote:
ill take the one with the sim dancing and hitting himself in the head. but for me ill skip star wars. im not into space stuff. but i guess ill still buy it like i always do.

Well, buying it just tells EA that you're happy with it. :\ They listen to money... not comments.

"Simburian;c-17630465" wrote:
I was more of a Star Trek fan, having seen it from the very first episode on BBC TV years ago. I'm not so keen on Star Wars except for Harrison Ford! Reading about all the unlocking of things you have to do I'm now going to wait to see what the building and object stuff is first.

I was a bit puzzled about this bit in their blog...

Plus, any droids ordered on Batuu return to the Sims world as well! Sure, droids might not go around zapping people in Willow Creek, but Sims can still build relationships with them and have fun driving them around with a datapad!

What's a datapad?

Here's a description of what it so for those (like me) who didn't know.
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Datapad/Legends

What a complete waste of time and resources, so much for what your loudmouth development team members who stated in the knitting community vote blog thing that they did about “something we have never done before and we are real excited about”, all I see is recycled game packs objects, CAS items and themes. I do not use any of the current Star Wars costumes that are in the game as I do not see any need for them, apart from may be party outfits, but to make a whole game pack based of this is so wrong.

Now do not get me wrong I am a diehard Sims fan and been playing this game since Sims 1 and a major lover of all things sci-fi and Star Wars, is one of my favourite sci-fi films, but to make a Sims 4 pack based on this is wrong and so far Sims 4 has been one big let-down after another and with loudmouth gurus make stupid statements like “something we have never done before” and what do we get in return just more recycled game packs.

Yes a sci-fi based game back would have been great, but it would seem to me that the Sims 4, development team are just to dam lazy to get of their backsides and start using that soggy pink sponge between their ears and come up with some new exciting ideas that will inspire more of the great creativity that the Sims community has.

Is this EA’s way of saying up yours to the millions of fans out there and it is our game and we will whatever we want with it and if you do not like it tuff, take your money and go some were else or is this EA’s way of saying that because of so bad feedback about packs we are no longer going to be making the Sims.

I personal think it is about time the community to take a stand and tell EA, enough is enough, stop make crap that we do not want and start making the stuff that we do want.

Furthermore, if I wanted to play a Star Wars themed game I would go and by one, there are some many great things that the Sims 4, development team could have come up with if only they put their minds to it, but I guess that they are so old and out of touch with the community that they will do anything that corporate EA, tell them to do.

Personally, I would sack the whole lot of them starting at the top with that other loudmouth EA, guy who was talking about Sims 5 and online game play at some event a sometime back, I think he might have been the CEO or something?

I definitely feel like this was nothing more than a marketing thing and only about money. I'm not sure why they would think that die-hard SW fans would magically be drawn to TS4 and all of a sudden become a fan of it simply because they added a SW pack. I'm sure the replayability will be lacking and won't be like a real SW game. They would have to buy not only the basegame but also the GP to play it, don't see that happening.

I personally can't stand this pack, at least with TS3 it was a "future" themed pack and was able to appeal to a larger scope of fans, this is extremely niched. I hope that sales for this pack flops and EA/Maxis, the Guru's "Who are HUGE fans of SW", and all of the high-ups realize exactly how pathetic it is.

That's a Stand alone game, right? Not an expansion... right? :lol: Oh, EA... good one.

"Chicklet453681;c-17631251" wrote:
I definitely feel like this was nothing more than a marketing thing and only about money. I'm not sure why they would think that die-hard SW fans would magically be drawn to TS4 and all of a sudden become a fan of it simply because they added a SW pack. I'm sure the replayability will be lacking and won't be like a real SW game. They would have to buy not only the basegame but also the GP to play it, don't see that happening.

When you put it like that, in a weird way it almost makes me think of badly made shovelware titles.

Star Wars and The Sims couldnt be any more different from each other, and since EA does have SW games under its belt it makes me think that they were trying to find another one of their audiences to get into the Sims and get more revenue from it. It makes no sense to me.

So disappointing. WHY? Not that EA will listen to the SIMS community. They clearly do not care about their fan base at all. When the community has asked for other things repeatedly and yet they give us star wars? Cuz no one asked for star wars.. and I can imagine this will be exactly like strangerville, a one time game play. Not worth the money and if EA is actually paying attention they will see how they have once again disappointed their players. I've never posted a complaint before, but I just had to have a voice in hopes that they see how disappointing it is to get excited for something we've asked for and then to be given something that literally NO ONE asked for. Hopefully they have horrible sales and they will hopefully see what an awful choice they made. One can dream big anyway. As I am pretty certain that they will not care one bit.