Let's Watch Together: Gamescom - Opening Night Live

I like star wars, but I don't want star wars in my sims game, I can play SWTOR if I want to play star wars. I will be skipping this pack. I am glad for some good news today though, with some Dragon Age 4 info shared. So excited for that.

The sims community:
The sims needs better skin tones and better make up for dark skin tones
please fix the bugs
make babies not objects
bonehilda
EA:
here is a starwars pack for everyone!
the sims community
im out

"Rflong7;c-17631438" wrote:
That's a Stand alone game, right? Not an expansion... right? :lol: Oh, EA... good one.

Haha, imo the whole TS4 is a stand alone game. Idk why they named it The Sims 4? It has no resemblance to the earlier 3 amazing life simulating (!) games.

"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. ...

Well, it's safe to say that ALL packs are there for a reason - money. I'm fine with that, it's business after all. We are customers who are free to buy or not to buy each pack. I really doubt that EA expects that 100% of us are getting all packs.

My worry is that they seem to focus more on adventure packs, with content that will not gain a bit to most of our existing households. Those playing just one household might take on the adventure, being StrangerVille or Space, but most households will NOT play through such adventures. Most likely the excitement will be gone after the first play through. We know very little of Batuu yet, so maybe there will be features that can have some relevance to many households, or with certain fun if repeated. But I'm sure most of my realistic households will not be happy to scroll past numerous of outfits, masks and space furniture, every time browsing the catalogs. Hopefully the niche content can be hidden?

I hope the next pack will add to the *general* game, instead of adding niche adventures that are fun for 3-4 weeks.

"Chicklet453681;c-17631182" wrote:

"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

Thanks for that information as I don't know anything much about Star Wars. I've only seen the earliest 3 films with Harrison Ford. I gave up after that.

"Simmerville;c-17631990" wrote:

"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. ...

Well, it's safe to say that ALL packs are there for a reason - money. I'm fine with that, it's business after all. We are customers who are free to buy or not to buy each pack. I really doubt that EA expects that 100% of us are getting all packs.

My worry is that they seem to focus more on adventure packs, with content that will not gain a bit to most of our existing households. Those playing just one household might take on the adventure, being StrangerVille or Space, but most households will NOT play through such adventures. Most likely the excitement will be gone after the first play through. We know very little of Batuu yet, so maybe there will be features that can have some relevance to many households, or with certain fun if repeated. But I'm sure most of my realistic households will not be happy to scroll past numerous of outfits, masks and space furniture, every time browsing the catalogs. Hopefully the niche content can be hidden?

I hope the next pack will add to the *general* game, instead of adding niche adventures that are fun for 3-4 weeks.

It's a risk for EA/Maxis but the game was descending into the dolls house mode too much and getting a bit dull, from my point of view.

Looking at it in a positive way for those who like Sims 4, if it is a success the budget might be expanded and we all get what we want in the end! You can hope!

"Simburian;c-17632206" wrote:

"Simmerville;c-17631990" wrote:

"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. ...

Well, it's safe to say that ALL packs are there for a reason - money. I'm fine with that, it's business after all. We are customers who are free to buy or not to buy each pack. I really doubt that EA expects that 100% of us are getting all packs.

My worry is that they seem to focus more on adventure packs, with content that will not gain a bit to most of our existing households. Those playing just one household might take on the adventure, being StrangerVille or Space, but most households will NOT play through such adventures. Most likely the excitement will be gone after the first play through. We know very little of Batuu yet, so maybe there will be features that can have some relevance to many households, or with certain fun if repeated. But I'm sure most of my realistic households will not be happy to scroll past numerous of outfits, masks and space furniture, every time browsing the catalogs. Hopefully the niche content can be hidden?

I hope the next pack will add to the *general* game, instead of adding niche adventures that are fun for 3-4 weeks.

It's a risk for EA/Maxis but the game was descending into the dolls house mode too much and getting a bit dull, from my point of view.

Looking at it in a positive way for those who like Sims 4, if it is a success the budget might be expanded and we all get what we want in the end! You can hope!

Yay, I'm all for some packs taking a step away from the general dolls house. I still love most of the content from StrangerVille, just don't see the storyline itself as interesting to my general game. I'll welcome many on-the-side packs, but in the hope of them being not totally niche, because I want a minimum of the content to be somehow relevant for at certain number of households. But it can be anything weird and not so dolls-house-ish, that's just fine as long as it can be partly integrated with a "normal" game. Maybe Star Wars comes with more general stuff than I expect, we'll see :)

PS: As much as EA probably does not expect us all to get all the packs, I do not expect all packs to be my cup of tea. And that's totally fine. This far I got all EPs bar one, but only 2 SPs. And I've still not checked out all the content of my game.

"AquaGamer1212;c-17629565" wrote:
Really disappointed honestly, first time in 6 years I’m actually not gonna but a pack on day 1....or ever ?‍♀️?‍♀️

This might just end up being my fourth or fifth pack for Sims 4 I haven't purchased. I'll watch the trailer before I decide. I always strive to be as fair as possible.

"cody6268;c-17631069" wrote:
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.

Sadly, Star Wars is just as niche as Star Trek, although you can bet your antigrav boots I'd jump on a Star Trek pack. I would very much like to see the trailer for this, just in case I see something worth my while to purchase this pack. I had some fun with Strangerville, using the scenario as a mission for my Trek characters, but I'm uncertain about Batuu. I have only watched four of the Star Wars movies. Ever.

I like a couple of the table lamps, the long lamps that hang beside the door, some of the weird faces, the bridge, the fact they have flying stuff(thinking of unicorns, pegasus, dragons, and Angels in the future), and any alien types. Those were the only thing to catch my eye and included in not catching my eye is the storyline and basically everything in it. I can't see anything making this worth it for me unless they have several alien creatures we haven't seen to maybe buy/collect.

Like this less than Strangerville, which I bought on sale and have never touched. Personally, I like dollhouseish if that is what was all in the Sims3 ect. I don't buy the Sims to play Star Wars, Walking dead ect.