LGR Nifty Knitting Review

"SimAlexandria;c-17596511" wrote:

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"crocobaura;c-17594964" wrote:
Didn't we vote on the content and already knew what was going to be in the pack?

Kinda but not really. I'm pretty sure we voted for Arts and Crafts. But then that was whittled down so much we were left with just knitting.

We voted specificially for knitting though.... We voted Arts and Crafts as the main title and then when it had the list of 5 ideas for each category and it said "If this pack wins which subtheme should the pack be based on" we voted knitting. Arts and Crafts one, and the knitting category within it won.

People voted for the Arts and Crafts thinking it'd be a broader theme. Then when we were told how narrowed down it'd be, we had to "pick our poison". Basically, none of the options we were given at the end were what we were told to expect in the beginning. We voted for the option that would "suck" the least

That’s not how it happened. Rewind to my last post in this thread, looks like you didn’t read it back then or now.

Dec 2019 - "In today’s Maxis Monthly live stream, The Sims team gave a first look at the upcoming “Arts and Crafts” design styles players will be voting on starting December 23rd. During the upcoming community vote players can choose from “Granny Sleek”, “Cozy Craft Workshop” and “Do-it-Yourself (DYI) Delight”. Check out a first look at these styles below!"

Yes, we absolutely KNEW it was going to be a stuff pack. But they kept breaking it down even further than what we had really wanted. We wanted arts and crafts! But they wanted to break it down so much that it's just blah

This isn't at all true though. If people thought it woud be a broader theme they didn't read the voting instructions because it was VERY clear from page one of the first vote that we'd only get ONE thing from that broader theme. There's a reason we had to rank and vote for what we liked best between things like sewing/knitting/glass making/pottery in the VERY FIRST Poll. If we were getting all of them, that would have been pointless... I mean, that and the fact that it said right on the front page (and several other pages throughout) that we weren't getting all of them.

What you are quoting is from when we picked the style, we already knew at that point that knitting had one. Those were the styles for the knitting pack but they just wrote "Arts and Crafts" because it fell under the Arts and Crafts category. What you are quoting was from December, "Knitting" was announced to be the winner back in November before that was even posted so no one shoulld have thought we were getting anything but knitting by that time.

Fair point! I don't think myself or others saw anything other than "VOTE" any time we happened to log on. So when we cast our initial vote, we were excited to finally pick our own theme. I mean, who doesn't like arts and crafts? Then we were told it was going to get narrowed down even more and were very disappointed.
I guess this means that they pretty much had every planned out since the get-go. We only got to pick from the options they already had in mind. Probably from things they couldn't fit in other game/expansion packs

*edit* On Twitter they didn't give us any info other than we were able to chose the new stuff pack theme - they just gave a link to where we could vote. It wasn't until later they tweeted that we had other things to vote for!
Maybe this is where the disconnect came from from the fans who were voting?
Some people were voting directly from social media and some people were on here, where they posted the fine print/details