LGR Nifty Knitting Review

"SimmerGeorge;c-17608742" wrote:

"Camkat;c-17608670" wrote:

"SimmerGeorge;c-17608542" wrote:

"Camkat;c-17608479" wrote:
Even IF this is a first of a split up "hobby" pack... do you actually end up paying more? Really? Expansion packs are $40. 4 separate hobby packs then also equal $40... I'm not seeing this argument as valid. I think some people are forgetting that we voted on this. The community did this "money grab".

@Camkat Again I'm sure if we had the option to choose if the Art and Crafts pack was going to be an expansion pack or a stuff pack I'm sure many would have chosen it to be a bigger pack. But you see they don't give us that option.

Also no. Free Time for example was a hobby pack and it didn't come with just 4 hobbies. It came with more. It also came with a new neighborhood, new aspirations, genies, a new "enthusiasm" system for hobbies (which made each sim have interest in different hobbies), new carreers, new NPCs, new foods, new video games, new TV channel and a new radio station.
So no, buying 4 stuff packs with a hobby each is not the same as buying an actual hobbies expansion pack.

Only thing is though, we don't get nearly anything near what we got in TS2 in terms of packs. They started whittling them down in TS3 and kept right on going with TS4. You can't except we'd get anything near the free time quality people want these days. Now I'm sure your right that 4 stuff packs won't equal one expansion, there would be more in the expansion. It would be no FreeTime though. Those days are long gone. :(

There still would be people that don't mind buying them all separately to "customize" their game, and there will be those that want a full pack. I just don't think that a full pack would have everything people hope and dream anyways, because, Sims 4.

Yeah that's fair. Personally I also kind of feel like if they made a hobbies pack they would just put 3-4 random hobbies in there and call it a day, it doesn't mean I believe this is how they should do it but judging by the packs we got in the past I guess it would be that way.
I still hope for really good EPs 'cause I actually really like some, like Seasons and Get Famous. I hope they try to step it up again.

I really wish they would prove me wrong someday and release a good value pack that doesn't require us waiting 3+ months for bug fixes.

I haven't bought Nifty Knitting, I've said before, and I likely won't just because it doesn't interest me. However, if I had been interested in this, it does seem like a pretty good pack. I'm still interested in the metal station and plopsy but those 2 things aren't worth $10! (At least not to me) and with EL, Tiny Living and Uni, I'm not sure I need more knits CAS. If it went half off I'd consider it then.