Life and Death Negative thread
This is the place to put your thoughts and concern of the new expansion pack.
Forum Discussion
I am a long time Sims fan, but I am not a fan of Life and Death. Just watching the trailer made me incredibly sad. It gave me major bad feelings watching the loss of her dad (just lost mine); the dispute over the will (lived that too), and honestly those were the worst days of my life. At the end of a rough day, I am not looking to relive my worst of days over and over. I don't really see any way to present these situations that would make them acceptable and enjoyable. I also don't understand the need to add fortune telling and paranormal things into all the content lately. Not to mention having an intimate relationship with a ghost. I hope this is not the direction EA continues heading because I am not going to keep subjecting myself to things that make me unhappy or uneasy or that I don't agree with. We just experienced a devastating hurricane with the potential for a lot more loss of life. The timing on this and making death and loss a game is not good. That said, for me, being dark and sad is never a fit. I do want to say I have loved being a Sim fan for many years. I make time for it almost every day and appreciate the effort you all put into creating content for everyone. I hope you rethink this one. It could cause some parents to pause and encourage their kids to go to a different game. Thank you also for the forum where we can all have some input.
I'm so sorry for your loss. I can definitely see where this pack would not be for everyone, and particularly in your situation, at this moment. But I do think that for some other simmers, who are at a different stage in their grieving process, it could potentially be healing. Simmers often use aspects of the game to roleplay or work through issues in their real lives when it is uncomfortable or painful at a given point to do so, or when they are not comfortable expressing certain emotions, outside of the game. So I don't think they need to rethink the pack, but just as they have done in the past, continue to balance different themes and types of packs for different players.
I think this is well-worded. I've been through much of the same things (lost my mom when I was 9 and my dad when I was 19), however with 40 years old closer than 35 now, I'm definitely at a different stage of the process. I'm also not usually one for supernatural things, and yet I find this pack to be well-done, IF it's in your style. There's no way I would be playing that content fresh with grief, and it's for that same reason that I currently don't play a family with pets-- I lost one recently and the grief of losing her is still too fresh for me. So is it for everyone? Absolutely not. But if they continue to, as you eloquently worded it, balance different themes and types of packs, then this is just another thing they've added to optionally add. The modular nature of the game and the packs one chooses to own/install is one of the beautiful things about it.
There's a lot about it that bothers me. I've already been pretty upset with EA with whatever change they made that ended up with every Sim I played losing a good friend very quickly. I literally had a household w/3 Sims and they each lost a good friend over the course of 2-3 days. I want it to be a rare event and mainly be concerned w/older Sims dying...that is MY way of wanting to play the game...and I'm angry enough at that and EA taking away my right to play it my way (only option is to turn off death altogether but that isn't feasible).
I have no intention of buying this pack. Ever. It's likely there are some who will embrace it but I'm guessing it's a low percentage...enough that a mod or something could have given these results.
I'm also not doing the Reaper Rewards because I don't ever play with the Reaper and I hate that EA is trying to force me to in order to get items I should get the same as anyone else who plays the game daily, and has done so for 24 years.
I wish that your input (and mine) had value in this conversation, and that they'd talked to the community before making such a grotesque misstep. Of all of the things we could have had, and EA/Sims 4 has eeked out tons of money thru splitting up what was combined in previous versions, I'm just disturbed that they though this was a good idea - not just once, but twice (Reaper Rewards).
You'll feel better about things in time. I lost my Dad in 2020 amongst several friends from that illness that was going around then and I don't have any negative feelings whatsoever about this pack. I bought it the moment it was allowed for presale.
As for the direction that EA is taking with this pack. I've got to tell you I've played the Sims since Sims 1. This has always been the direction. This is just an enhancement not a derivation. In Sims 2 Olive Spector had a kid with the Grim Reaper and that is Nervous Subject. Sims 3 allowed you to try and romance a ghost and they had a whole career in Supernatural with the Fortune Teller. My only complaint is that Fortune Teller wasn't a career in this pack and that they didn't add tasseography too.
