Life and Death Negative thread

My reactions from the gameplay trailer:

• The Netherworld Department of Death still looks a lot like the magic realm to me.
• Chased by death trait is not a bad idea and it's a good way of making a sim that you want to turn into a ghost faster.
• I still feel that the "bucket list" are aspirations but you can decide the goals yourself, so that doesn't that sound much different.
• Adding wills to funerals which changes how people react to them is a nice idea, but you don't get to hand over your money or belongings apart from heirlooms?
• Playing as a ghost is not something that is appealing to me but it looks like a nice way to extend your playtime with your sim and also give you the option to keep playing them as a reincarnated sim. 
  
  I think the pack looks good but I also think this pack has a high chance to have some bugs because some of these features are probably difficult to test quickly.

All in all the gameplay trailer looks amazing (more positive than negative about the pack) but I have a few concens

• the solicitor sits outside to make wills? Shouldn't that be in an office? What if you have seasons and it rains? It feels a bit unrealistic
• The bucketlist is only on paper? I would love to get a book like that to practice writing but for a bucket list I would expect it to be on the computer because most people who do bucket lists like to tell everyone about it through social media
• The ghost skill tree looks usefull (not exactly a new concept) but are we able to combine this with other occults?
• The grim reaper voice reading the early buyers reward promo talk was an anticlimax. That should not have been read out loud or in a different voice. It kinda ruins the character this way
• recycled content:
  • coffin woohoo (makes sense, but not really new)
  • new wishing well: will this be a copy of the wishing well we already have?

Why couldn't all of Ravenwood be darker, not just a small neighborhood.😭  

I'm a little concerned about having the old Grim in my save once the new pack comes out. I'd like to have the updated one, but not sure if we'll be able to cheat that. 

All i am hoping for is that the expansion won't be as  buggy as wedding stories was.. yes they are working on repairing lovestruck which means a lot ❤️🙏The wedding stories made me quit the game and i didn't touch the sims 4 until  they annonced that growing together was on it's way and it was then i came back.

I love the fact we are getting graveyards .. finally.. also that we can host a decent funeral..the fun part goes to those who fancy playing around with the ghosts :) It did sound like fun but i know i won't touch it even if the idea of creating a sim to be the best Ebenezer Scrooge sound tempting i know lots of other people will :p 

I dislike that you can't randomize where your sim goes for rebirth. You have to pick a world and household each and every time. I hate how much micromanaging we have to do with this pack. 

Will wills be created for households not controlled, will Funerals be held outside of your household, will anything occur outside of the household?

I dislike how easy it is to become the grim reaper, and how there are many workers there. It makes it less unique . 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but children can't get heirlooms because they are too young? That makes no sense. Also, during the livestream, the mom read the will but the daughter did not stay the whole time.

These points are very small but I'm a little disappointed by the ghost cowplant :

• No ghost color selector
• No new essence : Essence of Fear emotion is still missing. A missed opportunity to extract things for ghost sims and grimterms

It's a good pack so far, but I have a few complaints.

• Why can't kids gather tarot cards or venture into crypts? I get not being able to do the quests, but they can't even search the podiums? They can't even venture into crypts, even though those are just rabbit holes?
• The festivals, at least the family festival. We've had festivals for eight years, and they're still bad. What can you even do here? You look for frogs, play chess, eat food, play on playground equipment... Basically what you can do anywhere, any time. You can ask the crow lady about stuff, but she seems to just provide basic info the game already provides you about crows. The will lady doesn't add much, either. The specters are too busy for me to talk to them, and when they're finally free, they just float around and my sim can't get a hold of them. 
• The bucket list system doesn't let you choose specific goals, and if you want to remove a pre-determined goal you don't like, you have to scrap your entire list. I'm glad cheats let you choose your own goals. 
• I wish the new wallpapers had more blue swatches. Only one of them had a blue swatch, and it looked really good. The other two didn't. It doesn't help that the colors for some of the swatches are too similar, to the point where differences are barely noticeable. 

I am so disappointed at this expansion not having Seasons compatibility that I will not be buying until they include it (And I have every single Expansion).  It's not even that this will make this world better or more in keeping with the part of the world they are trying to emulate with this pack. But it's more to do with how disappointed I am with what most definitely feels like their cutting corners on development and cross-compatibility. Why make us buy into the whole Seasons Pack and "Enjoy the Seasons in the Sims!" if you won't add it to your worlds?!

I feel cheated and like they are dropping a major part of game play that I paid for! So instead they try to whip out worlds where there are "No Seasons" even though there is no such thing anywhere in the world. Even tropical parts of the world experience all four seasons, they might not get snow, but they go through the seasons regardless. I should know I've lived in the tropics.

If you don't want to go through the trouble of adding season's support to your world do not sell Seasons in your game! As I understand it, this should not be subjective. You buy seasons, you get seasons. You can add a toggle in the worlds! Just don't insult me and my wallet. That's where I draw the line.

Most worried about rabbit holes

and that bucket list thing cause I'm worried its like likes and dislikes and I have to set it for all my sims so they don't autonomously choose nonsense things behind my back -again.

like why can't we just have button for no autonomously choosing simology things life would be so much easier

and then I just have the usual complaints of: 1. I saw a croptop and 2. still don't like exclusive limited items being exclusive and limited

also no Simmingal will not be participating in the nude ...thing. 😅 I sure hope I can change it to less nude...thing or protect my poor eyes otherwise