This is the place to put your thoughts and concern of the new expansion pack.

This will be the first expansion I do not buy. After a world wide pandemic killed so many and caused world wide mourning on an epic scale, I think this dark side expansion is macabre. New death types and new ways to mourn? A funeral party? An afterlife of more chores to complete, that were never finished during life? A "reward" of having to be born back into the game to do it all over again? Grim as a "nice guy" you want to emulate and then become? So the sims franchise's answer to what lies ahead is ... nothing but chores and the ability to recycle if you work hard enough. Lots of ghosts, but no angels. An eerie half life location where you wait to recycle, but no heaven.One thing I have (previously) admired about the sims franchise is their ability to balance the light and dark side so people could choose to play either one or a combo of both. But this is decidedly glorifying ONLY the dark side, timed to Halloween. With no light side option. I had hoped for angel wings and harps, at a minimum. I had hoped for a "heavenly" realm to play in where dead sims got a new body to enjoy a new immortal afterlife with their dead loved ones. They could have at least given us that along with all the other stuff they wanted to promote. A bit of a nod to the light side for those of us who wanted to play that option. Instead we got TWO dark side locations along with one half life waiting zone. But no light side location. This expansion is more than a disappointment. It is the death of the sims as I once knew it. They chose to go dark.

The funeral part of the trailer gives me a huge "My Wedding Stories" reskin vibes, and the blog post mentions Haunted Houses, I just hope they're not borrowing too much from the Paranormal SP and selling it as new content. Pleaseeeeee don't autonomously do push ups next to a coffin during funerals Also, I hope this EP comes with a reworked Simology panel. There are too many submenus in there it's such a hassle if you have all EPs, it keeps getting bigger and bigger.

Introducing age filters to ghost traits was a mistake. Here's an Answers HQ report on it (I'll give more info on the third page).Basically, as you have seen in CAS, children have only two ghost types available:Death by FireDeath by DrowningOne problem however. These are the ways children can die:FireDrowningMeteoriteSteamPufferfishFreezingOverheatingSo, what happens when children die by causes other than Fire and Drowning?Well, they do the death animation, Grim Reaper comes, everyone mourns, pleading is available... But after reaping, you get the usual question: do you want to make the new ghost playable or freeroaming. I chose playable and got... an alive child. Reacting to becoming a ghost, sad to have died...What happened here is that due to the newly added age filters, the child couldn't become a ghost. And the game just... ran the usual death functions and then that was it. The child was still alive and not a ghost.This causes other problems, like adult ghost pets being alive again suddenly (there's even a pre-made adult dog called Captain Whitaker in every game, so guess who's alive now) and Sulani Elementals taking a while to show up and always being an elder (new elementals are generated with a Death by Old Age trait, so what happens is that new ones are generated, failed to be made into a ghost, and don't pass the filter).And CAS death traits sometimes don't match too. Teens have emotional deaths available in CAS, but they cannot die by emotions.So yeah, it would have been easier and less save breaking to keep all the ghost traits available to all ages.Occult filter is fine, this won't prevent ghost trait from being added. Age filter however does.

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 just want ZOMBIES! And Fairies..

Life and Death Negative thread | EA Forums

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kukkahilla
Seasoned Ace
4 months ago
How will ghost skill tree work with other occults is a very good point and got me worried, because I have a vampire ghost in my game. I wonder will they lose their skill trees when they turn into a ghost... I hope that is not the case!
Simmerville
Legend
4 months ago
"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."
Totally agree. It was ruining the fiction completely. Grim is not in our game to sell the game... A different voice reading the early buyers rewards would have lifted us out of Grim's world and made his appearance much stronger.
SEREFRAS
Legend
4 months ago
Why couldn't all of Ravenwood be darker, not just a small neighborhood.😭
telemwill
Seasoned Ace
4 months ago
I'm worried about rain with the solicitor as well. There should at least be some sort of covering over that area. You don't sit out in the rain or snow with books, paper, and coffee machines.
telemwill
Seasoned Ace
4 months ago
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.
MissNenne
Seasoned Hotshot
4 months ago
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
SheriSim
Seasoned Ace
4 months ago
Yeah, I think the religious aspect of heaven is the reason they didn’t include it or angels. I’m glad there are funerals now though, wills and cemeteries. I never expected religion in the game, But it is something we can bring to our own game if we want to. And I personally like the idea that sims can die in bed of old age. It just seems more respectful of death to me. What I wonder is what happens if your sim dies somewhere else but your house, and how does that work with rotational play?
EgonVM
Seasoned Ace
4 months ago
That's a valid idea.
It could then join the other 3 special-boost careers: E-sports gamer, Professional Athlete, and Mixologist.
NoahLGP
Seasoned Ace
4 months ago
The same team who did My Wedding Stories and For Rent did Life & Death ?
I don't know what to think about that, the support team is still struggling to fix this mess.
Hamsysincy
New Veteran
4 months ago
This whole new Life & Death pack sounds like another round of game-breaking bugs coming on the way.
The whole idea of reincarnation and living as another person feels like it's going to blow up with game issues.

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