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.

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.

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.

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..

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NoahLGP
Seasoned Ace
4 months ago
Sadly Skeptical sims aren't skeptical about undead :
Selvadorada skeletons
Bonehilda
simmysimsin
Seasoned Hotshot
5 months ago
Im mainly unhappy that it broke a lot of my ghosts I made and saved in my library before life and death. I made a child ghost with death by freezing to be like casper the friendly ghost but when I place him in live mode now with life and death new cas occult and ghost selecter his ghost status is always automatically removed and using the same ghost cheat to turn him into a ghost is no longer working. plus now I have to keep re adding the night wraith ghost trait to my sims I made into night wraiths and were saved to my library before life and death because the night wraith ghost status keeps getting automatically removed. Im on xbox series x and it feels like there is a lot less creativity freedom with making ghosts. Also a lot of the ghost types from packs i own are not showing up as an option in cas either so i still have to rely on cheats and i think the cheats may have changed again.
simmysimsin
Seasoned Hotshot
5 months ago
I find it funny that I can create a ghost or any other occult sim and choose to give them the skeptical trait. They are debating their own existence I guess lol. It feels really immersion breaking to me so I haven't played with it other than for creating sims to place as neighbors.
BissenNess
Seasoned Ace
5 months ago
I've played the Grim Reaper career and, honestly, I'm unimpressed. For vibes, it's the second most interesting after the Actor career in Get Famous. For game play mechanics, it's the least interesting, even worse than the Detective career. It's super repetitive and there's no strategy element. You just go through the motions.
Rhys sending yet another soul to the Netherworld.
LuvMySimz
Seasoned Ace
7 months ago
It's just awful! No respect of the dead! and no fun to play with cemeteries without mods. I could live with all the bums blocking each single bench but NOT with all the joggers running through there like flies all the time. They should be completely disabled on cemetery lots. Thank God for the modders who think like me and created a mod for that.
justinb113
Seasoned Veteran
7 months ago
They don’t seem to think about each lot they’re adding and make the npc sims act appropriately. Everyone just has basically the same AI whether they’re at school or a cemetery or on a date in a restaurant.
Churrios13
New Adventurer
8 months ago
I have nothing bad to say about L&D, it's one of the better new EPs but the Skeptical trait is weird. Like wdym you don't believe? The occults are right in front of you! Would've preferred Sims 3 style where they're just occult haters lol.

Also Grim bugs out of cottage living farms now :( He gets buggy when reaping the animals. Just stands there and I need to debug.
nephele2012
Rising Rookie
8 months ago
Not good. Wills and heirlooms not working most of the time, grieving processes turning the game unplayable (seems to me all my free time I am attending grief counseling) since my sims have big family and many friends, someone is always dying. But wills are the worst. I got some nice stuff accumulated from various career achievements and made them heirlooms and pass them on, only to be lost forever with sim dying. First time it worked only, twice it got list. Plus, there's no option of releasing ghost to the netherworlds anymore,unless it's a playable ghost. But what to do with animals? Really, this is the first expansion I would rather returned, feel bad I paid for it.
LuvMySimz
Seasoned Ace
10 months ago
The pack is a disaster! An invasion of Sims in the cemeteries. Lots of joggers running through graveyards and over graves. Many bums are also constantly there in tank tops. Sims sometimes appear in pyjamas and underpants. Many Sims just stand there blocking the paths and chatting as if they were in a nightclub.
The whole thing is completely out of line with reality. Whoever came up with something like this really didn't have all their senses together.
karoschmitz
Seasoned Veteran
11 months ago
100% agree! I love the bucket list feature, but 1 unexpected very un-matching goal can ruin the whole list's fun because you can't delete a single goal without damaging the bucketlist you loved so far.. I liked the ways the list populates, I love being surprised with good random values, but let me please delete one that is against my story line if I don't want it, without having to lose them all - why do we have a scrap all function, this is much less uselful..