Lovestruck Livestream Hopes and Concerns

Me I am kind annoyed they changed to label husband's wife to spouses.

Fiance to engaged

Boyfriend and Girlfriend to partner

This to me is not inclusive and I wish we were given the option what we want our sims call.

This is probably more a comment on how little I'm into romance (and how much I need to sleep better) than on the devs, but I actually drifted off for about fifteen/twenty minutes.  Missed out on the sample date entirely.

Hardly any of the new romantic interactions were shown but there was one that surprised me. Sims can star/cloud gaze while sitting at a bench or picnic table. Sadly they didn't show the blanket star/cloud gaze nor did they show the interactions on the bear rug. They did make it sound like the bear rug is a swatch of the blanket. We'll see.

Also for cross compatibilty you can place the little hearts carpet from City Living in with all the other new romantic furniture. The LS was way too short for me but what I saw of buy build and cas I loved. I also love the world. They never did answer if there are any swimming places but it looks like there are atleast 2 lakes or 3 were our sims can swim. We'll know soon enough when early access releases.

I think the livestream was good, streaming quality could be better...

CAS: I like that they were not shy from making some pretty revealing outfits but I could live without all those costumes. I rarely if ever use costumes in the game and they were most likely for the new dress up gameplay item. Nice that we are getting eyelashes but only two with the basegame and two with this pack feels... like not a lot.
I liked the new romantic boundaries, that's a nice way to have sims react different to jealousy.

B/B: I liked that we got new B/B for different venues, the new gym items like the new shower looked great. The new heartbed looked good too.

World: Mixed feelings, it's a pretty world. One thing that surprised me was the bar in the park, unless you invite sims over and hire a bartender... I don't think many sims are gonna even use it. It should have been a combined park and bar lot.

Gameplay: It's weird that I kinda want to buy this pack... but I don't want to play it, it has a lot of set dressing and setting up sims and dates... but I did not really feel encouraged to play it. I do like that they have made it easy to find out what your sims likes and dislikes when it comes to romance... but it's almost too easy. The dates did not look that much different to what we have in the base game.

I might buy this pack but I will wait until I know what is basegame and not, and also if there is any bugs with it.

My concern is that we're in for 30 minutes of watching the Gurus play a dating sim and 20 minutes of gurus trying to show off all the B/B and CAS.

You pretty much nailed that!

So good to see you here!