LoveStruck Negative Thread 2.0

So the the usual large, empty and dead world. Not surprising. lol

As far as I can say: I will happily live without that pack.

I've not been impressed with anything I've seen (and at this point my expectations for anything released by EA are in the toilet). The gameplay just seems minimal and seems like it's going to be boring after you play a time or two. The EP feels like it should be a SP. I'm just going to pass on this EP and stick to my mods that I already have in my game; which already allow for me to do everything about to be added to the game. 

Too bad that this pack doesn't include a new radio station, especially reggae station not coming to the base game (But at least we got the Ebonix hairstyle). I'm so sorry simmers, when the pack will be released next week, I won't post my Lovestruck content until Friday.

Oh reggae! After five radio stations from the base game and content packs made it to the game, will you ever come back? 😔

The world has changed a lot since then, and people are more easily offended, by everything. Just look at movies that each movie needs to start with a disclaimer that views expressed are not the company's. EA is clearly reacting to this, but forgets that the result leaves us with safe but uninteresting and in this case plain stupid alternatives (like being turned off by a color of a shirt while not caring about if the person is covered in tattoos or not).

I get skin color and weight, I do, but the options suggested above (tattoos, body hair and so on) should have been safe. Also: 

• Short, long or medium hair? Updos or not? Afro-textured, wavy or straight? 
• Body hair where? on the legs? back? arms? torso? (I might like one but not the other)
• Wrinkles, freckles, braces, pimples, birthmarks...

Basically, the more detailed the better in this case. 

This pack seems like it should be $20 at the very most.

I might get it on sale at one point, when it's on 65% or something like that, but it's not high on my wish list. 

Actually, this new forum may be why I don't buy this pack. This whole place is so generic. They wanted the forums of their games under one banner. I guess to save money and hoping people will get interested in other games they normally wouldn't bother getting to know.

It's not designed for simmers, but just gamers in general. Every time I come here I just want to leave. It's focused on the most "liked" posts instead of the latest posts. It's endless scrolling instead of pages. What if you want to check out old posts you may have missed. You can't just jump to page 8. You just have to keep scrolling and scrolling. Most people won't.

And simmers like telling stories, loooooong, endless stories, with many chapters and a table of contents page. I don't think they even considered this when creating this place, since it wasn't designed with simmers in mind. So when I think of getting this pack, and coming back here to share, I just can't get excited about it.

For me I was hesitant long before these forums started, so as disappointed as I am with the forum (I had to move my story to a blog because it was impossible to maintain here in a reasonable manner), it has little to do with my feelings for the pack. For me these are the main issues why I don't want the pack: 

• The TOTO are too safe when it comes to looks (see comments below)
• The costumes are too many and the CAS too ugly. Once more they have no decent shirts for men, but only things that are untucked. (I do like the loafers, but that's about it). 
• The new gameplay objects are too few for an EP - a janitors closet that does nothing other than being a woohoo place, a heart-shaped bed that does not vibrate, a picknick blanket, a new game and a costume trunk. That's it. 
• The hotel rabbit hole (seriously it's insulting to those of us who actually wanted hotels)
  
  

There are a few things I do like, which might mean I pick it up on a sale. Some of the new build items looks nice, I love the curved bar, some of the relationship dynamics could be interesting to play around with, the new death (by a broken heart) could be interesting if it's not too easily triggered, and I do like the picknick blanket. 

logionXIt kind of reminds me of the brightly colored cinder block buildings I've seen in Central America, but what it actually looks like texture-wise is the colored clay in Minecraft