Maxis, I Love You, But...

NO, no no to more separate story driven games. I am all for the turn the game has taken with the StrangerVille pack. The mix of sandbox and adventure is what I hope the game becomes. I don't like the tone of your post personally but maybe that's just me.

I don't hear a tone since there isn't music or 'tones' included. It says what I think. They are out of ideas of how to actually build an amazing life simulator or this wouldn't be what they would have done. They may have some other ideas but the person that gave the green light for this must have felt yes, we need to change The Sims.

Well done that man. :)

"Simburian;c-16968234" wrote:
Well done that man. :)

I'm sure those who get this for console (when it's ported over) will be thrilled it's right up their alley. Those who never liked the game and was bored with what to do next will also love it. No doubt, but those of us who understand why we stayed with this franchise for twenty years will probably not rush to buy it or just buy it for the new 'world'. But really, they would do better to take the ideas and start a whole new franchise of this type of genre..but they did try that, with TSM and Sims Online, two genres that Simmers didn't take to, too much. I agree there is a newer, gamer breed out there that wants to change all the genres they play into something else. But most die hard fans of any genre will frown on changing their own fav. game's genre.

I don't think the developers are bored or out of ideas.

I'll just copy this from another thread:

I'm all for a pack like this. Especially at this stage of the game's development. We've got the two most requested packs, Seasons and Pets, out of way. I think we'll get a university pack, a tropical vacation pack, and another occult pack, probably witches. I think the developers are now starting to speculate on new ideas to bring once those packs are released and are testing the waters to see how well this story driven pack is received.

And tweets from Grant.

https://twitter.com/SimGuruGrant/status/1098678358831857664

https://twitter.com/SimGuruGrant/status/1098678147455668225

I don't like story packs. Give me a spin-off for that instead! And by the way... isn't The Sims Mobile already a stories game?

All i can say is patience is a virtue... A pack that is not your cup of tea doesn't mean there won't be any pack you like coming. We all want University (well most of us) there's no way we won't get it. Everyone is asking for witches ... well we might get that as well down the road. The sims 4 isn't over yet , we have a few years of content coming as Grant said, and i'm very certain they won't leave us like that. After 4 iterrations of the game , i've learned that most of the time we get what we want plus some extra surprises.
Further more we can't judge a pack that's not out yet. The only info we have is a trailer , a teaser and some info from the patch ... I think it's a great idea they are exploring something new. And you don't HAVE to play the storyline. From what i understand you can completely ignore it.

The majority of community seems to care a lot about packs and packs and Im here like: "fix and improve the dam base game please"

Actually, I've been playing since TS2, and I'm kind of looking forward to the new GP. It adds some of the sci-fi elements that TS4 has been lacking in and it'll be a fun little adventure to take certain sims of mine on. And, hey, maybe some of the things added in this pack can actually be used to build our own adventure scenarios, so we're not just stuck with the one storyline. I'd actually like that, especially if we could upload our own scenarios on the gallery for other players to be able to play through as well. A whole genre of "build-your-own adventure" packs could come from this and add an new element to the game.

While I see where you're coming from with the frustration that, instead of making a story-focused spinoff title and focusing on improving the sandbox elements of the main game they made this, I don't think that this pack is inherently a bad addition to the game. Laundry? Yes, I think that was a bad addition to the game because I hate doing chores. An adventure scenario? Nah, I think it's cool because I love adventures. Heck, maybe the reason this pack is even being made is because the team originally wanted to make another story-focused spinoff title, but the execs at EA wouldn't approve the project unless they made it a pack for TS4 instead of a stand-alone title. Things like that do happen at media companies. Someone can go to, say, Cartoon Network and want to make a series about a teen genius fighting evil aliens with his insane inventions. CN takes one look at this project, the execs think it's cool, but they want to hedge their bets so they say, "Yes, but only if you can turn it into a Dexter's Laboratory sequel series." So, next thing you know, you have Dexter: Alien Wars, with a teenaged Dexter fighting evil aliens along with Dee Dee and Mandark. That's the entertainment industry.

basically what i see loads in the community is "stop doing the same things over and over, give us something new" - they get something new- "who asked for that?" ...and its really really frustrating