Paid Content Releasing For Base Game

Honestly, putting previously paid content in the base game and saying it’s for representation takes away the sincerity of it. They should try to put new hairstyles and such made with base game updates in mind to show they really care for representation (like Moroccan clothes we got). There were few similar topics not long ago and my mind about it hasn’t changed. Paid content shouldn’t be made free, because it just looks bad and is making players feel duped.

I think it's great that they're committed to representation and keeping it from being locked behind a paywall. A person's ethnicity or culture shouldn't be sold to them, especially when the free options are so limited.

Which is why they're going to give us stuff from Island Living, Snowy Escape, and those culture-based kits away for free, right? After all, they're tied to identity, and they're all from very underrepresented groups who have almost no stuff in the basegame. Heck, they should give us those entire packs and kits, instead of locking them away behind a paywall. :)

What I don't like in this case is that they could have added base game adult hairs for toddlers. I don't like the explanation with the representation. Suddenly they care about this? And what's about the other stuff they added to the base game?

I'm thinking of closing my wallet in the near future, if they keep this politics of making paid content for free because of identy politics. They aren't generous with items in these packs in general, they put just the minimum of items in it, before it looked too bad for them. Now pulling out some items out of it, makes me think that the high price (1€= 1$) these packs aren't worth to buy anymore. I'm not rich, beside living in rich country. Don't get me wrong I'm very fine with new black representation items in base game, but it shouldn't be pulled from already paid content, it should be create extra.

I don't get the decisions being taken at the moment. They're like "we're listening we're listening!" and then spend their development time on random things that haven't really been asked for (spa day update instead of dine out, 500 furniture kits when many have complained about the game turning into a build sim, scenarios and a new way of adding items) instead of what people are asking for (babies, cars, content actually working, occults, generations, etc), and actively continue making paid content free when they know people aren't happy with it happening

"Sindocat;c-17998851" wrote:

"Calico45;c-17998610" wrote:
They really should have made more for representation with this. What about the people that bought the packs and still need more appropriate hairstyles to use?

Then they have enjoyed that content for the whole period that it was exclusive to the pack. It's not like they're taking it away.

I cannot understand this mindset objecting to a few, incidental items getting shared across the base game, that have been pack exclusives for years.

HAVING IT SOONER is what you paid for. Read your license agreement. You have already signed off on a "YES" to these kinds of changes, to play the game at all.

I said they should have made more to release for everyone instead of just those that do not have this SP, nothing more and nothing less.

This is something the team are doing more of. Initially as a one off it didn’t seem too bad but now it’s getting more and more content from dlc added to basegame. The upcoming window that was advertised for one of the kits I don’t agree with that needs to be patched in for that kit otherwise it seems false advertising.

I am still a bit disappointed. This is already the second hair from toddler stuff that is taken out of the sp and given to the base game. Where will this end?

I am however done getting angry over single items becoming base game. The only thing they should really have kept pack exclusive is the hot tub because perfect patio stuff has basically lost all of it's gameplay value.

"Atreya33;c-17999138" wrote:
I am still a bit disappointed. This is already the second hair from toddler stuff that is taken out of the sp and given to the base game. Where will this end?

I am however done getting angry over single items becoming base game. The only thing they should really have kept pack exclusive is the hot tub because perfect patio stuff has basically lost all of it's gameplay value.

Honestly, I think hot tubs should have been in the basegame, like they were in Sims 1 and 2. I don't think things that were previously available in a basegame should be cordoned off. So while the 20th anniversary hot tub was a big insult to the people who bought Perfect Patio, I feel like Perfect Patio shouldn't have been a thing in the first place.

"Gordy;c-17999143" wrote:

"Atreya33;c-17999138" wrote:
I am still a bit disappointed. This is already the second hair from toddler stuff that is taken out of the sp and given to the base game. Where will this end?

I am however done getting angry over single items becoming base game. The only thing they should really have kept pack exclusive is the hot tub because perfect patio stuff has basically lost all of it's gameplay value.

Honestly, I think hot tubs should have been in the basegame, like they were in Sims 1 and 2. I don't think things that were previously available in a basegame should be cordoned off. So while the 20th anniversary hot tub was a big insult to the people who bought Perfect Patio, I feel like Perfect Patio shouldn't have been a thing in the first place.

You definitely have a point. It would have been better if hot tubs been added to the base game from the get go. It would have been way better if they had never created this situation. But they did, unfortunately. They created a SP for hot tubs specifically and then decided to make that SP pointless by taking out every gameplay element that was exclusive to this pack. What bothers me is not so much the hot tub in base game but the shallow empty box called perfect patio stuff that is left.