Partial packs

Oh I was thinking that you'd not be buying individual items just two options:

Full Pack - $26 (or whatever it is in your country)
Build/Cas Pack - $20

As an example. You can't pick which build/cas items, it's just a discounted version that includes All build/cas and no game play/world if that makes sense. (unless the game play is tied to the item, like hot tubs I guess.)

*Sims 3 store flashbacks*
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/AchingThornyCentipede-size_restricted.gif

An On/Off switch would solve everything.
On if you want the game-play, off if you don't. Either way the stuff (clothing and items) are still available in-game.

You can disable a pack, but I think you lose the CAS items too when you do that?

"Admiral8Q;c-17545029" wrote:
An On/Off switch would solve everything.
On if you want the game-play, off if you don't. Either way the stuff (clothing and items) are still available in-game.

You can disable a pack, but I think you lose the CAS items too when you do that?

Yes, you loose access to everything in the pack.

"telmarina;c-17545068" wrote:

"Admiral8Q;c-17545029" wrote:
An On/Off switch would solve everything.
On if you want the game-play, off if you don't. Either way the stuff (clothing and items) are still available in-game.

You can disable a pack, but I think you lose the CAS items too when you do that?

Yes, you loose access to everything in the pack.

I suppose one could go into Sims4Studio and copy all the CAS items from a pack and re-save them as a new name as CC. Take alot of time and ambition to do that though.

Honestly, I think a toggle to turn the packs' gameplay elements on and off would be best. As others have said, EA would take "EP/GP Stuff Packs" into some really shady territory in terms of pricing...because EA. You'd probably end up having those things be, like, $2 less than the full pack or they'd probably turn the concept into $5 loot boxes with 5 random items inside. Got a repeat item? Hey, you can turn it in for $0.02 for your EA wallet. Nope, not even a nickle, just two pennies...because EA. So, yeah, the toggle is the best we can hope for from the company we're dealing with here...

Honestly, I just wait for a discount and then buy a pack if I just want a specific feature or a few CAS items. Heck, there are a lot of packs I don't even know why I got it. Typically, almost every EP will be on sale for 50% off a few months after it's out; EPs 25%, and Stuff Packs don't often go on sale but are cheap anyway.

In my opinion, this is exactly NOT the thing I'd like in the game. This echoes too much of the Store model in TS3; and microtransactions as well.

I was thinking that we still had to buy the pack but we had options to turn off certain pack features. Like turn off vampires but still have CAS and build/buy items. Or with parenthood we could toggle ask for advice and or character values and still have the objects.

I would really just love more options. We should be able to choose if aliens and vampires etc appear depending on the story or game play we are doing. We can turn off fame for the Sims we play now but I sometimes want the celebrities gone from my game also. They need to stay in Del Sol Valley if you ask me. They just ruin my immersion into the game.

They whole partial pack idea is good over all if it's implemented correctly but I think others see it differently than I do. For one, it would not make the cost less because the partial pack idea would be implemented through game options. Each pack would have pack features along with CAS assets and Build/buy assets. So three total assets per pack in which we can toggle off and on. This is what I thought about when I read about the partial pack idea.

More options!
It may not be able to be implemented on older packs but future packs could have more asset based options.

"cody6268;c-17545644" wrote:
Honestly, I just wait for a discount and then buy a pack if I just want a specific feature or a few CAS items. Heck, there are a lot of packs I don't even know why I got it. Typically, almost every EP will be on sale for 50% off a few months after it's out; EPs 25%, and Stuff Packs don't often go on sale but are cheap anyway.

In my opinion, this is exactly NOT the thing I'd like in the game. This echoes too much of the Store model in TS3; and microtransactions as well.

I do that if I want some features but don't care about others but things like vampires I'd love the build stuff but am very opposed to having vampires in my game and play often with mods. So I wouldn't take the pack if ea paid Me for it. However if I could just get the build and CAS or turn them off without mods I'd love to have it

I would totally do this for CAS and build stuff for Realm of Magic and Vampires. I agree with others on the toggle option, but I would prefer to save some money if I only got part of the pack and never used the main features.