Play to change in The Sims 4 Eco Lifestyle Expansion Pack!

I changed my mind after watching the trailer and reading more about it. This is actually quite exciting to me, some of this stuff reminds me a little bit of The Sims 2 FreeTime and The Sims 3 Ambitions with Twinbrook and Into The Future with the polluted city. To be honest I’m more excited about what new content they come up with now that the fan favorite packs are out already.

And yes, I get that people are still complaining about Farming and Cars but I like this one for now!

I'm not overly excited about this to be honest, but I am trying to keep an open mind. There are a lot of other things I am missing, but I think I will still enjoy some of the new features. I am looking forward to finding out more, especially about crafting and the new freelance career.

I'm just here to announce how disappointed I am that that cute chicken coop looking coop is NOT a chicken coop. And that I hope there's not too much dire consequences if I left it grungey and dirty. I really wanted a sims 4 Twinbrook and its finally here. What would be nice is if you could find car parts among all that junk and restore it to make a- oh well, not gonna happen. Will wait for LGR reviews :smile:

"KaeChan2089;c-17484073" wrote:
...chickens are the only part that MAY interest me..but >.< Please stop with the cringe songs in our sims ads...please...the music almost ruined it entirely for me.

EDIT : WAIT THOSE AREN'T CHICKS?! in that case NEVERMIND not getting it at all.

what chickens?

"Koteyka;c-17485235" wrote:
@SquirrelTail15

Okaaaaay. I'm a fan. But it doesn't look as good as I thought it would... maybe I'll wait for a sale. Seems to have lit the same idea as the Island Living pack, but then again I'm a Stardew Valley fan so it just might be fun. We'll see. Would have definitely preferred a farming pack, but I don't reckon we'll ever get that after this.

This is exactly what makes me want to curl up in a little ball and cry endlessly. I just see no way of farming coming to the sims 4 anymore.

I personally think that we'll get the farming pack sooner or later. :) TBF, it's a shame that the fake leak has distorted everyone's expectations on the next pack, hence, it makes it hard for some of us to accept what we'll be getting now. I personally have my own favourites too, but I learn to accept what others Simmers enjoy for their gameplay.

Sometimes, it's something that I don't even bother to have, but the more I read about it, it's kinda fun to play with it too. TBH, farming is not on my priority list, and so do the Eco-living gameplay or even any occults, but, the more I read, the more I play with it, it's not too bad. Sometimes, playing something out of our comfort zone can be exciting too. :)

My decisions to buy a pack are always based on what I'm doing in my game now and whether it would fit any of my rotational families. And right now Billie Jang just got divorced and seems like just the sort of sim who would become an activist, besides as an artist she'd love the crafting bits. So I'm likely to get it. I just have to decide if I'm going to pay full price and get it before that family comes up in my current rotation, or wait until it comes on sale for the first time and have them continue as they were until then...

I think the big gameplay aspect is going to be the community area. I hope there is more than one, and I hope they can continue to adapt and change over time. If there are several different options or combinations that can take place in that space (hopefully those spaces), they likely take up the bulk of the resources that make this an expansion rather than a game pack (plus the graphical load of the various states of pollution). Most of the rest looks like individual gameplay objects, a new crafting system shared among a few new categories of products, and a couple of careers, which would all fit in a game pack I should think.

I would prefer if the pollution is either limited to the new world or has toggles for allowing it in other worlds. I play different content with every family in my rotation to keep things from getting stale, so I don't want all of them to have to focus on green living just so I can see the sky in the worlds I already paid for. I would want my other families to be able to make candles and upcycle furniture and such as suits their personalities, but I'd rather only have one world polluted.

I do think Tiny Living looks like it was stuff that didn't fit in this pack that got pulled out and released first.

The zombies made a mess having rubbish everywhere, then they got eaten by flies, so survivors are cleaning up after the vegetable eating, undeads mess ? and building stuff lol

pretty disappointed. it just seems like a bunch of recycled stuff that should have been in other packs. the concept is really cool, but do i think it's worth $40? no. it would be better as a game pack for sure. i'm still going to buy/use it because it does seem interesting but i would like more bang for my buck.

The problem with the sims 4 is twofold.

First of all, it feels too “silicons valley”. Game content creators trying to prove their “creativity”, feeling like they need to give us new/modern/up to date content while all simmers are asking for are the basics. Perhaps just a tiny bit improved. Yes, robots are cool. (University) Yes, changing the world for the better is cool (ecoliving). Yes, different cultures are cool (city living/ get together). But you know what’s also cool? Being able to relate to your sims. How? Well by being able to play out our own ordinary lives for starters. Unfortunately, when it comes to ordinary life, the gameplay is just so limited, players have to resort to mods and custom content to try to create any kind of realistic storytelling.

On the other hand it feels like EA is so desperately trying to prove it’s an ethical company with modern norms and values.
- EA is a sustainable company = eco living
- EA is anti racism = different cultures (names/looks/foods)
- EA is LGBT friendly = Same sex households, transgender sims
- EA cares about equal rights = let’s put a female sim as the main sim on every cover / in every trailer

Don’t get me wrong. These are all very positive introductions to the game. However, it seems EA cares more about its image lately than about its actual games, a feeling that wasn’t around in previous sims series. If only we could go back to the times where the created content was actually about adding value to the game.

Yea...this pack is lame. I’m all for an eco-friendly lifestyle, but there could be so much more to this!!