"DeservedCriticism;c-16359451" wrote:
"SimTrippy;c-16359434" wrote:
Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that recycling in these examples simply doesn't bother me because it's used so they can add other things to packs and they're usually much improved versions of the original.
I don't see it that way at all. Look at the Vet career. The exact same bug from retail pops up in the Vet career, and then if you look at the rest of the pack itself.....where are small pets? Where are horses? Where are Pet skills, careers and competitions? We didn't gain anything, we only lost features.
As I said, it could be a case where they were never gonna be able to produce new content anyways, or it could be a case where recycling content is a "goal" of sorts that they try to use as much as possible. If it's the former, then this is the same old questioning of why the Sims 4 has such a tiny budget. If it's the latter, then I know exactly what to expect from Seasons: new food stalls, vendor tables and maybe a just-as-buggy copy of the retail system. For me, that's not exciting or worth my money to just get the same stuff over and over.
The vet career is a lot more like DO and the active careers than the retail system. And although I'm sure retail is rooted in the same mechanics, I hate retail in TS4 but I really enjoy restaurants and being a vet, and sometimes enjoy active careers.
Now concerning cats&dogs: I still like it, but I know you don't. I won't argue about this but, really, the vet career isn't all there is to this pack for me. And I, for one, am much happier about the vet than I would've been about small pets in cages. To each their own.
Also, I don't know if it's my CPU, RAM, luck, or something else altogether but again, I do not experience such extreme bugs. The restaurant especially is fast, I haven't been a vet in a while but the main issue I had with it was visiting the vet with sick pets. Which took forever. It simply doesn't anymore, so I don't share your frustration there (although frankly, I doubt your bug reports in this respect are based on actually owning and playing these packs).
And they do still make new content. Jungle Adventure is a pretty solid experience for one (but yes, it's a vacation experience, not a base game overhaul, we know, we know. Actually we knew before we bought it), despite the recycling of certain features. It still feels very much like its own addition and offers far more than merely the sum of its recycled features.
Anyway... Just my opinion, of course, but I guess a lot of other people seem pretty happy too :)
