Should slow dancing be base game instead of just part of one pack?

Well I always think that basic relationship interactions in a "life simulation" game should be available to everybody regardless if you own the pack, because you know ..... that's part of life.

That would be like only the rich and wealthy people (AKA those people who purchased a pack), could be the only people who were able to slow dance in RL.

So, yeah it absolutely should have been patched into the basegame, but this is TS4 we're talking about and the packs are so tiny already, if they took it out and added it to the basegame, that's one less gameplay interaction that pack introduces, and it already has extremely minimal game play outside of planning a wedding event.

Ideally yes. But like Chicklet said, this GP already offers little new gameplay.

Jungle Adventure had Rumbasim, but that had more content going on.

My 2 cents:
- If it we're BG, there wouldn't be enough content to justify it being a GP
- slow dancing was - to my knowledge - never a Base Game feature in previous iterations.

It'd be nice, but I don't really have any issue with it being in a pack with a relevant theme

It's good to see all of your opinions here so far! Do you guys think that the game pack release date being pushed back could affect things? I'm personally hoping they will add a little bit more content in and make slow dancing a base game thing so that everyone can have their Sims dance together.

"83bienchen;c-18060692" wrote:
My 2 cents:
- If it we're BG, there wouldn't be enough content to justify it being a GP
- slow dancing was - to my knowledge - never a Base Game feature in previous iterations.

Yes, but since TS4 in over seven years has never implemented couples dancing facing each other and or even 'together' without a crowd of other Sims, this is why it should have been a base game patch. "Dance together" was in all base games but TS4 so...yeah slow dancing should be added to base game to correct that lack of animations, relationship building, and memories.

"logion;c-18061924" wrote:
Because limiting it to one pack limits it from being used in other packs.

What are they gonna do if they ever do a generations pack and want to do prom?

Resell the animation for Proms. :p

The fact that you didn't actually need the dance floors in order to be able to slow dance (just turn on some music and you can have Sims slow dance right there) is proof enough why slow dancing should be a base game feature. But like everyone else has already said, it won't.

Maybe in a few years from now if they need the slow dancing for other packs they'll "emancipate it" just like they did with the Seasons calendar.

I do think they should have patched in a basic slow dance then added more variety of couple dances with the pack.

I think they should have done it like

Base game : basic slow teenager disco dance you know the type where sims just hug swaysway kinda like one in ts3
Wedding pack : the couple dance they did add
additional update: Couple Rumba sim for Jungle Adventure
additional update 2: Couple club dance for Get Together
additional update 3: Couple fire dance for Island Living?

basically: this couple dance should not exclude possibility of other couple dance styles existing in the game
just do it in other styles for other packs and/or base game