Should The Sims Stop Collaborating?

I think they better stop for the following reasons :

1. the company/brand they work with matters. If it is something I like, I will probably like the pack but if it is something I don't care about... This is a personal preference for every single player and I doubt I will always like the company or brand. The only collaboration in sims I actually liked was the H&M collab in sims 2. But this is a brand I actually used in real life (never heard of Mac or mochino before and I won't be buying their products because of the collab) and this pack integrated nicely with open for business with more CAS and BB items to run your own clothing store, with or without H&M written on the building. The sims 4 collabs never made as much sense as this one from 2007.
2. mixed results with the recent collaborations
- mochino : I think the brand adds too little to the pack to give its name to the pack. What is worse is that I like this pack because the brand is not prominent in the pack.. I like the photography and the furniture and the windows. But I have yet to use the CAS. There is also very little clothes for a collab with a fashion brand.
- Mac make up: it rarely looked good on sims at release. I have mainly be building since the patch to add opacity sliders so I don't know it's current state. But a brand make up should have looked better than regular make up, not worse, definitely at the moment it was patched in.
- Star wars : never seen so much hate and controversy around a pack so I don't think it is a success. Where mochino felt like it was not represented enough in its pack, star wars feels like the opposite. I like the theme but dislike how they intentionally prevented integration with other packs. Why are droids just toys at home, why can't we dress in regular clothes on batuu, why is there no weather on batuu why no supernatural powers on batuu,... ? You either play 100% star wars on batuu or no star wars at home. It is difficult to integrate with regular gameplay. This would have been better as a stand alone like sims medieval.

I loved the H&M, Ikea and Diesel stuff in TS2. Don't remember if there were any other collabs there. Was so fun to make shops with these things also, back when retail was actually enjoyable. But not getting into THAT discussion.....

I have no clue about Mac and Moschino, never heard of them before they were introduced to my sims. I've disabled most of the Mac makeup (thank the Watcher for mods!), but have used some of it. I've used almost all the Moschino stuff, both Build/buy and CAS. Have not used the Photo stuff yet. Star Wars? Could have been a lot more to it. I do love some of the BB. The clothes are too "spesific", and I feel only looks appropriate in Batuu.

This is a global game, its played in all corners of the world. A collab with a company that is well known globally would be welcome. I think the collabs they have done, are too narrow. They are of course directed at their target audience, which I believe are young females. I seriously doubt that audience is the majority of their players. Not everyone is that interested in makeup and fashion. It seems pretty shallow.

cause they fail to make cool things come out of these collabs.

I wouldn't complain if it resulted in cute merch and cool game content but according to track record it does not

and they just adding plumbob stickers to things to pretend they somehow relate to sims at this point

i dont want sims to be known for making lame things with plumbob logo

I picked no cuz it doesn't really affect me in any way. Most of the collabs they do in-game is free (for example, Moschino one) and even if it's paid, if I don't like the CAS object or whatever, I just don't use it. There's a lot of original Maxis CAS items that I don't like too which I don't use, so to me, they're all the same thing.

Even if they spend a lot of money to collaborate with these other companies, it's not like we can control where they would spend the money on, if they don't.

Moschino Stuff has a few good CAS items, and the build/buy content’s not bad either, but the other collabs don’t really interest me. If I wanted to play a Star Wars game, I’d play one, and aren’t most of them owned by EA anyway?

I have never been a fan of collabs in any of the sims games. My biggest thing is that this is a game and supposed to be a life simulation. Not real life exactly and more of a parody. If I want real life things, I'll go get and do those real life things. I prefer my game to be a game and stay a game and have nothing to do with real life. It's a break from my real life. I get enough advertising daily without seeing in my game as well. It blurs the line between real and fake. Also, as someone else said, brands matter and it is very much a very personal preference. I think it's best to just leave branding to the CC creators. That said though, I do prefer if they are going to do this, that they do leave it to stuff packs that we can choose to buy or not rather than like they did with the MAC and patch into the base game.

I can see how they want to do this from a marketing perspective, but there are so many ways to market, I don't really feel like the Sims series needs this or that they ever did need it.

No the collaboration doesn’t bother me. But they had way too few pieces of clothes and colors in Moschino stuff. If they are going to collaborate they should be able to get a lot more pieces.

I voted Yes simply because all of TS4's previous collaborations ended up being a mess in one way or another. Most of the Mac makeup is either too subtle or too overdone to be used properly, and now it's causing controversy to boot, Star Wars panders to only a small portion of the player base, with even some SW fans saying they don't enjoy that content in the game, and while the Moschino stuff pack ended up being a pleasant surprise, that was because of its photography features and career, not for the brand-name clothes it was trying to advertise.

Personally, I would love another Disney collaboration featuring Disney princesses' dresses, hairstyles and accessories this time, but just like Mac, it would probably be too much for normal sims, and just like Star Wars, not everybody would be interested in it. That said, I feel like a hypocrite for criticising those very things about the previous collaborations, but I guess that's the price you pay for doing collaborations in the first place, it's just that hard to do right.

I like collabs as long as they provide something for the game as well and not just pure advertisement.
I think the MAC makeuo that came in a free update is amazing.

I think it's mainly the opposite. The other brands probably pay to collaborate as a form of marketing except for music artists, etc, who are paid to perform. I hated the Katy Perry collaboration. Star Wars is just not an interesting theme to me.

I don't mind a bit of collaboration if it means more options. Moschino is ok, I've used some of the decor for modern builds such as updating an apartment in San Myshuno. A few of my wealthy sims wear the branded clothing. I actually like most of the Mac make up for the sims, especially now with the slider. I usually use different eyeliners but I've incorporated the eyeshadow, blush and some lipstick. Make up needed an update.

As long as it's not for every pack, I'm fine with some collaboration. Also, working with different artists and musicians makes sense to me.

If it's a theme I'm really not interested in, I won't buy it. I don't think I'll be as reactive as I was when the Katy Perry stuff came out. At that time, I quit for years. Different furniture and clothing would be fine with me.