Sims Businesses and Hobbies Expansion Pack Negative thread.

I was  hoping for more. I was hoping for lots like in European cities where you have a business  with appartments over it not just one dwelling. Will we be able to run a café? A bar? A restaurant? and live over it? If not I would be very disapponted. The focus was mainly on tattoes. Sadly I am not interested in that activity. I would also have  wanted Paris, a real city.  This looks like a suburban area. I am waiting for the gameplay reveal to form an opinion.

It all looks good but now I have to think about all my current retail stores and how they do not work unless the owners are there. I used to love having other sims visit from their own home but they have not been able to do this for ages. Perhaps if there is no solution I will turn all my older business into home lots and see if that fixes things.

In all honesty I just don't really want new worlds anymore unless the whole pack is about the world (like world adventures or something)

to me hobbies as theme just doesn't need world no matter how pretty I would have much rather had additional mini hobby or two in there

So far, my only negative is that I was hoping to see more new hobbies. Right now, the B&H EP seems to lean much more into the small business side of things. I’m hoping that maybe some of the base game hobbies/skills, like woodworking and painting, will get expanded a bit with the new EP and/or its base game update.

Also 🤞that B&H doesn’t have the same level of bugs as For Rent. 

I was really excited about this pack since it said hobbies but boy is that name a stretch. In terms of a small business pack sure it seems great. People have been asking for hobbies and this just isn’t it. So now we won’t be getting an actual hobbies pack? I also do have some concerns how they’re going to function when you just visit the business. It feels like they wanted to redo get to work which is fine it’s an 10 year old pack. It seems like they needed a way to separate get to work from this pack so they threw in hobbies, so “it’s different”.  Ironically, one of the faults with get to work is how broad the pack is and now hobbies is suffering the same fate as the business aspect did in get to work. Unless there’s some actual hobby system this is a buy on sale pack. 

 I'll buy it next year, on sale. Maybe, or maybe not ! 

Godspeed

I have both positive and negative thoughts, but here's what I'm not liking so far:

1. Nordhaven - Yet another small world, with only two neighbourhoods that are caked in set dressing to make it all look pretty. I'm so over it. Are we ever going to get larger worlds again? Are we still insisting that this game should be able to run on a potato? I'm starting to feel like these worlds are just becoming a hindrance to the overall enjoyment of my gameplay experience. It's just so restricting for me, and I've well and truly had enough of it.
2. Where are the leisure hobbies? - I don't consider tattooing a hobby, but more of a profession. So, the new hobby is pottery. Is that all? What about the hobbies that don't involve making money?
3. Pottery - Beyond the decorative and profitability factors, how else is the pottery useable? I saw one measly rose in a gigantic vase, can we add more flowers? Is it compatible with flower arranging? I've also seen a teapot, so can those be used too? Can we light the candles in the lantern, holder or oil burner? I'm also disappointed that it appears to be one particular style of pottery. It leans more mid-century modern and Scandinavian, which I don't mind but what if I want something more basic? I hope there are a few more styles.
4. Mixed Lots - I have concerns about this system, and how well it will function. For Rent leaves little to be desired in that regard, and it took them months to fix the associated bugs that many players encountered. I like the idea of mixed lots, but I have a feeling it will be executed poorly, ship with bugs that make it borderline unplayable, and have little to no quality control.
5. Cross Pack Compatibility - I wish they would share the complete list of cross pack gameplay, not just give a few examples and tell us there's more. Something tells me they'll miss things out, when they really should cover all their bases with a pack like this.

Disappointed we have another European world. Maybe one day the Sims team will branch out and give us an African or Caribbean world. Especially for BHM.

Does Maxis still refuse to give us an empty display case ?

I hope it works with For Rent and we can have several apartments with several businesses downstairs. it would be lovely. 😀