Sims Businesses and Hobbies Expansion Pack Negative thread.

It only seems to add one hobby, pottery. It really feels like it is lacking so much in content that even calling it a gamepack would be generous. Main thing it seems to add is businesses and relies way too much on other better expansions to provide the stuff to actually make those businesses. 

Great of course that it has that cross compatability, but it needs to provide more on it's own. Cross compatability is a bonus. It's really not a pack I would pick up unless it's at least half price in a sale, and the worst inevitable bugs are worked out. 

It just needs some more hobbies, and it could at the same time expand on base game stuff like add more stuff to build at the woodcrafter table. Sculpting could have been nice to see return too, I liked that one in Sims 3. Sewing would also be good, the train set you can expand on from Sims 2, maybe a nerdy hobby like miniature wargaming where sims can collect and paint figurines for their table. Maybe let Sims play some sort of D&D game around a table. Some hobbies really don't even need to be very elaborate. Some more video games to play could also be nice. 

If change appearance/hairstyle was not on the list, I may never wanna build a hair salon again.

DaWaterRatI know how you feel about heists. I felt a similar disappointment about the tiger sanctuary in For Rent which was first hinted at as gameplay and then turned out to be a textbox. Similar sentiments with the hotel added in lovestruck. We waited for 9 years at that time for hotels to be added and it is a rabbit hole. I can see a recurring theme here. 

Real heists could have been so interesting. 

I really hate to be the one to bump this thread up... I see so much about Businesses and Hobbies that I absolutely love, but there is one thing that really, really rubs me the wrong way.

Heists.

I love heist movies.  I adore Leverage and Leverage Redemption.  The timing, the planning, the adaptations when things inevitably go wrong.  These are like a beautiful, wonderful symphony to me.

Now, would I expect a fully interactive heist from the Sims 4?  No.  even though I just got one in Dreamlight Valley, the Sims 4 autonomy just would make interactive heists a buggy nightmare.  But I would expect something like the missions in Journey to Batuu or the gate chance cards in Selvadorada.  A decision (or series of decisions) to be made, maybe better luck if you've got the right equipment in your inventory or a certain skill besides mischief at a certain level.  Stuff like that.

Not a rabbit hole with nothing to do but wait.  I don't mind the rabbit hole part.  I just mind that I have yet to see one early access simmer have any more influence on the Heist than wait for aproxamately 5 minutes.  If they couldn't give us the pop ups, then I wish they hadn't given us heists at all.

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I thought the same until this pack was announced. I always thought get to work will be the last ep I buy but recently it has stood out to me and it will be the next one I buy because the new pack has really inspired me to build a grocery store in Henford-on-Bagley, and I either want to build it with B&H and make an area for Kim Goldbloom above it or use the GTW retail system but the items in GTW are really standing it out to me like the fire exit sign and soap and towel dispensers. 

I thought the point of GtW had been the three active careers with retail on the side. 🤷‍♂️(I never played with the retail part of that pack unless you count a build edit or two.) B&H seems to have flipped that to small businesses being the main point with hobbies being on the side.

Yes and No.

Small Business lot is one single lot with multiple purposes similar to Community Lot in The Sims 2. For example, an area for clothing store, another one for nightclub and one other for gym.

It's not multiple sub-lots like Residential Rental lot from For Rent EP.

As I thought, from a visitor's point of view Business and Home are 2 lots

I seriously doubt it. They did not show anything of the sort in the trailer. They know that a lot of players would like that feature to make a mall for example. If they had put this in the game they would have highlighted it.

The gameplay trailer didn't really answer my questions like can we have multiple community lots on one lot without owning it