Sims Businesses and Hobbies Expansion Pack Negative thread.

Maxis keeps on neglecting males with feminine frame 9 years later.

I haven’t played it long enough to judge really but my first thought was I’d seen it all before.  I try to be positive but this one felt really uninspired and low effort at least from walking around the world.

The little hub areas where barely any sims are, the interesting looking church which turned out to be a rabbit hole to get a moodlet which was written in lazy Gen Z meme speak and will seem odd in 25 years (something like “very historic much learning”).  And of course no tourists taking selfies or anything as there would be in real life.

The empty streets, this time with crossings and traffic lights but no cars of course.   And the most interesting looking parts being set dressing you can’t go to despite just being across the street.  Instead of interesting new sims, Judith Ward and the Robles lady were at the hobby meet up of course.  Which again was just a piano, microphone and a market table set up in the road.  I thought it would be in the really nice looking building I zoned in on, but no, it was just a tiny little area with the usual items.   

There was a really nice looking bread stall and you can see it has baguettes, croissants etc.  but when you order food there isn’t a single piece of bread or sandwich on it, just cookies and cakes or whatever.  It’s lazy.

Then in build mode, the garden swings, bicycle, piano, guitar etc.  Just feels like not really trying at this point.  For the price of an expansion they really should be adding several entirely new things into the game with every patch but they just repeat bar, piano, bicycle, laptop etc.   If they can’t do more for technical reasons it might be time for Sims 5.

I don't own the pack, but saw the decor saxophone in a build on my Tumblr feed and was like WHATTTTT? EA put a lot of saxophone decor in the base game, too... This is just cruel. ='(

I wish there was a way to ban people from coming into your small business. There’s one sim that comes in every day and just causes chaos and I don’t want him to be able to come anymore because I’m over it. 

I hate commenting on every post that I see here ... but this is True.

Edit: Dang my avi keeps changing. I gotta fix this.😍

Be Romantic doesn't work , I think it requires sims in couple but the Target Customers parameter doesn't have a "Couple / Sims in Romantic relationship" option.

In fact it miss a social aspect as a venue where people hangout with their friends, partner or family. This pack is about making money quickly like EP01 Get To Work instead of providing a good experience to the customers.

The loyal regular customers are treated the same way as any customers.

Maxis has forgot to add "Customer Dress Code"  like restaurant (GP03 Dine Out), For example Wealthy or Famous Target Customers should wear Formal outfit in luxury businesses.

In EP06 Get Famous, you can create brands, it's sad EP18 Businesses & Hobbies doesn't extend this feature. Any logos should be cross-pack compatible without using mods to unlock them.

The Small Business lot doesn't work, which I've expected even before the Pack was released.😵                                            However, I do like Nordhaven World, objects, outfits, skills & traits.😍

Oh, I do turn off rain and snow when I have Seasons installed. It doesn't change the fact that the temperatures are still cold since the building is technically outside, frost is forming on the floors and my Sim is breathing out misty air here and there.

I like Businesses and Hobbies but some things annoy me : 

 - There should be more hobbies, one is not enough.
- I wish we could select more than five activities for customers. 

-I was sad there’s no Swedish food recipe besides the candy.  What about Kanelbullar/Cinnamon Rolls,  meatballs, Gravlax salmon, Herring ? 

- Too many tiny lots and not enough 20x30 or  40x30.