Snowy Escape EP - What are you most disappointed about?

"MichelleW;c-17727206" wrote:
I like the pack. My only criticism would be the lack of content for an expansion pack. I think it has more content than a game pack but not much.

This is the exact same criticism that has been posted for EVERY. SINGLE. EXPANSION PACK except MAYBE for Seasons.

I enjoy it and it's a big improvement upon previous packs, but it's still not worth the $40+ price. There is so much more they could have added...

I mean, there are brilliant video games out there with DLCs that are huge and so well done for that price or cheaper. So EA expecting us to pay so much for their half assed garbage is just ridiculous.

I'm particularly disappointed by the lack of Hotels, as this would have been the perfect pack to include them in. Also, the rabbit hole Gondolas.

"Joybearr;c-17727262" wrote:
I enjoy it and it's a big improvement upon previous packs, but it's still not worth the $40+ price. There is so much more they could have added...

I mean, there are brilliant video games out there with DLCs that are huge and so well done for that price or cheaper. So EA expecting us to pay so much for their half ???? garbage is just ridiculous.

I'm particularly disappointed by the lack of Hotels, as this would have been the perfect pack to include them in. Also, the rabbit hole Gondolas.

When people keep mentioning Hotels, are you talking about as a commecrial lot to own? Because playing as a guest... I can't see that being fun in any way and struggle coming up with what even it would entail.

Also despite being marketed as a big feature the skiing/snowboarding is really lacking. There's a grand total of 2 skiing trails you can use, they're both very short, no player engagement at all and they're basically exactly the same except one requires higher skill level. They're just not interesting in the slightest in my opinion and there's no sense of progression at all. You just repeat the same animation over and over until your sim stops falling. Yawn.

It sounds fun on paper but then you get in game and realise you're literally just watching a premade animation of a sim going down a hill. There's nothing more to it that's literally it. My expectations for these activites were low in the first place but I thought they'd at least give a variety of trails rather than two that are incredibly short and basically the same and that's it. Plus there should've been something at the top of the cable car but it's just a completely empty area

"Beardedgeek;c-17727215" wrote:

"MichelleW;c-17727206" wrote:
I like the pack. My only criticism would be the lack of content for an expansion pack. I think it has more content than a game pack but not much.

This is the exact same criticism that has been posted for EVERY. SINGLE. EXPANSION PACK except MAYBE for Seasons.

It's just, does it really... expand? For whatever other flaws they may have, Get to Work, Get Together, Cats and Dogs and Get Famous, apart from Seasons, at least added things that weren't restricted to a single world while still, most of those, giving us a world (and two of the biggest ones: Brindleton Bay and Windenburg).

I was amongst those who said the same about Eco, but my issue with Eco was never the lack of content. It was merely that they would choose that specific theme to expand so much upon when I felt there were more interesting things to devote the energy to. I wish they'd given us less eco in the form of either a GP or a SP. But it doesn't FEEL like a GP. I think Snowy does.

I think extreme sports is a great theme for an expansion, but this one doesn't really go there all the way.

Maybe Jungle Adventure isn't a fair comparison because while the jungle excursion offers more than the mountain one at a GP price, this one also includes skiing and snowboarding, which isn't nothing (whether they interest me or not is beside the point). I suppose it does fall sort of into the same content level as City Living (one of my favorite packs, but because I really wanted that particular setting), so maybe you're right about this pack being just big enough to be called an expansion. Maybe the lines are too blurred.

"Beardedgeek;c-17727215" wrote:

"MichelleW;c-17727206" wrote:
I like the pack. My only criticism would be the lack of content for an expansion pack. I think it has more content than a game pack but not much.

This is the exact same criticism that has been posted for EVERY. SINGLE. EXPANSION PACK except MAYBE for Seasons.

Well if they weren't so lacking people wouldn't say they're lacking... They're charging 40 bucks for these packs and none of them are worth that.

For other games 40 bucks gets you a full game which has been worked on full time development for 1-2 years.

For Sims 4, 40 bucks gets you an expansion which has been worked on for probably less than six months, and during that time they're making other packs as well. The gamechangers who made the builds said they got the world to build in in August, and most the stuff wasn't even done then. So 3 months prior to release it was still pretty much in early development so that means most of it was done in the space of 3 months. That is not enough hours of development to warrant a 40 dollar price point.

"Beardedgeek;c-17727063" wrote:

"bixters;c-17723591" wrote:
The fact that it's not a Gamepack.

I am always amazed at this.
Simmers must have extremely weird expectations for what constitutes an "expansion".

"Expansion" as in expanding the base game we expect the expansions to expand the base game not to lock its features in the world they came in like apartments or strays or hiking or trash in the world or ocean swimming we expect expansions to do more than add a few objects clothing and decor that is what should be expected of a stuff pack. Think of Get Together and Seasons all of the main features were useable in every world before and after they came out that is what a expansion should be about not a world pack mini game.

After reading all the comments, there's one thing I learned.
My expectation for EA was so low that I first thought adding futons would've made this EP perrrfect. The fact that I automatically don't even expect anything spontaneous from them anymore besides adding new objects to the game. :open_mouth:

Edit:
I absolutely loved what everyone here thought would've been a cool addition to game.
Like I wish they could be developers of this game! So much ideas, creativity I see here that I have not seen from EA.
I still love you EA. Hope we can get the amount of contents mentioned here in the future.

"Beardedgeek;c-17727063" wrote:

"bixters;c-17723591" wrote:
The fact that it's not a Gamepack.

I am always amazed at this.
Simmers must have extremely weird expectations for what constitutes an "expansion".

No they just gave 9 different examples of what can be done with game packs. There’s also the issue that this studio has ramped up copy/pasting content and features for the last 4 years which certainly isn’t helping when it outnumbers what’s actually new.

Yes, that is my main issue with this pack, because it is still my favorite EP that they’re released in a while. BUT- this feels like a GP. It doesn’t expand the game beyond this new world we are given. They could’ve at least added a culture skill. Something that effects sim outside of the new world. Feels like a $40 GP