The sims 4 Cottage Living Negativity thread.
The thread to post any complaints, concerns, and griviences.
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I have a lot of doubts as to how this pack pertains to actual farming. It isn't about farming. It's more about hobbies. How many people have turned to raising chickens and planting kitchen gardens with herbs and spices during the pandemic lockdowns. That is not farming, it's a hobby meant to fill idle time and give families something to do together. Cooking has also become a thing that families do together. Now I am not saying these are not good activities, but I also can't say it screams farming because real farms come in all shapes and sizes.
New plants means the borked gardening features that came with EL may become worse because those were never totally fixed. New food items means the bugs we have been dealing with for months and years may also become more sketchy. Sims not eating or wanting to cook all the time being two I have had to wrestle with. New animals could have a negative impact on any pets we have already placed in played households. Remember the disappearing pet bug in EL? And the little girl doing cross stitch means the teams probably 'borrowed' parts of the knitting skill and objects to make room for this new activity. And who knows what may have happened during that process. Plus cross stitch should have been included in that pack from the beginning. Just sayin'.
Would it have been too much to ask for even a small difference in the trees and flowers in this new world that would have made it different from all the other worlds we have? And don't get me started on the early access items we can claim if we buy this pack before September. What a joke. I rarely use bikes for my Sims, I find the gnomes a tad bit creepy and I don't need another huge tree to place on my lots when we have far too many small lots to build on as it is. On that subject, I wont be too shocked if we end up with more 30x20 lots than 30x40 lots that could actually be used to build our 'farms'. We're going to need a lot of space in order to use the objects tied to the various new animals. And I won't be able to use those animals on a 30x20 lot even if I settle on a tiny home for the family. Instead of creating something that actually looks like a full-blown farm, we'll be forced to settle for whatever we can fit on a small lot. And that is called a hobby farm. Not an actual working farm.
There are many other concerns on my list, but it would take too long to list each one in a single post. So even though I liked some of what I saw in the trailer this morning, I will not be buying the pack upon it's release. I will probably buy it sometime in the future, at half price, and after the bugs are fixed by the teams or with mods. Which is what I have been doing since Island Living wrecked my game for months. I am the consumer, not an unpaid quality control employee of EA's. If I were given a free copy of this pack and paid forty dollars to find the bugs, it would be a different story. But I won't be paying forty dollars for a pack I know will have problems, then left to find my own solutions for stuff that should have been fixed before the pack was released.
New plants means the borked gardening features that came with EL may become worse because those were never totally fixed. New food items means the bugs we have been dealing with for months and years may also become more sketchy. Sims not eating or wanting to cook all the time being two I have had to wrestle with. New animals could have a negative impact on any pets we have already placed in played households. Remember the disappearing pet bug in EL? And the little girl doing cross stitch means the teams probably 'borrowed' parts of the knitting skill and objects to make room for this new activity. And who knows what may have happened during that process. Plus cross stitch should have been included in that pack from the beginning. Just sayin'.
Would it have been too much to ask for even a small difference in the trees and flowers in this new world that would have made it different from all the other worlds we have? And don't get me started on the early access items we can claim if we buy this pack before September. What a joke. I rarely use bikes for my Sims, I find the gnomes a tad bit creepy and I don't need another huge tree to place on my lots when we have far too many small lots to build on as it is. On that subject, I wont be too shocked if we end up with more 30x20 lots than 30x40 lots that could actually be used to build our 'farms'. We're going to need a lot of space in order to use the objects tied to the various new animals. And I won't be able to use those animals on a 30x20 lot even if I settle on a tiny home for the family. Instead of creating something that actually looks like a full-blown farm, we'll be forced to settle for whatever we can fit on a small lot. And that is called a hobby farm. Not an actual working farm.
There are many other concerns on my list, but it would take too long to list each one in a single post. So even though I liked some of what I saw in the trailer this morning, I will not be buying the pack upon it's release. I will probably buy it sometime in the future, at half price, and after the bugs are fixed by the teams or with mods. Which is what I have been doing since Island Living wrecked my game for months. I am the consumer, not an unpaid quality control employee of EA's. If I were given a free copy of this pack and paid forty dollars to find the bugs, it would be a different story. But I won't be paying forty dollars for a pack I know will have problems, then left to find my own solutions for stuff that should have been fixed before the pack was released.
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