The sims 4 Cottage Living Negativity thread.

The style is too cutesy for my personal taste. I don't play Disney princesses who make forest friends that help them sew dresses (no offense to those who want to); having wild animals bring my sim gifts just doesn't appeal to me.

One thing from the blog that particularly troubles me:

In the forest, look out for wild rabbits, foxes, and birds. Earn their trust for occasional gifts and help in the garden.

Are the rabbits unable to be kept as actual pets by sims who live in other worlds?

I'm kinda disappointed in how the cows and the llamas work - they're tied to these BIG objects. I wish they would've been tied to smaller objects, like a small stall or something instead. I also don't like how the objects look - they look clunky and too old timey. ?

"friendlysimmers;c-17906379" wrote:
to me as a player some seem to be judging the pack before giving it a try so i see no point in being so negative as a player i see all the new content as a great addition to the game

Right, but some of the opinions and feelings people shared dont even require you to buy the pack first, like not liking the idea of limited time bonuses, or being a little sad it does not have fairies, among other things. I find people use these threads to offer their opinions and criticism, whether it be constructive or not, and i would not call all types of criticism and opinions negativity, maybe the title of these threads is not very accurate.

I have an MFA in critiquing media, so trust me, it’s never too early to complain and I can complain about anything ?

Only recently I realized how cool it would be to have horses in the game since I’ve been on this kick of wanting wildlife sanctuaries and using the National Park lot for spawning animals.

I think the pack will compliment my OTG save to an extent, but I really wish we could get some expansion on like the handiness skill and more uses for dug up elements and fossils. My OTG Sims don’t really need more produce but I mean it’s fine I’ll take it lol. Just hope/wish they had more OTG activities that wasn’t tied to just food production I guess.

Also idk how to word this, but I really wish there were more negative aspects of the packs. Like in this pack it just looks like it’s: do this to make money do that to get rich win this for a happy moodlet etc etc all Sims do is gain gain gain. At this point, I find the only way to not have so many positive effects in the game is to ignore a lot of the gameplay ?. Please let this pack introduce like a new death or a new something that is of substantial consequence.

I’m gonna have to go over the pack info before I come to a conclusion about this one.

**Accidentally posted in wrong thread, carry on.

"Aine;c-17906493" wrote:
I'm kinda disappointed in how the cows and the llamas work - they're tied to these BIG objects. I wish they would've been tied to smaller objects, like a small stall or something instead. I also don't like how the objects look - they look clunky and too old timey. ?

Honestly, this is the deal breaker for me. I'm so tired of Sims 4's oversized things. A small marker of some kind that you can use inside a building you made would be far better. Even better would be them not tied to an object at all, but yeah. Even babies are still tied to an object.

"Felicity;c-17906528" wrote:

"Aine;c-17906493" wrote:
I'm kinda disappointed in how the cows and the llamas work - they're tied to these BIG objects. I wish they would've been tied to smaller objects, like a small stall or something instead. I also don't like how the objects look - they look clunky and too old timey. ?

Honestly, this is the deal breaker for me. I'm so tired of Sims 4's oversized things. A small marker of some kind that you can use inside a building you made would be far better. Even better would be them not tied to an object at all, but yeah. Even babies are still tied to an object.

Yeah exactly, I want to build my own barn type thing where the llama and cow lives. The way they did this is just...so bad.

This is what I've been waiting for and I see no horses

"Atreya33;c-17906082" wrote:
I usually try to avoid negativity threads but this issue deserves to be mentioned here. https://i.imgur.com/Tcuhr8d.png
This makes me more angry than the kit cash grabs. Urging people to buy before a certain date... . Disgusting. Too bad because the bike looks cute. :'(

This right here is exactly what irks me. The overall theme of the pack is not one I've ever been interested in, so the pack as a whole isn't for me. That's just a preference. But to lock "bonus" content to a time limit? Yeah, it's just 3 items and they give you over a month to buy it, but something about it just doesn't sit right with me.

I can live with no horses as they're a lot of work and I'd want them to be more fleshed out.

My one gripe is the world. Partly as they've reused too many trees from Willow Creek which makes it too USA like/same-y. They confirmed on twitter there are only 12 lots, 3 neighbourhoods with 4 each. One more than Del Sol Valley... I know it's rural so less lots makes sense but I was hoping for more. Tbh I wish all worlds had more lots though.