The sims 4 Cottage Living Negativity thread.

"Kironide;c-17906872" wrote:

"marcel21;c-17906867" wrote:

"bixters;c-17906749" wrote:

"Simtanium;c-17906746" wrote:
The free stuff for a limited time worries me, as well, for the precedent this might set in the future.

I agree, it seems like they’re worried about people buying all their packs on sale and not at full price.

I wondered this too.
they never did this for 7 years.

It probably means there's been a fall off in on-release sales recently.

I think they want to boost sales for this quarter. Maybe their kits have not been selling that well, or not earned them enough money.

Q3 Fiscal year is 1 July - 30 september. Maybe we will not see another pack until October.

"logion;c-17906906" wrote:

"Kironide;c-17906872" wrote:

"marcel21;c-17906867" wrote:

"bixters;c-17906749" wrote:

"Simtanium;c-17906746" wrote:
The free stuff for a limited time worries me, as well, for the precedent this might set in the future.

I agree, it seems like they’re worried about people buying all their packs on sale and not at full price.

I wondered this too.
they never did this for 7 years.

It probably means there's been a fall off in on-release sales recently.

I think they want to boost sales for this quarter.

I wasn't really expecting anything major until October. What do you think?

"Cabelle1863;c-17906638" wrote:
So far my biggest disappointment is that there's only 12 lots. But that seems to be the norm for Simworlds now. I don't think we'll ever have a Windenburg-sized world ever again. I am pretty excited for the rest of the pack, but I'm reserving full judgement until I read the reviews once the pack is out.

Seriously only 12? That's the same amount that Strangerville has. This is giving me major deja vu to Dream Home Decorator because this pack has physically nothing to make it more than a game pack :|

"Kironide;c-17906909" wrote:

"logion;c-17906906" wrote:

"Kironide;c-17906872" wrote:

"marcel21;c-17906867" wrote:

"bixters;c-17906749" wrote:

"Simtanium;c-17906746" wrote:
The free stuff for a limited time worries me, as well, for the precedent this might set in the future.

I agree, it seems like they’re worried about people buying all their packs on sale and not at full price.

I wondered this too.
they never did this for 7 years.

It probably means there's been a fall off in on-release sales recently.

I think they want to boost sales for this quarter.

I wasn't really expecting anything major until October. What do you think?

From what I have seen on their Fiscal Reports they are saying that their sales are increasing every year. Maybe the trend is not looking so good this year so they want to boost sales so that this quarter and this year is looking better.

I dunno, these three items could just be something that EA wanted to do because they want to keep trying new things to earn more money too.

"logion;c-17906914" wrote:

"Kironide;c-17906909" wrote:

"logion;c-17906906" wrote:

"Kironide;c-17906872" wrote:

"marcel21;c-17906867" wrote:

"bixters;c-17906749" wrote:

"Simtanium;c-17906746" wrote:
The free stuff for a limited time worries me, as well, for the precedent this might set in the future.

I agree, it seems like they’re worried about people buying all their packs on sale and not at full price.

I wondered this too.
they never did this for 7 years.

It probably means there's been a fall off in on-release sales recently.

I think they want to boost sales for this quarter.

I wasn't really expecting anything major until October. What do you think?

From what I have seen on their Fiscal Reports they are saying that their sales are increasing every year. Maybe the trend is not looking so good this year so they want to boost sales so that this quarter and this year is looking better.

I dunno, these three items could just be something that EA wanted to do because they want to keep trying new things to earn more money too.

I agree, both of those possibilities are likely too.

I'm pretty neutral on the whole thing. Though, I hear many talking about the lack of horses and fairies, and I'd have to agree. They both would've been perfect for this pack and they are definitely missing the opportunity to add them. I mean, farming and horses go hand-in-hand. It would've been a bit disappointing, but they could've treated horses like they're probably treating the other animals: bounding them to an item. There's another thread speculating that the sims 4 seems to dislike occult sims, and I totally can see it. I mean, how did they not think of fairies? If this was a different company, I would think that they would be in here as a surprise, but ha.

"Onverser;c-17906913" wrote:

"Cabelle1863;c-17906638" wrote:
So far my biggest disappointment is that there's only 12 lots. But that seems to be the norm for Simworlds now. I don't think we'll ever have a Windenburg-sized world ever again. I am pretty excited for the rest of the pack, but I'm reserving full judgement until I read the reviews once the pack is out.

Seriously only 12? That's the same amount that Strangerville has. This is giving me major deja vu to Dream Home Decorator because this pack has physically nothing to make it more than a game pack :|

:| ...

"bixters;c-17906749" wrote:

"Simtanium;c-17906746" wrote:
The free stuff for a limited time worries me, as well, for the precedent this might set in the future.

I agree, it seems like they’re worried about people buying all their packs on sale and not at full price.

Of course as they have to adjust their income forecast and they may not get the maximum income if most people are waiting for an sale.

You guys really think EA is doing it because people aren't buying the packs? I can't help but laugh at the thought of that. This is the sims, they can literally put out a 5 dollar pack about collecting dust in your house and it'll be eaten up by the masses. (Myself included)

If anything, the opposite is true. The game is doing so well and they know people will eat anything up

"Onverser;c-17906913" wrote:

"Cabelle1863;c-17906638" wrote:
So far my biggest disappointment is that there's only 12 lots. But that seems to be the norm for Simworlds now. I don't think we'll ever have a Windenburg-sized world ever again. I am pretty excited for the rest of the pack, but I'm reserving full judgement until I read the reviews once the pack is out.

Seriously only 12? That's the same amount that Strangerville has. This is giving me major deja vu to Dream Home Decorator because this pack has physically nothing to make it more than a game pack :|

That one of the reasons I am waiting for more info as to see what this pack actually has as trailers are nice but sometimes they don't tell the whole story but I am trying to be neutral.