The Sims 4 Horse ranch negative discussion.

I feel like aside from horses and their interactions, the remaining main selling points are already part of an existing pack.

Mainly looking and the lively town aspect from Cottage Living and the goats and sheeps that have no reason not to be in Cottage Living, I'm assuming those are going to be reused meshes based on CL's llamas and cows.
Horse customizing is a glorified pets creator.
Also, the dance parties sound like they're no different from Get Together.

So yeah this only leaves interacting with horses.

Overall I feel like this could have easily been part of Cottage Living but eh. I'm not into horses anyway and am not a fan of the ranch/texas/desert/american cowboys aesthetic in any media so unless there are major overarching gameplay-enhancing features included with the pack this might be the first EP I'm skipping.

But I'm glad people who wanted horses are getting what they wanted because it seems like all of the pack's budget went into them.

This is just first impressions. I had some reservations about Growing Together and it ended up being one of my favourite packs up there with Cottage Living so yeah.

So we're reintroducing a wildly overrated feature from the Sims 3? Isn't that LBY's job? And how is this an expansion pack? It should be a vacation game pack.

Eh, I hardly use the animals in Cottage Living as is. I'm more excited for sheep but they aren't the star of the pack. Dancing's nice but I more want the slow dances of My Wedding Stories. (LOL)

Just like with Cottage Living, it's very hard to convince myself to add farm animals when for the most part, Sims live in suburbs.

Before any of you go ahead and buy this pack I think you should at least be informed that Sims Community site is calling out a lot of red flags about the live stream and how familiar it seems to My Wedding Stories red flags during a live prerecorded live stream.


https://simscommunity.info/2023/07/15/sims-4-horse-ranch-red-flag/

This one is easy. Why the world is so empty and has only few lots.

Anyway. I afraid that there will be impossible to turn off horses in San Myshuno for example.

Lmao sees a screenshot of the world, immediately assumes it’s the whole world.
Sims community in a nutshell

I know it's still early and we don't even have a trailer yet but I'm still surprised Horses is an Expansion and not Game Pack lol. The world better be worth the money because it seems like they split content that could've been half on Cats & Dogs and half on Cottage Living.

It sounds like the "training grounds" can't be edited, much like the Strangerville lab at the very least, or worse, a rabbit hole (like the TS3 Equestrian Center).

Hopefully, things like the chaps are pants and NOT a full-body outfit.

I have too many Sims that were created in advance of an eventual horse pack, and there really aren't enough lots to have a decent-sized horse farm in the game.

Cross-pack compatibility, no doubt.


Bugs, bugs, bugs, and even more bugs. Any time a major new gameplay feature is added, it makes major changes to the code, and it will take some time for these problems to be ironed out, and it'll also mean EVERY SINGLE MOD will have to be updated. Curseforge has aided me immensely, but a few mods either aren't on CurseForge or are behind the versions offered on their official websites. At least now, it's only two mods that aren't on CurseForge.

only things I don't like so far is

1. the bonus item thing they keep doing with eps. it still comes off more like " buy this pack at release or lose these items" than " have fun extra items" i just hate that kind of thing regardless of items

2. some of the furniture is giving lots of live laugh love and I'm not sure if I'm ready for it other than in very specific context of making a cult

3. I saw a crop top, already in the leak
*dusts off crumplebottom bag*
I might forgive if its just one crop top though since its quite pretty paired with that skirt

also im still just worried that even with this there isn't something super important like proper saloon doors
all I am seeing is barn doors everywhere

-Not looking forward to the western themed CAS

-If nectar doesn't have a grouping option like "grab drink together", autonomous drinking of nectar, or a new club option for nectar drinking I'll be so bummed out! These options are missing from juice fizzing and thus my sims can't enjoy that activity with sims outside the household.

-I'll want to crosstitch horses from reference but won't be able to unless they fix the black and white cross stitching bug on console. This feature has been unplayable since release for me.

-There's also still a bug for the CoL contest were no ribbons are given and winners aren't even announced. I'd like to be excited about a new competition but I've yet to experience what we already have with CoL.

The new pack feels like an extension of CoL gameplay so I'm think of about the features I haven't been able to use yet and I'll want to combine gameplay but can't. Hopefully the CoL bugs get some attention but this is the negative thread, not holding my breath.