"Writin_Reg;c-16365169" wrote:
It's been 4 months - are you saying they should be years apart - that it would make it better? I don't get that - but I am glad some devs heard the pleas of people wanting smaller pets and did something about it. Why should it be free? I don't get that - those people had to work their jobs and get paid for the work - but you believe what that they should work for free because you bought cats and dogs. So they give us other pets and added in stuff for our Cats and dogs so they have more stuff as people requested - but now you want it for free.
Well I bought milk last week and have to buy it again this week - same milk even - should I demand the store give it to me for free because i just bought some last week?
Course not - but that is what you and others are saying should be the case even though it is a totally different pack. It's like once a pack is done - if it adds to another pack - people want it for free. I don't get that line of thought when nothing else in life works that way.
Yes.
Either people want it for free, or for the same price as ten years ago. I don't know about you, but around where I live, inflation has caused most items to go up in price. Restaurants, movies, food, clothing, real estate. The minimum wage is increasing in all states (and the state I live, it's one of the highest). If it hasn't gone up it's because it's completely outsourced (e.g. Walmart) and then people complain about that.
The whole "this content should have been included with that pack" mentality is kind of weird to me. The truth is,
we have never had a Pets pack for Sims 4. We have a Cats and Dogs pack. (If they had just added the hamster, it would have been called Cats and Dogs and Hamsters. Not a very catchy EP name.)
If you wanted all the pets in one EP you would probably have had to wait another 6 to 9 months and it would have cost around $60. Personally, I am glad to have the cats and dogs to play with up front.
People are being given options, nothing has been taken away. Now there is something extra, that is completely optional, and suddenly people are feeling bad. I'm sorry others are feeling disappointed. I felt that way when I thought vampires were nerfed, but I don't feel that way now because nothing has been taken away and I don't have expectations about how things "should have been".
Now onto how I feel about this particular pack:
I don't care about new pet clothing or furniture that much, so if it were that alone I would not buy it. And if the new hamsters were like they were in previous versions I wouldn't buy it either. In past versions small caged animals were cute but like furniture. You held them, fed them, cleaned the cage. But not very interesting.
However, I have a feeling there may be more unique gameplay with these small hamster/rodents than in previous versions. That and the NEW DEATH! are the reasons I will consider it. Just like laundry had more depth than in Sims 3. Things are just different this time around. I will wait to hear more about the gameplay, which is the major reason I purchase stuff packs.
Finally, I may be in the minority about this, but I don't mind, in theory at least, that some DLC might require previous DLC. Because the idea that once we have gotten content in a pack, it can never be expanded on sounds so limiting.
For example, yes -- I would pay to have a pack that uses GTW as a base and expands upon Sixam, maybe giving us a Sixam-based world, and completely updates the retail system, complete with usable cash registers, etc. Would I prefer that would have been included with GTW to begin with?
Absolutely. Do want to encourage lackluster development? Absolutely not. But the alternative is wait 5 more years for a similar pack to be released with Sims 5. And who knows what Sims 5 will be like (if there even will be one).
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