TS4 Just Acting EP?

"Writin_Reg;c-16769088" wrote:

"Horrorgirl6;c-16769078" wrote:

"Writin_Reg;c-16769054" wrote:

"Dannydanbo;c-16769001" wrote:
They could easily create a GP containing MUSIC/BANDS and FASHION DESIGN. It could add to and benefit from Get Famous or work as a stand alone if you don't have GF (but, of course, your sim won't gain fame but they could still progress in that career).

MUSIC/BANDS
This could expand singing to a career with duets and groups like a choir or quartet. It could come with a recording studio and a concert venue.
Bands could get gigs at local bars or play in the parks. Maybe there could be a small singing competition your sim could enter. There would be new instruments for rock/country bands and small orchestras. I'd love to have a harp and be able to hire a harpist for my fancy dinner parties.

FASHION DESIGNER
The fashion design career could expand on the photo studio object to include a career and fashion photography. The design side could use the sketch book and add a sewing machine to design your own clothes. There could be a set number of blank coats, shirts, pants, shoes, etc. that your designer sim could color using a limited color wheel and stamps and add embellishments like fringe or feathers or whatever. The designer could, at a high level, put on a fashion show and design all the outfits that hang on a special rack and hire a photographer and models. As a model, your sim would hire a photographer to create a "book" of modeling shots which could be updated with more modeling experience and land you more jobs. Then, with book in hand, the model goes on "GO SEE'S" to book jobs, some of which are rabbit hole jobs.

After the first pet dlc for dlc uproar - you can forget them ever expanding any more packs. Heck we will be lucky to ever see another stuff pack. EA don't repeat things that cause uproars usually - so we made our choice when we had a fit over the first dlc for an ep why on earth would they revisit that?

The things are not comparable.The problem wasn't that my first pet stuff had small pets.It was that it had lot stuff only good if you already had cats,and dogs.The human outfits were recorlors,and the furniture either was recorlor what we had in cats,and dogs or a set that should been with cats,and dogs.If ea just made the pack with hamster,and another small pet.With new unique clothing,and no cats and dig stuff.It would been better received, but no they were greedy and lazy.

That would be the same thing as it would have to require that ep in order to make it work. EA will not let that happen because of all the uproar - believe me as the stock market would complain. Honestly, players want to think deeply before you battle over pack or we end up losers because of it. EA does not like things that make the stock people frown.

Had people simply rejected it with out all the fuss - it would have been fine. But they had to go and rant all over the place. Not a good idea when you are playing in the backyard of a multi-billion dollar company like EA. Not a good idea at all. They will deny approval of such packs indefinitely if it causes bad press - believe me.

People did reject it without fuss, no one staged a demonstration outside their offices, the pack was criticised by many including game changers for a good reason. You may not accept it, but it is what it is. (And when game changers are critical, something is wrong!)

Kind of sounds like what you are saying is we should be grateful at every crumb offered and accept it without question because those who have power might punish us for daring to question bad business practices.

Take cities skylines: that game had a truely awful mini EP that had very little bang for its buck. People complained as is their right and made it clear this wasn’t okay. People left negative reviews. The dev team took notice because it had to and updated the pack adding in more content so it was worth the price.

If content flops don’t blame your fan base, blame the people who made the decision in the first place. And I don’t think MFP flopped knowing what I know of sim fans.

Back on topic:

I think the acting career will feel more substantial and have more meat, the influencer career could be social media lite. But we shall see.

"Eliharb;d-949292" wrote:
Get Famous look awesome so far, especially the world and all the acting depth. Still... this hollywood recreation is missing a recording studio for singers, and a stage to perform on. Literally two objects could have made a singing career in Get Famous. Won't people be outraged if they release a "singing superstar/concert EP"? Especially with the fact that the fame element is also needed with singers. Same goes for modeling.

Why were they left out and do you think you'd be okay if they released them as extra DLC later?

Superstar was one of the best EPs of all time in my opinion. Trying to build a sequel sometimes winds up like Rocky10, just don't do it, leave well enough alone. Some things like a sequel to Superstar should never have been done because there is literally no way to improve upon that EP or to add twists and improvements to something that was perfect. TS3 failed with it and in my opinion this EP can't outshine Superstar so it would have been better to skip it. No bands, no modeling, no singer or recording studios, no standup lounges with an agent, etc. = Rocky10.

"Writin_Reg;c-16769054" wrote:

"Dannydanbo;c-16769001" wrote:
They could easily create a GP containing MUSIC/BANDS and FASHION DESIGN. It could add to and benefit from Get Famous or work as a stand alone if you don't have GF (but, of course, your sim won't gain fame but they could still progress in that career).

MUSIC/BANDS
This could expand singing to a career with duets and groups like a choir or quartet. It could come with a recording studio and a concert venue.
Bands could get gigs at local bars or play in the parks. Maybe there could be a small singing competition your sim could enter. There would be new instruments for rock/country bands and small orchestras. I'd love to have a harp and be able to hire a harpist for my fancy dinner parties.

FASHION DESIGNER
The fashion design career could expand on the photo studio object to include a career and fashion photography. The design side could use the sketch book and add a sewing machine to design your own clothes. There could be a set number of blank coats, shirts, pants, shoes, etc. that your designer sim could color using a limited color wheel and stamps and add embellishments like fringe or feathers or whatever. The designer could, at a high level, put on a fashion show and design all the outfits that hang on a special rack and hire a photographer and models. As a model, your sim would hire a photographer to create a "book" of modeling shots which could be updated with more modeling experience and land you more jobs. Then, with book in hand, the model goes on "GO SEE'S" to book jobs, some of which are rabbit hole jobs.

After the first pet dlc for dlc uproar - you can forget them ever expanding any more packs. Heck we will be lucky to ever see another stuff pack. EA don't repeat things that cause uproars usually - so we made our choice when we had a fit over the first dlc for an ep why on earth would they revisit that?

The proble is tha you would ned Cats and Dogs to play My First Pet Stuff in its entirety. Those packs he mentioned have a similar aspect of getting famous, but they dont need to be attached to Get Famous.

"Dannydanbo;c-16769001" wrote:
They could easily create a GP containing MUSIC/BANDS and FASHION DESIGN. It could add to and benefit from Get Famous or work as a stand alone if you don't have GF (but, of course, your sim won't gain fame but they could still progress in that career).

MUSIC/BANDS
This could expand singing to a career with duets and groups like a choir or quartet. It could come with a recording studio and a concert venue.
Bands could get gigs at local bars or play in the parks. Maybe there could be a small singing competition your sim could enter. There would be new instruments for rock/country bands and small orchestras. I'd love to have a harp and be able to hire a harpist for my fancy dinner parties.

FASHION DESIGNER
The fashion design career could expand on the photo studio object to include a career and fashion photography. The design side could use the sketch book and add a sewing machine to design your own clothes. There could be a set number of blank coats, shirts, pants, shoes, etc. that your designer sim could color using a limited color wheel and stamps and add embellishments like fringe or feathers or whatever. The designer could, at a high level, put on a fashion show and design all the outfits that hang on a special rack and hire a photographer and models. As a model, your sim would hire a photographer to create a "book" of modeling shots which could be updated with more modeling experience and land you more jobs. Then, with book in hand, the model goes on "GO SEE'S" to book jobs, some of which are rabbit hole jobs.

I would love this!!! :smiley:

And I just wanted to say, I’m still excited for the movie career despite my minor disappointment, btw. :smile:

"Chazzzy;c-16769265" wrote:
So just to be clear, Sims can be famous in their current careers, but Sims can't be famous just from a skill like for example the singing skill... is that accurate?

From what we've seen so far, yes. Your sim can only be famous from being in a career. But, maybe you can get famous by having a certain amount of money or skill level too? We don't know yet.

"bunny-gypsy;c-16769139" wrote:

"Writin_Reg;c-16769054" wrote:

"Dannydanbo;c-16769001" wrote:
They could easily create a GP containing MUSIC/BANDS and FASHION DESIGN. It could add to and benefit from Get Famous or work as a stand alone if you don't have GF (but, of course, your sim won't gain fame but they could still progress in that career).

MUSIC/BANDS
This could expand singing to a career with duets and groups like a choir or quartet. It could come with a recording studio and a concert venue.
Bands could get gigs at local bars or play in the parks. Maybe there could be a small singing competition your sim could enter. There would be new instruments for rock/country bands and small orchestras. I'd love to have a harp and be able to hire a harpist for my fancy dinner parties.

FASHION DESIGNER
The fashion design career could expand on the photo studio object to include a career and fashion photography. The design side could use the sketch book and add a sewing machine to design your own clothes. There could be a set number of blank coats, shirts, pants, shoes, etc. that your designer sim could color using a limited color wheel and stamps and add embellishments like fringe or feathers or whatever. The designer could, at a high level, put on a fashion show and design all the outfits that hang on a special rack and hire a photographer and models. As a model, your sim would hire a photographer to create a "book" of modeling shots which could be updated with more modeling experience and land you more jobs. Then, with book in hand, the model goes on "GO SEE'S" to book jobs, some of which are rabbit hole jobs.

After the first pet dlc for dlc uproar - you can forget them ever expanding any more packs. Heck we will be lucky to ever see another stuff pack. EA don't repeat things that cause uproars usually - so we made our choice when we had a fit over the first dlc for an ep why on earth would they revisit that?

Oh, no way! That would be such an immature of a game company to do.

Other good game companies would take the criticism and learn from their mistakes and make better products (hopefully). They don’t go around “punishing” their customers for making (what I feel are valid) complaints.

If that’s the reason why we’re getting limited content and they’re actually trying to punish us, then maybe I don’t want to support a company for a “punishing” practice like that. :frowning:

I’m going to keep asking, and so will many other simmers, and the company KNOWS their fan base is passionate and persistent about this stuff, so it’s up to them to take responsibility and do the good quality games that their customers want.

Otherwise, they got to face the music and learn to be mature when dealing with the backlash.

If their idea of punishing us is cutting out or slowing down stuff packs and giving us more expansions they must continue the punishment.

Overall I will say that I'm am on the fence. Do I feel like this pack could of been in a game pack no not at all. I do feel like acting could be a game pack and fame as well could be a game pack, that is if fame is expensive enough, but I don't fully feel like the two together make a epic. It just seems like it needs something more like maybe one more career.

I have been looking for any information I can find on the pack and based on what I have read and heard it seems like they have decided to go all out in acting. Your sim has to go to audtion and prepare for the role by working on their acting skill, looking the part and memorizing lines. Your sim also has to join a talent agency, most likely the talent agency will tell your sim a role is available and send you a script and probably a brief description of what they would prefer you to look like. Once your sim is at the audition your sim will be evaluated based on their acting skill, appearance and whether you had them read their lines. Based on the trailer itself it seems like there will multiple scenarios/roles your sim will experience and your sims will do commercials, TV shows and even movies and just how active or how much control you'll have over your sims performance is unknown. Just based on this alone it seems like acting could be one of the most expanded careers we've seen so far.

When it comes to fame however their is no telling just how detailed it is besides the what we've seen from the trailer. Fans, paparazzi, exclusive VIP clubs/parties all fun but what are these perks and what are the downsides. Fame is also suppose to change how all the other careers function. We know their are careers in base and other eps where fame will work hand in hand but will it be different based on what career you've chosen. I would expect social media celebrities would have many perks and sports athletes to have a lot perks but writers though famous aren't treated with the same level of fame same with bodybuilders though famous in their field and community they aren't well known outside of it, and politicians they tend to have lot of fame but just as much backlash. This is probably where the reputation part comes in as we know that one of the coming livestreams will focus on fame and reputation.

"MidnightAura;c-16769179" wrote:
Take cities skylines: that game had a truely awful mini EP that had very little bang for its buck. People complained as is their right and made it clear this wasn’t okay. People left negative reviews. The dev team took notice because it had to and updated the pack adding in more content so it was worth the price.

I presume you mean the Concerts DLC? ;)

On topic, this tweet by Graham:

https://twitter.com/SimGuruGraham/status/1049745062425329667

If this is true, perhaps those sims with high SInging skill can truly become famous for their singing after all!

I love the sims always have just a bit worried the acting career will be very repetitive and get boring :/

"Missimay94;c-16770141" wrote:
I love the sims always have just a bit worried the acting career will be very repetitive and get boring :/

It would be if it has those to do lists like the doctor career. And if the situations are repeated if your Sim goes to perform and the same senario choices happen over and over with each and every Sim you play as an actor.