What is your least favorite/worst expansion pack?

It is such a grind I disabled it after trying for weeks, RL weeks, to get one Sim graduated. I did my best to overlook all the fattening food left everywhere, the pesky roommates and dorm Sims, the hassle of getting from one class to another, but in the end I just gave up. I moved my Sim back in with her parents just to get her degree and it was the last time I took any of my Sims there. But I am a rotational player with several families to keep up with and DU made it all but impossible to take care of all my Sims.

"Sharonia;c-17924939" wrote:
Discover University.

Maybe I just haven't played it enough but for me it didn't seem that great. Things just don't seem to function well, like the dorms are a mess and not that enjoyable to play in. The camera bounces all over the place while following my sims around on the Foxbury campus and don't even get me started on the bikes, sims ride them indoors? Please no, just don't do that.

As for the game-play it seemed to be all work and no fun, I had to download a mod to cut homework time down by 50% just so my sim could have a social life outside of studying.

However saying this I do plan on playing it some more in the near future and I'm hopeful that my opinion might change, will just have to see.

I love University, but not this version of it. This would probably be my second choice just for disappointments.
The secret society feels like a cult to me. I don't want my sim to be a slave to sprites. No fraternity/sorority game play. School work is a grind.
No stoves and having dormies pile up ridiculous amounts of food is an odd choice. And because the magic cauldron is considered a stove, I can't have a decent magic chamber in my custom dorm. I dislike sims always cooking mac and cheese in it in the first place.

I still enjoy university because of my custom dorms and my teen prep school for university.
I also enjoy giving dormies complete makeovers and having them become friends and life partners for my sims.

Eco Lifestyle?
NAPs and the world kills it for me. I also lost interest in the eco game play.
I removed it and the only things I miss are the community spaces and shipping container wallpapers.

The theme of Eco Lifestyle is ultra boring and mundane. It's not at all the kind of thing I feel is necessary in the game and doesn't really add anything fun for me. I still feel like it was a waste of an EP and should have been just a GP and switched with Realm of Magic (which should have been an EP).

Evergreen Harbor just tied with MP & DSV as the worst worlds. Also, I don't like sims playing in the garbage too gross. :s .
I got the silly pack when I found out I can turn my lots green, it had a cool Native hairstyle, rustic outfits & objects.

"Calico45;c-17924989" wrote:
It disappointed me the most. It isn't really that it has the least content (there are some things I really like, such as the world), but I feel the focus wasn't where is should be. I have enumerated my reasoning in many threads, put ultimately while CAP is amazing pets feel like lifeless, moving decor that take up a family slot. They aren't fun enough to play for me and pets expansions are my favorite in every other entry. My game does not feel complete without them, and that itch never got really scratched for me.

No pet skills, no info panels, limited personality, no control (neither did 1 and 2, but I still loved and preferred them more so I could have been happy without this), kids cannot bathe, kids cannot walk, cats don't have tricks, cats don't get bathes (and quite frankly they do occasionally need them IRL), no dedicated pet slots, no pet jobs, no small pets in pack and very few added in other places, pet illness cannot be turned off or treated at home with medicine, veterinary bugs (I have gone so many times to get my pet treated and it glitches out and I have to retry multiple times), etc.

Also, it was so insignificant to their actions that I genuinely believed pets had no relationships with each other until someone told me there were files for it. I believe (s)he was a modder.

In comparison, Sims 3 Pets was all I ever wanted and brought me back to Sims 3 when I had given that series up (way too early and easily just because of the differences from 2 and the art style, but that mistake was corrected). So yeah, I could have never understood my disappointment until I got it. It more or less echoed 4's launch and hit harder. Looks great with underwhelming gameplay and no updates to the core you want addressed. (This has been changing for the BG, but since when have the old packs gotten a facelift in 4?)

I agree with this 100%. Cats & Dogs might as well be called the "Everything wrong with TS4" EP because it's the textbook example of at least one of the game's major flaws: All show and no substance. A million different ways to make pets look cute in CAS, a million different sicknesses that can befall them to give you a reason to play with the new vet feature, but can you actually do a million different things with the pets in gameplay? Nope, much less with cats. I'm more of a cat person in real life, yet when my sims get a pet, it's almost always a dog because at least you can do something with them other than feeding and petting.

That said, while Cats & Dogs is definitely the pack that disappointed me the most (because I was really looking forward to it), it's not my least favourite. That would be City Living, which commits yet another major sin: Instead of introducing gameplay elements that enhance your sims’ lives no matter where they live, as a proper EP should, this one focuses too much on its world. Be it the careers if you play them actively, the new aspiration or the festivals, and of course the apartments – everything requires you to live in or at least frequently visit San Myshuno, you can’t even create your own festivals or build your own apartments outside of it, so all that leaves for the rest of the sim world is the (very colourful) CAS and BB items. Technically, I don’t really have a problem with that as long as I like the world, which is why Island Living and Snowy Escape rank higher on my list, but I’m just not into big cities, so San Myshuno, while impressive and unique among this game’s worlds, unfortunately falls flat for me. City Living is also the pack that introduced Asian names for everyone, whether they look the part or not, without also having any proper Asian culture aside from the food. (I think this has been toned down in the meantime, but I'm not sure if the fix came from the developers or a mod I'm using.)

Three words.. sharing is caring. :#
Nope, nope nope nope. I will never have that in my game anymore. I'm not a builder and I refuse to download all the community lots over and over again when they will all be robbed down to non functional useless places.
Also I'm not a fan of living in trashy environment. In my country people are quite neat and I'm not used to seeing garbage everywhere, I'm not a fan.

It's hard for me to pick one pack because every of them has some weaknesses and strengths.

Get to Work - poor retail system, useless Magnolia Promenade, lack of rabbit hole careers.
Get Together - probably one of the best made EP, but there could be some more interactions and DJ career
City Living - apartments are awesome (but some of them is weird and too huge) but there is no much gameplay.
Cats & Dogs - pets and beautiful world, but no more, even vet career without buying a vet clinic (same system as in dine out or Get to work).
Get Famous - nice celebity system and actor caree, but it is all. Del Sol Valley is dramatically bad world.
Island Living - beautiful world and some unique activities, but honestly no clear gameplay, no hotels, no interesting features
Snowy Escape - very creative pack, but a lot of activities are estrictively linked to the world.
Seasons - just seasons... but with some nice features. Unfortunately no world, but this EP influence to the rest worlds.
Discover University - I like the idea but I do not like the world and the dorm system here. I think they could make this expansion better.
Eco Lifestyle - honestly this is a really good expansion pack, but the theme is very controversial.

In general I prrobably will choose Get Famous because of wasted potential.

Like some other people in this thread I'm most disappointed with Cats and Dogs. I always felt that focusing so much on sickenesses wasn't the right move and it partly ruins the experience of having pets for me. On top of that you can't even teach your dog to pee in a certain spot, but they do their thing at the porch usually... I also with we had some kind of panels for pets that show their character, the tricks they know etc, (similar to TS2). Breeding isn't fun because there's not enough alteration in the pet coat, nose, eye colour and you get puppies/kittens that are exact copies.

Other EPs that I don't enjoy much are Get to Work, Eco Lifestyle and University. Get to work is a bad combo of things and it feels half baked, Eco Lifestyle has great ideas, but the meters don't seems to work right, University is grindy and tricky in rotational play. Now all the complaining done, I'd like to add that I still enjoy all of the packs.

I voted University because compared to University in TS2 and TS3, I don't think it's particularly well done.

Mind you, compared to Pets in TS3, I don't think Cats and Dogs is particularly well done in TS4 either.

Snowy Escape. I probably feel more negative about it because I was pretty excited for it and it was on my wishlist for ages, but flat out it's just boring. There isn't really anything interesting to do in that pack other than building and I haven't really touched anything in it since the first 2 weeks.

Second would be Discover University, but not because it's bad it's just a Strangerville-play-once-then-never-again pack. I sent my sim to university once and it was fun to play through and it is probably the best university pack, but I'm not gonna repeat the same gameplay over and over again. I haven't sent a sim to university again since and I don't really have any desire to. Outside of university gameplay nothing in this pack is really useful at all, the only things I use from it is the roommate system and the shower. If it wasn't for the roommate system which I use a lot, this would be the one pack that I could refund and wouldn't miss a thing. :#

Third would be Get Together, only because I don't really see the point of it as a pack. Clubs and dance clubs could've very easily just been in the base game and other than that it's just a world pack

Edit: Forgot about it but from what I've seen the upcoming pack is my new least favorite, haven't seen the whole thing yet but it's the first expansion I've felt physically zero excitement for and have no desire to buy.