Which packs do you regret buying or wish you waited to buy?
As the title says, which packs have you bought and regretted buying, or alternatively which packs have you bought and wished you waited for a price drop first?
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City Living. I can ignore that too much time was spent on the background of the world. I can ignore that the endlessly looping festivals are just base game stuff and nothing new. I can ignore the highly annoying Japanese name generation taking over since installing it. Whatever.
I can’t ignore the apartments. Those are such an obvious fail that whoever approved those being not only included, but listed as a key feature should be fired if they haven’t left the studio already. Any effort that went into those was just to disguise what they are - separate regular lots tucked into a decorative shell. 1 or 2 units total got some unique gameplay, but rodents/dirtiness aren’t exclusive to high rise city buildings so why does that feature remain exclusive to 2 units? Really? I could use that in some residential homes.. Why does every unit within a single building have a completely different layout? Why aren’t there any entrance/lobby areas? No where will a mail person have access to your entire building; in a city apartment your mailbox will be on the ground floor by the front entrance, not right outside your unit in the hallway on the 7th floor. Why are there no amenities? What kind of apartment complex has 8 floors but not a single laundry area? They had the nerve to make that a separate pack and they still can’t be mixed in a way that makes sense. Let me throw a washer and dryer in my low-rent studio apartment? Lol ok
Why can’t they be built from scratch? They knew thats what people liked about them in Sims 2, and they knew the facade shells were what people didn’t like from Sims 3. Doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure that out. Why are they locked into one world? Is it too much freedom to let players make their own? Like none of the things in this last paragraph make sense even given context from the studio on what they wanted: aesthetic, vibes, over the top uniqueness (that boils down to a few VFX and annoying neighbors everyday.. wow).
I don’t buy EA stuff anymore (not just Sims) but Maxis was what started that by releasing such substandard content. I won’t pretend such low effort stuff is the best they can do, and it’s insulting when they pretend functionally inferior content is what’s best when in reality it’s just what was easier for them to make.
I can’t ignore the apartments. Those are such an obvious fail that whoever approved those being not only included, but listed as a key feature should be fired if they haven’t left the studio already. Any effort that went into those was just to disguise what they are - separate regular lots tucked into a decorative shell. 1 or 2 units total got some unique gameplay, but rodents/dirtiness aren’t exclusive to high rise city buildings so why does that feature remain exclusive to 2 units? Really? I could use that in some residential homes.. Why does every unit within a single building have a completely different layout? Why aren’t there any entrance/lobby areas? No where will a mail person have access to your entire building; in a city apartment your mailbox will be on the ground floor by the front entrance, not right outside your unit in the hallway on the 7th floor. Why are there no amenities? What kind of apartment complex has 8 floors but not a single laundry area? They had the nerve to make that a separate pack and they still can’t be mixed in a way that makes sense. Let me throw a washer and dryer in my low-rent studio apartment? Lol ok
Why can’t they be built from scratch? They knew thats what people liked about them in Sims 2, and they knew the facade shells were what people didn’t like from Sims 3. Doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure that out. Why are they locked into one world? Is it too much freedom to let players make their own? Like none of the things in this last paragraph make sense even given context from the studio on what they wanted: aesthetic, vibes, over the top uniqueness (that boils down to a few VFX and annoying neighbors everyday.. wow).
I don’t buy EA stuff anymore (not just Sims) but Maxis was what started that by releasing such substandard content. I won’t pretend such low effort stuff is the best they can do, and it’s insulting when they pretend functionally inferior content is what’s best when in reality it’s just what was easier for them to make.
