Which packs do you regret buying or wish you waited to buy?

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.

"telmarina;c-17690771" wrote:
I don't regret buying it, but i only bought Tiny Living cause it was on a sale for 4,99 and it was the only pack i didn't own at that moment. I don't regret cause it was rather cheap but i don't use anything from it.

That is one of my fave packs, I use that stuff all the time! Haha, funny how we all differ.

I think I only ever bought one pack at full price, and I don't regret any of them.

If I had to pick one I was most disappointed with, I'd say Eco Living. Because they built it up to sound so incredibly awesome and the naps and eco footprint aspects turned out to be totally rubbish (though it still has a lot of great stuff in it).

i dont regret buying any packs. but if i known eco was so buggy i would have waited later to purchase it til the bugs were fixed. would have spared me some stress had i waited. but id still would get it later anyway if i didnt buy it already.

C&D: i found the cats in this one to be very boring and unintersting, so far they are my least favorite in the franchise.
DU: to be fair, i havent played around with this one but i also knew from the start that i am not a fan of this iteration's version of uni so i was aware of how i would feel about it unlike C&D.

I forget them but all of the packs I bought at full price, I forgot the ones (sorry) but even the ones I enjoyed and continue to enjoy I wish I waited until they were on sale.

Eco Living and Nifty knitting are the only packs I remember buying at at full price and I waited until they were on sale.

I’m happy everyday I didn’t buy JTB!

I regret buying JTB, if I'd known there would be so much locked clothing, I wouldn't have bought it...

But I do use content from all the packs from time to time.

Mylita

Probably Luxury Party -- I use the content from that pack the least though I have used the buffet tables and drink fountains to make/modify some wedding venues, and the wall lights that look like drapes dress up lounge venues quite nicely. (I've probably used Spooky Stuff even less, but I got it on sale so it's less of a regret.) Every other pack I've been able to incorporate into my game play somehow; in my current template save I used the cheat to complete the storyline in Strangerville, deleted all the premades except for the Eclectic Arts household whom I relocated to a 3BR apartment in San Myshuno (Arts Quarter, of course!), copied some of my favorite houses to use in other worlds (my favorites are Strangerville Outlook, Dream Weaver's Way and Plateau Place) and now plan to replace houses with smaller 1-story builds to use the world as a retirement village for elder Sims I'm no longer actively playing but don't want the game to cull. (The weather will be better for creaky bones.)

I don't own all the packs so there's some regrets I've managed to avoid haha (vampires and maybe Star Wars... I know I def. don't want SW at full price but might consider as part of a bundle later)

With that in mind... I regret Bowling Stuff, Romantic Garden Stuff, Spa Day, Discover University, Tiny Living. And City Living I DID get on sale and I'm so glad I waited as it's not worth full price.

Eco lifestyle. It’s the one of 2 packs in all my sims game I wish I’d never bought the other is a sims 3 pack. It has hardly any gameplay and that it does have I don’t like or don’t use. The world I haven’t even played in yet and apart from some of the kids/toddler clothes I don’t use the cas. Then there are all the bugs from the naps, the naps themselves and the useless eco lifestate thing that does nothing in the game apart from shine a rainbow (green), do nothing (normal) or makes sims cough (industrial). The only thing i use from the pack is the bb stuff. Personally I think it’s worth the price tag of a gamepack on sale or a gamepack if I’m feeling generous towards it. It’s a shame as it was a good concept just very poorly executed.

Eco Lifestyle. I found out I have ZERO interest in the concept. The only and I do mean only things I use out of the pack are some build/buy items. But it's very few of them. It's just not my cup of tea.