Which supernatural do you want to see next?

"Zeldaboy180;15542629" wrote:

"Writin_Reg;15542542" wrote:

"Zeldaboy180;15542458" wrote:

"Writin_Reg;15541323" wrote:
Yes Witches for sure and maybe even a Grand Wizard would be fun - have him come in with dragons maybe. I'd love Fairies and Elves too.

Hogwarts would be so cool! - this is an afterthought on my part - but I would love it. Make young wizards be able to build their powers and skill via Hogwarts otherwise they would have to wait until an older age to show they were a Wizard or even witches.

I enjoy harry potter but id be against this idea. I didnt like when vamps in sims 3 were inspired hy Twilight, and i didnt like katy perry inspired stuff etc.

Hogwarts is just too specific for me and not much of a sandbox. I just really wouldnt like it as id be forced to tell the same story of a wizard going to school everytime to learn powers.

In my stories witchcraft is learned by their parents and the family book of shadows like in actual paganism.

Im not against a magic school, just a hogwarts school. I wouldnt mind some harry potter references here and there, i just feel like a hogwarts pack is too specific to tell multiple different stories though, there could even be legal issues.

However im always open to change my mind, i Didnt like vampires having multiple forms at first but i love it now.

First of all the sims series has always been inspired by other things - every one of them featured multiple stars - among other things. Your sims would not be obligated to go to the school any more then the sims were obligated to go to college - it just gives an option to simmers who would like this to play their way as well. So what is the problem. As for there being legal issues - how would that be when EA already owns the right to publish the Harry Potter games - so they own those rights already. A publisher does not have to specify how they use rights once they have bought them they are free to use them forever as long as they stay within the perimeters of their agreement and A sims Hogwarts would be very much in those same perimeters. So not an legal issue that I can see. Not an issue for you that I can see as you can still play your way and us who have been asking for Harry Potter since Sims 2 could finally get our wish instead of having to go with modded stuff yet again.

One thing the Sims always will do is let people play their way - as much as possible. I would like the choice to play both ways - but fact is we always get the way you describe I was thinking of how about raising the bar this go round after all we been asking over 10 years now. That's all.

No disrespect on your play style - I do want you to play the way you enjoy of course - no question about it if you enjoy the same way of playing all the time - that is fine to me - I can support that as well as desire a new twist many of us has asked for - for a long time. There was even a survey back a while ago here on Sims 4 on a Magic School like hogwarts and many of us were thrilled - I would just like to see it happen - finally.

Maybe you misunderstood me or I wasnt clear, Im not against a Magic School, Im against a hogwarts pack. I wouldnt have any fun if everything was literally just hogwarts and harry pottered theme.

Id probably have fun with a magic school pack, as long it was optional and not all my witches would have to go.

For example, having a literal magic school called Hogwarts and then Hufflepuff and such houses, which actual characters named Hermiome and a head master named Dumbledore would bore me.

But if it was Generic magic school, maybe called Boar Pimples, a pun on hog warts, with generic houses, and characters inspired from Harry potter then id be fine with it.

To sum up, im fine with harry potter inspired, but i dont want a direct copy and paste.


Out of curioisity though, the sims owns rights to harry potter?

No - EA owns the rights to use and make HP games - they made all the HP games as each movie came out - which means they had to buy those rights - so they already own them and finished all their HP games. Maxis is owned by EA so Maxis could make use of those rights as well as long as they stay within the contract agreement EA has.

I am sure if the Sims did cover Harry Potter it would not at all be just like Harry Potter was seeing that has been done already - if anything they could loosely base a pack on the school for use in the game - is all I was talking about. There is no way all that went on in the movie would even be in a Sims game - for sure - but I was just talking about the School of magic they mentioned in one of the surveys that really sounded a lot like Hogwarts. As with all Sims thing I am fairly certain they would not be the same name or anything else and that it would be optional - as most things are fairly optional - most of the time anyway.

That is good you would not hate that idea then - and I am all for people having play styles they love, for sure - and being able to always enjoy playing their fave ways. I know I was miserable all this time with out the little toddlers and now I am quite happy - so I know how it is if ones play style just doesn't exist - it rots. But anyway - thanks for explaining what you meant.