Why I won't be buying any expansion packs
I enjoy the Sims, and I enjoy the content of the packs that others had shared with me. I bought the base game in a bundle together with Cats and Dogs, and I would love to buy all the others. But I don...
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> @Lorenerd11 said:
> I enjoy the Sims, and I enjoy the content of the packs that were shared with me by others. I bought the base game in a bundle together with Cats and Dogs, and I would love to buy all the others. But I won't.
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> Because the game is too restrictive. Because there are too many oversights. That I can't fix, because the game is too restrictive.
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> I want to be able to manually place and remove fence posts. I want to be able to change apartment boundaries and edit public areas. I want to be able to make custom apartments on regular lots. I want to be able to make multi-purpose lots, like a mall with both functional restaurant and shops, or a cafe with a residential apartment upstairs. I want open neighborhoods.
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> And I want to be able to save buildbuy catalog items into collections, write individual Sims' biographies, and choose between multiple, separate swatches for different parts of an object, which are things we could already do in Sims 2. As a matter of fact, we used to be able to make multi-household apartments of our own in Sims 2 too...
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> None of these issues are going to be fixed by any expansion pack, and most can't even be fixed by mods.
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> I was hoping the game was starting to head in the right direction with the freeform placing of doors and windows and the skin tone update, that these could be a sign that the Sims team was starting to listen, that there was a genuine interest in improving the game, lifting some of the unnecessary restrictions and giving players more freedom.
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> But unless the Sims team continues to work in that spirit, and until they fix these issues, I don't think I'm going to purchase any more Sims 4 content.
That was such an inspiring post... Maybe that was not it's main intention, but that really did inspire me.
> I enjoy the Sims, and I enjoy the content of the packs that were shared with me by others. I bought the base game in a bundle together with Cats and Dogs, and I would love to buy all the others. But I won't.
>
> Because the game is too restrictive. Because there are too many oversights. That I can't fix, because the game is too restrictive.
>
> I want to be able to manually place and remove fence posts. I want to be able to change apartment boundaries and edit public areas. I want to be able to make custom apartments on regular lots. I want to be able to make multi-purpose lots, like a mall with both functional restaurant and shops, or a cafe with a residential apartment upstairs. I want open neighborhoods.
>
> And I want to be able to save buildbuy catalog items into collections, write individual Sims' biographies, and choose between multiple, separate swatches for different parts of an object, which are things we could already do in Sims 2. As a matter of fact, we used to be able to make multi-household apartments of our own in Sims 2 too...
>
> None of these issues are going to be fixed by any expansion pack, and most can't even be fixed by mods.
>
> I was hoping the game was starting to head in the right direction with the freeform placing of doors and windows and the skin tone update, that these could be a sign that the Sims team was starting to listen, that there was a genuine interest in improving the game, lifting some of the unnecessary restrictions and giving players more freedom.
>
> But unless the Sims team continues to work in that spirit, and until they fix these issues, I don't think I'm going to purchase any more Sims 4 content.
That was such an inspiring post... Maybe that was not it's main intention, but that really did inspire me.
