Why you dislike Nifty Knitting?

"nekotlc;c-17606449" wrote:
I hate it because I bought and installed the stuff pack and no items will appear in either CAS or buy mode! This stuff pack is a pile of poop and a waste of money!

I feel like this was sarcasm, but just in case it wasn't...

Because you have to actually KNIT the stuff for it to show up... it's called "Knitting". There's a cheat to unlock them though if you really don't want to knit with a knitting pack.

I don't hate it. I have found it quite entertaining but who allowed autonomous knitting? It's worse then Sims dancing all the time. I send my Sim to cook then find them dancing with the meal on the stove unfinished. Now my Sim is knitting instead of cooking. So many started items in my Sims inventory.

Flower arrangements go bad in something like 4 days or so and we can sell them on Plopsy yet we can't sell crafted drinks with a longer shelf life of like 14 days or so.

We need more matching wood tones. There are wood tones with this pack but they are hard to match with what we already have. Also, some pieces of furniture have no function other then just sitting there with few clutter slots. I feel like they could of had some sort of function with the ribbons or wrapping paper etc. Maybe gift wrapping or wrapping the shipping packages for the items on Plopsy. It's like the big decor piece from EL that could have doubled as a new potting station or a version of the woodworking table so our Sims could craft garden pots and planters. Just more missed opportunities.

I don't dislike it so much as I simply don't care for it. It feels like a very vanilla stuff pack, second only to Laundry Day.

I don’t dislike it, but It has a LOT of bugs (cas cheat crashing my game, sims with the knitting skill being tired faster and not getting energy as fast as they used to, knitting skill books not increasing skill and having two “read” interactions, sims dropping everything they’re doing to knit....)
And the build/buy catalog is a mess since they added one object for each swatch.

I'm a knitter in real life, and even I think this pack doesn't add enough depth. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely LOVE the decor items, some of them are way overdue to be included in the game, but the knitting projects themselves leave a lot to be desired (with the exception of the baby onesies, which are amazing). Why are there no basic, plain beanies, ear-flap or pom-pom hats? Those are what real knitters knit, not those stupid looking cutesy animal hats, and NEVER for adults because adults don't want them. Real knitters knit elaborate lace shawls, potholders, socks, sweaters, scarves, mittens and normal hats. We got the socks and sweaters. A lot of knitters knit for boutiques, too, meaning they knit TONS of the same items to sell at boutiques, which mostly take place in autumn in time for the holidays. I think EA dropped the ball with only adding Plopsy where you might sell a couple items a week. There are all these community lots and the sales tables are already part of the game. They could have added something like the Flea Market, and had a craft boutique sale day, where you could sell all your craftables. Can you even sell the knit items using the sale tables? I haven't been able to keep my attention on the game long enough to find out.

I guess by adding one very specialized skill to a stuff pack, it makes the skill, and thereby the pack, seem without depth. If you ignore the knitting skill, itself, the stuff in this pack is great, and I love that we got to vote on it. I'm just waiting for something to really keep my attention for longer than a couple hours a month, like previous versions of The Sims were able to do.

I voted for it but as the voting went it seemed to get worse and worse. I dont like the art style, the name plopsy, how plopsy works, how knitting looks or works, the locked clothes system, the rocking chairs are massive and ugly, the build/buy catalog is super sloppy, theres hardly anything in the pack, the memory thing for elders is lazy and pointless, the metal genre they includes is not my taste in metal, I don't like the term frogging even though I knit, I still call it scrapping it if its not working out just like everythig else in the game, and I don't like how they only included knitting in an arts and crafts pack.

No regrets I love it and the rocking chairs are awesome.

Nifty Knitting should have been Cranky Crochet with hook dueling and deep sea diving.

"Karon;d-979529" wrote:
I want to understand why a bunch of people is hating on this pack, when I feel like its one of the best stuff packs we EVER had. Please, give me your reasons.

Colour swatches are what I don't like. I use the desks in my kid's room as a craft table for them. If there were more swatches for everything I would have nothing to dislike but colour swatches are an easy fix. I would have liked more variety to knit. I would have liked it to be more than just knitting with embroidery and crocheting added in. However, with things missing in the pack I genuinely love it.

"Onverser;c-17604430" wrote:
Not very interesting concept and swatches of items are too "cutesy" with weird pastel colours rather than neutral tones which makes them hard to use in regular builds. Also the voting process and dragged out release has left a lot of people feeling disappointed, majority either wanted happy haunts or an elders pack and we got neither. When you give people an option on these things people usually get one option they really love and get excited for, and then when that option doesn't win that leads to disappointment. I feel like people would possibly be more positive if it was a surprise release like Tiny Living

The pastel colors were voted for. A LOT of women and girls plays sims 4. I was in a very large fan group for sims 4 and a lot of women said that they liked that selection and were glad it won. I am more of a neutral color kind of person but it’s fine.