Now that seasons is announced, would anyone be willing to buy a holiday stuff pack? If so, what would you want in it.For me, I would love a holiday day stuff pack if they added fun interactions that would make our winters more enjoyable. One example of this is gingerbread house making and decorating which could be a fun activity for the whole family. Another awesome activity they could add if it isn't added already would be the ability to sing winter carols (by yourself or with other sims). Sims could even react differently based on their traits :)

I think that'd be really cool but I'd kind of prefer it to be into the base of the seasons expansion

I would as long as the holidays in the seasons EP felt complete. I think of SP as optional. So as long as it just enriched the holidays or added new ones but did not feel like a hold out. I would be okay. It's actually one of the SP I automatically thought of when seasons was announced. It's the same way that now I feel like my Spooky SP has a point, and will use it during the fall season.

We already have a Holiday pack that is FREE that they update with new stuff every year - so why would we want to buy one?

I wouldn’t. We should be getting everything you could possibly want for holidays in the new Seasons expansion. Not only that, but they continue to add free patch holiday items every year. We even started getting some stuff for non-American holidays. So I don’t see that a paid pack would have anything to offer me

"Writin_Reg;c-16493336" wrote:We already have a Holiday pack that is FREE that they update with new stuff every year - so why would we want to buy one?Because the free pack is garbage and offers nothing but useless décor like the Christmas tree that could not be decorated unlike the new Christmas tree coming with Seasons that can be decorated. I'm looking for game play not stuff that is just visual but adds nothing to the game... Do you believe they will add content like Christmas carols or kissing under the mistletoe if that's not in Seasons in the free pack?

Would you but a holiday themed stuff pack?

catloverplayer
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
"stilljustme2;c-16497297" wrote:
"ChadSims2;c-16493565" wrote:
"Writin_Reg;c-16493336" wrote:
We already have a Holiday pack that is FREE that they update with new stuff every year - so why would we want to buy one?

Because the free pack is garbage and offers nothing but useless décor like the Christmas tree that could not be decorated unlike the new Christmas tree coming with Seasons that can be decorated. I'm looking for game play not stuff that is just visual but adds nothing to the game... Do you believe they will add content like Christmas carols or kissing under the mistletoe if that's not in Seasons in the free pack?

I wouldn't call it "garbage" -- we've gotten some really nice CAS items as freebees like tuxedos for men and boys. And decor always comes in useful for public venues; I could see using the fancy tree as decor in one of my shops, for example. I'm planning on building a set of seasonal shops that I can switch out at the beginning of each season, selling seasonal produce for planting and seasonal appropriate items). Considering the price (free) there are good items there. I hope they continue to update the pack with more items to help celebrate our own holidays, the way we got the Diwali items last autumn.

And according to the blog looks like kids will be able to make cards (maybe other crafts) and the trailer showed kissing under the mistletoe so those are covered. But between Seasons content and hopefully continued updating of the Holiday Celebration Pack, we should be doing fine for decor items that we wouldn't need a supplemental SP.

I wouldn't call it garbage either. I love that Holiday Fireplace we got last year and those outdoor lighted trees we got in 2016.
Briana2526
Seasoned Traveler
7 years ago
Seasons will probably cover the holidays I mean we have a bunny and some sort of st. Nick but we haven't seen the pack yet there's probably more to it they even added more Halloween decorations in the trailers.
peterskywalker
7 years ago
I completely agree Evoland-1007. The holidays in seasons should feel complete. I was thinking of a holiday so along the lines of spooky stuff which adds just a touch extra to the holiday. Hopefully the original holiday feels thought out enough.

So far with gift giving and tree decorating, it is off to a good start.
Cheekybits
7 years ago
I don't think they will do any more holiday stuff. In seasons you can make your own holidays so I don't think they'd need another pack for it. BUT I do think there making vacations like they did with jungle adventure. If they have a beach pack and mountain pack I'd buy it. I think that's why they went the direction they did, allows for complete full holidays and they can focus on the weather and seasons instead of adding vacations with half baked ideas.
ChadSims2
Seasoned Novice
7 years ago
I'd love for the ability to sing Christmas carols so if they added that I'd buy anything the option to sing as a group is a must.
icemanfresh
Seasoned Newcomer
7 years ago
"Cheekybits;c-16490946" wrote:
I don't think they will do any more holiday stuff. In seasons you can make your own holidays so I don't think they'd need another pack for it. BUT I do think there making vacations like they did with jungle adventure. If they have a beach pack and mountain pack I'd buy it. I think that's why they went the direction they did, allows for complete full holidays and they can focus on the weather and seasons instead of adding vacations with half baked ideas.

I think they could introduce an SP that adds new activities and outfits for your custom holidays. So maybe even if the EP covers the basic holidays, you could get other festive stuff in the SP for other holidays that you can imagine.
evilyn_37
Rising Adventurer
7 years ago
"Cheekybits;c-16490946" wrote:
I don't think they will do any more holiday stuff. In seasons you can make your own holidays so I don't think they'd need another pack for it. BUT I do think there making vacations like they did with jungle adventure. If they have a beach pack and mountain pack I'd buy it. I think that's why they went the direction they did, allows for complete full holidays and they can focus on the weather and seasons instead of adding vacations with half baked ideas.

I think we are for sure getting beach and moutain GP in the future. Which is why they dont have sunburn, sunbathing, lounge chair, ocean swimming, surfing, snowboarding etc. But I always thought they would go that way.
Hermitgirl
New Spectator
7 years ago
It depends on what was in it. I usually forget to decorate... so most of what we have in game and what's coming should be enough for me. If it added something like Christmas carols as @ChadSims2 suggested or some other game play that made it more nostalgic and vivid for me I'd probably buy it then.. but for just mostly stuff .. no.
justme22
7 years ago
"peterskywalker;d-940220" wrote:
Now that seasons is announced, would anyone be willing to buy a holiday stuff pack? If so, what would you want in it.

For me, I would love a holiday day stuff pack if they added fun interactions that would make our winters more enjoyable. One example of this is gingerbread house making and decorating which could be a fun activity for the whole family. Another awesome activity they could add if it isn't added already would be the ability to sing winter carols (by yourself or with other sims). Sims could even react differently based on their traits :)

Why not wait to see what's in the EP? The blog said Sims kids can do crafts so maybe gingerbread house creation will be included. But if the activities can stand on their own for those who don't have Seasons then I suppose it could work.
paradiseplanet27
Seasoned Newcomer
7 years ago
Well I purchased Spooky Stuff of my own volition and like some of the things I got from it, and there's also the free Holiday pack that gets updated at least every year so there's that. Apart from that I don't see what other stuff packs of holidays can they do? If you count Romantic Garden as something for Valentine's I don't see much. The more reasonable way they would approach this is start selling us stuff packs appropriate for each season instead. You know it's probably an idea in their mind...