Comments on: “Growing Together”: See All Items Coming with the Expansion Pack

By: Breather

Breather — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 21:27:00 +0000

I feel like the lacklustre experience of Growing Together, in hands, as a sims player vs the build up, hype and anticipation as someone within “the sims community” don’t align. It’s very much the social phenomena we’re all experiencing when it comes to social media and speaking in “hive mind” behaviour. Just because there’s hype or a lot of buzz around something doesn’t mean it’s going to be gaming changing or revolutionary.. it’s just social excitement tends to stretch and exaggerate things. I often feel like we need to stop, step back and be like this is just a game… a life simulation game. It doesn’t not mean “this life which you as a video game player are living”. It’s a form of a life. One were vampires, aliens and other life forms exist. It’s not real and the social clap back that take on the form of social justice speak or demands look like caricature of real life rather than real life itself. That’s the real meme right there. A lot of you use The Sims to “cope” with real life and I think the way you speak to yourself, the world at large, etc gets blurred when it comes to this simulation game and expectations.

By: Runaway Gecko

Runaway Gecko — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 00:12:00 +0000

I mean, at the very least Plunbella showcased with her early access build that infants may come with some… serious routings issues, so we are off to a good start I guess lol, and art classes are either broken, missing, or flat-out not as advertised if a quick glance on Twitter is anything to go by.

By: Megaira

Megaira — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 19:59:00 +0000

Dang that is a lot of new systems, I’ll have to wait and see, but as you said after HSY, DHD, DO and MWS I don’t have a lot of faith that this will be implemented correctly or well at all. Sad that I now have so little faith in their abilities at this point but maybe this will be the time they actually surprise me, though I doubt it XD

By: Runaway Gecko

Runaway Gecko — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 19:17:00 +0000

Yep, I noted in another comment that we are barely getting EP specific, unique items, and even the number of sim-to-sim interactions appear to align more with a GP. Cannot comment on the number of assets total, but the pack is definitely mostly an EP because of all the systems slapped in and the world as you said.

By: Jean

Jean — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 17:11:00 +0000

Well that is nice, but there are a lot of items that we already have if you look closely why should I pay for what I already have basically you are paying for a new world. If they are giving us the basics free in a patch then most of it is the world.

By: Runaway Gecko

Runaway Gecko — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 06:56:00 +0000

Even more so because this pack doesn’t just come with one new system like Fame or Clubs, but a pretty big chunk all over the depth range.

Milestones; family dynamics, Sim Characteristics, Conversation Topics, friemdship bracelets (it’s small, but there!) that affect sim-to-sim behaviour; temporary stays; newborn Temperaments; infant/toddler Quirks; midlife crisis; work rivals, burnout, getting laid off (i.e. company restructuring) all related to work; kids’ Confidence levels that may tranlate to a correlated self-esteem trait from teen above; custom puzzles for another tiny one; finally, a self-discovery system that grants a sim up to 3 more traits.

If I didn’t miss any, that’s up to 15 new systems in the EP, big and small, depending on how you break things down. If they gave it as much TLC as HSY, DHD, DO, or MWS… broken mods and CC are the very least of the community’s problems…

By: Megaira

Megaira — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 20:27:00 +0000

I was hoping that the new system would just be a small part, but I got really worried when they showed the “gameplay” trailer and all of it was about the new system. Not sure how this pack is worth the EP price, I don’t even know if it would be worth it on sale…Also with how badly implemented lifestyles was, and how bad the wants and fears system is I’m not holding my breath that this new system won’t be completely over the top and end up being more annoying than anything else. Plus with how I’ve seen sims react to each other even when bitter enemies, I hold a lot of doubt that this new system will all of a sudden cause sims to behave in any way other then super friendly to everyone around them like usual.

By: Runaway Gecko

Runaway Gecko — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 16:44:00 +0000

Ultimately, yes. The contents aren’t bad per se… but they should have just upgraded Parenthood to an EP retroactively (while making it a half-priced GP for those who already own Parenthood or something?) and made the memory and the likes/dislikes based compatibility BG.

By: Lucas Hearsay

Lucas Hearsay — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 14:21:00 +0000

So this is actually a glorified GP?

By: Runaway Gecko

Runaway Gecko — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 22:10:00 +0000

Apart from that one grey crib above (and I believe there’s also another crib as a babyshower reward?), the rest of the cribs are coming in the patch, they showed off all the BB objects coming to BG during the stream.