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Hi there,

I was wondering if anybody who plays The Sims 4 would like to work with me on an article: Choose Expansion Packs for the Sims 4. If you have any thoughts on the article, leave it on this thread. If you’re willing to collaborate with me on this article, you can also leave it on this article:slight_smile:

Thanks, @BoundlessElise

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I do play the game, but I can’t help you with the article topic, sorry. (I’m just replying because you tagged me on wikiTwitter. And I’ll be happy to proofread and offer my thoughts on the article once the article already exists and has content.)

Have you already began the article? You didn’t put a link in your post.

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I’m going to start the article and tag it as inuse right now.:slight_smile:

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Actually, I’ll start it as @BoundlessElise , so check for updates on that account.

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Ping @anon74718567 (Alex). They seem to know quite a bit about The Sims games.

(Edited) Found the link to the topic: https://www.wikihow.com/Choose-Expansion-Packs-for-Sims-4

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This sounds fun, I’ll probably edit a bit.

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I’m not opposed to helping out on this one, but I do want to be clear it’s going to be very difficult for me, for a few reasons:

  • I have only a few packs for Sims 4. There’s at least forty of them if you count the stuff packs and kits, and buying them all costs nearly $900. Even on sale, when everything is half price, they’re just way too expensive.
  • I’m a massive Sims 4 skeptic. The base game alone is riddled with bugs that quite literally make the game unplayable sometimes; the packs are the same, and from what I’ve heard, the kits and the recent feature-adding patches are even worse. If someone were to ask me, I’d tell them to not waste their money because there’s bugs that have been present from each pack’s launch, which still have not been fixed (for context, the base game was released in 2014).
  • EA has a history of taking things from the packs and putting them in the base game - they just recently did this with the bunk bed update, by moving one of the Parenthood beds to the base game without offering a replacement. We’re certainly not the judge of ethics, but it’s honestly hard to recommend a pack based on anything but core gameplay changes because we simply don’t know what else will stick. That means recommending stuff packs could be tough.
  • Ignoring all that, the game is still having packs released and apparently will be for years. With over forty packs in seven years, it’s likely there will be a lot more. The article will need to be updated every time there’s a new release of anything, even if it’s just a feature-adding patch. Unless someone else here has all Sims 4 packs and/or I were to get them illegally (which I’m not going to do), we can’t really give people accurate reviews. We’d be basically reading off the back of a box, which is designed to sell things to people, rather than being able to tell them about features that some or most players genuinely don’t like.
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Ah, alright.:smile:

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Yes, I play The Sims 4, but I don’t know how to do that. Sorry about that.

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Update: This article will be rewritten in my userspace instead of as an actual article because I don’t want to have to update my inuse tag or get templates for inuse. I asked Jayne to delete the actual article and I will post a link to the userspace version soon:slight_smile: