Some additional info and clarifications! *Bug Score & Improving Gameplay Scores* - The introduction of the Bug Score may have influenced Gameplay scores for packs with notable issues, as players might feel less compelled to factor bugs into their Gameplay ratings. Although the survey specifically asked participants to rate gameplay as if it were bug-free, this distinction didn’t seem to make a significant difference in overall pack ratings. Notable increases were observed in the Gameplay scores for My Wedding Stories and Dine Out, both of which are known for being particularly buggy. However, other packs like Dream Home Decorator and High School Years, which also received higher Bug Scores, did not show meaningful changes in their Gameplay ratings. I do think the bug fixes for both My Wedding Stories and Dine Out did genuinely increase their gameplay. It is certainly possible that with the addition of the bug score that influenced the other scores too. It will be interesting to see the trend next year. *7:53* - I said that potentially only 3% of people that own Fashion Streetwear Kit bought it. I made a mistake here. 30.2% of people surveyed said they own it, and 27.4% of people who own it said they got it for free.
Next year you should add a question about replayability. There are so many good dlc's but I think it's impactful to know if you only play it once and never touch it again.
AGREE!!! Some things are fun like once. High school for example. I do find i revisit it as a storyteller often but going about twice in a teens life is usually more than enough
Good idea i want that because strangerville and all the occult gameplay will not be as high. seasons has the highest replay value because it influence every world you live in with the bioms and holiday systems. but i agree with james that should be a basic sims 4 content.
@@Darkestscars definitely! And maybe some ranking of if you still think it was worth buying. For example I like owning jungle adventure even though the replay ability is relatively low because of the build/buy and CAS. I barely ever touch outdoor retreat because it was boring to play the herbalism thing the first time and it’s genuinely painful to do with seasons making half the stuff un harvestable whenever you go! And while the build buy and CAS in that pack were nice for their time, there are plenty of alternatives now from better packs. I wouldn’t personally rebuy outdoor retreat now.
@@TheDawnofVanlife I think that's true of all game content that requires that you follow 1 sim. I nearly always play families, so I didn't even do a lot of the career/high school/anything that takes you away until I did my Super Sim. Like I've only done the detective career once and probably will never actively play it again (bugs aside)
WOWOWOW The production value. The Excel kid in me loves the statistics - why is this so fun? :D And I was truly amazed when I noticed you put the pack specific music to every section
I've never noticed each pack has separate music. I think it's because a lot of the time I'm playing The Sims I have a podcast or something playing, I don't think I ever really pay much attention to the music.
EA is definitely using this data alongside their own. However, I think paying James for this would skew his opinion in their favor. We need independent creators, because EA is currently taking advantage of their players. Selling us broken packs with little substance… making empty promises to fix the bugs. Here we are a year later and people’s build mode is crashing their games regularly.
Haha they know all of this data lol but also they can even see what we do in our games, so they know what content gets used a lot and what content doesn’t and can either improve or focus on other gameplay if it’s unpopular. It’s really cool
Video idea: playing with only the best rated packs and playing with only the worst rated packs I think it'd be fun to see James do a video where he plays with only the top 1-5 best packs in each category and one where he plays with only the worst 1-5 packs in each category.
I have a theory that the gameplay score for certain packs seems to have gone up this year because with the introduction of the bug score, people no longer feel like they have to temper their score to account for bugs.
Yeah that is possible, however, Dream Home Decorator and High School Years both had a higher bug score but their gameplay did not change meaningfully. I do think the bug fixes for both My Wedding Stories and Dine Out did genuinely increase their gameplay. I have personally found them both play much more smoothly now. It is certanly possible that with the addition of the bug score that influenced the other scores too. It will be interesting to see the trend next year :)
I was wondering if it may also be that EA doing so many loudly publicized bug fixes for dine out and my wedding stories just got people to play it again to see if it works now. So it reminded them of what the gameplay actually is, but also reminded them the bugs are not all the way fixed.
@@JamesTurnerYT I think some people just don't jazz with DHD and HSY gameplay regardless of how buggy or not they are. Speaking for myself, I don't like seeing my sims in the high school class and not really do anything and waiting until it's lunchtime. Maybe if there was more gameplay like idk make your sim try to pass notes or take a nap and have the chance of being caught by the teacher? I just rather send them to the regular high school rabbithole.
@@crisiscat For me, Dream Home Decorator and the photography career are two of the jobs I could easily replay over and over, but DHD is still unplayable for me (quite literally) because a lot of the time, the job just won't complete and my Sim is stuck for days on the client's lot until I have to quit and fail the assignment. High School Years, however, I think is one of the most poorly designed packs-the child and teen life stages are long enough that there really needs to be more to do with your younger Sims (which in turn helps to grow more invested in them as adults), and I totally agree, the gameplay in the high school should *had* far more to do, to start with, but also been a lot more interactive and customisable. If you're going to be sitting through class, it's ridiculous to me that your Sim can't actually interact with it, and as a player, you're either fast-forwarding or just sitting at your computer watching them sit at a desk; like, *who* thought would be fun gameplay. The activities and clubs should be far more playable as well, not just rabbit holes, and your teens' different personalities should be able to come out more at school-and emphatically, teens from your other families in the save should also show up at school, not just the same townies and the game's random NPCs, which is one of the most boring elements of the whole thing to me.
one reason occult packs are the highest even though not everyone likes them is that we only rated it on the survey if we owned it and if someone knows they dont like occults they’re not gonna own the pack. so the scores are only from people that like occults
I was thinking that, and there's a general consensus among occult players that Sims 4 does occults better than any other sims game. People love to see Sims 3 through rose-tinted glasses but when compared with Sims 4 occults, we got a lot of them in Sims 3 Supernatural but they didn't offer as much depth, interesting gameplay or re-playability.
It also goes to show they’re just overall good packs. EA has put more effort into occult packs than they do a lot of others, and it shows from the score. Just because someone likes vampires doesn’t mean the vampire pack is automatically good - if it wasn’t a quality pack the score would reflect that because the people who own it would have rated it poorly. I own the occult packs, and even though I don’t use them much anymore I can still acknowledge that they put a lot of effort in and they still hold up compared to more recent DLC. The same could be said for other themes, like college and high school being bought by people who enjoy that type of gameplay.
Being a Brit, I was really confused as to why your green arrows pointed down and your red arrows pointed up. This was until I realised that the number one spot was at the bottom of the tables, not the top. Makes sense coz you're in Aus, so everything is on it's head :P Excellent video though!
wait now I want to know if james deliberatly put the top rated ones at the bottom because of the australia joke. Because I was sooooo confused why he chose to show it that way.
Watching these I’m always hoping that EA will have a meeting where everyone watches this together. This is so beautifully representative of the community experiences of the game - on a general level. Individual preferences don’t really impact the overall trends that this survey indicates. Terrific work 👏 I hope EA listens
let's manifest more packs like cottage living this year ♥ EA just need to watch this video and take notes. James and us are giving them a recipe for perfect pack
I’m confused by this. I’ve been hearing non stop about how bugged this pack is but I’ve completed 3 of 4 of the aspirations and have had no problems so far? The only bug I’ve found is my droid will continually animate the “distract” animation when selected and won’t stop replaying the animation until I travel - which isn’t a big deal and doesn’t affect gameplay at all that I’ve seen Edit: I think I got the batuu pack in 2024. So maybe previously bugged but I’ve had no issues
@@electric_experience It's not the bug that people had a problem with. Most people just don't like the collab with Star Wars/Disney because it feels cash grabby.
@electric_experience The post you replied to is saying Batuu isn't (as) buggy (as MWS and Dine Out) and that James added the bug score to his formula so Batuu wouldn't be lowest ranked.
I think Batuu was an odd choice for a pack, but I actually love the BB and CAS. The gameplay is okay, but the letter carrier walking around the base in her uniform broke immersion for me a bit.
@ no I keep hearing in groups an everywhere that it’s buggy, I have had zero bugs. I’m not saying other people aren’t having problems, I just haven’t. I’m aware people don’t like the pack for what it is though, yes
IMO what would make Get To Work better is if you could run a business from your home lot rather than requiring a dedicated retail space, so you could build a shop with an upstairs apartment. I play home chef hustle like that and it's nice to not have to go through a loading screen every day you want to "go to work"
i really wish in For Rent, when you separate units in a rental, each unit could be its own lot type. that way, you could have a retail space where the owners live in the apartment upstairs, or a row of brownstones with a corner cafe or gym or whatever. i feel like, especially in urban areas, that’s pretty common to see. idk i know it would make an already pretty glitchy pack even worse, but i think it would have REALLY changed the game
This is my theory, but if I’m not mistaken, Paranormal and Werewolves were both Sim Guru Connor as the lead, and both are very well made packs with virtually no bugs upon release. So I always like hearing when he was the lead on packs, it makes me excited even if the theme isn’t my favorite
The ones that led in the creation of the occults should be the ones always leading the creation of packs in Sims 4. Especially the ones that worked on life and death
get to work is my favorite pack, of all probably, i could replay it forever and ever but it needs a BIG refresh - especially aliens, they deserve so much more
@@iosketches if the simulation lag wasn't so bad, I would like the pack way more. You can barely get anything done when it takes ages before your sim starts doing a task
I finally bought it earlier this year after watching James sneak it into build mode so often! Still haven’t actually taken a sim to Batuu. But I do enjoy the build buy and surprisingly a little bit of the CAS.
I love Batuu, I finally finished all of the game play last year. I had fun doing the game play, I just wish there was more stuff to do. I love the build items, I don't really like the CAS items. Overall I think it is a great pack but it needed more game play features.
Batuu is a goldmine for BB, especially trying to build fantasy, sci-fi or medieval style. Otherwise, I just use it to give my Sims lightsabers so they can work out without freezing to death. I played through all the Aspirations once, then kidnaped Kylo and Rey and put them in a household together in Oasis Springs. Recently I played an Ailen household and had him vacation there; it's the only scenario that really makes sense. Though Basemetal's Trippy Batuu Mod does put an interesting spin on visiting.
Dude, I am carrying Magnolia Promenade on my back. Four lots is a crime but the vibe is just chefs kiss. Plus the lots are a decent size so you can create little shopping centers or a nightclub/coffee shop/music store etc. My magnolia promenade is always Bourbon Street.
EA: _makes The Sims 4: Discover University Expansion Pack and introduces bikes_ Also EA: _Neither Britechester nor Foxbury is bicycle compatible_ Simmers: *_rages_*
That's an outright lie on Britechester. I frequently use bikes to get to classes. Now Foxbury decided to add stairs in the major walkways to and from class so that you're right on but Britechester's walkways are flat and good for biking in class to. It's honestly the only reason I remember bikes exist at all. (Well, now Growing Together has learning to bike be a big thing for a child aspiration so there is that as well)
This in incredible, the fact that you do this every year is such dedication! Love all the stats, and the editing and production on this is FLAWLESS. 10/10 James.
James (about outdoor retreat): "I don't really use it that much" Also James: *uses cloud gazing interactions on a daily basis; uses tents for basically every rags to riches ever* lol On a more serious note though, this was another amazing survey video! As always, very well thought out and executed
Cloudgazing is no longer limited to Outdoor Retreat. I do not own that pack, and I can use it. I first noticed it when I bought Life and Death, but I bought that when it released so I'm unsure if it came with Life and Death or if it was included in the base game update. :)
@@SEHayes I dont have outdoor retreat or life and death packs and noticed I now have this interaction in game for the last few months too both cloud gazing and star gazing
A couple of things: 1- it breaks my brain people find For Rent less buggy than Dine Out and My Wedding Story. It's just popular to associate those 2 with bugs when the only pack corrupting the game and making entire save files unusable is For Rent, but oh, well. 2- Discover University is one of my favorite packs ever! Great video, as usual. Thank you for all the good work, James. Happy New Year!
I wholeheartedly agree with this. Obviously everyone has their own opinion, but I was definitely shocked about that. For Rent was the only pack I gave a 10 on bugs because it corrupted save files. I wanted to love that pack so much, but it scares me to try to play with rentals now, so I don't really use it anymore.
I literally did not buy For Rent because of how game breaking the bugs are. Same with My Wedding Story. I was really interested in both, but the widespread and well known and unfixed bugs AT RELEASE really made my decision for me, it’s not like the bugs were hidden. It’s possible the ranking was impacted because only people who really really loved them bought them. The recent fixes to My Wedding Stories has me reconsidering though.
i feel like it’s just different experiences at play here. i personally only find dine out to be buggy for me. my wedding stories and for rent have both worked near perfect in my game since release 🤷🏻♀️
I think that because fewer people have those packs and people just rated things following their own criteria (what does 5 mean? What does 8 mean?) that may have skewed things.
I think it's a matter of consistency, For Rent's bugs are very bad and very game-breaking but these really bad bugs won't affect ALL players equally. Meanwhile, Dine Out and Wedding Stories will almost universally never work. I still find FR buggy enough to make gameplay not fun (the building bugs are very very bad and annoying, especially when doing some out of the box stuff like a Tiny Town LP), but I guess if people play the game in a less experimental way they won't come across those that much.
I wonder if a pack like Strangerville would be ranked higher if there was a way to just turn off the Mother storyline without playing through it. I've considered it just for the build mode but don't really want to spend the money for a world I won't use. (Also - thanks for doing this, James! It's awesome!)
Sorry for the unsolicited comment but for anyone wondering, if you don't want to use mods, you can solve it once and Save As starting from that solved save file when you play from then on.
Mr. Turner, thank YOU so much for making this!!!!I know it takes weeks and weeks of working to put together the polls, then analyze the data neatlym then film this video explaining it to use then editing this video and sharing everything. WE APPRECIATE YOU AND ALL OF YOUR HARD WORK!!!! I love these videos sooo much
I think gameplay scores going up is not only due to bug fixings but also with there being a separate bugs rating, people weren't taking those into account as much when ranking gameplay!
I would be interested to see a mini LP of the buggiest games, sorry James 😂 I know I have not retried Dining Out or Wedding Stories even though they have supposedly had many of the bugs addressed. Dream Home Decorator was completely broken the last two times I have tried to play, and I know for many others. So it would be really interesting to see short LPs to see if the bugs are really better or if they deserve the ratings they got. Plus it may inspire people to revisit those packs.
Every year when the survey comes out and I fill it in I start getting excited for this video, it’s a genius idea and wow the production value is really high these days!! 🤩🤩 So much work must be going into this and it’s very much appreciated, thank you James!!
The fact console players got The Pack That _Must Not_ Be Named WITH Cats & Dogs is literally the next best thing, with the best being TO JUST MERGE IT WITH THE EP!
I’d like to see a build video where you take the top build mode rankings and do a build. So Cottage Living, Dream Home Decorator, Tiny Living & Booknook. Seeing as they are the favourites and people are likely to be able to download it.
Im sad about Bowling Night Stuff being so low ranked tbh, its one of my favorites when it comes to furniture. I feel like it needs a little more justice, as we dont have that much Mid-Century type furniture, especially aimed torwards the more Atomic Age type style. Which I personally very much love. It also have some really nice, funky, swatches. With that said; despite it being a bowling pack, it has a unique vibe compared to the rest of the packs, furniture wise, and I use it all the time. :)
Great video. Eco lifestyles downfall is the NAPs. I do wish you could decide which worlds use NAPs so you could enjoy Eco lifestyle NAPs in Evergreen Harbor but also turn off the mechanic in other worlds if you want. Butlers aren’t that bad if you just let them be as an appliance. Trying to get them to do things is annoying, but for my wealthy Sims just having them active around the house, they do clean and take care of babies and repair and such. The tuning is just bad sometimes, at times things have to be almost dire before they get to it.
I just found out that you can cheat off NAPs using the mailbox - I wonder if there is a way to do it off your home lot. (I rarely leave the lot, so for me it's not that bad.)
@@slwrabbitsI know about this, but its litterally annoying to do this as a rotational player who plays in several worlds or remember to do it whenever you start a new save at EVERY home. There aren’t universal NAPs, they are by neighborhood. So if you make friends with a Sim in a different neighborhood where a different NAP is in effect or you move or your sim friend/love intrest/whatever is in a neighborhood where a NAP is active that wasn’t active in your neighborhood you can experience NAP behavior from sims that might seem/feel like a bug but its really just the NAP affecting their autonomy. I’d rather just have an actual OFF button to ensure no NAPs where I don’t want them. Even the game options settings for eco lifestyle don’t fully shut them down. It will turn off voting and creating new ones. But if you turn off NAPs in game options, NAPs active before hitting the switch will stay alive and going in many neighborhoods. They are pervasive.
@@TheDawnofVanlife Yeah, they weren't well thought-out, and it's quite a pain, agreed. I kind of wish I'd known how troublesome they would be before I got the pack!
Discover University is my favourite pack! Surprised it's down at 11. It's the one pack I come back to again and again, whether active playing at University, or passive sending my Sims off lot to study.
i really enjoy high school years, didn't know that was as controversial as it seems! if anyone missed it, there's now an "ask about college parties" option on teen sims phones/social category to help them complete that part of the aspiration. i love it!
Im not surprised that Cottage Living in No.1 and youre totally right, it should be the blue print for expansion packs. Wr got ao much with that pack - unique world, animals and the farming that came with them, jams and canning food, simple living, embroidery and making animal clothes, animal treats, different fertilisers, quests, wild animals and gifting, picnics, pubs (serving food!), stalls selling produce, wild mushrooms 😵💫😂
I really like Batuu, I enjoy the style of play, with little jobs to do to advance in the story. That's like I enjoy the Sims Medieval. Love to see Batuu isn't the dead last again! 😅
I think a rating for lore/townie stories would be really fun for next year!! A lot of the packs have such good world-building in them and really improve the experience imo
@fadeddahlia that's completely fair! I think the writer in me really likes reading the item blurbs & townie interactions like Grapevine Gossip in MWS, but I get that it might be too niche/not apply to enough packs for everyone to rank.
With how many packs there are, the more rating options people have the less likely they are to actually complete it. TS4 has lore but it's not very prominent, I personally still haven't read all of the little blurbs for each household and probably never will lol
I got to be a part of this this year and it was so much fun! Really puts into perspective how people approach their gameplays and what they find valuable. And how I feel about the packs myself. You made a lot of effort with all the options, stats and graphics and it's fun to see. Thanks for adding all those play-build-sim-world stats separately, it's really interesting.
brilliantly done, as always James. thanks for putting so much effort into these videos; it does not go unnoticed. also: loved the music tied to each pack while you were discussing it! it definitely added some aahmbiaance
I love watching these videos. It's always interesting to see the results. Something I personally noticed is the most buggiest pack, actually have amazing concepts, and had great potential but got messed up cause of the bugs. If they didn't have bugs, I think people would like them more. It would be interesting to see scores of how expandable each pack is. Thanks for all the work you put in for this video, james!
For eco-lifestyle, in settings you can make voting player-directed only (do not allow npcs to vote), the results will still pop up but they dont actually apply. Lifesaver 😂 If cheats are enabled, you can also shift-click on a mailbox to instantly enact or remove NAPs which is quick to do.
My favorite video every year! The gameplay scores for eco lifestyle and get famous seem to really reflect that both packs are super fun when you're actively playing through them, but the features are so annoying when they pop up and affect unrelated gameplay
BAM! nice too see this beautiful stats! ^_^ also: i think the gameplay scores going up is also due to bugs being it's own rating category. before i think people incorporated the bugginess in the gameplay score.. at least that's how i reasoned 👀
the modern menswear is mostly just like all the other menswear which is copied over. someone needs to tell the sims team that being gender inclusive does just mean poorly relabling the 2 genders and giving men a croptop that always looks odd because the object mesh isn't made to match the body
@@6pmmmI actually like masculine /feminine filters. Sometimes I am trying to Lean one way or the other in designing my Sim. The last thing Sims 4 needs with the 5 billion things in the game at this point is LESS filters. Categories at least help you theme down on what you are looking for and sometimes that is very much traditionally masculine clothing be that for a male body or female bodied Sim.
this was the fist year i voted in this; and i doubt im alone in that. the cool side effect of doing this every year is that the data is gonna get more and more complete every year :0
This is the first time I’ve filled it out too. I got all the packs in a 2 year time span and still hadn’t explored everything last year. But the way people voted for Batuu makes me think he should add a bell curve.
That nursery kit is everything, I was looking for. Then Life and Death came out. Love both. The artist studio kit is a lot of fun. I use the greenhouse kit all the time, gotta love a covered porch.
I'd be interested to know whether ppl have played with the packs they own recently to see how that impacts the scores. Like do people who don't really play with a pack report more bugs and stuff like that
My favorite, annual tradition! The quality of this video and the attention to detail are a sight to behold. I love that even the cursor was made to look like the Sims 4 cursor! Like???? Thank you, James for putting together such a thorough and entertaining video. Happy New Year!
I actually had my sims eat at a restaurant several times in my recent gameplay and I've been enjoying that! I did have one bug that I can remember where they didn't bring food, but that actually might have been before the bug fix. I don't remember exactly. But several other dinner went without issues, which is definitely a win for me. I haven't tried to run a restaurant yet and when I do I'll probably still use Carl's mod for the options it provides. So, the fact that I can actually "Dine out" now and it works the way it should, is a significant improvement.
great job again this year! I would love to see a "world opinion" on seasons. Personally, I wish it came with a world that had the best example for all the seasons, or even a special world that had neighborhoods divided by seasons all year round. Perhaps it would effect the overall score, but a survery of "change in enjoyment if there was a world or not" in placement of the world score would be interesting to see! FANTASTIC video, I am amazed at the detail!!!
I was ecstatic to say that i participated in this survey! I was sad last time because i missed it due to discovering this channel late. Looking forward to the survey again this December. 😊
Batuu had sooo much potential! I love the build/buy and CAS especially since I have a Star Wars save but I wish the world was more like Selvadorada with things to explore. And imagine having an actual Jedi/Sith or Smuggler skill like the Vampire/Spell Caster occult! That would have been sooo much cooler than just a job with tasks I’ve been saying this for yearssss but modders, a Jedi/sith occult system would be amazing!!
AHHHHH AMAZING JOB, JAMES!!! Since you started doing these pack rating surveys I've been excited and I'm looking forward to the results every year!!! It's interesting to see how the different packs go up or down and to see what your followers think in general. I enjoyed filling up the survey!! This year you've done sooo well with it, adding the bug rating and also who has or doesn't have a pack has been a total success and I do think it would be better if in the survey at the end of this year you omitted the kits in the general list because you certainly can't compare the normal packs with the kits. Other than that, everything have been wonderful!! I've been surprised by a couple of packs that I've seen very low but certainly the bugs are a problem that EA must solve. I hope that this year they continue to improve those things that are not going well for us to enjoy them better!!
guys batuu create a sim is actually so good like i got it for free and if you trying to make like a grunge boho type fit it’s actually my fav. like don’t buy it but if you get it for free it’s kinda good….
I feel like you can only enjoy discover university if your not in uni yourself and can romantisize it. Like i would never want this pack, because it just reminds me of what i have to do for uni and i hate that, when i want to relax.
I mean you could say that for almost any pack, some people are really into replicating their current ‘experience’ but with some twist or control point they can’t have in real life (like, IDK, going to college as a werewolf) and some people only want to play things that are 100% opposite of their real life. Like being a famous actor or solving the strangerville mystery. Or being any occult in game. And some people are just storytellers. They don’t have sim-selves and play the journey of their sim for that Sims. Like I enjoy my Sims going to uni often (when they go, not every Sims does) because I have seen them be born and grow up and going to college is just an experience I want to experience with that sim because it fits that sim. It has nothing to do with my experience with Uni, because there experience will be theres and different from not only my experience but different from any previous Sim I went to uni with anyway.
oh absolutely, i remember back when i was still in highschool i spent months doing a super in-depth university gameplay with my two sims but ever since i've started university in real life (fall of 2022) i haven't touched discover university whatsoever. the children of my initial two sims are all old enough to go to uni now but if i wanted to experience the stress and horror of uni i could just... go to uni. which i already do 😭
LOL so true hahaha I played the heck out of uni a couple years after graduating (in 2020). I would just play 10-20 sims as main and roommates at once all in a frat/sorority. I play it less so now as a longterm legacy but it’s still really fun
That’s super fair! When I was in uni I never played it 😂 I graduated in June of 2024 and miss school so much, IRL trying to go to grad school. Might make a sims uni save just to fill the void until then lol
Once again, an absolute monstrosity of a workload to go through all of this info - but you have done it in such a fantastic way to showcase everything. I really enjoyed the changes to the survey this year, especially adding in bug scores & world scores not AS effective on the overall scores. Something I’d be interested to know is - on packs where we rated their bugginess, you asked the question of “do the bugs effect your enjoyment?” I would’ve been interested to know how many bugs stopped enjoyment vs a small amount of bugs and generally what the skew was for players with how many bugs they faced. I don’t play constantly and go in bursts of playing loads then not at all, so there were a fair few packs I just hadn’t really experienced many bugs in (or couldn’t remember if I had).
With all respect to great work you've done with this, it bugs me that you've decreased impact of worlds so that Weddings Stories won't be ranked that high, but somehow you don't see anything wrong with Dream Home Decorator, GAME pack with no gameplay being dragged all the way up because of BB. You cannot adjust factors so that the result gives you what you expect because it creates bias towards what you think is more important in the pack and this is about what community thinks of those packs, not what you think about them
its so interesting to see how other people view packs that i either love or hate. whenever i buy a pack, i tend to see the general consensus online first just to get an idea of how other people feel about it. but to see it in numbers is cool and i feel like i agreed with most of the ratings in terms of how good the gameplay, cas, build mode, and the world. thank you for doing this every year! its fun to vote and to see the results. also loved the addition of the pack-related music (although the horse ranch music seems to be all that plays when im in build mode lol)
I love this type of statistical analysis! I've been watching Sims videos for about a year now, and as a new player, I am a bit confused about the difference between the options like gameplay vs. expansion, kits vs. stuff. Or even which worlds go with which packs etc... Anyways, this video is so fun and even more helping in deciding which to purchase. Thank you so much for all the effort you put into making this.
I've had dream home decorator since it came out but never did the career. I enjoy building occasionally but don't consider myself a "builder" so I thought it would be tedious doing that every sim day. However, I've been playing it for the first time over the past couple weeks and have enjoyed it immensely. I haven't experienced any bugs at all except for one time when the family glitched out onto the ledge of the second floor. But resetting them fixed that immediately and didn't cause a problem. It's been one of the lesser buggy packs somehow.
One thing with the worlds you were talking about how great it is to have things to do just in the world in Moonwood Mill and H-o-B but I think it’s worth pointing out that those things are also not hours of walk time away from spawn points and that makes a huge difference! Tartosa and Copperdale both have cute places to interact but they’re literal hours away from the closest spawn to the point where going on a date to the pier the date might end before you can ride a single ride!
I think the reason why dine out's gameplay score went up massively is because people, me included, rated the gameplay despite the bugs. Like how the pack would be if it wasn't buggy at all. Before the bug rating, the gameplay was poor because it just didn't work. Love this survey as always!
About 10:30 mentioned the hot tubs... the reason is hot tubs SUCK in The Sims 4. Sims get out of them after like 3 seconds to go drink a glass of water or something else really stupid. Hot tubs are essentially useless in gameplay for anything other than a woohoo destination. In Sims 3 you could basically tell your Sims to go in the hot tub and they would just chill there, it would rapidly increase both fun and social (assuming another Sim was with them)
If I had to guess, not enough new people bought Spa day after the refresh for the bean counters to approve spending money on refreshing already sold content when they already do sdx drops and free base game content in patches.
I hope this reaches out to the Sims team; I really wish TS4: Dine Out be refreshed and including a world where there are parks, outdoor/indoor restaurants, malls maybe? I imagine small world maybe like Magnolia Promenade where the world's purpose is only for culinary adventure. Also OF COURSE, squishing the existing bugs within the pack.
I love getting to watch these every year! I don’t get a lot of time to play the sims anymore, but it’s so nice to know what packs other people have enjoyed when I am looking for new packs and stuff. I’m also a data nerd and love the graphics and high production value of this video, crazy cool! Thanks!
YES!! I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS! Get to Work really getting a raw deal with the Worlds score. I don't think people realize just how much code is used for those hidden lots, like the hospital, police station, scientist lab, & Sixam. ALL those worlds are technically "in" Magnolia Promenade... you just can't click them on the map! BUT!!! You got the ENTIRE WORLD OF NEWCREST to make up for it! Honestly...Newcrest & Magnolia Promenade should be combined into one score.
Newcrest is free for everyone and not linked to GTW, so I don’t agree it makes up for Magnolia Promenade and no matter how much code they use for those secret lots unless you play the attached careers they do just get forgotten about in a worlds black hole. Sixam also needs an overhaul, there’s nothing there. The biggest problem with these hidden worlds is in the base design of the game, LOADING SCREENS. Most players naturally drift to reducing their interactions with loading screen leading to a lot of ‘never leave the lot’ syndrome. Like there’s no use for the police station outside the detective career, you can’t get arrested playing civilian Sims. There are no cops patroling the world leading to the police station being just for playing detective as opposed to part of overall gameplay. Births are so quick, you lose time in loading screens going to give birth in the hospital meaning most Sim births happen at home. And your sick active sims can’t vist the hospital to get treated, they just chug some meds at home. Even tho it can be buggy, people visit the vet clinic more than the hospital because 1) its on a map and visible and 2) its a lot type where it is easy to build your own in any map. And the science lab is fun, but again no use outside the science career. There’s nothing that makes these lots a part of natural gameplay outside of the Career link. Which means no matter how much code is in those lots, if they don’t naturally draw players to play with them its just wasted code on bad game design. The vet clinic and the secret lab in strangerville (for example) overall work better because you can see them and this naturally draws you to want to use/visit them. And even a portal world like the magical realm in glimmerbrook feels more overall game incorperated because at least there’s a portal to get you there on the map. I also think occult magic ‘secret’ worlds make sense to have a barrier to use where as a hospital and police-station not being walkby locations on a map do not. There should at least be a little fake portal bus stop/subway station/trolly port where you can just visit the hospital or police station because its not some magical secret land that should be locked away for ‘special circumstances’ gameplay.
I feel like maybe some people that took this survey haven't played in Sulani recently. The fishing bug makes that world unplayable. It's terrible. Also, the collectibles there seem to lag the game so badly if you have them on your lot. Idk what happened with that pack but after Love Struck came out Sulani has become fully unplayable and it used to be my favorite world. Anyway, this was an awesome survey, I'm glad I took it and I really appreciate all the work you did putting this together for us.
I didn't know if I was somehow fishing incorrectly, but the last time I tried to fish there none of my sims could. It was annoying, because I feel like the endangered fish and the whole fishing aesthetic were pretty advertised features.
@@ninadreams127 Odd... you can look online too there is a whole long thread about it at EA. I can't fish at any of the fishing signs or off the beaches. The only place I can fish is off of one of the boats. Considering it's a sea-themed pack/world its pretty frustrating.
Thank you for making these surveys! Really, I somehow had the impression Lovestruck was really buggy and annoying :D Also I paused at 18:53 and was like "... wait! Where is Windenburg? How is it not in the top row?!" and then realized the top 5 were seperated :D
Next time you find yourself needing a new series between packs or lets plays, you could do "playing with only my communities top rated packs of the year" series Aside from spotify wrapped, idk if I've ever been more excited for a yearly breakfowm. It's always thorough and well thought out. Well done, James!
I think a question about overall enjoyment would be a good addition in next year's survey, maybe even a good replacement for the bug question? As an average player I find it hard to see or notice if something is buggy or not.
This years video is so much better than last year. Now I'm scoring James a 7 out of 10. Now it is a nicer video and editing quality and it is quicker than last year. But i think it could be even quicker. All the numbers get too overwhelming to me but i like the trailers behind James and I think it is very well done on the whole. Keep up the good work James!
I found this video fascinating and informative. It was an eye-opener to see some of my favorite expansion packs, stuff packs, and kits receive low scores, with the exception of Seasons and Cottage Living.
This was my first year actually remembering to take the survey and I'm so impressed with the way you tackle this project!! Also it makes me so happy to see Snowy Escape in the top 5, I'm not sure exactly what it is about that pack, but I have so much love for it!
Finally!!! I was soooooo waiting for this :) thank you so much for doing all this work, it's now definitely a thing that I am waiting for every year - first to vote (I have my own sheets with ratings, rankings) and then see how everyone votes. so much fun!
I genuinely love that James does these every year. I wonder what would happen if other sims creators would promote his survey. As in, I'm curious to see the results if they were from a broader audience rather than solely James' viewers
I think in the next year it would be helpful to account for what degree of the sample plays with mods. Especially script mods. I play with several script mods, myself, and I've run into an issue of figuring out if a bug is caused by a broken mod or just the pack being buggy. Really cool data this year though!
This is super interesting, and I'm so glad you do it! One question I'd be interested in, per pack, is related to value. Like, "Is this pack worth buying [full price, 25% off, 50% off or more, only if it's free, not even if it's free]?" Or even just the 10-point scale to rate the value of the pack monetarily. I think if you did that for the kits, the way they skewed that final list would be different. (Also, if that was already a part of your survey and I just forgot, please forgive me! I don't recall you mentioning that metric in the video, and it's been a while since I did the survey.)
The giant hamster chair and the alien pet won me over, I love it. But I also come from having played the original Sims, where it was expected that you would buy all the packs even if you weren't interested in them, because they contained the patches for all the bugs in previous packs.
Realm of Magic missed an opportunity, in that they could have had a career in the entertainment area of a stage mugacian with his helper. A few props, like the water tank, disappearing closet, etc. and it could have been a lot of fun. I feel the same way about the musician career. I wish they would have allowed musicians to have musician friends that they could form a band with, for rock music, or a string quartet for classical music, a jazz combo, etc. Game play could have been so much better. Having career entertainers, all of them, be able to perform for others as a group, would have been extra fun.
56:15 You can turn off the neighbourhood action plans by going into the pack options and selecting the box that says only the player can vote on them. If this is done when creating a new save the action plan problem goes away.
Just experienced a bad bug with for rent. I deleted all the units on a residential rental with the intention of then turning the lot into a regular residential lot. Even though I bulldozed EVERYTHING, the lot refuses to accept that it’s not a residential rental anymore, claims there’s still tenants on the property, even though I travel to the property and it’s a completely empty lot. So frustrating…
James, it never ceases to impress me how smart and hardworking you are!!! The effort and production value that you put into your projects/videos just blows me away. You work so hard to make every detail that you add to everything you do on your channel truly the best it can be, and that's so impressive and nerdy of you, which I'm sure is a big part of why we love your content so much! Thanks for not only doing this every year, but doing it so thorough and comprehensive!! 🩷
I find it interesting that several of the top kits are room build specific. Book nook for libraries, art room, nurseries, greenhouses. I think the clear theme and vision draws people in.
Some additional info and clarifications!
*Bug Score & Improving Gameplay Scores* - The introduction of the Bug Score may have influenced Gameplay scores for packs with notable issues, as players might feel less compelled to factor bugs into their Gameplay ratings.
Although the survey specifically asked participants to rate gameplay as if it were bug-free, this distinction didn’t seem to make a significant difference in overall pack ratings.
Notable increases were observed in the Gameplay scores for My Wedding Stories and Dine Out, both of which are known for being particularly buggy. However, other packs like Dream Home Decorator and High School Years, which also received higher Bug Scores, did not show meaningful changes in their Gameplay ratings.
I do think the bug fixes for both My Wedding Stories and Dine Out did genuinely increase their gameplay.
It is certainly possible that with the addition of the bug score that influenced the other scores too. It will be interesting to see the trend next year.
*7:53* - I said that potentially only 3% of people that own Fashion Streetwear Kit bought it. I made a mistake here. 30.2% of people surveyed said they own it, and 27.4% of people who own it said they got it for free.
Next year you should add a question about replayability. There are so many good dlc's but I think it's impactful to know if you only play it once and never touch it again.
AGREE!!! Some things are fun like once. High school for example. I do find i revisit it as a storyteller often but going about twice in a teens life is usually more than enough
Good idea i want that because strangerville and all the occult gameplay will not be as high. seasons has the highest replay value because it influence every world you live in with the bioms and holiday systems. but i agree with james that should be a basic sims 4 content.
@@TheDawnofVanlife true it´s the same day over and over
@@Darkestscars definitely! And maybe some ranking of if you still think it was worth buying. For example I like owning jungle adventure even though the replay ability is relatively low because of the build/buy and CAS. I barely ever touch outdoor retreat because it was boring to play the herbalism thing the first time and it’s genuinely painful to do with seasons making half the stuff un harvestable whenever you go! And while the build buy and CAS in that pack were nice for their time, there are plenty of alternatives now from better packs. I wouldn’t personally rebuy outdoor retreat now.
@@TheDawnofVanlife I think that's true of all game content that requires that you follow 1 sim. I nearly always play families, so I didn't even do a lot of the career/high school/anything that takes you away until I did my Super Sim. Like I've only done the detective career once and probably will never actively play it again (bugs aside)
WOWOWOW The production value. The Excel kid in me loves the statistics - why is this so fun? :D And I was truly amazed when I noticed you put the pack specific music to every section
Haha I'm glad someone noticed the music! That was a fun little idea I had once I got to the Game Packs haha
I've never noticed each pack has separate music. I think it's because a lot of the time I'm playing The Sims I have a podcast or something playing, I don't think I ever really pay much attention to the music.
Haha, I do the opposite! The sims (1) music is my daily background noise @@PalmelaHanderson
I noticed the music too. I think because I spend so much time in build mode lol
EA needs to put you on payroll for doing this research for them.
Based on the stats I've seen, I feel like more people did his survey than their recent one!
It’s research for his channel, he directly profits off of it because we watch the videos lol. No payment needed
EA is definitely using this data alongside their own. However, I think paying James for this would skew his opinion in their favor.
We need independent creators, because EA is currently taking advantage of their players. Selling us broken packs with little substance… making empty promises to fix the bugs. Here we are a year later and people’s build mode is crashing their games regularly.
Haha they know all of this data lol but also they can even see what we do in our games, so they know what content gets used a lot and what content doesn’t and can either improve or focus on other gameplay if it’s unpopular. It’s really cool
@@kelly-bo-bellywelcome to ea since 2010. Ea doesn’t care not the company maxis
Video idea: playing with only the best rated packs and playing with only the worst rated packs
I think it'd be fun to see James do a video where he plays with only the top 1-5 best packs in each category and one where he plays with only the worst 1-5 packs in each category.
I completely agree.
I was thinking James could find a way to make a mini challenge for Semaj out of that. I’d watch it!
@@maggied1709 This is a great idea! Would love to see it.
I love this lol
He did best and worst packs build videos last year. I loved those too! But this also sounds fun 😊
I have a theory that the gameplay score for certain packs seems to have gone up this year because with the introduction of the bug score, people no longer feel like they have to temper their score to account for bugs.
Yeah that is possible, however, Dream Home Decorator and High School Years both had a higher bug score but their gameplay did not change meaningfully.
I do think the bug fixes for both My Wedding Stories and Dine Out did genuinely increase their gameplay. I have personally found them both play much more smoothly now.
It is certanly possible that with the addition of the bug score that influenced the other scores too. It will be interesting to see the trend next year :)
@ Interesting point! Thanks for the video, it’s always fun to watch. 😊
I was wondering if it may also be that EA doing so many loudly publicized bug fixes for dine out and my wedding stories just got people to play it again to see if it works now. So it reminded them of what the gameplay actually is, but also reminded them the bugs are not all the way fixed.
@@JamesTurnerYT I think some people just don't jazz with DHD and HSY gameplay regardless of how buggy or not they are. Speaking for myself, I don't like seeing my sims in the high school class and not really do anything and waiting until it's lunchtime. Maybe if there was more gameplay like idk make your sim try to pass notes or take a nap and have the chance of being caught by the teacher? I just rather send them to the regular high school rabbithole.
@@crisiscat For me, Dream Home Decorator and the photography career are two of the jobs I could easily replay over and over, but DHD is still unplayable for me (quite literally) because a lot of the time, the job just won't complete and my Sim is stuck for days on the client's lot until I have to quit and fail the assignment. High School Years, however, I think is one of the most poorly designed packs-the child and teen life stages are long enough that there really needs to be more to do with your younger Sims (which in turn helps to grow more invested in them as adults), and I totally agree, the gameplay in the high school should *had* far more to do, to start with, but also been a lot more interactive and customisable. If you're going to be sitting through class, it's ridiculous to me that your Sim can't actually interact with it, and as a player, you're either fast-forwarding or just sitting at your computer watching them sit at a desk; like, *who* thought would be fun gameplay. The activities and clubs should be far more playable as well, not just rabbit holes, and your teens' different personalities should be able to come out more at school-and emphatically, teens from your other families in the save should also show up at school, not just the same townies and the game's random NPCs, which is one of the most boring elements of the whole thing to me.
one reason occult packs are the highest even though not everyone likes them is that we only rated it on the survey if we owned it and if someone knows they dont like occults they’re not gonna own the pack. so the scores are only from people that like occults
I was thinking that, and there's a general consensus among occult players that Sims 4 does occults better than any other sims game. People love to see Sims 3 through rose-tinted glasses but when compared with Sims 4 occults, we got a lot of them in Sims 3 Supernatural but they didn't offer as much depth, interesting gameplay or re-playability.
It also goes to show they’re just overall good packs. EA has put more effort into occult packs than they do a lot of others, and it shows from the score. Just because someone likes vampires doesn’t mean the vampire pack is automatically good - if it wasn’t a quality pack the score would reflect that because the people who own it would have rated it poorly. I own the occult packs, and even though I don’t use them much anymore I can still acknowledge that they put a lot of effort in and they still hold up compared to more recent DLC. The same could be said for other themes, like college and high school being bought by people who enjoy that type of gameplay.
Being a Brit, I was really confused as to why your green arrows pointed down and your red arrows pointed up. This was until I realised that the number one spot was at the bottom of the tables, not the top. Makes sense coz you're in Aus, so everything is on it's head :P Excellent video though!
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wait now I want to know if james deliberatly put the top rated ones at the bottom because of the australia joke. Because I was sooooo confused why he chose to show it that way.
@@MissSimsalot It's a count down, going from the worst (10) to the best (1). It's common way to order a list, at least over here in the U.S..
@@KaneaniteAh, that’s funny, we would never order a list this way in The Netherlands!
@@Kaneanite Hmmm ... perhaps it varies by area? I'm in the US and I also found it a bit odd 😅😅
Watching these I’m always hoping that EA will have a meeting where everyone watches this together. This is so beautifully representative of the community experiences of the game - on a general level. Individual preferences don’t really impact the overall trends that this survey indicates. Terrific work 👏 I hope EA listens
I think they do! I mean, we got my first pet stuff for free after last year's survey...
I fully think they watch these survey videos from all the big creators
let's manifest more packs like cottage living this year ♥
EA just need to watch this video and take notes. James and us are giving them a recipe for perfect pack
Not James adding a bug score to the formula solely to make sure Batuu wouldn’t be last again
I’m confused by this. I’ve been hearing non stop about how bugged this pack is but I’ve completed 3 of 4 of the aspirations and have had no problems so far?
The only bug I’ve found is my droid will continually animate the “distract” animation when selected and won’t stop replaying the animation until I travel - which isn’t a big deal and doesn’t affect gameplay at all that I’ve seen
Edit: I think I got the batuu pack in 2024. So maybe previously bugged but I’ve had no issues
@@electric_experience It's not the bug that people had a problem with. Most people just don't like the collab with Star Wars/Disney because it feels cash grabby.
@electric_experience The post you replied to is saying Batuu isn't (as) buggy (as MWS and Dine Out) and that James added the bug score to his formula so Batuu wouldn't be lowest ranked.
I think Batuu was an odd choice for a pack, but I actually love the BB and CAS. The gameplay is okay, but the letter carrier walking around the base in her uniform broke immersion for me a bit.
@ no I keep hearing in groups an everywhere that it’s buggy, I have had zero bugs. I’m not saying other people aren’t having problems, I just haven’t. I’m aware people don’t like the pack for what it is though, yes
Incredible video James, this is such an impressive project and you knock it outta the park every time.
its actually wild that windenburg, a world from the second ever pack, is still ranked 2 (number 1 to me)
She just has everything- ruins, gym, cafe, remote lots, library, bars, nightclub. No one really does it like Windenburg
@@Puckcake exactly, and lore with the chataeu
Because the worlds stopped being worlds and became more like neighborhoods with minimal lots. Beauty can't save a world you can't do anything with 😅
IMO what would make Get To Work better is if you could run a business from your home lot rather than requiring a dedicated retail space, so you could build a shop with an upstairs apartment. I play home chef hustle like that and it's nice to not have to go through a loading screen every day you want to "go to work"
home businesses were pretty awesome Open For Business
i really wish in For Rent, when you separate units in a rental, each unit could be its own lot type. that way, you could have a retail space where the owners live in the apartment upstairs, or a row of brownstones with a corner cafe or gym or whatever. i feel like, especially in urban areas, that’s pretty common to see. idk i know it would make an already pretty glitchy pack even worse, but i think it would have REALLY changed the game
@@snowlondon8642 THIS!!
@snowlondon8642 omg, you're right, this would rock! but it would probably also set your game on fire due to the inevitable glitches.
This is my theory, but if I’m not mistaken, Paranormal and Werewolves were both Sim Guru Connor as the lead, and both are very well made packs with virtually no bugs upon release.
So I always like hearing when he was the lead on packs, it makes me excited even if the theme isn’t my favorite
Werewolves had quite a few bugs and still does lol. With the werewolves in particular
Werewolves had sooo many bugs when it was first released, I remember because I specifically didn’t buy it because it was so broken at the time lol
The ones that led in the creation of the occults should be the ones always leading the creation of packs in Sims 4. Especially the ones that worked on life and death
@@themysticwarriorgal9465 iirc that would be SimGuruNinja's team, I think they were also the ones responsible for Cottage Living
I always feel like Sim Guru Conner goes that extra mile with the packs he's involved with.
get to work is my favorite pack, of all probably, i could replay it forever and ever but it needs a BIG refresh - especially aliens, they deserve so much more
Fellow GTW enjoyer!! The doctor and detective careers are hands down my favs in the whole game
@@iosketches if the simulation lag wasn't so bad, I would like the pack way more. You can barely get anything done when it takes ages before your sim starts doing a task
I wish the aliens had more voices... They get so annoying.
I'm desperate for aliens to get a skill tree. They're probably my most used occult so I wish they had more to them
@@vanessabadlose5802 Since ghosts got one, hopefully they will add it for aliens and mermaids in a future update.
I am a proud Journey to Batuu owner and even though I never use the gameplay, I am a frequent user of the build/buy items =)
I finally bought it earlier this year after watching James sneak it into build mode so often! Still haven’t actually taken a sim to Batuu. But I do enjoy the build buy and surprisingly a little bit of the CAS.
I play with about twice a year, and though it's repetative and I hate that you have to be "on vacation" to go there, I do really enjoy it every time
I love journey to batuu so far. I like the gameplay and also the build cas stuff!
I love Batuu, I finally finished all of the game play last year. I had fun doing the game play, I just wish there was more stuff to do. I love the build items, I don't really like the CAS items. Overall I think it is a great pack but it needed more game play features.
Batuu is a goldmine for BB, especially trying to build fantasy, sci-fi or medieval style. Otherwise, I just use it to give my Sims lightsabers so they can work out without freezing to death. I played through all the Aspirations once, then kidnaped Kylo and Rey and put them in a household together in Oasis Springs. Recently I played an Ailen household and had him vacation there; it's the only scenario that really makes sense. Though Basemetal's Trippy Batuu Mod does put an interesting spin on visiting.
Dude, I am carrying Magnolia Promenade on my back. Four lots is a crime but the vibe is just chefs kiss. Plus the lots are a decent size so you can create little shopping centers or a nightclub/coffee shop/music store etc. My magnolia promenade is always Bourbon Street.
EA: _makes The Sims 4: Discover University Expansion Pack and introduces bikes_
Also EA: _Neither Britechester nor Foxbury is bicycle compatible_
Simmers: *_rages_*
That's an outright lie on Britechester. I frequently use bikes to get to classes. Now Foxbury decided to add stairs in the major walkways to and from class so that you're right on but Britechester's walkways are flat and good for biking in class to. It's honestly the only reason I remember bikes exist at all. (Well, now Growing Together has learning to bike be a big thing for a child aspiration so there is that as well)
This in incredible, the fact that you do this every year is such dedication! Love all the stats, and the editing and production on this is FLAWLESS. 10/10 James.
James (about outdoor retreat): "I don't really use it that much"
Also James: *uses cloud gazing interactions on a daily basis; uses tents for basically every rags to riches ever* lol
On a more serious note though, this was another amazing survey video! As always, very well thought out and executed
Cloudgazing is no longer limited to Outdoor Retreat. I do not own that pack, and I can use it. I first noticed it when I bought Life and Death, but I bought that when it released so I'm unsure if it came with Life and Death or if it was included in the base game update. :)
@@SEHayes I dont have outdoor retreat or life and death packs and noticed I now have this interaction in game for the last few months too both cloud gazing and star gazing
@@SEHayes It was base game update :)
A couple of things:
1- it breaks my brain people find For Rent less buggy than Dine Out and My Wedding Story. It's just popular to associate those 2 with bugs when the only pack corrupting the game and making entire save files unusable is For Rent, but oh, well.
2- Discover University is one of my favorite packs ever!
Great video, as usual. Thank you for all the good work, James.
Happy New Year!
I wholeheartedly agree with this. Obviously everyone has their own opinion, but I was definitely shocked about that. For Rent was the only pack I gave a 10 on bugs because it corrupted save files. I wanted to love that pack so much, but it scares me to try to play with rentals now, so I don't really use it anymore.
I literally did not buy For Rent because of how game breaking the bugs are. Same with My Wedding Story. I was really interested in both, but the widespread and well known and unfixed bugs AT RELEASE really made my decision for me, it’s not like the bugs were hidden. It’s possible the ranking was impacted because only people who really really loved them bought them. The recent fixes to My Wedding Stories has me reconsidering though.
i feel like it’s just different experiences at play here. i personally only find dine out to be buggy for me. my wedding stories and for rent have both worked near perfect in my game since release 🤷🏻♀️
I think that because fewer people have those packs and people just rated things following their own criteria (what does 5 mean? What does 8 mean?) that may have skewed things.
I think it's a matter of consistency, For Rent's bugs are very bad and very game-breaking but these really bad bugs won't affect ALL players equally. Meanwhile, Dine Out and Wedding Stories will almost universally never work. I still find FR buggy enough to make gameplay not fun (the building bugs are very very bad and annoying, especially when doing some out of the box stuff like a Tiny Town LP), but I guess if people play the game in a less experimental way they won't come across those that much.
I wonder if a pack like Strangerville would be ranked higher if there was a way to just turn off the Mother storyline without playing through it. I've considered it just for the build mode but don't really want to spend the money for a world I won't use.
(Also - thanks for doing this, James! It's awesome!)
Sorry for the unsolicited comment but for anyone wondering, if you don't want to use mods, you can solve it once and Save As starting from that solved save file when you play from then on.
Honestly if you are looking for something arizona vibe, the world is pretty cool.
@@ap11_ That's a good idea. I always start new save files when I create new families. It seems to help the game be less laggy.
The thing about stranger vile was ea didn’t do anything for their builds. Left entire buildings and houses empty and that alone turned heads
An hour straight of sims statistics makes my autistic brain sosososo happy
same i love it so much
Mr. Turner, thank YOU so much for making this!!!!I know it takes weeks and weeks of working to put together the polls, then analyze the data neatlym then film this video explaining it to use then editing this video and sharing everything. WE APPRECIATE YOU AND ALL OF YOUR HARD WORK!!!! I love these videos sooo much
I will never tire of James' love for Batuu
I think gameplay scores going up is not only due to bug fixings but also with there being a separate bugs rating, people weren't taking those into account as much when ranking gameplay!
I would be interested to see a mini LP of the buggiest games, sorry James 😂 I know I have not retried Dining Out or Wedding Stories even though they have supposedly had many of the bugs addressed. Dream Home Decorator was completely broken the last two times I have tried to play, and I know for many others. So it would be really interesting to see short LPs to see if the bugs are really better or if they deserve the ratings they got. Plus it may inspire people to revisit those packs.
Every year when the survey comes out and I fill it in I start getting excited for this video, it’s a genius idea and wow the production value is really high these days!! 🤩🤩 So much work must be going into this and it’s very much appreciated, thank you James!!
The fact console players got The Pack That _Must Not_ Be Named WITH Cats & Dogs is literally the next best thing, with the best being TO JUST MERGE IT WITH THE EP!
I’d like to see a build video where you take the top build mode rankings and do a build. So Cottage Living, Dream Home Decorator, Tiny Living & Booknook. Seeing as they are the favourites and people are likely to be able to download it.
I think he did that after last year's?
@ do you have a link? i’d love to watch it.
@@willma2625I think he did too
Im sad about Bowling Night Stuff being so low ranked tbh, its one of my favorites when it comes to furniture. I feel like it needs a little more justice, as we dont have that much Mid-Century type furniture, especially aimed torwards the more Atomic Age type style. Which I personally very much love. It also have some really nice, funky, swatches. With that said; despite it being a bowling pack, it has a unique vibe compared to the rest of the packs, furniture wise, and I use it all the time. :)
Same, plus I live the style of clothes in that pack. I use them all the time!
jungle adventure getting a mid score for build stuff is WILD, its the best game pack of build items genuinely + has things for every part of the house
maybe some people don't like the style? I love the build/buy stuff from Jungle Adventure, but it doesn't match half the houses I try to make
Great video. Eco lifestyles downfall is the NAPs. I do wish you could decide which worlds use NAPs so you could enjoy Eco lifestyle NAPs in Evergreen Harbor but also turn off the mechanic in other worlds if you want.
Butlers aren’t that bad if you just let them be as an appliance. Trying to get them to do things is annoying, but for my wealthy Sims just having them active around the house, they do clean and take care of babies and repair and such. The tuning is just bad sometimes, at times things have to be almost dire before they get to it.
I just found out that you can cheat off NAPs using the mailbox - I wonder if there is a way to do it off your home lot. (I rarely leave the lot, so for me it's not that bad.)
@@slwrabbitsI know about this, but its litterally annoying to do this as a rotational player who plays in several worlds or remember to do it whenever you start a new save at EVERY home. There aren’t universal NAPs, they are by neighborhood. So if you make friends with a Sim in a different neighborhood where a different NAP is in effect or you move or your sim friend/love intrest/whatever is in a neighborhood where a NAP is active that wasn’t active in your neighborhood you can experience NAP behavior from sims that might seem/feel like a bug but its really just the NAP affecting their autonomy. I’d rather just have an actual OFF button to ensure no NAPs where I don’t want them. Even the game options settings for eco lifestyle don’t fully shut them down. It will turn off voting and creating new ones. But if you turn off NAPs in game options, NAPs active before hitting the switch will stay alive and going in many neighborhoods. They are pervasive.
@@TheDawnofVanlife Yeah, they weren't well thought-out, and it's quite a pain, agreed. I kind of wish I'd known how troublesome they would be before I got the pack!
Discover University is my favourite pack! Surprised it's down at 11. It's the one pack I come back to again and again, whether active playing at University, or passive sending my Sims off lot to study.
i really enjoy high school years, didn't know that was as controversial as it seems! if anyone missed it, there's now an "ask about college parties" option on teen sims phones/social category to help them complete that part of the aspiration. i love it!
Im not surprised that Cottage Living in No.1 and youre totally right, it should be the blue print for expansion packs. Wr got ao much with that pack - unique world, animals and the farming that came with them, jams and canning food, simple living, embroidery and making animal clothes, animal treats, different fertilisers, quests, wild animals and gifting, picnics, pubs (serving food!), stalls selling produce, wild mushrooms 😵💫😂
pack includes rabbits, this was the single most important detail for me 😅
I really like Batuu, I enjoy the style of play, with little jobs to do to advance in the story. That's like I enjoy the Sims Medieval. Love to see Batuu isn't the dead last again! 😅
This is such a agood video! The time and energy that must have gone into every step is astounding!!
I think a rating for lore/townie stories would be really fun for next year!! A lot of the packs have such good world-building in them and really improve the experience imo
I don't think enough people care about this
I would love something like that, but for all packs. Maybe a video covering the top 10?
i have all packs and genuinely do not think there’s much world building, much less good one lol. idk maybe my standards are too high
@fadeddahlia that's completely fair! I think the writer in me really likes reading the item blurbs & townie interactions like Grapevine Gossip in MWS, but I get that it might be too niche/not apply to enough packs for everyone to rank.
With how many packs there are, the more rating options people have the less likely they are to actually complete it. TS4 has lore but it's not very prominent, I personally still haven't read all of the little blurbs for each household and probably never will lol
I got to be a part of this this year and it was so much fun! Really puts into perspective how people approach their gameplays and what they find valuable. And how I feel about the packs myself. You made a lot of effort with all the options, stats and graphics and it's fun to see. Thanks for adding all those play-build-sim-world stats separately, it's really interesting.
brilliantly done, as always James. thanks for putting so much effort into these videos; it does not go unnoticed. also: loved the music tied to each pack while you were discussing it! it definitely added some aahmbiaance
I love watching these videos. It's always interesting to see the results. Something I personally noticed is the most buggiest pack, actually have amazing concepts, and had great potential but got messed up cause of the bugs. If they didn't have bugs, I think people would like them more. It would be interesting to see scores of how expandable each pack is. Thanks for all the work you put in for this video, james!
For eco-lifestyle, in settings you can make voting player-directed only (do not allow npcs to vote), the results will still pop up but they dont actually apply. Lifesaver 😂 If cheats are enabled, you can also shift-click on a mailbox to instantly enact or remove NAPs which is quick to do.
You've outdone yourself each year with these videos. This is top tier and knowing the work that goes on behind the scenes, I'm just so impressed!
My favorite video every year! The gameplay scores for eco lifestyle and get famous seem to really reflect that both packs are super fun when you're actively playing through them, but the features are so annoying when they pop up and affect unrelated gameplay
BAM! nice too see this beautiful stats! ^_^ also: i think the gameplay scores going up is also due to bugs being it's own rating category. before i think people incorporated the bugginess in the gameplay score.. at least that's how i reasoned 👀
the modern menswear is mostly just like all the other menswear which is copied over. someone needs to tell the sims team that being gender inclusive does just mean poorly relabling the 2 genders and giving men a croptop that always looks odd because the object mesh isn't made to match the body
They shouldve given both genders all clothing with that update and stop seperating clothes by gender from then on
@@6pmmmI actually like masculine /feminine filters. Sometimes I am trying to Lean one way or the other in designing my Sim.
The last thing Sims 4 needs with the 5 billion things in the game at this point is LESS filters. Categories at least help you theme down on what you are looking for and sometimes that is very much traditionally masculine clothing be that for a male body or female bodied Sim.
@@TheDawnofVanlife That could still be a thing, but the clothes should fit both body frames correctly at least
@@TheDawnofVanlife I do agree that having all of the clothes available would be very overwhelming😅
this was the fist year i voted in this; and i doubt im alone in that. the cool side effect of doing this every year is that the data is gonna get more and more complete every year :0
This is the first time I’ve filled it out too. I got all the packs in a 2 year time span and still hadn’t explored everything last year. But the way people voted for Batuu makes me think he should add a bell curve.
56:10 okay but that transition with James' hand was so smooth!!
The talent you show in these surveys, is one of my favorite reasons why you’re my favorite sims player & content creator!
That nursery kit is everything, I was looking for. Then Life and Death came out. Love both. The artist studio kit is a lot of fun. I use the greenhouse kit all the time, gotta love a covered porch.
THIS is the award show I'm actually interested in
I'd be interested to know whether ppl have played with the packs they own recently to see how that impacts the scores. Like do people who don't really play with a pack report more bugs and stuff like that
Agreed! And if the bug is found during your own gameplay or you've seen it on youtube...
My favorite, annual tradition! The quality of this video and the attention to detail are a sight to behold. I love that even the cursor was made to look like the Sims 4 cursor! Like???? Thank you, James for putting together such a thorough and entertaining video. Happy New Year!
I actually had my sims eat at a restaurant several times in my recent gameplay and I've been enjoying that! I did have one bug that I can remember where they didn't bring food, but that actually might have been before the bug fix. I don't remember exactly. But several other dinner went without issues, which is definitely a win for me. I haven't tried to run a restaurant yet and when I do I'll probably still use Carl's mod for the options it provides. So, the fact that I can actually "Dine out" now and it works the way it should, is a significant improvement.
great job again this year! I would love to see a "world opinion" on seasons. Personally, I wish it came with a world that had the best example for all the seasons, or even a special world that had neighborhoods divided by seasons all year round. Perhaps it would effect the overall score, but a survery of "change in enjoyment if there was a world or not" in placement of the world score would be interesting to see! FANTASTIC video, I am amazed at the detail!!!
I was ecstatic to say that i participated in this survey! I was sad last time because i missed it due to discovering this channel late. Looking forward to the survey again this December. 😊
Batuu had sooo much potential! I love the build/buy and CAS especially since I have a Star Wars save but I wish the world was more like Selvadorada with things to explore. And imagine having an actual Jedi/Sith or Smuggler skill like the Vampire/Spell Caster occult! That would have been sooo much cooler than just a job with tasks
I’ve been saying this for yearssss but modders, a Jedi/sith occult system would be amazing!!
AHHHHH AMAZING JOB, JAMES!!!
Since you started doing these pack rating surveys I've been excited and I'm looking forward to the results every year!!! It's interesting to see how the different packs go up or down and to see what your followers think in general.
I enjoyed filling up the survey!! This year you've done sooo well with it, adding the bug rating and also who has or doesn't have a pack has been a total success and I do think it would be better if in the survey at the end of this year you omitted the kits in the general list because you certainly can't compare the normal packs with the kits. Other than that, everything have been wonderful!!
I've been surprised by a couple of packs that I've seen very low but certainly the bugs are a problem that EA must solve. I hope that this year they continue to improve those things that are not going well for us to enjoy them better!!
guys batuu create a sim is actually so good like i got it for free and if you trying to make like a grunge boho type fit it’s actually my fav. like don’t buy it but if you get it for free it’s kinda good….
I feel like you can only enjoy discover university if your not in uni yourself and can romantisize it. Like i would never want this pack, because it just reminds me of what i have to do for uni and i hate that, when i want to relax.
I mean you could say that for almost any pack, some people are really into replicating their current ‘experience’ but with some twist or control point they can’t have in real life (like, IDK, going to college as a werewolf) and some people only want to play things that are 100% opposite of their real life. Like being a famous actor or solving the strangerville mystery. Or being any occult in game.
And some people are just storytellers. They don’t have sim-selves and play the journey of their sim for that Sims. Like I enjoy my Sims going to uni often (when they go, not every Sims does) because I have seen them be born and grow up and going to college is just an experience I want to experience with that sim because it fits that sim. It has nothing to do with my experience with Uni, because there experience will be theres and different from not only my experience but different from any previous Sim I went to uni with anyway.
I agree! When I was in Uni I would never want to play this pack
oh absolutely, i remember back when i was still in highschool i spent months doing a super in-depth university gameplay with my two sims but ever since i've started university in real life (fall of 2022) i haven't touched discover university whatsoever. the children of my initial two sims are all old enough to go to uni now but if i wanted to experience the stress and horror of uni i could just... go to uni. which i already do 😭
LOL so true hahaha I played the heck out of uni a couple years after graduating (in 2020). I would just play 10-20 sims as main and roommates at once all in a frat/sorority.
I play it less so now as a longterm legacy but it’s still really fun
That’s super fair! When I was in uni I never played it 😂 I graduated in June of 2024 and miss school so much, IRL trying to go to grad school. Might make a sims uni save just to fill the void until then lol
Once again, an absolute monstrosity of a workload to go through all of this info - but you have done it in such a fantastic way to showcase everything.
I really enjoyed the changes to the survey this year, especially adding in bug scores & world scores not AS effective on the overall scores.
Something I’d be interested to know is - on packs where we rated their bugginess, you asked the question of “do the bugs effect your enjoyment?” I would’ve been interested to know how many bugs stopped enjoyment vs a small amount of bugs and generally what the skew was for players with how many bugs they faced. I don’t play constantly and go in bursts of playing loads then not at all, so there were a fair few packs I just hadn’t really experienced many bugs in (or couldn’t remember if I had).
With all respect to great work you've done with this, it bugs me that you've decreased impact of worlds so that Weddings Stories won't be ranked that high, but somehow you don't see anything wrong with Dream Home Decorator, GAME pack with no gameplay being dragged all the way up because of BB. You cannot adjust factors so that the result gives you what you expect because it creates bias towards what you think is more important in the pack and this is about what community thinks of those packs, not what you think about them
its so interesting to see how other people view packs that i either love or hate. whenever i buy a pack, i tend to see the general consensus online first just to get an idea of how other people feel about it. but to see it in numbers is cool and i feel like i agreed with most of the ratings in terms of how good the gameplay, cas, build mode, and the world. thank you for doing this every year! its fun to vote and to see the results. also loved the addition of the pack-related music (although the horse ranch music seems to be all that plays when im in build mode lol)
I love this type of statistical analysis! I've been watching Sims videos for about a year now, and as a new player, I am a bit confused about the difference between the options like gameplay vs. expansion, kits vs. stuff. Or even which worlds go with which packs etc...
Anyways, this video is so fun and even more helping in deciding which to purchase. Thank you so much for all the effort you put into making this.
I've had dream home decorator since it came out but never did the career. I enjoy building occasionally but don't consider myself a "builder" so I thought it would be tedious doing that every sim day. However, I've been playing it for the first time over the past couple weeks and have enjoyed it immensely. I haven't experienced any bugs at all except for one time when the family glitched out onto the ledge of the second floor. But resetting them fixed that immediately and didn't cause a problem. It's been one of the lesser buggy packs somehow.
One thing with the worlds you were talking about how great it is to have things to do just in the world in Moonwood Mill and H-o-B but I think it’s worth pointing out that those things are also not hours of walk time away from spawn points and that makes a huge difference!
Tartosa and Copperdale both have cute places to interact but they’re literal hours away from the closest spawn to the point where going on a date to the pier the date might end before you can ride a single ride!
I think the reason why dine out's gameplay score went up massively is because people, me included, rated the gameplay despite the bugs. Like how the pack would be if it wasn't buggy at all. Before the bug rating, the gameplay was poor because it just didn't work. Love this survey as always!
About 10:30 mentioned the hot tubs... the reason is hot tubs SUCK in The Sims 4. Sims get out of them after like 3 seconds to go drink a glass of water or something else really stupid. Hot tubs are essentially useless in gameplay for anything other than a woohoo destination. In Sims 3 you could basically tell your Sims to go in the hot tub and they would just chill there, it would rapidly increase both fun and social (assuming another Sim was with them)
I wonder what happened to their plans to update some old packs like Spa Day was? Maybe updating Dine Out would help
If I had to guess, not enough new people bought Spa day after the refresh for the bean counters to approve spending money on refreshing already sold content when they already do sdx drops and free base game content in patches.
I hope this reaches out to the Sims team; I really wish TS4: Dine Out be refreshed and including a world where there are parks, outdoor/indoor restaurants, malls maybe? I imagine small world maybe like Magnolia Promenade where the world's purpose is only for culinary adventure. Also OF COURSE, squishing the existing bugs within the pack.
I love getting to watch these every year! I don’t get a lot of time to play the sims anymore, but it’s so nice to know what packs other people have enjoyed when I am looking for new packs and stuff. I’m also a data nerd and love the graphics and high production value of this video, crazy cool! Thanks!
YES!! I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!
Get to Work really getting a raw deal with the Worlds score. I don't think people realize just how much code is used for those hidden lots, like the hospital, police station, scientist lab, & Sixam. ALL those worlds are technically "in" Magnolia Promenade... you just can't click them on the map! BUT!!! You got the ENTIRE WORLD OF NEWCREST to make up for it!
Honestly...Newcrest & Magnolia Promenade should be combined into one score.
Newcrest is free for everyone and not linked to GTW, so I don’t agree it makes up for Magnolia Promenade and no matter how much code they use for those secret lots unless you play the attached careers they do just get forgotten about in a worlds black hole. Sixam also needs an overhaul, there’s nothing there. The biggest problem with these hidden worlds is in the base design of the game, LOADING SCREENS. Most players naturally drift to reducing their interactions with loading screen leading to a lot of ‘never leave the lot’ syndrome. Like there’s no use for the police station outside the detective career, you can’t get arrested playing civilian Sims. There are no cops patroling the world leading to the police station being just for playing detective as opposed to part of overall gameplay. Births are so quick, you lose time in loading screens going to give birth in the hospital meaning most Sim births happen at home. And your sick active sims can’t vist the hospital to get treated, they just chug some meds at home. Even tho it can be buggy, people visit the vet clinic more than the hospital because 1) its on a map and visible and 2) its a lot type where it is easy to build your own in any map. And the science lab is fun, but again no use outside the science career. There’s nothing that makes these lots a part of natural gameplay outside of the Career link.
Which means no matter how much code is in those lots, if they don’t naturally draw players to play with them its just wasted code on bad game design. The vet clinic and the secret lab in strangerville (for example) overall work better because you can see them and this naturally draws you to want to use/visit them.
And even a portal world like the magical realm in glimmerbrook feels more overall game incorperated because at least there’s a portal to get you there on the map. I also think occult magic ‘secret’ worlds make sense to have a barrier to use where as a hospital and police-station not being walkby locations on a map do not. There should at least be a little fake portal bus stop/subway station/trolly port where you can just visit the hospital or police station because its not some magical secret land that should be locked away for ‘special circumstances’ gameplay.
I feel like maybe some people that took this survey haven't played in Sulani recently. The fishing bug makes that world unplayable. It's terrible. Also, the collectibles there seem to lag the game so badly if you have them on your lot. Idk what happened with that pack but after Love Struck came out Sulani has become fully unplayable and it used to be my favorite world. Anyway, this was an awesome survey, I'm glad I took it and I really appreciate all the work you did putting this together for us.
What fishing bug is there? I went fishing in Sulani for the Grim Reaper rewards event and I didn't notice any problems.
I didn't know if I was somehow fishing incorrectly, but the last time I tried to fish there none of my sims could. It was annoying, because I feel like the endangered fish and the whole fishing aesthetic were pretty advertised features.
@@ninadreams127 Odd... you can look online too there is a whole long thread about it at EA. I can't fish at any of the fishing signs or off the beaches. The only place I can fish is off of one of the boats. Considering it's a sea-themed pack/world its pretty frustrating.
@@arghleblarghle No, it's not just you. There are a lot of comments about it on EAs bug reports.
Thank you for making these surveys! Really, I somehow had the impression Lovestruck was really buggy and annoying :D
Also I paused at 18:53 and was like "... wait! Where is Windenburg? How is it not in the top row?!" and then realized the top 5 were seperated :D
only a few minutes in, and I'm already impressed by the quality and choices in charts and the presentation, very very nice! Great job!
This video is really well constructed, would love another members video about the survey with some of the data not included :)
This has all the production value of an awards show. Welcome to the Simmies!
Next time you find yourself needing a new series between packs or lets plays, you could do "playing with only my communities top rated packs of the year" series
Aside from spotify wrapped, idk if I've ever been more excited for a yearly breakfowm. It's always thorough and well thought out. Well done, James!
I think a question about overall enjoyment would be a good addition in next year's survey, maybe even a good replacement for the bug question? As an average player I find it hard to see or notice if something is buggy or not.
This years video is so much better than last year. Now I'm scoring James a 7 out of 10. Now it is a nicer video and editing quality and it is quicker than last year. But i think it could be even quicker. All the numbers get too overwhelming to me but i like the trailers behind James and I think it is very well done on the whole. Keep up the good work James!
I found this video fascinating and informative. It was an eye-opener to see some of my favorite expansion packs, stuff packs, and kits receive low scores, with the exception of Seasons and Cottage Living.
This was my first year actually remembering to take the survey and I'm so impressed with the way you tackle this project!!
Also it makes me so happy to see Snowy Escape in the top 5, I'm not sure exactly what it is about that pack, but I have so much love for it!
Finally!!! I was soooooo waiting for this :) thank you so much for doing all this work, it's now definitely a thing that I am waiting for every year - first to vote (I have my own sheets with ratings, rankings) and then see how everyone votes. so much fun!
Not me forgetting how I ranked everything and changing my mind since then. 😂 This is great James!
I genuinely love that James does these every year. I wonder what would happen if other sims creators would promote his survey. As in, I'm curious to see the results if they were from a broader audience rather than solely James' viewers
I think in the next year it would be helpful to account for what degree of the sample plays with mods. Especially script mods. I play with several script mods, myself, and I've run into an issue of figuring out if a bug is caused by a broken mod or just the pack being buggy.
Really cool data this year though!
This is super interesting, and I'm so glad you do it!
One question I'd be interested in, per pack, is related to value. Like, "Is this pack worth buying [full price, 25% off, 50% off or more, only if it's free, not even if it's free]?"
Or even just the 10-point scale to rate the value of the pack monetarily. I think if you did that for the kits, the way they skewed that final list would be different.
(Also, if that was already a part of your survey and I just forgot, please forgive me! I don't recall you mentioning that metric in the video, and it's been a while since I did the survey.)
The wrld is definitly a bigger sellingpoint to me personally. I might actually buy a pack solely for the world if it's good enough😹
I bought get together for the world and built in wardrobes alone 😂
I was late to filling it out but these videos are so interesting to watch. Thanks for setting this up!
I'm so sad I'm one of the few people who actually love My First Pet Stuff lol. Great video as always James, I imagine this took quite a while!
The giant hamster chair and the alien pet won me over, I love it. But I also come from having played the original Sims, where it was expected that you would buy all the packs even if you weren't interested in them, because they contained the patches for all the bugs in previous packs.
Realm of Magic missed an opportunity, in that they could have had a career in the entertainment area of a stage mugacian with his helper. A few props, like the water tank, disappearing closet, etc. and it could have been a lot of fun. I feel the same way about the musician career. I wish they would have allowed musicians to have musician friends that they could form a band with, for rock music, or a string quartet for classical music, a jazz combo, etc. Game play could have been so much better. Having career entertainers, all of them, be able to perform for others as a group, would have been extra fun.
Honestly this is so impressive, creating the survey, analysing the results AND presenting them by yourself?? Amazing!
56:15 You can turn off the neighbourhood action plans by going into the pack options and selecting the box that says only the player can vote on them. If this is done when creating a new save the action plan problem goes away.
Just experienced a bad bug with for rent. I deleted all the units on a residential rental with the intention of then turning the lot into a regular residential lot. Even though I bulldozed EVERYTHING, the lot refuses to accept that it’s not a residential rental anymore, claims there’s still tenants on the property, even though I travel to the property and it’s a completely empty lot. So frustrating…
James, it never ceases to impress me how smart and hardworking you are!!! The effort and production value that you put into your projects/videos just blows me away. You work so hard to make every detail that you add to everything you do on your channel truly the best it can be, and that's so impressive and nerdy of you, which I'm sure is a big part of why we love your content so much! Thanks for not only doing this every year, but doing it so thorough and comprehensive!! 🩷
Love this video!!! Maybe you can do a survey on NPCs as well? Landgraabs and Pancakes ratings and so on
I find it interesting that several of the top kits are room build specific. Book nook for libraries, art room, nurseries, greenhouses. I think the clear theme and vision draws people in.
Yay was excited to see this posted always fun to see how the packs rating change