Molly's Blog

The Sims 4 For Rent recently released their gameplay trailer and I must say, I was a bit underwhelmed. This feels like an extension of City Living and not worth the price point.

A little while ago, EA announced that they would refresh some packs that exist already to update them and that is what I thought would happen to City Living. Turns out, they are locking it behind a paywall again.

There is also some controversy where people are speculating that loading the different households on the same lot will take a loading screen, which is not good at all. The Sims 2 had no loading screens when visiting sims in Apartment Life so I cannot imagine putting that in the game now

This also may be an option to go to another unit on another lot that you own, but I wouldn’t put it past EA to make us load each unit individually.

I do like the UI to manage the households in the lot as a landlord so that you can see who is where and to fill any vacancies that exist. I am hoping that there will be something similar to manage the households on eat lot to switch control whenever you please.

The Repo man looks like they are also making a comeback from previous sims games, but a bit different. The Landlord can take away items to pay for rent so that will be an interesting gameplay mechanic

Overall, we will see what the expansion pack holds when it releases on December 7th. I am not super optimistic as most packs (save for a few) have been extremely underwhelming.