The Sims 4 Star Wars Game Pack

I'm more of a Star TREK fan than a Star WARS fan, but I like science fiction in general, and I'd be happy to play a Star Wars pack if it looked good ... but this doesn't. Witch and Vampire were both life states that came in Game Packs -- rather than Expansion Packs -- so I don't see why the Star Wars pack can't have a Jedi life state!

I'm surprised that Carl obviously wasn't given the pack since other Game Changers got it, for example Vixella, who expressed excitement about some of the build skins being well suited to building outdoors, and Plumbella, who advised her followers not to buy the pack unless they're truly into Star Wars.

For many simmers including myself this pack was the moment their unhappiness became more relevant than their loyalty to the franchise.

Would it be possible to provide some information about the recent patch? Were there any important changes besides windows being stackable?

I'd love to know since at this moment, my game keeps crashing, (probably due to problems with mods that need to be updated, so it's my fault, not EA's) so it would reduce my discontent significantly if I knew that it was done in order to implement important and useful things.

As for Star Wars, I don't really like the idea of two franchises being mixed unless it's done really well, with a bunch of creativity. But since EA is keeping the DLCs self-contained, I can't think of many possibilities. Using special powers to actually improve the Sims world in ways that are completely new would be great, but difficult to implement, unfortunately.

Reading between the lines of what I've seen from other reviews, this is a game pack that has:

-No new lots (the most excusable part of this whole thing)

-No new traits

-No new careers (since it seems like 'joining' one of the sides is not a career but a hobby - as though fascism or freedom fighting were part-time work)

-No new occults (easily the biggest miss - if this had let me make a Jedi sim, I'd be buying it)

-Essentially is a glorified stuff pack + map.

So, what I'm extrapolating here is that Maxis didn't really care much about this. Likely, this was a mandate from their corporate overlords, which probably came from their IP deal with Disney, to do something promoting Star Wars and Galaxy's Edge specifically. My guess is that because of this, and because they had to know their fanbase wouldn't give two wet slaps about this particular pack, they either:

-Phoned it in with as little added to the game as possible, so they could just get it done and get corporate off their backs, and go back to working on what they want to be working on, or

-Specifically made it as unimpactful on the core game experience as humanly possible, so that people wouldn't have even a remote possibility of having to deal with random aliens, stormtroopers, or Force-using townies.

I feel backed up in this assessment by the fact that most of the other game packs contained more impactful content. Careers, occults, maps, objects, traits, etc. Even the thinnest of the game packs added something that affected the rest of the game experience. This just doesn't seem to do that, at all.

I honestly hope people stop taking their frustrations out on Maxis and the Sims development team over this. They probably didn't have a choice in the matter. When the corporate overlord says 'jump', you don't exactly get to say 'no'. Not if you want to keep working.

I also wanted to be a Jedi/Sith, so thd absence of that is upsetting. I can be fine with a normal and saber as a rebel, but on the dark side I want to become a Darth and take over not work for Kylo Ren. I also hated the Eco and Knitting, but people wanted boring "realistic" stuff. A lot of people claim that is what they want. I do want cars, but I want Star Wars more (though with force powers). I'm not too pressed on cars, because they are just for travel, so they would have minimal use beyond nice to look at. I don't care for the baby stuff or bunk beds tbh. I had bunk beds growing up and don't see why people are so happy to get them.

This pack is nothing but your character going to a Theme Park the problem with this is that people thought they would be getting a REAL Star Wars based DLC. Who thought your character going to a Theme Park instead of the real thing was a great idea? I mean people play games and go to Theme Parks because they can't do the real thing so going to a Theme Park inside of a game is literally a double slap to the face. But they have to keep it realistic because that's what people want right

Ya know I’m a huge Star Wars nerd and I’m a sucker for buying every pack just to expand the game in hopes that it gets better.... But you can’t even wield the force in this pack?!?!? Kidding!?! God I hope a modder can do something about that. Only two real Star Wars characters?? You can’t shoot a blaster!? The missions have no endgame or battle between factions!? Joke! Not even worth it for Star Wars fans and you can’t wield Kylos lightsaber?! Horrible!

i think it's a waste of $20!

I think the game pack is more taking advantage of EA existing game assets that they have from other games, because I'm sure Covid-19 played havoc like it did for so many other things.

That said, its a pretty rubbish expansion overall and I don't feel it was worth my $20.

I disagree. I keep hearing not good reviews. Im baffled by that. I love sims so much i got it tattooed. And i also love starwars. What did you expect? Well i appreciate what was developed and all the hard work they put into it. I love my droid. Using cheats to make my mermaid world and the other lands all starwars. The Batuu experiance was great and seeing the famous characters. When did the world get so snotty and demanding. Cause thats how your review sounds.

Not particularly interested in combining SW and The Sims (unless it was a really well-made total conversion perhaps), but I’m somewhat optimistic that this pack will give modders a means to keep sims from leaving any given worldspace on their own. Hopefully *if* such functionality is added, it’ll be in a basegame patch so you don’t need to buy an entire pack you’re not interested in for it.

On the other hand, I hope this doesn’t mean we won’t get something Into the Future-esque in the, well, future.

Hello everyone.

I am a Fan of The Sims, I have the whole saga: The sims, The sims 2, The sims 3 and the 4.

Honestly, I was a bit disappointed with the last pack (Star War), they could do even more especially within the scenario, given the cost of the pack. The idea is nice but it stays short. My very personal opinion.

Most of the players have been asking for a long time why the developers don't do the Open World inside the scenario so as to avoid the long loading every time you have to go to a house or club in the same scenario.

I don't know, it gives me the feeling that you are losing a bit of the soul, the spirit of creativity inside the game and you are doing things for pure marketing. I'm sorry but that's what I'm seeing and not just me.

This is constructive criticism and I would like in the future to ignite this creativity that many of us have seen in The Sims 3 on The Sims 4.

I hope that in the future they manage to improve.

A greeting,

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Ivet.

I've never seen Star Wars, and have no interest in it. I can only play the legacy Sims 4, because my computer isn't Metal. So that's two reasons why I won't be buying this. At least I don't feel left out; some recent packs (e.g.Tiny living) have been so enthused about, I'm a bit sad I can't play them.

I found it strange that there is only one toilet and no showers, at BaduuAnd you are on holyday no vacation home at all! EA don't take there cutomers serious. But they just the take the money off their!

I must be the odd one out, because I am quite happy with this pack. I wanted to go to a Disney park specifically for Galaxy's Edge, but can't. This pack lets me finally have a chance to experience it, so for me, it was worth the $20.

Hi I recently got the star wars pack

.. You are so right. Huge disappointment.. You don't even get a place to live. If you're gonna make this a vacation world, give us out vacation home. Honestly, I think this would have been better implemented as a regular world... We build rickets and travel in space... Why couldn't this be where we travel too? Sims 3 had a future world, why not a space world? One with careers in the factions like jedi or stormtroopers.

I have played sims since sims 1. Each version seems to follow the same packs, so with sims 4 it was sort of seen that done that. I only buy adds one that interest me, even more so now. No pets. No uni, no run a business sort of stuff. I was amazed when I read the official forum suggesting a knitting addon, more baby interaction.(Seemed to be mostly females making suggestions). The addons are limited. Once all levels of skill are reached there's nothing to do with them. (Why no mermaid magicians? Why no vamp mermaids? Etc). There's actually limited gameplay for the money, but some players seem to use the sims as a life substitute. I was interested when told about a starwars addon, but even those who like starwars don't like it. Plus, I hear it's full of the usual sims buggyness. Perhaps they should fix long standing bugs before expecting us to part with cash for another bugged addon?

Why couldn't they do what they did in Sims 3 and did Star Wars as a separate game like Sims Medieval? Charge a full price, have it fully immersive by just tweaking the regular game mechanics, slap on new skins and only need to add a minimal of things.

Even as a mild Star Wars fan this pack's very existence is just irritating. It's obviously just a cynical cash grab on the part of EA and Disnucas. None of the SW stuff integrates well at all, as has been explained. I was interested in getting a Droid, but apparently back in the normal Sim's world they don't do anything useful. Baatu is obviously not just a glorified theme park in Sim's world as Ren can actually Force choke you.

I dislike that the SW characters you can meet are all Disney trilogy characters. As if this pack weren't crappy enough already Disnarvucas has to remind us how that everything must be remade in their image. The smuggler faction character is some "literally who?" Almost everything about this rubs me the wrong way.

According to the Sims Wiki this pack gives you 4 new traits, one bonus trait and three Aspiration traits. A bonus trait makes your needs fill up when you travel. The First Order Aspiration trait gives you an edge in fights and makes you less likely to die of rage. The Rebellion Aspiration also gives you a vague hope-related Aspiration. These are the only reasons I'd ever get this pack and only if I cheated to add them.

I will add that I realky like you can gain reputation with the smuggler/crime faction without it affecting either of the other two factions. And that gaining max rep with them at least let's you tour the Millennium Falcolm. That and the above traits are the only things about the pack that actually seem good.

Quit your crying with your inability to use your imagination and combining lightsaber with the realm of magic spellcaster skills it's almost like having force abilities