With the first round of voting for the next Community Stuff Pack coming to a close earlier this week, SimGuruFrost has just revealed the results of the first round.
If you are not sure what the Community Stuff Pack is all about, you can find out more here.
Via TheSims.com
Hey Simmers!
You cast your initial Stuff Pack votes and they’ve been tallied! IT’S HAPPENING! After an exciting week of voting on the overall theme and gameplay for the upcoming Community Stuff Pack we’re pleased to announce the 1st round results. Every election is determined by the people who show up and let us tell you – a tremendous number of Simmers are showing up to participate! Thank you for your support! Stay tuned for upcoming information around 2nd round voting dates where you’ll be determining the art style of the pack.
AND NOW ONTO THE RESULTS!
Theme ranking:
1) Arts & Crafts
2) Happy Haunts
3) Self-Care
4) Science & Technology
5) Fun-TechGameplay ranking for the winning theme:
1) Knitting
2) Sculpting
3) Glass Fabrication
4) Edible Art
5) Embroidering
The second round of voting will be happening in the near future but what do you think about the results of the round one vote? Is it what you expected?
Let us know what you think below in the comments!
Oh joy, knitting; how exciting.
Honestly!!!
My exact reaction lol.
Ms. Crumplebottom better come back as an NPC!!
I have to know, why of all things was knitting the main thing people want? Why do people want to pay money to watch their sim sit and knit for countless sim hours? If it were a free activity added to the game, I’d see the appeal. But this is something that’s gonna cost actual money. Just to add probably some clothes and some options for different knitted crafts for sims to make and maybe sell. I get some people enjoy a bit more realism but this just seems like the kind of feature that would’ve worked better as a gameplay mod rather than something to pay for in a pack.
That’s exactly how I felt, I mean it would be such a dull thing to sit and watch, don’t get me wrong sure it’s could be interesting to see what the Sims could create but you know it’s gonna be an expensive pack.
Well it’s a stuff pack so really only $10 USD
Not even worth even that much tbh 5 at best lmao don’t even play with elders
I find this most interesting. The Happy Haunts stans couldn’t care less if knitting etc. is in the game; they just want their ghost stuff. Where as the Arts and Crafts stans seem to have this “ew ghosts get them out of my game!” attitude. What’s up with that?
Its at least somthing the elder can do.
The exact same reason I like watching my sim do laundry!
I mostly want it for elder sims and so my female sims can have more to do in Decades challenge. I also love crochet and knitting irl so I want my sims to be able to do it also.
The people that voted for knitting are the same people that constantly complain how much better sims 3 is & how expensive the “unnecessary” expansions are, but yeah, good thing they have to at least pay for their stupidity….
They are still gonna complain about something not being held up to their ideals. Can’t make them happy, so they make everyone upset
I think it’s the appeal of having more things to do with the elders. I know that for a lot of people I’ve talked to, they saw this as a huge opportunity to have a more elder like activity.
How can people think knitting is better to Happy Haunts?!?!
Coz ghosts are annoying as fuck, constantly breaking stuff
A youtuber told people to.
Exactly. And to pass on Happy Hounts for something like knitting? People figure “oh, they’ll just add it later,” but I saw the figures somewhere and this pack is meant to come out 2020/21, meaning the next date for a possible pack (that they haven’t started working on) is around 2023. Seriously. Sometimes I don’t understand the Sims community. What is the collective average age? 84? Just learn to knit and go. Forreal.
I agree it is something for elders to do and maybe they could knit a jumper or beanie for a toddler and then give it as a gift
Better than more supernatural bullshit
I TAKE YOUR POINT! It’s a life simulation game, and I love it for this type of thing (if it means knitting let’s knitt!) For the others who want magic, vampires, supernatural and impossible things that in real life don’t exist.. GO AND BUY SOME FANTASCENTIFIC BASED GAME
The sims franchise IS A FANTASY GAME. Weird stuff like ghosts and magic has been there since the very beginning! The Sims 1 had a whole expansion called Makin’ Magic, to say nothing of things like the chemistry table in the base game and other things. Sims 2 had aliens in base game and a creature type with every expansion. Sims 3 had a whole magic expansion pack. Part of what players love about Sims IS the magic, vampires, supernatural and impossible things. Don’t act like all that stuff came out of nowhere like some kind of pandering to a select few. It was always in Sims by design. Maybe YOU should go buy some happy little family simulation game on mobile and stop complaining about the supernatural stuff.
The Sims is a series of life simulation video games.
Genre(s): Life simulation.
SERIOUSLY. And I bet if HH had won, someone sooner or later would make a knitting mod if they wanted it so bad. But noo. Let’s pay 20 euros to watch our Sims make the same hand movements for 5 hours and eventually come up with a couple knits modders could have made for free.
Go knit in real life. That’s boring af to do in a videogame.
For those saying it’s a life simulation game so therefore it should be realistic, what do you guys do when one of your Sim dies and the grim reaper comes along with it’s tablet? Do you guys close your eyes, count to 100, and start murmuring: “it’s a realistic game it’s a realistic game”? Honest question.
Agree
Same thing i said. Who wants to watch their sims knit???
When was he second vote wtf I wanna do pottery
same
Kinda bummed. I thought for sure Happy Haunts would be the winner for sure. Possibility of new careers (agent of death, ghostbuster, psychic) was a shoe-in I thought.
No joke. Same as me.
Agreed. I wanted the ghostbuster career. Knitting?????? C’mon son.
I am with you. Disappointed.
You realise it would only have been one career though? I mean, Grim Reaper would have been fun, once, but who wants freaking ghosts to deal with? They are the most annoying thing in the Sims, even toddlers and babies are less of a bother!
I feel like that was of the point of the ghost hunting career, you’d be getting rid of them, maybe even have autonomous squads runnin’ around wiping them out (though that’s just being hopeful.)
So instead of one new career you voted for no new career.
And you hate ghosts, so instead of ghost hunters you voted for let the ghosts roam free?
Your logic is flawless, Carina.
Yeah me too I really think Happy Haunts would win since it offered more for players
I’m happy that’s what I voted for
Not really happy with the outcome. Happy haunts I was sure would win, put a twist in game play. Oh well
First LAUNDRY wins over a “Death & Danger” stuff pack, now arts & crafts wins over Happy Haunts. It’s like the Sims Community hates fun. Two community votes in a row the most BORING option beats out the more fun and interesting options. Okay boomers.
Believe it or not, some people actually want to play a life simulator as a life simulator and take part in normal everyday activities as opposed to unrealistic stuff like ghosts and vampires.
Sweety, we believe it, those of us who like supernaturals have been getting the short end of the stick for the past 5 years. In the previous games supernaturals have never been cut down this much.
I think the “supernatural” life simulator (and other extremely unrealistic things) defeat the purpose of having a life simulator. That’s the things I’ve disliked the most in recent years. If I want to be a vampire or witch with magical powers, there’s plenty of games I can play and be those things. Which I do enjoy! But I like my sims to be SIMS. When you say supernatural stuff has been getting the short end of the stick for years…. this game never was supernatural to start with. That crap came later. *eyeroll*
You are completely wrong, Steve. The sims has always a supernatural stuff in it right from the very beginning. You only need to look at what the original The Sims was like to see that. I mean they had an entire magic expansion pack for crying out loud. And it was in The Sims 2. And in The Sims 3. I mean when exactly is this “later” that you are referring to when all the ‘crap’ came in? That ‘crap’ happened to be some of the things that sets Sims apart and helped it to thrive, since the very beginning. When you say “I like my sims to be SIMS” I don’t know what you mean by that – because SIMS in my experience have always been little weirdo computer people who get trapped by a plate on the floor – they have been aliens, vampires, ghosts, and so on. I have no idea what you think a sim is supposed to be but I think you need to look for a different game, my dude.
I was so hoping for Happy Haunts!! But if it had to be arts and crafts why knitting? At least the glass fabrication sounds the more interesting of the bunch
Ugh.
The Sims has always been about “unrealistic stuff like ghosts and vampires.” Sims 1 had so much “unrealistic” stuff in just the base game, like a mad science table and a genie in a lamp and ghosts that show up at night and getting abducted by a UFO if you use the telescope. To say nothing of the ENTIRE magic pack with baby dragons in it. It’s always been there. Part of Sims 2 was waiting to see which occult type there would be in each new expansion. The weird stuff is very much a part of this game, don’t act like it’s being forced on you out of nowhere!
Thank you! Sims has ALWAYS been weird. It’s just supped to be a simulator. Make life what you want it to be. Like. C’mon… We all want to live out our fantasy lives. Sometimes I wanna be normal, sometimes I wanna be a mermaid with 15 wives, 30 kids and a secret vampire husband. So sue me!
Yes so glad you responded! Sims 1 literally had a whole expansion for magic just like sims 2 and sims 3 in addition to the stuff that was already in the game, sims 4 is the first time we don’t get a full expansion of magic.. it’s not even as great as past sims magic/ occult content.
Then they need to live their normal lives and stop trying to do so through a computer. That’s creepy, for one. And this is a VIDEO GAME! It’s supposed to have elements of whimsy and the unreal. It’s no wonder the game play is so baseless and shallow.
Science & Technology would have been WAY better than bloody knitting. And honestly, why are you playing the sims if you want realism? The sims, since sims 1, was never realistic
Exactly!
Lmao!! That is so accurate it hurts. I thought young people played the Sims but apparently the average age is 84 ig.
This result absolutely boggles my mind. Maybe, just maybe, arts and crafts would be a decent consolation prize if all of the suggested crafts were in it, but bloody knitting?! And that’s coming from someone who knits irl.
I cannot believe that we are not getting Happy Haunts, simply because people want to watch their Sims moving their hands slightly for hours, only to get some horrid sweater as a reward.
I just… How. HOW.
On the other hand, I’m not made of money and won’t have to agonize over finding the money for this one, so that’s positive, I guess.
Oh boy. We’ll be able to watch our sims knit. How exciting.
Seriously how are people choosing this over being the grim reaper !?
Exactly I want to take souls
Seems like a boring out come to me. Oh well!
Lol. My thoughts exactly. I voted for Happy Haunts myself.
Can’t agree more with the comments here! For the first time ever in the sims we have the choice to be the grim reaper!!! But instead we chose knitting for our sims grandsons…
I agree!!!!!!!!!
I knit in real life, so I was looking forward to being a grim reaper without a mod. I play the sims to have a chance to not be me!
I’m stoked knitting and crafts are winning, because a lot of us like realism! And being grim reaper just isn’t super in the human gambit of possibility so I’m really happy haha
Wow seriously? I voted for both in fact I don’t know how the self care one made it to #3, if it makes it they’re losing a long time Simmer. I can’t knit as I’m a lefty and everyone in my family was a righty so at least my Sim can knit.
I’m shocked. That was the most boring theme option in my opinion.
No that would be the self care one.
We could have become a GRIM REAPER as a part time job and you people chose KNITTING? What the hell?! I get occult stuff is pretty niche but COME ON, out of all the other things you could have chosen, you chose KNITTING. I hope to God we get some of this other stuff anyways.
preach!
I hope they get massive hand cramps while they knit.
Y’all some massive complainers seriously! Obviously more people want knitting than ghosts or it wouldn’t have won? you just want everything catered to your taste and not EA to listen to what the community actually want, how is that reasonable?
I am one of the complainers actually.
I will say that of course the theme that wins ought to be the one to be made, and indeed it winning certainly is an indication that the vocal part of the Sims community wants knitting.
Surely those who thinks it’s about as dull as dry toast has a right to express as much though? Just as it is their right to not waste their money on something they find utterly pointless?
To all the old ladies who voted for knitting, I hope your game crashes to no end. Traitors.
Lol! Yeah, exactly what you said!
Wow grow the f*** up. Young people knit as well, a lot of the new generation do it. I’m old and I voted. For Haunts as my number one so stop being so damn judgeMENTAL, you’re acting like a toddler sim having a tantrum.
Not everyone wants to be to grim reaper I voted for arts and crafts In real life I knit and make cushions but I was hoping for potty but it’s just a game, they need to be grateful as I gonna take the devolopers a while to design the stuff pack.
Calm down wtf. Ur the one having a tantrum in the comment section
Ok boomer
Finally, someone else who doesn’t loathe the pack!
Finally, someone else who doesn’t loathe the pack! WAIT WHY WASN’T THIS POSTED AS A REPLY-
Ok boomer
lmao aw man, u made my day
Hahaha! Love it. btw Im a textiles designer. Just enjoying the humor (unlike some who take it all too seriously..)
Lol…. Your comment had me screaming. This is the best comment
i hate the results. boring af.
As a sixteen year old I live knitting and the results are great. We need more focus on the arts
Lets be honest how many of us actually pay attention to the plates and cups sims use not to mention knitting will only make sense in the winter if you have seasons… we need packs that apply to all 4 seasons
In real life I knit all four seasons.
I wish self-care was #1 in both categories
same here
So do I, I wanted the smoothie machine, tea infuser, vegan trait, but no we get knitting…I do that in real life, I want something more exciting in my Sims game.
Same
Self care was honestly the worst out of the five packs, for me at least. It had the least amount of things to do and a vegan trait is quite unnecessary since we already have the vegetarian trait (I know it’s not the same)
I’m very happy about this! Shame on all the granny bashers in the comments. I for one find knitting very exciting and thrive off of realistic gameplay.
Our sims really need more they can actually DO.
I agree, what is the age spectrum in these comments? Teenager-throwing-a-petulant-child-tantrum-ish?
I would have liked something more with the science or self-care stuff, because I thought the possible activities sounded the most interesting and actually might come in handy in normal gameplay, but I’m fine with Arts & Crafts.
I can however admit I thought they made a Grim Reaper or staying at home Psychic career sound fun, but really anything with ghosts is such a turn off, they’re annyoing as hell and we already have so much supernatural gameplay to choose from, I really won’t mind knitting my Sims’ outfits and selling them as a way to earn money.
I think once this moves forward and everyone will calm a bit down people will realise it isn’t that bad and honestly considering how many people use painting to make extra money in the Sims I’m sure knitting will find its place.
You are so right! Thanks.
YESSSS!
I highly disagree with this outcome. I honestly expected that we’d compete against science or tech. To me, this is quite a letdown. I hope all these other ideas will still be taken to consideration..
I’m so excited for it! I think it would be a cool pack to get us more stuff for elders!
Seriously…. I wanted Happy Haunts!
Did embroidery get ranked the lowest? That is a bummer.
But I’m overall quite happy that elderly sims are going to get more activities! Well, my younger sims will definitely be knitting too, but you know what I mean!
Do we thank the players that voted for Laundry for voting for knitting?
How the F*** did self care make it to #3? No sane person would ever be a vegan. Why would you want a brainwashed sim.
If it makes it they’re losing along time Simmer. As for the ones going on about knitting try growing the F*** Up, you’re acting like a toddler sim having a tantrum.
Calm down sweetie
Heck yeah content for elders!!!!! I’m gonna knit my grandkids so many sweaters you’d best BELIEVE!
It’s an Arts and Crafts pack! Not an elders pack. Yeah, it’s got knitting, but lots of people knit, in all age groups and social cliques. Most of the people I know who knit are 20-something uni student with ADHD and they make hufflepuff scarfs and other geeky things, or straight-up spiderweb shawls cos they’re goth af. I HATE how so many people just saw “knitting” and went “Oh yay an elders pack, I’m going to vote for that.” No dudes! It’s Arts and Crafts! I don’t mind getting this instead of Happy Haunts but if this artsy-creative pack gets turned into an elders pack because of you people I’m gonna be PISSED!
Painting. Writing. Working out. Programming. Woodworking. Fishing. Gardening. Spending time with family. Literally anything you can do with young adults and adults. The elders have stuff to do. And now we lost stuff packs like Science & Technology or Happy Haunts for freaking knitting
Really ??? Knitting how
Noooooooo. I needed the Grim career AND the Ghost hunter career. So sad right now.
Really I wanted fabrication over knitting
How did happy haunts not win?
Arts& Crafts + Happy Haunts were my fav. I guess more Happy Haunts. I know a lot of people like realism. That’s okay. I likeoccult stuff because my life is realistic enough and I wanted to be grim. Maybe they give us the other ones at well with some time in between. I would like to see the Happy Haunts features too. Still I’m glad for content and I don’t think Arts & Crafts is as boring as a lot of people think 😀
Can’t wait for the second vote.
Well said Vanessa I like happy haunts as well but I voted for arts and crafts but everyone else has to think there are millions of players voting so be grateful for want has won
Dark Arts & Crafts.
Sculpt a spirit board. Knit a cloak. Crochet a dreamcatcher. Glass fabricate a crystal ball. The perfect compromise we’re never gonna see.
Yes!
knitting embroidery ..Realy not for me tho thx
i bet all the karens choose knitting
oh yay more arts stuff and knitting -.- boring!!! Haunting stuff would of been more interesting!!!
Y’all are boring. Really arts and crafts? Knitting? Over the other options?? Okay…
Yay! I’m so excited Arts & Crafts won! Please let this be a sellable hobby, creating products to sell via Arts & Crafts would be awesome!
I’m happy!! I appreciate all the hard work our Sims 4 team does to try to keep us all coming back for more! 🙂 It’s so hard pleasing the multitudes. I buy them all anyway so it makes little difference which ones come first. My only request is a rocking chair so I can rock my toddlers! 😀
This is good. It will give the elders something to do and encourage me to actually use them in the game. It’d be nice to have an interaction with grandchildren like teaching them to knit or maybe adding a fishing interaction!
Painting. Writing. Working out. Programming. Woodworking. Fishing. Gardening. Spending time with family. Literally anything you can do with young adults and adults. The elders have stuff to do. And now we lost stuff packs like Science & Technology or Happy Haunts for freaking knitting
Sooooooooooooooo happy that Happy Haunts didn’t win, lol!
Knitting won? Are you all serious?
Excited!
I feel like lilsimsie swayed the vote tbh because she was all for knitting.
I totally blame her! She’s the one who called it an elders pack and now everyone’s calling it that. For crying out loud it’s an arts and crafts pack! If this is what we get then fine but I want arts, not retirement homes! Knitting doesn’t automatically make this an elder pack. How dare you all.
Pretty upset Happy Haunts didn’t win but, Arts & Crafts sounds fun. Now we have something for elders I guess.
i am happy this won i pick both 🙂
I’m glad this won. Not everyone likes to play with unrealistic stuff like grim reapers and vampires. Some of us like normal things, and tbh that’s been very scarce as of lately. This year added mermaids, magic spell-casting people, and robots. Arts and crafts should be very enjoyable to those of us who want to play normally and give our sims nice hobbies. And yes, a lot of us want stuff that appeals to elders, especially since they have NOTHING unique to them right now. Just let them have one pack for Pete’s sake.
How are robots unrealistic? Have you seen the current technology? Robots are not super popular amongst the general public, but to those who love robotics our current technology is very close to what is in the sims.
“Oh my elders have nothing to do! They need knitting! It is unique to them!”
Uh, hell no. Knitting is for whoever wants to knit. Just like painting or writing. Your elders can do those hobbies or literally any of the other habbies in the game but you wanna claim there’s nothing for them to do? You wanna claim knitting is for elders and not for anyone else? Way to go and offender elders and younger age groups alike.
Also grow up and deal with the supernatural stuff. Sims has been ‘unrealistic’ since day one and if you’re annoyed to see mermaids and robots then you clearly know nothing about this game series.
Science & Technology. That’s all I have to say. And if you can’t find anything for your elders to do, that’s your problem. My elders are doing just fine and without knitting
im happy, i hate supernatural stuff in sims 🙂
THEN GO PLAY A DIFFERENT GAME! Sims has always been supernatural so get wrecked you newborn dunce!
Yes!! So pleased to see my favourites at the top of the list 🙂
Noooo… Happy Haunts! New careers! Knitting over ghost hunting? ☹
I know how you feel was hoping for ghost hunting and maybe even summoning a demon lol
I am really happy the arts and crafts pack won. I wasn’t expecting it honestly, but it was what I voted for! Haunts seems very cool as well but I am sure there will be other chances for more super natural stuff. It is kind of pissing me off that so many people are calling it the ‘elderly people’ pack and making fun of it. Calm down people. It’s the Sims. And you are being a bunch of babies. I am very excited and I am not quite 30 yet lol. Guess I just like crafting 😀
I like crafting too and we already have ghosts, aliens, the grim reaper, mermaids and wizards this is another skill like cooking that can be sold etc. I am happy with the results
They people I most see calling it an elders pack are the people who voted for it. I blame lilsimsie. She saw knitting and started calling it an elders pack and then all her fans ran off to vote for knitting on those terms. Even now I see people going ‘oh yay content for my elders.’ This is an arts and crafts pack y’all. If they voted for this and then get disappointed when it turns out exactly as advertised (as arts and crafts, not as elders) then we are never gonna hear the end of it.
I am sure that you’ll get bored of the pack in one or two weeks. It is like Laundry Day came back for round two. Science & Technology would have been way better. Still realistic, way more interesting than freaking knitting, and it would pair well with Get To Work and Discover University
Was really hoping for the happy haunts stuff pack. Soo close but new arts and crafts activities are going to be nice to use.
I’m hoping Happy Haunts still get made.
Should’ve been happy haunts
I cannot believe happy haunts didn’t win. This is ridiculous. Why on earth would anyone want to knit and not play with a ouijia board. C’mon EA.
It fir what our elder might be able to do. As they do thing at the moment.
It feels like I am getting old with the result
Lol This is why people use MODs. Happy knitting!