EA.com has leaked the name and the description of the next Expansion Pack for The Sims 4 – Eco Lifestyle! Check out what the pack is about:
Ready for your Sims to impact their world? Move into a community of fellow collaborative makers in The Sims 4 Eco Lifestyle Expansion Pack!* Play to change and make a difference in the new world of Evergreen Harbor. Help your new neighbors decide on a Community Space Project, reduce your eco footprint, and watch your neighborhood transform. You’ll be surprised by what happens when your Sims start making the rules.
Stay tuned on Sims Community for all the latest updates on the pack!
Here I was excited for farming and getting farm animals finally. I even built a farm! *sigh*
Oh well.
Not worth $60 to just get a recycling bin and solar panels. Will this new world at least have several lots? That’s about the only reason I will pay $60 for this…
I have to say because I’ve seen a lot of hate about the knitting themed pack. I honestly am excited for it because I actually knit.
BUT!
I am not interested in this eco lifestyle”expansion” pack at all. There’s already been eco living stuff in the game and honestly… It doesn’t interest me.
If it was country living like the fake leak had said that’d be great! I’d be more excited!
Because I actually live that lifestyle.
But this …. So underwhelming.
Underwhelmed for sure…Sulani already had things like this but with only two lots off the grid. Hubby just gave me an idea though to save it for homeless challenge and torture of less than likeable Sims. If it’s like the doomsday prepper or cool new plants? Yeah I’ll try it.
Im sure some people will love this but not me. Sims is where I go to live big, have a huge house do things I never would IRL. Its a game. I get that some people enjoy the eco living lifestyle but we already have choices like those with Sulani and Laundry Day. More things to do that really don’t even affect our sims mood. As long as my sim is fed and goes to the bathroom and sleeps, theyre happy. I need more things for them to do that I enjoy doing. Does my sim really care how small their eco footprint is? They barely care if the dog poops in the house or if they live on a bench and pee in a bush.
I agree, but at least I save money this way. I only wanted two of the expansion packs so far, and none of the other stuff and game packs. If they were making a country expansion pack with farm animals I would have paid way too much for it, so with a eco-expansion pack, I will save money because I care about the sim footprint as much as they do… 🙂
Agree 100%
Wow… I have never been this disappointed with the Sims team. So much for listening to your community…
Please, please include Vegan/Vegetarian as life choices somehow instead of having to spend a trait on being a Vegetarian who still gets milk from the fridge, anyway, even if Sims are going to stay default omnivores…
This will be the first expansion pack that I do not buy. How about coming up with something new instead of copying code for existing packs? I just managed to get Sims 1 going again and the more I play with it, the more I see how far the franchise has fallen.
This is fucking stupid
WTF? I am so so sooooo disappointed 🙁 🙁 🙁 I cannot even put it in words 🙁
I feel like you can already have an eco lifestyle using the laundry stuff pack, tiny living stuff back, & island living. I also agree with Pixelade when he said that this have been a game pack instead, but I am still looking forward to this pack. I am excited for the CAS & build mode items if it’s anything similar to the laundry day pack.
I seem to be in the minority here, but I’m really excited for this pack. I really enjoy this type of game play, and if it’s done well I think it could be really fun. I wasn’t super excited for a farming pack anyway, so this personally suits me a lot better. However, I do hope that the decisions made whilst playing have more of an impact than the conservationist career had in Sulani, because I don’t think it went nearly indepth enough. I’m still super excited though, I can’t wait to see the trailer!
This was one of the options on a previous voting for stuff pack. It didn’t make it for stuff pack, so you’re making it an expansion pack? I’m really underwhelmed with this.
Yess!!! Cant wait!!! Great work EA!!
so no farming ??
I can see farming going along with this at least I’m praying for it too
I was so ready for Country Living. I hope this is good.
that doesn’t seem as exciting about country living 🙁
Hoping for Off The Grid and sad about Country Livin’…
Living off the grid came with Island Living
So much so that, like five people had to tell you it already existed. Maybe they’re not paying attention to what’s already happened either…
Ur gotta be kidding me right? Off the grid is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.
Definitely not more stupid than being inflammatory to a stranger about something they want to see in a video game, you fucking idiot.
We already have off the grid lot trait
Off grid is island living
Don’t we have off the grid already in base game? It came out the same time as Island Living
I’m very excited about this 🙂
Hopefully it is well thought out because if it doesn’t have depth it could get boring somewhat quickly
Was really hoping for the country living pack as really wanted to have my sims build and run a farm. It’s something I miss from the sims 3 and was something I’ve been hoping would be introduced for a while now.
Eco Lifestyle? Seriously!? An entire expansion pack? Would have much preferred a country/farm theme or something. I honestly would have preferred almost anything. Who cares about eco-friendly living in a video game? So boring -___-
Lol don’t we just love when EA leaks info about their games hours before the trailers drop! 😀
Actually so excited about this
Thats it? Borrrinnng! At least in my opinion.
EA should fix what they’ve already messed up before adding additional packs!!
So, what I am reading here is that our SIMS will basically decide how the new world will turn out. So does, that mean that potentially the world will be different depending on how you play? I think this could be good if it goes the way I am thinking.
It will probably be like the conservation career in IL. Keeping it clean will make the world prettier AND MAYBE unlock some game play? Either way definitely not buying this until it’s 50% off.
Unlocking gameplay like chasing seagulls instead of just cleaning up litter? XD
That would be super interesting if done well. I hope you’re right.
I see where your mind is going. Like the world starts off like a green beautiful community and can become polluted and disgusting overtime etc
I like that idea.
Or it starts out polluted and becomes beautiful? But also, I think it can be taken further than that into, like could it potentially go from a rural community to a city? Like what if the SIMS that moves in, isn’t into green farm land but high rises that prioritize recycling or something, etc.
I think Eco Lifestyle would be more about going from the city back to rural. At least I hope so, because that could include farms.
Lolololol it’s EA
That would be awesome
I enjoyed Island Living & Tiny Living. So, I’m trying to stay positive & optimistic about what sort of game play, items, & cc this will bring to the game. Perhaps it’ll bring in some elements of gardening & backyard animal keeping that we haven’t considered.
Well, we do have this feature in Sulani already.
Yes but this ep Sounds like mayby we can use it on every world.we see
Not in depth at all! I wanna catch rain water and purify it to drink and use a composting toilet! There’s sooo much stuff to add if they wanted
It’s so dissapointing that they are dedicating an entire expansion to this while things like Realm if Magic or Outdoor Retreat were just game packs… The Sims 4 has so much wasted potential
I like anything ea puts out for a sims pack. I’m going to buy this definitely. I am someone who wants to reduce their carbon footprint. Thanks for coming up with game packs.
Disappointed like lots of other people was hoping for a country / farming living expansion pack
Sims Team: So you know that stuff we’ve already done in Laundry Day and Island Living? Well lets do that again. Yes again. But get this, we will CHARGE them again too. Its Brilliant brilliant brilliant!
Ugh ♀️ this sounds like they did a whole expansion pack of the Conservationists career
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And once again EA disappoints. Thought they were actually interested in giving simmers what they wanted, what with these in-depth surveys, but no, they’re still rehashing the same boring ep with a new £40 price tag. I was hoping they’d step their game up, especially when the quality stuff CC creators make put them to shame.
Honestly, kinda disappointed. I was super hyped for the supposed country living pack because that seems like so much fun. Plus with the possibility of horses and other farm animals with that pack, it just makes me want it more. I want to be able to have ALL my pets in game, not just cats and dogs. Sims 3 had horses with the Pets pack, so why not Sims 4? Sure the knitting pack is cute, but seriously? EA you’re losing your touch… Eco living just sounds like a small extension to island living. If you wanted to add all this, why not add it to island living? I would’ve rather had basically anything but this. EA step up your game, this is not what we want. We have been expressing what we want for YEARS. EA come on!! If you want these things to sell, make things we want.
This is so not interesting. I heard it was going to be farming. I thought the farming pack was the pack that would finally get me playing sims4. Guess I’m sticking to sims3. This pack sounds boring
i just wanted to finally ride horses and play with goats….
Man, I’m disappointed. Tfw sims 3 expansions are still better than 4
I’m kind of interested to see the trailer tomorrow but I’m definitely disappointed. They mentioned this 0ack will be something that they haven’t done before but I’ve seen this in previous packs… wth.
thanks, we hate it
I just wish memories came back so I can see the history In my sims lives an more maternity clothes for the pregnant sims.
Although I doubt I’ll be buying this, you gotta give EA credit that they are trying to be environmentally conscious in their own way and trying to spread a positive message. Save our earth!
Don’t have a cow man! Nor a pig, a goat or even a baby chicken. Obviously Greta Thunberg has been hired as the head of creative decisions at EA and is ready to kick us in the face with her carbon footprint. Of course this may be all a sly diversion for the “real” expansion pack. I get why people have such string opinions, I like others have been waiting desperately for an announcement of an exciting new expansion that will change the way we play Sims. Unortunatley we will just have to accept what they give us. Personally I have no interest in recycling or playing the Sims version of Parks And Recreation. But hey it could of been worse. It could have been Sims: Get Isolating.
Lol best comment ever I am very upset by this pack though it’s island living without mermaids basically with a new title my hubby is a games designer and even he would of come up with better and he doesn’t even play sims4 kind of disappointing I have bought every game pack to date but I don’t think I will buy this
I love what you wrote, it make me chuckle! I agree with your statements.
Fire the whole creative team.
I mean . . . I’ll play it and I’m sure there will be some things about it that I like, BUT I am somewhat disappointed we’re not getting the farm pack. Farming has been one of my favorite things to do in The Sims since TS3 and horses were a really nice addition to that game.
Im trying and hoping this will be better than it sounds as its only a little leak, i was excited for country living but maybe it’ll come later. I feel like with the info they gave us, I’d be a nice game or stuff pack, almost like an add on to island living, fingers crossed.
Me too I wanted farming
Well, I like it! And they actually DID listen to the community with this EP, cause we all voted on it way back.
And I for one was getting bored with the same formula repeated for every Sims game. They came up with something new and different this time. And I think it looks great and is likely to have some fun gameplay!!
Same I was hoping and excited for country living too!8
im so exited for this being an big environmentalist!
also I dont care what other say they need to get a grip if you dot like it dont buy it
I’m very excited for this pack, I like to live eco friendly and it’ll be fun to see my sims do it in a non-beach centric world. And as for farming, I am totally fine with or without it in the game. Plus there may be horses to ride or using your farm animals for natural fertilizer or something. Give the gurus time to give details before y’all decide this is be all end all of the sims and chill!
Disappointing – doesn’t seem interesting in the least…. A waste of an expansion
Wow an entire expansion dedicated to this? Sure, it’s different, but I literally have no interest in this theme at all. Was there a big demand for this theme to begin with? The direction they’ve been going has been so disappointing. I’m glad I haven’t bought anything from them since Seasons.
People are so negative about everything good grief.
Give the pack a chance? Or don’t buy it? The Sims Team are giving us surveys and they are listening to us. They gave us toddlers, pools, seasons, university… Give them time and they will give you what you want. Stop being so negative when a lot of people are interested in this pack? Get a life like lol.
“jUsT dOnT BuY It”.
I hate when this “argument” is used against every single valid critisim regarding the direction of the game. You realize you can have an opinion about being displeased AND have no intention about buying it to begin with, right? Sorry guys, only nice comments allowed for those who are buying.
“They gave us toddlers, pools, seasons university ”
Wow, amazing! They patched in toddlers and pools, features that were already supposed to be in the game to begin with! These are NOT new features that were recently introduced to the series. These were features that they intended to have in the game from the start, but had to be patched in later because they needed to rush development for launch. They weren’t “listening” to us, it was always going to be implemented. Using pools and toddlers is a horrible example of the point you’re trying to make.
And of COURSE they did a Seasons and University EP, like have they have been for years. No one had any doubts that they wouldn’t re-release arguably their 2 biggest cash cows, besides Pets, for the series. Come on now.
Honestly, if these are the standards of how you think the dev team is listening to the fan base, please raise the bar because it’s on the floor.
Word
What a terrible pack. EA, you have truely missed the mark again
I am not exactly impressed… I thought we were going to get a farming pack!
Although, I am intrigued to see what features this pack actually holds. To me, this sounds like a Game Pack!!