See the official Features and Screens from the upcoming Sims 4 Expansion Pack!
EA is just now rolling out a huge wave of news for The Sims 4 Businesses and Hobbies Expansion Pack. Hitting the retail shelves worldwide on March 6th, 2025.
In the latest Expansion Pack, you’ll be able to moderate your own Retail spaces, open up a Tattoo shop and customize your own retail and living space through new Hobby activities like Pottery.
To learn more about the initial official features, check out the official listing down below:
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About The Sims 4 Businesses and Hobbies
Pursue new skills and live a life of accomplishment in The Sims 4 Businesses & Hobbies Expansion Pack*. Create wearable art with the new Tattooing skill or craft functional pieces with the new Pottery skill. Savvy Sims can turn their wildest dreams into profitable businesses. Run your business from your home or purchase a Small Business Venue lot, hire employees, decide how to charge, and make the rules. Set Up Shop Digital Content — Elevate your business with these inspiring pieces: witness the beauty of sculpture and body art with the Practice Makes Perfect Priscilla Statue, keep perishable products fresh with the Sweetest Treat Display Case, and illuminate your space with the Beautiful Flaws Lamp, available when you order through April 18, 2025**.
Open Your Dream Business
Dream big and create a small business that will leave your Sim feeling fulfilled. Make and sell pottery or other crafts, provide a service like tattoos or classes, or come up with something unique. Use the selection tool to designate space in your home for doing what you love and making a living at it. With the new Ticket Kiosk you can run the business you want, charging customers for entry or for time spent. Run a family business and hire your Sim’s household, or meet the perfect candidate and offer them a job. Explore the possibilities with the new Small Business system.
Make Your Mark
With the new Tattooing skill you can give Sims pre-made, custom, or dedication tattoos. As you level up your skill you’ll unlock more stamps and stencils, and increase the odds of excellent results. Body art is about freedom of expression and to celebrate that you can now freely create your own designs in Tattoo Paint Mode. Tattoos can even be layered. Share your custom Tattoo designs with other Simmers using the Gallery, or browse for Tattoos to use in your game.
Mold Your Future
As you hone your Pottery skill using the Pottery Wheel, more designs – like functional tea sets, planters, incense burners, and more – will become available to you. Finish your pieces in the Pottery Kiln; there are plenty of options for glazes. At higher levels of the Pottery skill, Sims can use the Japanese art of Kintsugi to create beautiful pieces from broken ceramics.
A World of Possibility
Build your future in a town steeped in history. Nordhaven is the perfect place to pursue the things you care most about, like creative and inspiring hobbies. Sims can attend Meetups to mix and mingle with those who are passionate about the same hobbies – they may even find someone to mentor them in their favorite skill. Sims can become mentors at high skill levels, or they can build their legacy by hosting Classes and Lectures. Listening to a Lecture is one of the ways a Sim may earn Mastery Perks. Hobbies are best when shared, so explore the new neighborhoods of Gammelvik and Iverstad to meet like-minded Sims!
Set Up Shop Digital Content
Elevate your business with these inspiring pieces.
What are your thoughts on The Sims 4 Businesses and Hobbies Expansion Pack features? Join the comments below!
As long as there are no loading screens between the different rooms in a building, it will be amazing!
Oh, my! Before “For Rent” I’d say “No way, of course there won’t be”. But you cannot be so sure anymore”
Seguramente las haya, el sistema va a ser igual al de Se alquila. Para cambiar de habitación activa hay pantallas de carga
Com certeza vai ter, pode esperar, o sistema é igual o do aluga-se
Yo estoy enojada. Lo de los tatuajes y crear negocios en casa me parece genial, pero el resto es una tomadura de pelo. Con cara de payasos nos quedamos viendo como NO agregaron bandas de músicas, ni coches, ni ladrones. Es decir: NADA de lo que venimos pidiendo hace años.
Lo sé, esto es súper raro. Definitivamente esperaba bandas al mínimo. Aunque nunca esperaré autos. Creo que estamos recibiendo ladrones en una actualización de juego base en algún momento, estaría realmente molesto si estuviera detrás de un paquete cuando siempre fue juego base. Espero que tengamos más frecuentes agregaciones de juego base, el juego es viejo como el diablo y realmente lo necesita.
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I know, this is super weird. I was definitely expecting bands at the bare minimum. Ill never expect cars though. I think we’re getting robbers in a base game update at some point, I would be really upset if it was behind a pack when it was always base game. I hope we get more frequent base game add ons, the game is old as heck and really needs it.
Awesome!! Excited.
So disappointed, they could have included lots of hobbies, lots of activities that we don’t have, and it’s just tattoos and pottery and that’s it.
The bar for expansion pack is alternatively rising and falling depending on which of their teams is developing the pack.
I know that but I think that after 11 years, we can’t be satisfied with that, for such a high price, they were able to do a good job on the previous extension, EA can’t go back to something botched, all the teams must be at the same level, we must stay at the level, where are the hobbies, there were so many possibilities, I can’t accept that
only TWO skills??? really? change the pack name to business & two hobbies
Totally agree.
So is this just get to work but slightly better? Are we just going to have two expansions with the same exact theme but just change the skills a bit? Why not refresh that one?
Hello,
I am a long-time Brazilian player of The Sims 4, and I am writing this message to express my deep disappointment with the current state of the game.
Let’s talk about Business and Hobbies. What a complete disaster of an expansion pack! This is something that should have been released over ten years ago—or better yet, integrated into Get to Work! There is no justification for selling this as a full expansion. At best, it should have been a game pack. But no, EA continues to overprice low-effort content, completely ignoring what the community truly wants.
Where are the features we’ve been begging for for years? Ballet? Cars? Burglars? Fairies? A futuristic city? The things that made The Sims such a beloved and immersive franchise? Instead of delivering real innovation, you keep serving us overpriced, shallow content that barely scratches the surface of what this game should be.
It’s heartbreaking to see how much The Sims 4 has stagnated after nearly eleven years. This game should be a monumental evolution from its predecessors. Instead, it feels like a never-ending cycle of disappointment, where the community has to beg for features that should have been standard from the beginning. And when we finally get something, it feels rushed, hollow, and nowhere near worth the price.
It’s as if you’re creating content out of the goodness of your heart, as if we aren’t paying ridiculous amounts of money for these DLCs. The lack of respect for the fanbase is insulting. We are tired of being ignored. We are tired of being sold the bare minimum. And above all, we are tired of seeing a game that should have been revolutionary turn into a shallow, overpriced mess.
We deserve better.
Sincerely,
A disappointed The Sims 4 player
Get a grip. What whiners don’t realize is most players are in fact, HAPPY with the sims 4 and actually enjoy it. You misery is your own making.
There’s no issue with asking for even more when we know they can be capable of that.
You can disagree without stooping to insults, you know.
Know that liking something doesn’t mean we should accept mediocrity without question.
“The majority of players” are happy? Based on what? Some study you conducted in your room or just in the bubble of those who accept everything without questioning? The fact that The Sims 4 still has fans doesn’t negate the massive amount of legitimate criticism about the state of the game.
Lmao. Sims 4 is more successful than sims 3 ever was. It’s sold more copies and its lasting 10+ years. As compared to the sims 3’s 6 year run. The miserable naysayers think they are in the majority because whining is LOUD. Meanwhile, sims 4 is a commercial widespread SUCCESS. And the miserables are in the minority.
Look, the moment you’re paying (especially for a game), you have the right to demand improvements and point out flaws. This isn’t about ‘controlling yourself’; it’s about not settling for less. Not everyone can afford to keep spending money on ridiculously repetitive expansions—especially when they could at least deliver what players have been asking for, which they are fully capable of doing. But instead, they release content purely to profit, making people pay absurd amounts for something incomplete. Calling it ‘crying’ sounds more like ‘refusing to be fooled’!”
You actually dont have a right to demand a thing. It’s a video game. Not healthcare. The dlc’s are all optional and should only be bought if you want that content. Nothing more, nothing less.
So by that logic, if a restaurant serves you spoiled food, you can’t complain because eating there is optional? If you pay, you have the right to demand quality. Simple as that.kkkkkk
This is a fan site, no one here is affiliated with EA and we don’t know how to contact them anymore than you do. There’s no point in posting your message in more than one comment section.
Exactly
Yes, and there are still people who try to defend their negligence. Before, I even had reasons to defend the packages, but now, I have no reason to defend them.
Unfortunately, there’s no way for you to take this message to EA from here. I think, you speak—congratulations!
I want a Pageant Pack! Lol. I hope EA makes one sometime soon.