EA:we didn't prepare the lots or lore because we want you to tell your own story?
EA: oh but not the worlds. you can't customize those at all.

I swear, EA is so lucky that their players are willing to save the game that they don't make gameplay for. I saw the community build hotels, retiring homes, boarding schools, shelters and prisons with this pack. And this itself makes it more valuable to purchase it than anything  EA made.

Instantly clicked because I've never seen you say a positive thing about a pack. Wow.

I think it's worth mentioning that this pack isn't just broken, it's actually causing massive irreparable corruptions to save files whereby the player can't even load the save anymore. That I feel goes way beyond buggy or glitchy and really deserves to be highlighted more by all content creators to force some action on the sims team to get it fixed.

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Satch in the first 10 second: the pack trash and broken and do not buy it

Modders will fix the problems so I'll just wait for unofficial patches

The difference between renters (For Rent) and roommates (discover university) is roommates are locked off for gameplay and you can never ‘be’ them, they HAVE to be NPCs. Roommates can also only be single adult sims and never families or couples even. They can ONLY be single renters, you can’t have a family of 2 or 3 with children, you can have them as a retained family renting from you as part of the For Rent pack. Since I play rotationally and jump between different families who know each other, I honestly cared more about being a tenant than landlord but with this pack I get to play both, this is HUGE for me. I also like putting families in rentals. Having two families on a single lot is fun. Especially to have other children and teens next door who might pop up in a townhouse setup.

That being said, For Rent is an overpriced build tool with lackluster features as a pack beyond this. But I still don’t regret buying it as the one thing I wanted it for does do the job. I never experienced the billion dollar rent bug, I have experienced my owned rentals disappearing which was annoying. Also the day rate system makes no sense. And what affects the ratings system and when you are allowed to evict justly and the build tools locking you out if you aren’t playing that family all make for annoying gameplay. Most of the people I have in residential rentals I made, I rarely use the ‘search for tenants’ feature and they will pay any rent you set. Also, I have had the game populate my apartments and houses and I spend a load of time booting them out cause I was saving those spots for specific families. 😂

You were right with your initial review, though. This whole debacle should have been a game pack from the get go.  You're right here too, though. This could've been a great game pack if the landlord mechanics were implemented properly, but I still would want a world with the GP, though. GPs get worlds, too.

Prewatch prediction.... Satch is just trolling us. Lets see if I'm right.

I always view things both as their idea and execution, and idea behind for rent pack is life brining, this could've been city living times ten, but execution failed miserably. Imagine my disappointment when I saw that "shared rooms" are not in fact shared, but rather are multidimensional rooms that exist in multiple variants in all of apartments. I saw my sim's parents sitting on the couch in shared living room, clicket to visit my neighbors and sim's parents have disappeared and replaced with tenants from other apartment, sitting in their version of the same room.
Just no.

For the University pack I always locked the dorm room doors then unlocked them for the Sims that are staying in that specific dorm room.

The graveyard being next to the retirement home 😂😂😂 Brutal, Satch!

I'll be honest, I do find that the sims 4 For Rent was a bit rushed, it seems like they spent so much time into making the trailer for it that they didn't do a proper test of the game or a proper review, they got everyone so hyped for something that will require a lot of bug fixes. And I'll be honest because of this issue with the packs, I tend to put off buying any sort of DLC for the sims, that come out brand new till like almost a year after it has been out, otherwise there will be so many bugs that need to be fixed until you can play it properly. But really, I love your reviews cuz it's so honest and true. Love your videos <3

I'm absolutely loving the multiple households feature of this pack, and I don't really care about the other features. This alone makes it a very important pack for me. It just gives me so many opportunities to play out certain fantasies! But I have to say, Tomarang is a pathetic world.

I would have been happy with a free base game update that allows residential rentals to be built 😁. Some of my favorite builds are the ones creators were making excitedly when the info regarding the pack leaked...before any of the for rent items were even available


Maybe in the future they'll do it. I mean ...they made removing shoes free base game content so maybe eventually they'll do the same for these residential rentals

Putting the graveyard next to the retirement home is so devious, lmao

Setting up worlds was always one of my favorite things to do in Sims 3-- like finding and setting up themed versions of new lot types that would fit into existing worlds. So, For Rent has definitely brought back that aspect of fun for me. But then I go into Live mode to play with the worlds I've so carefully set up and am bored within 10 minutes. 😂

please blink twice if you here being held against your will

5:47 I don't think EA is trying to block anything. I think the sims team just didn't figure out how to erase the pre-identification of the units and shared spaces from the build during the Gallery download. It's hard-coded in the build and your game can't read the code if you don't have the pack. Now if they would release the needed code to everyone in a patch update, that might make the downloads possible.

Satch... Satch... Satch... the graveyard next to the retirement home is so dark 😂😂😂😂 tztztz 😂😂 "And when you look out to the right, you will see your forever home" 😅