A Brutally Honest Review of The Sims 4 For Rent 

Feel better Satch!

Get better statch

get well soon!!

Doesn't matter what you look like, you're beautiful on the inside. I'm surprised they are still giving blank lots, like we can't just go in and make them blank if we want... and i feel something like a block party or resident party would have been more appropriate than a pool party. Ohhh, you should have been able to Woohoo in the new decorative vehicle.

Get well, Satch

Very realistic with what happened 1-2 years ago when there was lockdowns accross the world. Tenants had extra protection and could go months without paying without being evicted. The world being so empty also resembles our world with the lockdowns. Sims 4 are just going through a pandemic I guess 🤣😭

​@@chotanya i said the same thing when James Turner made a video about how the Sim's money system is broken. The toilet roll was more expensive than some windows 😂 sims is definitely stuck in the pandemic era

​@@chotanyaexcept in real life when landlords don't get paid for their exploitation and overcharging it is a good thing

Facts! 😂😂

@@Dan55888 I'm mostly using this so I can have multiple families on the same lot lol. My plan is to move elders into their own house so I can keep gens going with still having the other extended family nearby.

And YOU have to act out all the stories bc the Barbies won't do it themselves. -.-

It is never Kenough

​@@HannahG_xI came here for this comment. 😂🩷

This is why I just make my Barbie’s lesbian

@@christabelle__To be fair, players have some pretty wacky stories they want played usually.

Some of the reviews on this pack by RU-vidrs was so cringe and embarrassing. Gushing over stuff that is absolute garbage…

E.G. Lilsimsie

“Oh my god I can make rentals! I can’t actually make any money off of them, tenants are randomly wandering into other rentals, the evictions are broken, and I’m getting sued for no reason but THIS PACK IS SOOO FUN!” It’s actually embarrassing some of the “reviews” I’ve seen.

Right just for a free pack

Right?! I watched a couple and thought the pack looked so empty, yet they'd come to the conclusion that it was a good pack? It's a couple half-baked features with an empty world. Who's forking over $50 for this?

For real

Or if a non-occultic sim catches an occultic sim in action, they could be bribed or axed to keep the secret. As usual so much potential but was ignored

That would have been so good to have!!

omg you should def send this idea to them, they might add it later

My Sim woohoo'd a professor and was given extra credit lol XD

@@RedRoseSeptember22is that a real thing? How do you even know who the professors are? It’s a rabbit hole

Hopefully someone will make a mod for that, sucks that modders have to fix everything tho ;-;

@@claraalexander7966 I’m hoping so too!

@@claraalexander7966 there is a mod for that and I use it a lot :) It's called LiveInBusiness

They barely managed to successfully run Dine Out 😭😭💀💀theres no way theyd manage to do all of that. u imagine the chaos of putting for rent, dine out, and pets together? Our PCs would implode sksjksjskj

there's a home business mod i'm pretty sure

Really disappointing because I was gonna make my wealthiest Sim family the owners of the apartment buildings, but if they don't get paid then what's the point?

We must protect Carl at all costs.

LMAOOOO Yes we need Carl

Carl went from a RU-vidr , to a Modder , to a fixer of The Sims 4 . It's just my stand alone opinion . But , it shouldn't be Carl's job or responsibility to repair the game.

@@kevinw374Yeah modders should be enhancing for fun, not fixing. Literal RENT is broken in ‘for rent’.

Don't be shy, drop the mod for us 🤠👹

​@patriciafuller1556 There are two that I know of. Sacrifical's mod and Carl's mod. I'm not sure which one they are referring to, though.

I wanna know what mod is 🥺

Crazy but also it was base game in Sims 1 🤷🏼‍♀️

That's because content creators make Sims games better with their incredible mods and cc, if only EA and The Sims Team hired them instead...we'd have the game we deserve.

Others i can kinda let go, but the thing I can't believe the most is, they give only 9 lots for the price of an expansion pack.

Forever heartbroken over the meaningless greenhouse in Realm of Magic. It was so gorgeous and that entire section of the world was just set dressing, except for like a single plant IIRC.

Me too, I imagined a beautiful greenhouse, plants, fountains, tropical fish. Big disappointment

Same here. Immediately upon arrival, I decided I was going to bulldoze the lot. -_-

I wish we could make our own worlds.

i kinda couldnt believe it when i saw it in the early acces videos??? thats not a botanical garden thats hardly even a park??its hedges, a walkway, tiny bit of water and a covered bench. thats set dressing thats come randomly in other worlds, not wasting a whole lot.. where they could have built another rental lot since, you know, its the RENTAL PACK

"I didnt even take this many loads when I was in my bottom era" haha

Yeah!! ❤He only states the truth and nothing but the whole truth! 😂

I don’t even want new expansions. I want them to fix the packs we already have and flesh those out. Honestly, even if we had to pay for the “refresh” it would be worth it. Bc the packs we already have still have so many missed opportunities.

Oh definitely. The expansion packs are quickly becoming game packs. Terrified what the next game pack will look like if this is what the expansion packs are now.

They do quantity over quality so they can charge you more and more for less 🤦‍♀️

We hit that a while ago tbh

OOh ooooooh nononononono wtf are you tolking about that dosnt generate money and is basicly free labor nooooo ,no way you are getting more stuff and you gona like it

I know! Windenburg came with 27 lots and a whole functioning club system. And the sad part is that the EA said that the pack was to larg for us and that they wouldn't be giving us something as big as that again. Really disappointing

Totally agree with this being a game pack, the world alone doesn’t seem expansion pack worthy

Not just the world, also the amount of objects and gameplay. This is definitely a game pack.

Yeah, I have to agree. Like sure the apartment system and renting are huge, but it's not gameplay. The world is pretty to look at but doesn't have too much going on, just one big empty space to look at. 😅 Definetly a gamepack with an expansion pack price tag slapped onto it.

I know people ripped on horse ranch but if you actually do farm animal stuff and play with the horses etc and then all the other skills they added there's WAY more gameplay. This pack I needed so I can have multiple families per lot but honestly that's the only thing I really saw that was really good.

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The best answer is to become a pirate. I will NEVER feel bad for stealing from a company that has this kimd of shitty business model. No game ever should cost over $700 unless it is a real life sex doll or something.

@@Dan55888dude I would but I don’t know how to pirate 😭

​@@Dan55888 lol the sim 4 is the only game that i pirated, and even then some packs made my game slower and unplayable. Image spending money on a thing that can make your gaming experience worsen. No thanks

​@@halalola432Reddit is your friend.

So vampires are the ultimate land lords

@@Agustin9191I mean if you think about it, it’s basically a bunch of free money and blood sources

@@Arreyuh yeah and It would be a fun idea for a story 😎

I thought about this too, I think the second loading screen after pressing break in is to clear the lot of any sims so that it is empty, the sims 4 default is for all sims to be home when you travel to their lot. It sucks but they are so LAZY and uncreative when it comes to manuvering around their limitations. You would think that if you knew you couldn't get rid of the loading screens between the landlord events and travel on the same lot that maybe you wouldnt make a whole pack based around that??? like all they did was highlight the the horrible mechanics of the game, there is so much else they could have done with Tomarang instead of tieing it to this trash and empty pack. if you ask me the only reason we got this lazy landlord pack is because they didnt want to add apartment building as a patch to the game even though we ALREADY have apartments in-game, and even though no one in the history of the sims community has ever asked to be a landlord in the game they saw a chance to monetize the ONE good feature by throwing EP on the cover, adding a bunch of dull filling and charging for an expansion.

​@@xojourdieExactly!

An opinion is an opinion for a reason idk

This! I just commented in the very same way, sometimes I just begin to find it frustrating a tiny bit misleading when other simmers make sure to only paint the new pack in a wonderful way and avoiding the more negative features. I can't go along with the pretense of it to be honest.

So real. I do not have the money to buy every single sims 4 pack so I carefully choose which ones i buy because i want it to be worth my money. I want people giving it an actual review telling me if they recommend it or not

The fact that all the positive opinions come from EA Game Changers can make them seem like they're being paid to be nice, but in all honestly it's probably just because EA only invites simmers who they know always give positive opinions to join the programmes. It does make it very biased, but I think that that's on EA, not the simmers themselves.

@@piggychocostitch5679I mean they are…. They all said hey type in my code when you buy this pack and I’ll get paid. A ton of them literally said this. 😭😭😭

it was terrible, and there are barely any NPCs

Exactly how I feel, it was so empty and confusing 😭

Right. I dont get why they keep doing things to pretend the market is big or the city is big when the functional part is very small. City living festival feel alive and it just 3 stalls, the way its arranged it works. In tomarang is 3 stalls spread far aways beteween a lot of set dressing, why they do this ?

I was so confused lol. I took my sim there to look around and I clicked on the stalls, but nothing happened. I thought well maybe it’s open specific times. I had to go back and watch a video where they were exploring the new world and realized nope these aren’t functional. I was disappointed.

@@funnylittlecactus4672 it's ridiculous! have you seen videos of night markets in asian cultures? they're bustling at 3am. this expansion is kind of reaching 'insult territory' and I don't say that lightly

I was hoping they might have an animation crouching or bowing in front of the shrine before laying the fruit offering, or have them actually show sims holding and lighting the incense, instead of sims using the generic grab animation. I’m not sure about the culture so I don’t know what people actually do at these shrines, but I’m sure you get my point.

It would've been so cool if there were actual spirits attatched, like if a Sim interacts and lights the incense, there is a chance that a deceased family member's ghost shows up. But I guess that would be too much work for EA🥲

Omg this frustrates me to no end. Furniture that doesn’t match. Odd windows and doors that don’t match. It’s like just weird random stuff thrown at us. It reminds me of mismatched stuff sold at at a store at the end of the year.

Exactly!

But heaven forbid they hire actual CC creators like they did builders. Instead they act like CC creators are given the “honor” of making a new hairstyle, makeup option, or clothing piece once a year for an event to put in the game.

@@nickyn1083 yeah, honestly they should focus on gameplay and outsource asset creation to CC creators… imagine if all of build & buy was made by Harrie, Alexandre, etc.

Dude all I want is matching wood tones. Pick like 6 different wood tones and make everything have those swatches. Wouldn't it be less work for them?? Even within a single pack you can't get matching doors and windows sometimes.

Why fix glitches when fans will still buy at full price and just wait for the selfless work of modders?

Remember my wedding stories? They have already proved they wont fix bugs before releasing the pack. EA likes to half ass everything and 'fix' later if you can even call it fixing.

@@homeiswonderland Honestly the pack worked fine for me with the exception of the lag they fixed in a patch a week later.

Pretty much a lot of major corporations are that greedy and getting worse in terms of the products & services they provide

I think a lot of people who play the sims ONLY play sims so they don’t realize how bad they are getting ripped off compared to how good other video games are now. You can buy a PS5 or XBOX and a bunch of incredible games for the same price as boring The Sims 4 and all of their glitchy packs.

@@mewletter sure, but we can just compare EA and how they treat Sims audience versus other audiences and the type of game quality they're producing for each audience. Ea is held to a higher standard for pretty much almost all of the other games they make, We don't hold EA to a higher standards for the sims so that's why we get the bottom of the bottom of the barrel. We barely get straps that should just be in the game already for free, TO BUY ALL OF THE DLC AND PACKS AND EVERYTHING IT WILL COST YOU THOUSANDS AND THAT'S FOR A GAME THAT DOESN'T EVEN RUN PROPERLY MAJORITY OF THE TIME. YOU HAVE TO DEBUG YOUR SIMS LIKE 40 TIMES WITHIN 30 MINUTES OF PLAYING. This is a WHOLE other level

@@la6136 agree, if you play other games you actually realize just HOW bad the pricing model of the sims 4 is. It's honestly so shocking how a 40 dollar expansion pack as literally ONE feature! And it doesn't even work

@@mewletter Sure, there's plenty of game producers that are this greedy, except, they at least try to not make it too obvious, because they know gamers will turn around and find something else in a moment. Of course there'll be people who don't mind being f'ed in the behind and still buy the game regardless how bad it gets, but this is a small amount of players. Most will seek for a game that meets their needs&standards, aren't broken and overpriced for over 10x. The company knows it, and therefore, if they want their game to sell, they NEED to play somewhat safe. EA doesn't give a damn, because, simmers don't give a damn in the first place. They cry and moan about broken game, abundance of lags and being about as boring as driving through road 66 from top to bottom, but in the end, they'll still let EA suck up all of their money. EA as a result, goes even further with their scums and are even more blatant about it. It will continue and get even more extreme, because simmers are allowing them to do so. The fanbase is the exact reason for that bottomless pit you're all in. Saying that other companies are also greedy won't suddenly make the games they're spewing out good/worth the money. A trashy game is still a trashy game regardless.

Same here, they are very honest. (I think Pixalade and Whiny Brit are good too, although WB waits until after to make a review), and sadly get attacked because how dare they not rate it 10/10 and lick the slippers of EA!

IDk why no one mentions how Plumbella tears EA a new hole all the time too. She shows the good and the bad.

I haven't watched Plumbella in a while (Actually for some reason her videos aren't coming up despite I keep having suggestions for content creators I haven't seen before, usually that's when I click to watch) @@christabelle__

@@christabelle__but also not really, I get she doesn’t want it lose her position as a game changer but she hypes it up quite a lot

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Same and I typically buy everything on release.

You could check instant gaming though, I always buy there unless there’s a 50% off, newer packs are obviously the more expensive but it’s still a great way to buy packs (and games in general) if you don’t want to pay full prices. Started using it around 6/7 years ago and never went back.

I’ve bought every expansion pack when it comes out, and this is the first one I’m skipping. The world doesn’t intrigue me at all, and there’s not really any new gameplay. Especially bc some of this stuff I already have through free mods. So yeah I don’t feel like I’m missing anything either. I have zero interest in this lol

Same, I've had enough of buggy packs with 1 day's worth of gameplay and then waiting for modders to fix them.

You can always buy a key online for all packs for much lower prices. Thats what Im always doing

​@@Julia-wj5ukhow do you buy a key?

@@kaakes2021Google CDKeys. Thank me later

So close!

That's what I thought too

LMAO REAL

I mean tbh not all landlords are terrible

​@@JokersD0llyes they are

​@treasurebug no they aren't. Don't make a generalisation when you may not know every person. My mom is a landlord and so far she hasn't even threatened eviction on a family KNOWN to just be POS cause she's non-confrontational. I agree a lot are POS but not all. You should make that distinction.

Just pirate it. EA dosnt deserve any more money for this game

Same. I’m not spending anymore money with EA for half assed “packs” mods truly save this game no joke. Sims realist has better gameplay than this “expansion”

Same! Ain't no way I'm paying full price.

Do not give them ANY money. Why would they ever make a good game, when people keep paying them for the dogsh*t they're serving? If you give someone a dollar every time they slap you, they just keep slapping you. EA is not your friend. Corporations/companies are not your pal. It is always morally acceptable to pirate from EA. Corporations understand dollar signs - so people can whine and moan all the want, but even buying it on sale rewards them for their predatory practices! Continuing to support this means it's your fault for encouraging them. Pirating is easy, and virus free, and takes very little searching to figure out online. Stop rewarding bad behavior.

I really want this pack, but without being paid rent ever, what is the point? 😢 also I literally watched one video where they justly evicted someone and were fined and ratings went down when they did good things and went up for doing bad things. Fix the game play. Please. I mean some glitches will happen but no excuse when it's the fundamental thing about the expansion.

Not only no improvements but straight DOWNGRADES

That's one damn luxury apartment

@@Ready-ForTheEnd I don't even know how it got that number! Is it even possible to build a lot up to that price without it looking like a tornado hit it?!

​@@alleykatt6969 I have no idea but omg how ridiculous 😂😂 at that point just buy a mansion

That seems to be happening to lots of players

That's like end of the world, bunker real estate money. The entire world is radioactive.@@Ready-ForTheEnd

I always get insomnia when I'm unwell. So at least I was able to spend all day and night playing it!

@@SatchOnSims at least there was a perk lol. but I hope you get better and can get some sleep

Same I love his reviews you can always expect 100% honesty

Even less than I feel like

Why is this comment so unhinged 🤨

Yes! The plain basics in a variety of colors that can be for all Sims.

Ooooh they have a trailer! Yes would be amazing if they did lol

Did you have any No EA Eyelashes or Toddler Presets mods? I have a theory that at least the second one persists after removal if it's already been applied.

They could've at least given us more hair. The pack is meant to be based off south asia and yet none of the new hairstyles scream south asia to me. It could've been EA's chance to give us some nice male hair

I feel like there's a common sentiment amongst Sims players where it's like "I spend hours making my female Sims intricate and pretty and use the same boring template for my males Sims". You've seen the memes. But it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Because if the Sims team sees this and figures there's no need for more male CAS, then people can't be creative with them.

⁠@@JERBYTUBEi agree with that, we definitely could have gotten a lot more hair options for males in this pack.