Is Horse Ranch even worse than My Wedding Stories? (honest rant) 

There should be no ‘we don’t have the money’ excuse considering how much they charge for the games and packs and how many people still actually buy these packs

Please do a discover university let’s play where Shanice has to become a lawyer to help fight Shantell’s criminal case !! Love your let’s play!!!

i hate when people say 'if you dont like it, dont play' man, if nobody speaks up then these companies will keep getting away with serving us bs... Thank you for speaking up! You aren't catty or mean at all for this, it's good to voice your opinion. These billionaire companies are taking advantage of our dollars, if we don't stand up for ourselves then they will continue to disrespect us. They can do so much better.

I need a continuation of Shanice and her insufferable sister’s story. Maybe they sell the ranch to pursue higher education, or for the big city to become a star lmao. The possibilities are endless. Especially the possibility of shantelle dying again lmfao

Simmers are the most self-sabotaging community out there. The way we just keep coming back to this toxic relationship😂.

As an elder millennial lol who has played sims from sims 1 to sims 4, the last generation of sims that was amazing was sims 3. I know it was buggy at the time, but playing it again on todays computers makes the bugs a million times better. The open world was so ambitious and I loved it and still love it. I played sims 4 for literally an hour and went back to the sims 3 bc it’s sooooo boring! I can’t imagine buying packs for sims 4 when sims 3 packs have so much stuff it’s amazing! EA has definitely gotten greedy and lazy with the sims 4 and I think the final nail in the coffin will be the sims 5. Unfortunately

They could've had a horse camp where you could send your kids to. Even better yet, give you the option to run one. Maybe give you the option to build little cabins on your ranch that you could rent out, or a campsite. I still remember my weekend at a ranch in Arizona, there was so much to do. A nightly campfire with a singing cowboy, helicopter rides, horserides in groups, etc. Why can't you go on a group ride in the Sims 4? Why can't we chop wood for the fire? Why can't we join a country band and play the fiddle together? There are so many missed options.

I still remember them saying "we're trying to figure out how little we can get away with." I think that really just sums up S4. They just don't respect the game or the players. They don't care

Sims 3 Pets came with: 1. Horses 2. Cats 3. Dogs 4. Minor pets (like 100 variants of hamsters, birds, snakes, turtles, squirrels etc). 5. Stray animals (cats dogs and horses). 6. Unicorn 7. Horse racing competition 8. Customizable horse obstacles courses AND customizable horse RACING courses. 9. World, CAS n BB items 10. New community lot types (4-5 new ones…) 11. Neighborhood pet adoption 12. Hunting with pets 13. Ambient stray animals like deer and raccoon. .. I’ve missed a ton but the best part was the challenge. Oh I want my sim to have something else other than a hamster well then you gotta go find a rare on in the wild yourself etc. I want to adopt a unicorn, well you gotta befriend the unicorn and also have befriended an X amount of animals first.

PLEASE CONTINUE THE LET'S PLAY WITH SOMETHING LIKE REALM OF MAGIC. Imagine Shanice Shanice with magic powers...

I thing my wedding stories is worse. I don't hate it only because of the bugs, EVEN if it worked, why tf is there a pack about weddings...? That's a kit at most. If not stuff pack. If it was about partying and events, then yeah. But just weddings? A whole world for literal weddings in which I just make my sims elope? No. Waste of a pack. Even if it worked.

This pack was honestly the time I’ve felt the most scammed. It’s boring, the pack doesn’t work, the new activities are boring/ have been done before. It’s honestly the most done I’ve ever felt with the sims

You are so correct! Horses should have been a part of a pets pack or cottage living (which I prefer tbh) - the cost is definitely putting me off buying it

I think you nailed it by saying the packs are mostly 'aesthetic DLC'. It really is, and now that throwback to Island Paradise Sims 3 is making me want to start that up and play.

I feel so sad for everyone who waited for horses and got…this.

Developers need to fix their own problem if they keep complaining to us about what they can't do. They need to take it up with ea and be an adult

What you said about the horse competitions needing to feel less like they're just up to chance is how i feel about the finchwick fair contests in cottage living. You can clearly have the best (or even only) entry in the contest and you still may not win first somehow...

YES please do letsplays ! It’s literally the funniest thing ever, your commentary is effervescent 💛✨

I think that’s spot on! And I even returned to The Sims 4 when I saw your gameplay in hopes of maybe having a bit of fun as well… truth is, without the youtube factor and the chaos and the zillion packs that add just a bit but never enough, it is a dead game, you run tired of it in about 30 minutes if that much

More more more let's plays. If only there was a portal to an alternate universe through which Fanny-Mae Leigh-Jones, Flanjellica Foofie and Moist Miriam came through to kill or destroy the life of Tax Credit and its creators.

That small trailer clip of TS3 pets pack alone at 5:45 looked 10x more in-depth and interesting than all the seperate animal packs we have in the TS4 combined, why do people defend TS4 so hard

The biggest mistake of horse ranch is that you have to own a horse to ride one. Expansive and cross-pack content off the top of my head: proper horse stables lot type with the ability to just ride a horse (competitions can be rabbitholes), learn to ride, take kids to horse riding practise, horseback rides in different events, horse riding clubs, wild horses in the new world, actually seeing your horses needs, active career taking care of horses and training them, horse wagons, hay fields, ponies, horses getting sick, horseback camping, etc... oh well, at least they did nectar to let us wash it all down somehow.

Please do a serie about sims 2 or sims 3. They are more chaotic than the sims 4. Sims 4 could never.😂

2 things that boil my p!ss about the horse pack is the not being able to set a course with the jumps and barrels. And the mounting glitch where your sim just gets off the horse the second they get on. I had to mount my horse 10 times the other day because the sim just kept getting off!

No, you absolutely SHOULD call them out. Everything you're saying is right! It makes me worried for sims 5 and for the future of the rest of sims 4 while making me wanna go back to playing sims 3.

Satch you’re honestly such a naturally funny person. The lets play was sooo entertaining and chaotic I LOVED it. The chaos gave me sims 2 feeling 🥲 don’t stop doing lets plays, since yours are the only ones I watch. I just love how refreshing they are. Honest, authentic and entertaining!

I am an insufferable completionist. I admit it. I feel bad about it, but I still do it. Kind of like when you see that old boyfriend again. You know you shouldn’t but you still do. Also, PLEASE continue doing the let’s plays. Your commentary is hilarious and you truly brighten my day. ❤

Considering that EA and Maxis are headquartered in the Bay Area, which is having a housing problem due to high housing prices, I’m betting that the issue is that most of the developers are working from home and barely talking to one another, resulting in them all falling behind on implementing gameplay that inevitably gets dropped from the final product

The completionist syndrome you keep mentioning sounds a lot like the sunken cost fallacy, which is a very real thing that game companies explicitly use to keep players around! Basically, once you've spent enough of your time and money on something, you're less likely to abandon it even if it's begun to have a negative impact on your health, relationships, personal economy, etc. Because you don't want to have wasted everything that you've already given up until that point. It's easy to create an addiction that way.

I'm not buying it until its on a steep discount. I completely agree too! There just isn't enough to justify it as an expansion pack. I actually quit the sims 4 before cottage living, probably the pack I'd love the most, but I was just sick of having to use mods to fix my game and having to test them every time we had an update. Some modders have completely left and I LIKE those mods but they are now completely broken. Its just not worth it anymore for me. When I realized how heavily I was relying on mods to keep my game going... I quit. I still play the sims 3, though I REALLY wish they would give us an update like the Mac one so that it would play better on new PCs!

You are so right. Honestly it is so nice to see a sim RU-vidr being honest about trashy packs love your honesty ❤️ And also YES please do another lets play many with university

Satch, you’re spot on. The development team is horrible. They don’t care about their product or the community, the main focus is on the money. And you’re probably correct about the hiring process, where the priority is anything but the actual skill and passion for the project. Someone in the comment section said that EA is like McDonald’s of IT companies, and I can’t help but agree. Sims 2 is as good as it is because the development team was ambitious about it, not about the profits they can make of it, they kept that ambition for Sims 3, but then something went wrong so now we’re here and honestly, I feel like this is the end. It’s never going to get any better, so enjoy what you have while you can.

Would absolutely love a LP with the older packs

Sims 4 bootlickers are gonna come for you for saying this pack is "lazy" and things are "poorly implemented" bc "the underpaid and overworked team pour all their hearts into this pack 🥺". Like literally it's a multimillion dollar company making one of the best selling games franchise in the world for over 20 years now lol. It's not some indie game studio with two developers. It's fair to criticize big studio for not living up to expectations

Yes please more let's plays you're so entertaining!! I really wish EA would stop pushing out these packs and just go back to refreshing the packs. The Spa Day refresh added a good amount of content that made it feel more worth the money, and refreshing their older packs would go a long way to building up confidence in the team. Especially if they want us to believe in them enough to buy the Sims 5 someday.

I would love for you to continue the let’s play with other packs! I’m *invested* now 😅

The Sims 4 didn't just murder my love for the franchise. It played a cheery song at the funeral, took a selfie with the grave and then continued to come back every pack release to dance and spit on that grave.

I used to barrel race growing up, and they could have AT THE VERY LEAST, added a third barrel in the barrel training item. In barrel racing, you race around three barrels… not in a circle with two barrels. Edit to add: ALSO, it’s ridiculous that the “intensely train” option for the barrels is literally just trotting or cantering gently around in an oval around the barrels. No amount of intense training was had 🙄

Please do more let's plays! I am a newer player and I wasn't there when there were let's plays of older packs. It would be great to see the gameplay aspect of some of these! Besides your let's plays are always so much fun!!

It's outrageous that there are so many things in packages that don't work. And it also cannot be repaired afterwards. Sometimes it seems like as many packages as possible have to come out to sell. And that the quality is put on the back burner as a result. Yesterday I watched a let's play by someone and the restaurant staff (dine out) also did everything except what they were told. And OMG I can't say it often enough but your unique laugh makes me laugh too. I just love it haha.

I'd have quite liked a livery option for owning horses so people in the city can have a horse and pay to board it somewhere

As a horse girl who played Sims 3 Pets amongst other horse games, the Sims 4 horse ranch looks horrendously boring. I agree, we don’t necessarily need to see a full on horse show in the Sims 4, but not being able to build your own obstacle courses? IRL, when you’re learning to ride, you will start with only one small jump. But there’s also flat work, jumps of varying sizes, serpentines, etc. seeing the horse go in a tiny circle over the same jump over and over again just looks sad. 😂 I am so glad I got cottage living over horse ranch. Cottage living is soooo much prettier (IMO) and feels like a full expansion pack. The mini sheep and goats seems like a crappier version of the llamas and cows. They serve the exact same function. The ONLY two things from the ranch pack that I wish I had were the horses themselves and the wine making feature. 😂

Absolutely adored your let's play series. Was really enjoying my almost daily of the chaos. Please do another one!

Please make a gameplay series about college discovery where Shanice has to study to become Phoenix wright (lawyer)

YES! Please! Continue let's play! I would love to see some other packs or whatever story line you would play. It was so much fun and chaos ❤

I really enjoyed how sincere and open you were about why you complain about the game in this video.. It does need to get better and, for me, having 15gb of CC just totally proves your point.. And I do love the game, but it needs enhancements

I’d love for you to continue the let’s play with other packs! & thanks so much for this reflection bc you playing as a RU-vidr and laughing at the glitches & things not working is hilarious knowing others will be laughing with you is a lot different than someone not recording & genuinely playing the game for fun & that’s it. It’s not fun to play a game from that perspective that’s not working or feels hollow!

They will do an Amazonian expansion pack and that’s when they will give us pet birds like parrots 🤡

that diversity hire comment was so weird and unnecessary... you think they're hiring people who have no idea what they're doing just because they fit a certain demographic? ew

I have notice something watching your videos. The place where you go with the horse for the competition, that shell isn't new. It's a bigger skin from the "station" that comes in Snowy Scape. It's on the neighborhood that has the Kabuto festive for childrens. They didn't even bother to create something new for a rabbit hole

I absolutely loved the short letsplay and would love a continuation of Shanice's and Shantelle's story through different packs!

You KNOW it's bad when Island Living is starting to look good in comparison XD

I would absolutely love to watch another let’s play series!! It makes my day when you post a new video 🤣 helps keep me laughing while I start my to-do list each day!

All I'm gonna say is some yall should check your selves on that "diversity hiring thing" because they didn't hire themselves they went and interviewed and were found adequate.🤷🏾‍♀️ This is once again a EA management issue not a "diversity" issue. You can find alot of "diverse" people with the right qualifications I just dont think EA cares to which once again is a them problem don't get mad at the hires.🤷🏾‍♀️Those comments are side eyeing 😒.....

Really enjoyed your play through and would appreciate more with some other packs. Thank you for your honest reviews. It is refreshing to hear reviews that are not candy coated.

My game is so glitchy right now ever since I got horse ranch (not even currently playing with those features) that I stopped playing it and went to sims 3 for the first time. If you want to play the sims 3 I highly recommend it and you can make it run a lot easier and more smoothly with just a few mods! People have had like 15 years to make mods that make the game run way better lol. Look up “tips for making sims 3 run better” on RU-vid and there’s a lot of videos suggesting all the same things like the smooth patch mod! Coming from someone with a couple thousand hours in TS4 who tried out TS3 like this and hasn’t switched back since 😅

Yes!!! I'd love to see more lets play. I don't care if it's pack specific or not. I just love Shanice!

I would love to watch you play older packs in this lets play!

Would love some more Let’s Plays with various other packs!! ❤

I think the issue with EA is they are a large company with greedy shareholders and things are structured around profit more than anything else. Having a virtual Monopoly on Sims type games, they can do anything without fearing losing customers at this point. In seven months, I think, that is set to change, but clearly no one at EA has read that memo yet. [rolls eyes] Anyways, their executives probably did put limits on the developers to make the pack in this amount of time. No exceptions. And the Guru's themselves probably did the best they could in that timeframe. But I am not responsible for paying their paychecks. I do not have to buy this pack just for them.

Your horse ranch lets play was amazing. I loved the chaos! I would definitely be interested to see more lets plays from you.

I SOOOO agree that having an “Indoor Animals / Pets pack” with tanks and cages, cats and dogs etc… and having an “Outdoor Animals Pack” just would be so nice 🎉 Also I agree simmers are stuck in a toxic relationship with EA and EA just keeps taking advantage of us 😮

It's sad that the quality of the gameplay of The Sims 4 continues to decline. Build/buy and CAS assets are cute but a "cute" aesthetic isn't enough to make a life simulation game enjoyable, we need depth which Sims 4 clearly lacks. I still play Sims 4 from time to time but I tend to focus more now on TS3 and TS2 because those games are better in terms of gameplay

Yes PLEASE continue the let’s play I loved it so much

Remember that meme for "Game of Thrones" - the drawing of a horse from head to tail that depicted how much worse the art and rendering became throughout? Maybe the horse pack was EA's easter egg of that. It was a bit of fun for a minute. My sim was off on another unstoppable task between every horse interaction. Way too many demanding chores for all the resets to fix glitches imho. The frustration topped the fun pretty quickly.

I would more Let's Play! Your exasperation with your Sims is hilarious. Also I love your buddy on your bed.

The Aspirations for this pack feel like they were an afterthought. They could have made them a few more levels with more opportunities to earn points.

Yes please do other Let's Play!!! I love watching you!!!

I really loved your let’s play! I would love if you started another one!

Valid rant. One thing to be mindful of though diversity hires still need to be qualified and competent employees. So any hires meant to diversify their staff are hardly the fault for these lackluster packs. In fact most times, people who are "diversity hires" tend to be overachievers in order to even compete alongside other "non-diversity" (? lol) applicants. Most issues with a company this big are almost always the fault of poor management (people and project) from mid-level to top. So, yes let's shit on EA but maybe not the employees who are probably not even paid their worth. To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised at the top-level if there are folks who don't even actually care about this game or its quality or its content and they probably make really harsh deadlines, cut back on quality assurance and just probably in general are unwilling to make more realistic deadlines because of profit benchmarks etc.

Horse Ranch is not worse but tbh is not for everyone,many people are not interested in horses! My Wedding Stories could have been such a good pack,more usability but unfortunatelly there are many glitches...However I sometimes play with MWS and it works it fun,I prefer it over horses!

Proud to say I’ve still not bought wedding stories or horse ranch and I don’t plan on it!!

YES I AM INTRESTED IN MORE LETS PLAYS!!!!!!

I have observed that EA, mainly because of the sims 4, are creating a whole generation of new pirates because it has become : kill or be killed,, screw them or get screwed by them. Peeps also tend to get all their other games for free too to gain back all the $ they have lost on low quality cash-grabby content for the sims 4.

Satch, please continue with making let’s play series. Your series are so fun and entertaining, I can’t get enough. I’m so tired of watching those Legacy let’s plays where everything is cc, the sims live in their boring suburban houses, the infants have those bloody eye lashes and look like 30 year olds with a full face of makeup. I won’t be surprised if we’ll get eye lashes for the bloody horses and the mini goats later

Yes! Let’s play for older packs please ! I’m not playing the game anymore but it’s fun to watch yours❤

Do some kind of let's play. Loved the chaos.

Yes, please continue the let's play! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

i know everyone enjoys playing differently but for myself, paranormal stuff pack and nifty knitting offer more long-term playability than horse ranch. as stuff packs!! horse ranch seems soulless and lazily implemented in every way. barely a game pack even. i haven't seen glitches like this since wedding stories fr 💀

Thinking on the "some type of aesthetic 'living'" type of pack, I think Horse Ranch could have been improved (and possibly even made worthy of being an expansion) if it was instead a "Western Living" pack, and besides just horses, there were other playable features that went along with that "Old US West" kind of aesthetic: mechanical bulls in the bars, with weekly competitions; mining/panning for gold with a jewelry making skill; a new active career or two such as large animal vet or dude ranch owner (with the ability to rent out rooms to guest sims and teach them to ride a horse or use a lasso); maybe even some new non-active careers like rodeo clown or cowboy/cowgirl (where working hours would be a couple of days while your sim was off doing a cattle drive; and yes, rodeos or horse competitions that, while a rabbit hole experience, still involved pop-ups or something that would wake the player up so they felt involved in the outcome. I can't help but feel that with a little bit of ambition and research they could have done so much with this particular topic; and I don't think that any of these ideas are outside the realm of what could be done in a Sims 4 expansion. So just getting glitchy horses and mini-animals that die easily in a large-ish (for the Sims 4) world is an utter disappointment; 100% agree with your rant.

I personally would love more Let's Plays as I mentioned in other videos comments - you can do any type of them you want. Occults, Uni, make them sugar babies, turn them into crime fighters, doctors or dream home decorators I would love to watch any of it! With you blend of humor and chaos I think any type you picked to do would be a ton of fun and while I only speak for myself, I truly believe others would feel the same and want to watch!

Your LP was so fun, please do another for different packs!

I think either a Horse Ranch Pack refresh or a free update with Unicorns would be a good idea. Simmer Erin has posted a theory that there will be a "My first pet stuff 2.0" for Horses. It fould be fairer to add that with a free addon, because I fully agree that there is not that much in horse-ranch. I think Cottage living had more gameplay. New lot challenges, the animals, the jobs from town, big plants... Horseranch feels less. I recently bought werewolves and really liked how much gameplay it brings. (Allthough maybe having a werewolve working as a doctor in combination with get to work was not my cleverest idea...) Maybe they ran out of time finishing the game, but in that case adding things in via sims delivery express or free update would be a way to make up for that. I haven bought and thus haven'T played horse ranch, but all videos I watched had horses clipping, horses appearing anywhere, at least one weird glitch with simses body, so yeah it seems to be maybe not supper buggy but at least glitchy.

Definitely more let’s play’s ! Maybe a careers lp where Shaniece pursuits a career in the medical field or in law. University lp would be cool too! Any pack really!!

I absolutely loved your LP of horse ranch and would love to see more LPs of other packs, I was kinda sad when your LP ended, it was hilarious!

I had so much fun with let's play and has been waiting for every episode. Please continue!

Its EA they could put sims logo on a used tissue and people would buy it. Quite frankly they know it.

Really enjoyed your let's play, and would like to see more. I agree there must be something up on the corporate front that causes them to turn out lackluster, buggy, expensive products. Something must be wrong with the corporate culture.

That’s what people don’t understand… we don’t “complain” because we don’t like the game. We “complain” ‘cause we do like the game and would like to see it be it’s best. I will be playing Palia until Life by You comes out, ‘cause the Sims 4 is not worthy and it’s not getting better.

I think it would be really fun to play with Shanice as a doctor ar a scientist. And just your funny comments would spice it up so much.

“Are they diversity hiring instead of hiring skilled people” wow, the casual ignorance..

The ranch hand is the worst. If they turned up they would take care of the plants, feed the chicken, repair what's broken and clean the house. I know I can tell them not to take of the plants and not to repair stuff. But you have to tell them every single day anew and then they still might ignore this. They never reset the obstacles, they never cleaned the stalls, they never refilled the hay, they never brushed the horses. If they had nothing to do they might talk to the horses but just as often would read a book or talk to plants. They constantly ran after the chickens to feed them even though they had feed laying all over the place. But they never interacted with the sheep or goats. They would slightly brush the cow, but not really either and neither clean the hut nor refill the food. Nor would they clean the chicken house. Even when I had gotten rid of all animals except horses, shut the greenhouse and house to everyone but my sim and made sure there was nothing else to do but take care if the horses would they at most talk to them. Ich chose to get a butler instead. No need for constant rehire. I take care of the animals, they take care of everything else.

Thank you so much for being so honest. As a person who grew up on Sims 1 and then 2, I resonate and agree 100% with everything you say. We need voices like you to be heard by EA to finally change something with the game we love and that holds a special place in our hearts. Also MORE LET'S PLAYS!! I love people's idea about pursuing higher education dream and choosing University. That would be super fun. All the love, continue being you, absolutely adore watching your videos! 😊🙏💙

Yes! We're interested to watch you do more let's plays featuring other packs.

I just finished both aspirations and am so relieved. Training the horse and nector making became so repetitive. I absolutely loved my unicorn (I have SpinningPlumbob’s unicorn mod) and was sad to see the unicorn go but I was so bored. I feel like I got everything out of the pack that I could.

I wish insead of working on a new game they would work on the current sims game. Or if they are giving us half the quality OVER HALF the price of the packs.

Omg please do a let’s play I watch them before work and it makes my day 😭😭❤️

Yes, yes, yes! Please do some Let’s Play’s for other packs too 🙏

Oh I’m definitely interested in more of the let’s play! I really enjoyed the series and would love to see more of Shanice’s antics.

Honestly, calling the sims 5 project Rene just makes it sound like they have no clue what they’re doing 😂 No one cares about this weird concept and will call it the Sims 5, which is what the name should be. Bunch of weirdos