revisiting realm of magic in 2023 

I wish there were just a few lots so I could build a cool little magic cafe and maybe a wand store or something 😭

Same the lack of lots is insane

It has already has more lots than the other occults, well one extra, vampires is incredibly sad with no community lots, werewolfs the bunker is part of the bar, spellcasters got a whole second world and a unique lot type I think that's pretty cool

@@endersquid1132 but the bar is through the floor here. ROM came with 5 lots, all with like unforgivingly bad builds, and a magic realm no different to the secret worlds in base game. vampires is more fun to play and werewolves came with great buildbuy/cas items and good builds

RoM deserves a refresh SO HARD (and what better time than now!!) Honestly - if all EA did was get Simmers to redo the lots and add a couple more community lots in the magic realm it would be AMAZING and probably the cheapest initiative ever LOL

​@Darktion lollll ok bud

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@@elliotgibsonroberts6672 girl it’s a bot 😭 report and move on don’t interact

Maybe stairs to nowhere is part of the magicial charm 😅

At least it’s better than no toilet? Lmao

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Exactly because that stair to nowhere mistake is unacceptable

@@laurakruyer6112 it’s a bot

I think that lil simsie, as a game changer, should push a little more hard for pack refreshes

@@asleep2250 I think LilSimsie knows she doesn't have that kind of power, sadly. I'm curious if sales of Dine Out went up with Carl's Mod. I think a big company like EA will make decisions about refreshes based on money, that's it.

Island Living isn't actually bad. The builds in Glimmerbrook is what's horrible.

@@tigerprincess1109 island living has no real gameplay unfortunately

@@a-yam943 most of the packs don't anyway.

LilSimsie's old one is amazing, but I want to shout out a lesser known builder - Chermibear's build is what got me to buy the pack in the first place. It uses a lot of packs, so she had so many more options than LilSimsie for decor, and it's just fun and feels **magical**. 😄 (I promise I'm not Chermibear lol, I couldn't build my way out of a paper bag. I was just looking for her build for a new save, and realized she's not in the "most popular" on the gallery, so I wanted to shine some love on it.)

did you upload to the gallery?

what’s your gallery User?

@@myadoesrandomthings SimmerSkye7

don't worry, they'll sell that as a game pack on its own with a world with 4 lots....

yes it was

Um actually, the game packs all have 5 lots 😂 I agree it’s small, but I also think it’s more important they focus on gameplay. If they added a bigger world with more depth, they’d probably cut the skill tree stuff in half. It’s a gameplay pack, it’s more important to prioritize gameplay imo.

@@corneliastreet2491 That's not my point. The point is that EA has the audacity to sell individual game packs of occult sims instead of making an occult focused expansion pack like Sims 3 Supernatural was or where you at least got one special occult type in almost every Sims 2 expansion. Sims 4 witches and werewolves are just a reskin of the vampire talent tree system which is slightly improved to make witches have a spell book and werewolves a good and bad cycle to manage. I understand that it takes time to develop gameplay systems, but EA has all the time and money they need to make fully fleshed out experiences than half-baked packs with small or non-interactive worlds. And don't get me started on how some packs don't even work where gameplay features either get patches many months or years later or mods have to fix them, or there's just no fix for them at all and you just have to deal with it not working. It's embarrassing and a disgrace to the average consumer, but then again the Sims developers have no choice but to please the higher ups at EA. They will keep selling small packs because there is currently no other life sim game like The Sims out there, and on that fact alone, they know they can sell anything they want, even if it's not properly QA tested. It will sell no matter what.

Right??? I haven’t played the sims 3 since the family pc broke like five years ago but I remember little middle schooler me (and earlier than that, years before the sims 4 even came out) making so many fairy sims. It was genuinely my favorite. I didn’t care about anything other than the imaginary friends (which I miss so much) and the fairy sims. I was so excited when I heard about the realm of magic dlc, thinking maybe it would add the fairies I’ve missed so much, but nope. Just spellcasters, which are fun but not as fun as fairies.

That sounds awesome. I used Burgliate with my Sim. She was an evil clone of another spellcaster.

I kid you not this comment alone is making me wonder if I want eco lifestyle, just to make my own trash wizard

That is genius and I had never considered dumpster diving with my spellcaster. As far as rags to riches, it's also fun copypasto things, like when the dustbunnies find gold frogs, those are good money.

@hazelalice1860 I find myself using the cas and build items all the time, plus I like the apartments in the world. It was well worth it.

omg how did I never think of this!!!

Ooooh, fun! Maybe kits are "dealer's choice"? Like based on the result for the first three wheel spins, you can decide which kit to add?

Oh my god that's such a nice idea

ooh what a fun & cool idea! I might try that too

wait this might be a silly question but how do you take out/add in packs to the game??

@HollyC James Turner has a way to do it on his website. I haven't used it before so I am not sure how it works though, all I know is I have seen some RU-vidrs use it.

Im really surprised people dont play spellcasters more. So many of the spells and potions are SO useful. Potions of immortality and instant needs, spells to spawn food and instantly clean/repair things. Its so handy

@@barbaral.7221 SAME. I never see any of the big Sim players use it. You can legit just not get a job if you get a single money tree because of that copy spell like you said lol. I have an orchard of them behind a monstrosity of a mansion I made to fund it lol

@@razrv3lc exactly!! My current legacy fam is a whole line of spellcasters, and if I could only tell you the amount of times I've saved family members from dying stupid autonomous deaths with the deathdify spell 🤣🤣

I think it's exactly that. Magic makes the game too easy, for content creating purposes that is. People watch these big simmers to see them struggle in game, not see them magic their way out of nearly everything. After I got magic realm, I have it as a crutch ever since, and cannot play again without a maxed out spellcaster.@@razrv3lc

"GOOD JOB, ST...erling!" 😆

Oh Hell Yes!! Hot Dog Spellcaster lets goooo!

Use and abuse Inferniate and Repairio. Get some of the most expansive items and put them next to one another. Cast Inferniate. Let the fire expand and die out. Collect the insurance money. Cast Repairio on the damaged objects. Repeat as long as your magic energy is not to high. Craft literally anything. Cast Repairio on them to improve their quality to the highest level. Sell them for maximum cash.

Love that idea

Learn to make potions. Make one of each, then use the spell that lets you make duplicates (to save on having to keep collecting ingredients to make them). Lather, rinse, repeat as needed and then open up a potions shop.

No, but Pepperidge Farm probably remembers.

I think the issue is, the spa day refresh didn't boost sales as much as EA wanted. So they decided to never do it again.

​@@frameturtle tbh i think the choice of spa day is kinda stupid. Choosing a pack like dine out, that is actually more broken imo and FAR more useful would have been much smarter. Even irl, compare spas to restaurants... Yk?

@@Irisandstuff I agree completely. its like, you chose spa day??

@Darktion she has almost 2 million more subscribers than you and will probably always be far more successful than you will ever be. are you sure your 3 videos are better than hers? 😬

I think she has before, im pretty sure if you go back far enough in her gallery you can see all the replaced builds

@@lil3932 it's a bot. ignore it. usually all caps/bold text comments are bots and should just be reported, engaging with them makes them just appear more often

I think she did already

@@Darktion291even I have more subscribers than you and I don’t even post

vampires and realm of magic are my favorite. i never understood how to play eco lifestyle for example 😅

same here. i watched the stream live and it felt way more interactive than usual!

I agree, the Vampire houses are much better.

lowkey think vampires was the most undercooked like these guys never need to sleep (in some cases it's a bad idea to make them sleep) and they sorta just didn't give us anything for the sim to do w all that extra time? like there are clear things for werewolves and spellcaster to actually be able to *do*, but less so for vampires other than "go out and find a sim to feed on"

@@crptpyr oh I totally agree! I totally get that!

Ohhh wait what? What's the backstory?

@@r21167 I cannot explain it here because it’s wayyy too much but werewolves are basically spellcaster descendants

@@YouKnowImOnMyPeriodYah thanks!

Actually, if you have a familiar summoned, it will resurrect you if you die from Overload, not die in your place. Also, what do you mean by duelling glitch? I often have my opponent walk away instead of duelling; is that what you mean?

JK Rowling is not transphobic. Jesus Christ.

@@TokkiBunBuns okay so all the transphobic shit she said didn’t happen? Like her saying trans women shouldn’t be able to use the womens bathroom? That’s not transphobic to you? Her saying that trans people are pedophiles, that isn’t transphobic?

Hell Yeah. Honestly EA should get Simmers to refresh the builds for this pack (and maybe add few more Realm community lots? ) and it would be the easiest and most topical pack refresh yet.

@@TokkiBunBuns if you want to think so, but what about the absolute raging antisemitism that reaks from the entire game?

@@barbaral.7221 No no no 😂😂 y’all were the antisemitic ones who drew to that conclusion, which is more discriminatory if you ask me. In several fantasy genres goblins have obsessed over gold and had big noses.

Honestly, this is one of the packs I play with most. It will completely depend on your play style whether this pack is worth it or not!

This comment with your pfp hahahaha but I do agree

@@klitzy LMAO