The Sims 4: High School Years Honest Review 

ON GOD lollll it’s really accurate

FRRRRR lmao 😂

NAURRRRR TOO REAL

Someone mod this and make it cross sompatible with strangerville and have this be a thing pleaseeee 😭😭😭

@@xXDemkaBelikovXx lmfaoooooo too much realism

I wonder if we can add more tables. That’s the only thing I wanted to see added, otherwise pretty realistic lol

@@lorikeeland4238 I’m pretty sure you can edit the auditorium like the eco lifestyle community lots with multiple functions, so probably.

😂😂😂

Yeah, the one career day I ever went to was pretty lack luster too.

"I've just had to sit through two loading screens and my sim is not any better off for it" is for real career day. Only been there twice, but absolutely lackluster.

Completely agree! Its like they forgot altogether about Football, and any Teacher-Student interactions, so disappointing..

it should be renamed teen years or smth

I don’t understand why there’s focus on the thrifting, the boardwalk, social media…we either already have those in-game through other packs (Get to Work w retail, socmed with City Living) or could be fleshed out in a game pack (esp since EA is so greedy, I dunno why they didn’t jump on the opportunity to make a whole carnival pack). If it’s supposed to be high school, make the focus high schoo ffs

Way too much attention on the new social media apps. They should just expand on what they had and focused on highschool more!

The name of the pack is literally High School Years and the content of the pack does not make justice to that name. The school is not interactive enough and I have the feeling it’s actually going to be boring after a while since there’s not much to do. EA seems lazy making the packs, it’s like they don’t care about the details and those details can make a meh pack into a great one! 🥲🙃

Same. I remember the lengths it took to get your child into private school, it really felt like an accomplishment when they were accepted. I was hoping to see them add traits to at least offset this, but like Plumbella said it seems they cut corners in certain areas to reach deadline.

I feel like more than one active school wouldn't work with the game. No other active career or experience has more than two lots.

@@sassykat2587 wait you could make your children go to private schools in the previous sims ?

What's high school without your hated crosstown rival?

@@sanamana6388 The sims 2

You can text in class but I think only if a pop up comes up they should have did more with that

I guess they figure it's better to speed through the hour of class than speed through the day while they're not around

Yeah, sounds about EA. They missed so much in this pack. I was excited and after seeing this video, I’m disappointed. Sims 4 is so boring. I was super excited for werewolves and I feel like that was the biggest let down for me out of all the packs. They make the worlds too small with little to do. Traits are boring and over used. They make me absolutely loathe children in the game. I often times delete sims after they have kids and they grow up to the child stage. I love kids so much, I want to have some irl. But, in game, I’m child free. There is too much wrong with 4 that I think it’s too far gone to keep pushing out packs. It’s time to move on.

@@antisocialal4799 I agree with this comment. Everyone is talking about how excited they are for the pack , but the school just looks so boring and too big? it’s very empty looking idk. I automatically got turned off by it once I saw another simmers video on it. Once again EA made the pack look really good in the trailer , but the actual product is very disappointed. There was so much potential. I know they have the money and workers to do it , they just are ok with selling half assed packs because people are gonna buy it regardless. It’s hard not to buy packs cuz the base game is too boring and repetitive on its own.

We can’t even get our phones confiscated.

yeah i want it but i’m not gonna buy it until a modder fixes some things lol

Except for console of course.

exactly what I was thinking

Yes!! Being able to place school anywhere. Also more interactions in classes ! (Ask question, sleep etc).

100%!!

I was waiting to see what they meant by rivalries and I honestly still have not seen it

@@reading1713 I believe the rivalry thing was just really really bad wording that got picked up by the players, it seems like the rivalry is just a reference to making enemies at school. So through your own game play and stories you can have Sims be rivals at cheer leading or football but it's not something new to the game

i was hoping for a rebel and goody two shoes trait

I agree there should be more teen-specific traits but tbf emo and punk are more like an outfit style and certain traits like gloomy rather than a trait.

@@mollyoldfield746 there is a rival whenever you join the football club (and I think the other competitive club/sports) I’ve heard

College party is a rabbit hole? Seriously? 💀😭 I want to GO to the party. Parties are part of the game, are you telling me they couldn’t even create a college party event? When all the resources are RIGHT THERE from previous packs and update? If I get asked out to a party as an adult, we show up at the party and I can play through that. This is even more disappointing than the one school. Can’t wait until modders get their hands on this pack tbh 💀

Are you kidding me? A rabbit hole? Dont we have a university pack!? Youre telling me if we dont have a university pack we cant interact with it 😭

ofc it’s a rabbit hole 💀

@@kiiiirbzzz not everyone has the university pack.

i dont really mind rabbit holes hehe i just know my sims are having fun!

Glad someone said it.

True that

Is that why it was made as a closed world?

@@sixfeetundertheradar6080 yes when the game first came out they said they were taking away open world in order to have less rabbit holes and having both would cause performance issues. They compromised by having the neighborhood semi open in that they can wander around outside but not travel to lots. But then they never really did anything about the rabbit holes :/

@@mollyoldfield746 they did. They solved rabbit hole by selling a pack. Restaurant, some carrier, school.

Ha yeah a 'rope' object would have been funny

To be fair. We have all that university with the painting classes you do outside. Same for robotics. I think they didn't add all the other classes cause of university. But I do wish we could interact more with the teacher or at least become a teacher.

@@LoveByNicole nah thats no excuse to me. They are already leveling up in skills here, why couldn’t we have actually active classes where you are given assignments to do in class. In University the arts classes are school organisations not actual classes. In TS3 we had some classes when you would do real work with actual objects to skill up and other classes where you would take notes, ask the teacher questions and sleep in class. You can do some of that now in Zerbu’s go to school mod that’s been around for TS4 since get to work came out. This feels like cutting corners to me.

I've seen in littlesimsie video there is an art class..., Don't have group projects but there is projects if you own parenthood, there are different classes through the week, the school day is already short, if they put all irl classes, it would be very tiring and chaotic. And we would have no free time at school at all.

@@joaolima7131 Haven’t watched that video, do they paint and stuff?

yea i feel like the whole fashion thing is super forced because of the depop collab. where would you even see a bobba and thrift shop in one ? granted thrifting wasnt really a thing when i was a teen so maybe its a big part of being a teen now?

AmileeLeia thrifting is kind of big, but most people still buy their clothes new from fast fashion stores. And combining a boba and thrift store is very strange, they probably just did it to keep the number of lots low.

I love that they added bubble tea but it seems so weird that they added that to the high school pack before even adding an option to set a school uniform!

@@rachelcookie321 yeah they pick and choose the weirdest stuff to add!! like yes boba is fun and trendy but there is about 500 other features people would prefer to be included in this pack… why did it have to be that

Early game players of the much anticipated pack “High School Years”, have displayed the many issues. EA is a 36 billion dollar company that could easily invest their time into better packs. What the sims community would like to see added into the High School Years pack that is airing tomorrow on July 28th: -The ability to create high schools on any lot -The ability to assign students uniforms -Being expelled or suspended -Secret clubs like the secret society -Starting clubs -Passing notes during class -Whispering during class -School presentations. Socially awkward sims will perform poorly with these -Group project partners will be randomly assigned. Sims can argue about projects -Falling asleep during class -Tapping someones shoulder during class then chatting with them -Established cliques that restrict students from developing relationships if they do not belong in the same clique -Benefits from being in each clique -Set-backs from being in each clique -Prom only once a semester -Pep rallies, prank nights, and just empty slots in place of prom -The school being decorated for prom -A specific lunch lady who has an unfriendly offset but if you befriend her she will give you crush advice and an exclusive lunch -Resting your feet on desks during class then getting in trouble -Prom get ready night where friends will do each others makeup. Prom dresses exist in a bag in the inventory. Zipper malfunctions exist as well -Friendships can be wrecked because of cliques Until EA addresses their incompetence and makes those following additions to their new pack, players will not purchase the pack.

It's intentional. The game has routing issues and it'll be a whole mess if they did have autonomy in class. Think Wedding Stories in High School ... that doesn't sound fun at all

Early game players of the much anticipated pack “High School Years”, have displayed the many issues. EA is a 36 billion dollar company that could easily invest their time into better packs. What the sims community would like to see added into the High School Years pack that is airing tomorrow on July 28th: -The ability to create high schools on any lot -The ability to assign students uniforms -Being expelled or suspended -Secret clubs like the secret society -Starting clubs -Passing notes during class -Whispering during class -School presentations. Socially awkward sims will perform poorly with these -Group project partners will be randomly assigned. Sims can argue about projects -Falling asleep during class -Tapping someones shoulder during class then chatting with them -Established cliques that restrict students from developing relationships if they do not belong in the same clique -Benefits from being in each clique -Set-backs from being in each clique -Prom only once a semester -Pep rallies, prank nights, and just empty slots in place of prom -The school being decorated for prom -A specific lunch lady who has an unfriendly offset but if you befriend her she will give you crush advice and an exclusive lunch -Resting your feet on desks during class then getting in trouble -Prom get ready night where friends will do each others makeup. Prom dresses exist in a bag in the inventory. Zipper malfunctions exist as well -Friendships can be wrecked because of cliques Until EA addresses their incompetence and makes those following additions to their new pack, players will not purchase the pack.

I agree but I also wonder if this is because the sim population is so small it made more sense to have one high school in the whole game.

Yeah it would be great but the worlds are so small and there is so small amount of lots that it would be waste of space that we already don’t have

Yeah there were hints towards there being uniforms and stuff. In the snowy escape pack with one of the young pre made sims girls in a family. Forgot their name though.

@Michael Hruska Sure, there are barely any sims in a fresh save, but lots of players put in their own npcs to populate their worlds. It seems unnecessarily limiting when so many people do have this level of customised saves. And there'd always be the randomly generated teens too

You could rebuild the highschool lot to look Japanese inspired if your sim lives in Mt Komorebi. So even though the lot will be in Copperdale, it could still look more Japanese styled. Y’know what I mean?

Sims 4 has never been about customization and player choice.

The world's are so small where will you put the community and residential lots without it feeling dead

There would be about 3-4 people in each school if you added one to each world. As cool as it would be for them to add teens who only exist in the school, it would make it hard to interact with them regularly when they only appear in the school and don’t live in any world. It just wouldn’t be realistic or as much fun as it seems. Like Plumbella said, it would be cool to be able to move the lot to other worlds if the auditorium weren’t separate, but having multiple schools would make the high school experience more populated. I definitely get the desire, but it just wouldn’t work as well as I would want

I wanted rival schools so bad 😩

Yeah like why didn’t they do that? You can bulldoze the active career lots, and magic headquarters you just have to make sure you have all the required items, if space is the issue the sims team could have implemented similar system to tiny living where your required to have certain amount of space, if the issue is that it needs that secondary lot, well could have coded that the high school lot will not work without secondary lot being located in the same world and neighbourhood… it would have been easy thing to do.

Not being able to set a school uniform is just lazy. They already have that ability coded in from Dine Out, with the uniforms for cooks and waiters.

@@sarahm8464 i think something like that is a lil big for just an update🥴🥴 but i see where youre coming from

THERE ARE NO CLUBS OR SPORTS oh my God they are rabbitholes just make the rabbit holes

They keep adding a lot of social media stuff. We already have streaming from Get Famous and you can be an e-Sports Gamer in the base game from what I remember. Trendsetter and Social Media are already careers too. We also have Simstagram. We don't really need more stuff especially if it's not going to be connected to previous packs that players already purchased.

@@irongirltoni from what ive seen there is only cheerleading, football, chess club and the computer club. Even if they were just rabbit holes I wouldve loved a band club, art club, student concil, volleyball, swimming, etc etc.

Justice for Eddie!!!

Is it weird I’m hoping he’ll pull a hopper or something? I know it’s unrealistic but I’m holding out hope.

@@alwaysannoyedforever518 Probably not... i mean this season added like 10 new characters i think they should have killed even more characters than just 3 lol

And steve

Early game players of the much anticipated pack “High School Years”, have displayed the many issues. EA is a 36 billion dollar company that could easily invest their time into better packs. What the sims community would like to see added into the High School Years pack that is airing tomorrow on July 28th: -The ability to create high schools on any lot -The ability to assign students uniforms -Being expelled or suspended -Secret clubs like the secret society -Starting clubs -Passing notes during class -Whispering during class -School presentations. Socially awkward sims will perform poorly with these -Group project partners will be randomly assigned. Sims can argue about projects -Falling asleep during class -Tapping someones shoulder during class then chatting with them -Established cliques that restrict students from developing relationships if they do not belong in the same clique -Benefits from being in each clique -Set-backs from being in each clique -Prom only once a semester -Pep rallies, prank nights, and just empty slots in place of prom -The school being decorated for prom -A specific lunch lady who has an unfriendly offset but if you befriend her she will give you crush advice and an exclusive lunch -Resting your feet on desks during class then getting in trouble -Prom get ready night where friends will do each others makeup. Prom dresses exist in a bag in the inventory. Zipper malfunctions exist as well -Friendships can be wrecked because of cliques Until EA addresses their incompetence and makes those following additions to their new pack, players will not purchase the pack.

And always about the most petty things. I had a kid want to see the maid's ghost because she won Myshuno.

As a theatre kid, I’m already praying modders can make a school play/drama club. I can see why it wasn’t included by the sims team,the acting skill that comes with get famous and the actual drama club comes with parenthood. I was wishing we could actually see school plays at the auditorium, but oh well

They could've done something more with the drama club kids and teens can already join as an after school activity, but I guess that would make too much sense lol

THIS ;(

i thought there already was a drama club? in get famous

@@sisi2654 Yeah, but they are the creators of sims 4. They should know how to make it work. They’ve done it before with other things. They could make it so you have to have certain packs to get it or something. It’s really not hard.

It's astounding that TS3 did better with the after-school activities even when they are all in rabbitholes.

Dude seriously tho they could of added more classes or like detention maybe where u stay back or if u have groups of people in science and u can talk to each other make experiments and other hard classes to take to you know ?

Early game players of the much anticipated pack “High School Years”, have displayed the many issues. EA is a 36 billion dollar company that could easily invest their time into better packs. What the sims community would like to see added into the High School Years pack that is airing tomorrow on July 28th: -The ability to create high schools on any lot -The ability to assign students uniforms -Being expelled or suspended -Secret clubs like the secret society -Starting clubs -Passing notes during class -Whispering during class -Falling asleep during class -Tapping someones shoulder during class then chatting with them -Established cliques that restrict students from developing relationships if they do not belong in the same clique -Benefits from being in each clique -Set-backs from being in each clique -Prom only once a semester -Pep rallies, prank nights, and just empty slots in place of prom -The school being decorated for prom -A specific lunch lady who has an unfriendly offset but if you befriend her she will give you crush advice and an exclusive lunch -Resting your feet on desks during class then getting in trouble -Prom get ready night where friends will do each others makeup. Prom dresses exist in a bag in the inventory. Zipper malfunctions exist as well -Friendships can be wrecked because of cliques Until EA addresses their incompetence and makes those following additions to their new pack, players will not purchase the pack.

at this point idk how some people still get hyped with the release of new content, must enjoy getting disappointed every single time

For me its deffo the whole social media feature, deffo necessary, thrifting is such a beautiful aspect too, npcs being able to ask you out and not us always doing it which feels unrealistic and boring tbh, npcs getting crushes. Yeah thats gonna add so much more added gp and i love that they've added the feature

Fr tho like I be playing just a pack like get together u get a group go out and dance then boom it gets boring for a while to me no drama nothing I have to create that with mods

Early game players of the much anticipated pack “High School Years”, have displayed the many issues. EA is a 36 billion dollar company that could easily invest their time into better packs. What the sims community would like to see added into the High School Years pack that is airing tomorrow on July 28th: -The ability to create high schools on any lot -The ability to assign students uniforms -Being expelled or suspended -Secret clubs like the secret society -Starting clubs -Passing notes during class -Whispering during class -School presentations. Socially awkward sims will perform poorly with these -Group project partners will be randomly assigned. Sims can argue about projects -Falling asleep during class -Tapping someones shoulder during class then chatting with them -Established cliques that restrict students from developing relationships if they do not belong in the same clique -Benefits from being in each clique -Set-backs from being in each clique -Prom only once a semester -Pep rallies, prank nights, and just empty slots in place of prom -The school being decorated for prom -A specific lunch lady who has an unfriendly offset but if you befriend her she will give you crush advice and an exclusive lunch -Resting your feet on desks during class then getting in trouble -Prom get ready night where friends will do each others makeup. Prom dresses exist in a bag in the inventory. Zipper malfunctions exist as well -Friendships can be wrecked because of cliques Until EA addresses their incompetence and makes those following additions to their new pack, players will not purchase the pack.

yeah you can even set uniforms for clubs so what a missed opportunity to not do it for high school. And the educator career :(

@@meahendrix598 seems like the whole of the ‘high school’ aspect was a bit of a miss :/ Even university has more for it’s worth

I really wanted that too, hope there will be a mod for that.

And it seems like a no brainer too. Like why the hell didn't they do it? They already have the system in place. SMH

Early game players of the much anticipated pack “High School Years”, have displayed the many issues. EA is a 36 billion dollar company that could easily invest their time into better packs. What the sims community would like to see added into the High School Years pack that is airing tomorrow on July 28th: -The ability to create high schools on any lot -The ability to assign students uniforms -Being expelled or suspended -Secret clubs like the secret society -Starting clubs -Passing notes during class -Whispering during class -dances for each season -Class president voting which has to do with popularity -Popularity is a reputation like system -Theatre club -School presentations. Socially awkward sims will perform poorly with these -Group project partners will be randomly assigned. Sims can argue about projects -Falling asleep during class -Tapping someones shoulder during class then chatting with them -Established cliques that restrict students from developing relationships if they do not belong in the same clique -Benefits from being in each clique -Set-backs from being in each clique -Prom only once a semester -Pep rallies, prank nights, and just empty slots in place of prom -The school being decorated for prom -A specific lunch lady who has an unfriendly offset but if you befriend her she will give you crush advice and an exclusive lunch -Resting your feet on desks during class then getting in trouble -Prom get ready night where friends will do each others makeup. Prom dresses exist in a bag in the inventory. Zipper malfunctions exist as well -Friendships can be wrecked because of cliques Until EA addresses their incompetence and makes those following additions to their new pack, players will not purchase the pack.

It will have integration, if they do bad or get expelled, they won't be able to apply to certain jobs or go to university at all, but there will be workarounds for adult sims to get their diploma

great idea

I think that’s the point of career day, Atleast in Uk it not just Job/career, we also have university come to those kind fairs

I was low key expecting college tours

Same

Yeah and you have to live in that world to attend the school. I'm the Zebu school mod you can live anywhere and still go to the school so it should be possible

@@aurora6920 I think they said all teens from all over can attend? If simmers want their teen sims to actively attend school

@@aurora6920 no, if you want the teens to go to active school, all the teens in that save from every world go there. They dont have to live in that world

Early game players of the much anticipated pack “High School Years”, have displayed the many issues. EA is a 36 billion dollar company that could easily invest their time into better packs. What the sims community would like to see added into the High School Years pack that is airing tomorrow on July 28th: -The ability to create high schools on any lot -The ability to assign students uniforms -Being expelled or suspended -Secret clubs like the secret society -Starting clubs -Passing notes during class -Whispering during class -dances for each season -Class president voting which has to do with popularity -Popularity is a reputation like system -Theatre club -School presentations. Socially awkward sims will perform poorly with these -Group project partners will be randomly assigned. Sims can argue about projects -Falling asleep during class -Tapping someones shoulder during class then chatting with them -Established cliques that restrict students from developing relationships if they do not belong in the same clique -Benefits from being in each clique -Set-backs from being in each clique -Prom only once a semester -Pep rallies, prank nights, and just empty slots in place of prom -The school being decorated for prom -A specific lunch lady who has an unfriendly offset but if you befriend her she will give you crush advice and an exclusive lunch -Resting your feet on desks during class then getting in trouble -Prom get ready night where friends will do each others makeup. Prom dresses exist in a bag in the inventory. Zipper malfunctions exist as well -Friendships can be wrecked because of cliques Until EA addresses their incompetence and makes those following additions to their new pack, players will not purchase the pack.

You should be able to set several days off each year. That allows greater customization to approximate different school year patterns. I assume school/work holidays will also be applied to the active school.

Just create a summer break holiday on the calendar for the summer days and make sure it includes days off school. Boom.

@@Abby2062 I know this is definitely an old conversation, but you could make your adult sims go to work on holidays.

Tbh i think that was obvious from the beginning and the trailer itself

@@jamesmoriarty6540 yeah, I knew it was obvious… still doesn’t change what I said above though. They shouldn’t have made a massive deal if it was all rabbit holes

This is TS4. If you didn't expect rabbit holes, you should lower your expectations 😂😂

I get that, but I think them being rabbit holes made it possible for the team to add more stuff that can happen with and in them, without having to worry about making more items, animations, etc Pretty sure that if they weren't rabbit holes we'd be missing a lot of other stuff Like I think they said there's romantic rides and you can woohoo and get relationships up and maybe even kiss? I'm very tired, so the kiss one might be wrong lol

The wheel is a bummer. It should have been open windows just for ss and give little popups depending on the interaction and who your sims on the ride with. Say your sim goes in with a crush she can try for a kiss that might or might not succeed, a party animal might shake the cart and get banned etc. The influencer type might be taking photos. With the new wants and fears you could make a sim that’s terrified of heights and does it alone etc. Or an adventurous sim who hates it because it’s not enough of a thrill. We dont even need animations for this, just something to make each experience unique to each sim and story. From the sounds of it, it’s a one and done ride

Half of these already exists, simmers are never satisfied. If it put all those classes there would be no free time at all for them, times goes fast at this game. Military skill? Never heard of it. Parenthood will affect the game, scouts already exists...

Pretty sure acting, singing, dancing, and playing instrument is an already existing skills in the game…

it is COMPLETED its surrounded on the teen years AFTER school, i get that EA are greedy i swear i get that but this pack is good, the developers worked hard on it and the most recent pack werewolves was really good too, so i don't get the complaining? they have integrated parenthood, and scouts come with seasons, so this is just honestly pointless complaining.

@@ninisdilemma I think the person isn’t complaining about the lack of those things, but about how those things were just left behind. Like the singing skill for example, it was brought in City Living but never touched upon later on.

@@ashsummermakaio4756 theyve really only went back and adjusted one pack so far, they almost never go back and adjust things unless something new relys on it, popular demand/rebranding, or it just doesn't work(and they don't always fix that either). I never expect them to add on to a pack beyond the face value at point of sale. Thats why they do packs like this, for you to decide what you want in your version of the game.

just use the og basegame makeup 😭😭

Early game players of the much anticipated pack “High School Years”, have displayed the many issues. EA is a 36 billion dollar company that could easily invest their time into better packs. What the sims community would like to see added into the High School Years pack that is airing tomorrow on July 28th: -The ability to create high schools on any lot -The ability to assign students uniforms -Being expelled or suspended -Secret clubs like the secret society -Starting clubs -Passing notes during class -Whispering during class -dances for each season -Class president voting which has to do with popularity -Popularity is a reputation like system -Theatre club -School presentations. Socially awkward sims will perform poorly with these -Group project partners will be randomly assigned. Sims can argue about projects -Falling asleep during class -Tapping someones shoulder during class then chatting with them -Established cliques that restrict students from developing relationships if they do not belong in the same clique -Benefits from being in each clique -Set-backs from being in each clique -Prom only once a semester -Pep rallies, prank nights, and just empty slots in place of prom -The school being decorated for prom -A specific lunch lady who has an unfriendly offset but if you befriend her she will give you crush advice and an exclusive lunch -Resting your feet on desks during class then getting in trouble -Prom get ready night where friends will do each others makeup. Prom dresses exist in a bag in the inventory. Zipper malfunctions exist as well -Friendships can be wrecked because of cliques Until EA addresses their incompetence and makes those following additions to their new pack, players will not purchase the pack.

Definitely agree

shes really just giving them material at this point, a fair bit seems to get implemented over time

@@percymarshall2479 the ea simps and ea over-complainers are equally annoying. the live chat was full of complainers nit picking and asking for TEEN PREGNANCY ? but ea simps act as if the game doesn’t have problems and you can’t complain within reason

she's the only review i trust honestly

@@percymarshall2479 a lot of them put "honest" and "real" review in their titles but sometimes it feels like they only do it because its popular lmao jessies always feels more authentic and isnt afraid to say something negative

I didnt even catch that. I love that so much

Yess same

🥹

yeah exactly, it always bugs me when people request that it’s pretty much impossible to happen anything soon

I got a mod to do so in the meantime and tbh it's not too distracting

@@sunnyyyyyyyyyy grow up

That’s why the sims will never produce anything finished ever again. They know modders will do it for free.

@@idonelovedastripper And people throw their money away for a broken product, smiling like...

And once again console players are left with scraps of content without any hope of mod fixes while PC players can forget that EA is feeding them scraps because "modders will fix it". If modders can fix it for free, why won't EA fix it FOR MONEY?? to be clear, I'm not blaming OP for their excitement, I'm just fed up with this cycle of dependence on modders since a huge number of simmers don't have that privilege.

So tired of people expecting modders to fix every pack that's released

@@emmaeugene4309 maybe place ur anger and tiredness on ea instead of the players, if ea wasn't so lazy players wouldn't look forward to mods so much

or simply become a pirate

games4theworld is your new best friend hunty 😌✨

@@charlotteaitchison2922 In advance, as someone who has been trying to torrent the Sims, but not been able to figure out how or where to start, thank you.

it is a good looking pack but i dont think it is $60 worth of stuff. CAS and build are great but i have cc that is similar (and free) the gameplay seems like ill get bored once i play through a few times :/

@@kiyomii1 Yeah I had some hope seeing the trailer but not after this video, really looks like it will get boring fast and repetitive, there's no depth.

Lol, to be fair Dine out was still the most broken pack until Wedding stories came and stole the crown. It may have still been a type of tech limitation- between building from scratch the ability for multiple active teens going to school, an entire new social media system, wants and fears, and any other gameplay features in the pack - they may not have had the time/budget/staff left to code in school uniforms. (Uniforms in dine out are notoriously glitchy). There are so many additional details I would love to see in any given pack, but if they manage to release this pack with everything in it mostly functioning correctly, I would be happier then if they added an additional feature and half the pack was broken (looking at you wedding stories).

I still do it sometimes cause my sims usually have too much money anyways

Ikr. And i don't want my sims to graduate after being in school for a few days💀

@@jamesmoriarty6540 yeah, I'm aging off, so my sims only get aged up manually and I tend to play sims at specific lifestages for a long, long time. So weekly prom and graduating HS after a couple of weeks would be kinda a problem.

I am guessing it would work like college semesters/years, maybe? You will get 4 weeks of high school to equal 4 years in real life and then you graduate and you would have the prom each week because that would count as a year.

In TS3 prom would happen every x amount of days but graduation only happened the day after the aged up.

Can our sims work in the school? Like as a teacher and the principal? We basically already have the educator career, it seems weird if we cant

Thats becaus Teens in ts4 ar copyd adultw

Just like on TV. 🤭

Yeah, they could’ve just had a rabbit hole called band class. And if they added choir? It’d be so easy to do 😅

The good news is give it a year or so and modders will have integrated some of these things now that there's a system for high school lol

there should have been a theater too to put on plays at school :(( we literally have the acting skill and actor career so why nottt

I made a mistake with my gcse choices too but its not our fault because when you're that age, you're still figuring things out and your interests change so much. How are you supposed to make an educated choice at 13/14? Its so annoying. The only options that I actually passed was my secondary option that I didn't want and it ended up being my favourite class.

@@holly1252 Yeah and if I want to do something unrelated to my gcses I cant. I can never go into finance or being a chef or being a doctor because I didn’t pick certain options when I was 14. Bit silly really

@@holly1252 exactly! i picked a subject that ive barely passed (hoping for a 5) when i couldve been doing smth else that i couldve really enjoyed and im considering taking for a level now

@@holly1252 I chose things I thought would be a good and stable career path but now I regret not choosing more creative subjects because that’s what I do best and enjoy the most. I regret all the time not choosing textiles.

In my country we usually graduate at 18 and it doesn't help much tbh haha

These are the same feelings I have. I’m so disappointed that we can’t set uniforms like.. WHAT?! I’m going to have to get more mods 😭

@useraccount this isn't the hot take you think it is

@useraccount no? They want the developers to do the thing they are paying them for. If I'm buying a product, I could expect the product to deliver and not me to deliver it myself.

@@lauratmm03 But they did deliver, they delivered the version of the product they're selling, not the one in your head. If you want customization, that's literally why they left the game open to modding.

@@Grant-dx3qt that's not what I meant. I was answering to a comment saying to just do it yourself, which is a very dumb thing to say when someone is sharing their disappointments, which they are allowed to have and share. I'm 100% on with the fact that each pack can never please everybody's ideas for it and that's fine.

Imagine how fun would it be if your skill gain/grade was affected by what actions you took in class. Like, if you choose to take notes and listen closely, you would have double skill gain, but if you choose to look out the window and just daydream, your skill gain would be cut in half. If you sleep, you gain nothing at all. How much that changed between individual sims could also be affected by their traits, like a bookworm or genius sim should be able to pay little attention in class and still do well because they're just naturally fast learners, and someone who's lazy should have a harder time studying due to not caring enough. You could also have a hidden multiplier or something so some sims are naturally better at some classes than others, like a "talent" hidden buff or something. That'd be nice.

@@g.t.3186 exactly! That would be so cool

Haha if you have vampires there are some wall cracks and water spots etc

there's a lot of variety with american schools? mine looked sorta like this lol

Not all American schools look the same.

My school kinda looked like this, just bigger, more clutter, lockers, and with a blue coloring. Though that was middle class southern california in the late 90s. Hopefully you can customize.

Idk what makes you think that American high schools look the same. but my high school looks like this but larger and messier.

LITERALLY SAME. I’m so bitter about the lack of customization!

At this point the only difference between a game pack and an expansion is how many lots the world has.

@@BonaparteBardithion And how many CAS/BUILD/BUY assets. Gameplay is so disappointing, reminds me of island living and snowy escape. World confined gameplay with little to no pack integration. I was kinda excited but I'm very underwhelmed. Such an expensive game for no reason.

I was hoping "High School" would be a new lot type :( I already have one built that I pretend my sims go to, so it'd be nice to have it actually function for once.

I've always felt like some careers should be locked behind university, if you choose it to in the options or something. Like, I shouldn't be able to just waltz into a hospital and become a doctor on the spot without a diploma, right? It'd bring some extra challenge to the game and encourage you to do more things in a lifespan.

@@g.t.3186 while I understand your point, that would give off major 'My First Pet Stuff' vibes, like imagine all the people that didn't have university not being able to use things in a different pack because it's locked behind university, there would be outrage lol. I like the system they have where having university gives you a benefit (like career level jumping) but doesn't actually take away or lock gameplay for other packs.

@@amberslavin I think they're talking about locking it IF you have the university pack. Personally university feels too long so I'm glad I get the choice of either starting at lv 1 or going to school and starting at lv 6ish. Pack integration is great but all these first access videos are showing base game and the pack only so we don't know how it will effect other packs yet.

@@Simmerdownidc oh definitely, and I'm definitely into pack integration to make the game feel more whole and purposeful rather than feeling like having however many separate games, just things like locking a career behind a different pack would definitely have to be done carefully, like only if that person has said pack like you said and it should definitely be optional, like you can 'turn it off' if you don't want, because some people might just have university for the build/buy/cas/world etc and have no actual desire to play with the actual university itself

@@g.t.3186 that’s what they did for the sims 2 (can’t remember if it was the same for 3) and it was great!!! made total sense and gave you motivation to actually sit through university

I know! One of my main sims is a teacher from Discover University and, since two of his kids are teens now, I was hoping to transfer him to HS so they could have some classes with Dad and have it actually mean something, like him being able to embarass them or have them embarass him, or anything at all really.

Girl I’m a teen and our lifes isn’t all social media, thrifting, and boba. Gen z want what other simmers want too. We want a sims 2 & 3 type of high school. It seems like some millennials pitched these ideas thinking they know everything about gen z when they really don’t💀 if they truly knew anything it’s that we’re obsessed with the stereotypical high school movies also private schools that they have in New York. it’s so annoying cause now we’re stuck with this boring pack..

@@denim4938 so true bestie

As somebody who's age range was intended to target for this pack (late teen) the outfits didn't hit for me either, they felt very "trendy" and NETFLIX highschool show-like.

TS2 truly remains the best in the franchise. After the trailer of this pack I had for the first time in a very long time some hope, but seeing this video, I don't. It looks very boring and repetitive, so many rabbit holes, barely anything to interact with etc, just like with everything in the game. The gameplay is so incredibly boring, no depth and repetitive. I genuinely don't understand how anyone is excited for this pack after seeing this video.

Same

I would definitely recommend getting HSS first. Even though it's not out yet, I can already tell it's going to be alot more fun to play with etc

I would definitely NOT recommend buying this without seeing more reviews and gameplay when it actually drops. This has superficial written over several aspects, so its better to know before you buy it.

Simstrouble made CC of Eddie’s hair! You should totally get it if you want to do a 80’s save file

Not Maxis, EA

the mens cloths/hair really be lacking...but atleast they adding body hair so I guess thats something

IKR! The way I screamed when I saw the Box braids!

@Lyndsey Peel Yes exactly like get to work. I mean, we can go to school like we can get to work in get to work in the high school years pack. So why not make one for adults to become a teacher. I would love to see my adult sims, give his/her teen sims detention just for the drama XD