The Sims

So far I've only preordered 2 packs: Cats & Dogs and Horse Ranch. Everything else I bought later in sale. I even took the day off from work on release day. So yeah, I'm excited!

I see people saying it should've been a game pack or in one big pet expansion with Cats & Dogs, but I disagree and am happy it's not. They will flesh it out much more this way.

I also see people saying it should've been part of Cottage Living. Even harder disagree. I'm already sad the cows are objects following a set animation and not actual NPCs. If they put it all together that'll make it all even more simplefied.

Besides, it feels a bit non-understanding to the country-side to me? Normally The Sims community cares so much for inclusivity and representing cultures properly (but in a light-hearted Sims fitting way). But when it's argiculture it should all be smashed together? I'm not even that strongly opinionated about the whole inclusivity thing normally. But as someone who grew up in a country-side village, it just reminds me of each time city people don't know shit about the country-side life and act like country-side people are all just simple people shielded from the complexity their city lives have (while often having strong opinions on the stuff they don't know shit about). Cottage Living is in a pittoresque cottage-core style (which is already a very romanticized version of European farm life. But as a European from the country-side, I'm fine with that as everything in the Sims is altered to be more fun and less deep/serious and cottage-core is kinda that vibe towards real farm life), while Horse Ranch is based on American ranch-life. They have very little in common, outside of both being considered some kind of farm life. Smashing that together is no different than smashing Asian cultures together. It's just very double standards to me (which I guess annoys me more than the inclusivity or representation related points).