Anybody else disappointed with Get To Work?

coolcandy3001 wrote:I was really looking forward to this expansion and I had heard good things about it. Maybe it's bugs on EAs side that'll be fixed in a patch or something but I am really disappointed with GTW for many reasons.
The main one is the doctor career, you get 1 nurse, 1 doctor, a receptionist and  yourself. The nurse stands there doing nothing and the doctor, whenever I transfer a case over doesn't do anything either, making it impossible for me to cure paitents? I have a waiting room of about 8 - 10 people and it just doesn't progress.
  Another is the retail - I was looking so forward to this but.. people enter my shop, try on 1 - 2 outfits, then they talk to eachother for hours and hours without buying anything - if I have music, they come in and dance. Like, this is a shop.. not a club.

I dunno, I just expected it to be more professional, even if the doctor career is something you're meant to do - at least let me send information to doctors so I can cure them lol?
Anybody else expected better and/or just generally disppointed? If so, why?

Carlos wrote:

coolcandy3001 wrote:I was really looking forward to this expansion and I had heard good things about it. Maybe it's bugs on EAs side that'll be fixed in a patch or something but I am really disappointed with GTW for many reasons.
The main one is the doctor career, you get 1 nurse, 1 doctor, a receptionist and  yourself. The nurse stands there doing nothing and the doctor, whenever I transfer a case over doesn't do anything either, making it impossible for me to cure paitents? I have a waiting room of about 8 - 10 people and it just doesn't progress.
  Another is the retail - I was looking so forward to this but.. people enter my shop, try on 1 - 2 outfits, then they talk to eachother for hours and hours without buying anything - if I have music, they come in and dance. Like, this is a shop.. not a club.

I dunno, I just expected it to be more professional, even if the doctor career is something you're meant to do - at least let me send information to doctors so I can cure them lol?
Anybody else expected better and/or just generally disppointed? If so, why?

Hello,


So far, I only watched my sister playing it a little bit (haven't tested much of the in-game stuff myself), but several people on here already mentioned huge problems with mods and CC, like here for example:
https://games4theworld.forumotion.com/t19593-the-sims-4-gtw-and-tattoo-mods-conflict-how-to-fix

Maybe you have outdated/incompatible CC ? Also, as for the shop, have you tried clicking on items in your showroom and then choosing the option "mark for sale" (or whatever the exact wording is) ? 

Cynabal wrote:Have yet to try being a doc or running a store but being a cop is kind of fun so far. only real "glitch" i have had to deal with if you can call it that is during the initial tutorial bit. When i was suppose to fingerprint and search a suspect and whatnot but all of the criminals that where in the jail cell before i left to investigate the crime scene or whatever apparently escaped lol. so i had no one to fingerprint and etc. but it was no big deal since the day ended and the tutorial kept going the next day.

For me the biggest thing is the addition of the basement tool. Especially since i can finally build a basement in a house that's on a foundation SWEET LORD CTHULHU! I been waiting to do that without a weird work around in the sims games since forever.

Now if only they would give me back the military career in Sims 4.

thatdoggonegirl wrote:I think the part that disappointed me in GTW is that I took the career as a Doctor, and I just noticed that I'm the only one who's doing something in the hospital. Unlike in the Detective, all of the police are actually doing their jobs. Like wow, right? I pretty far tried Detective and I decided to switch my career into Doctor, but I love the retail stores.

thatdoggonegirl wrote:I think the part that disappointed me in GTW is that I took the career as a Doctor, and I just noticed that I'm the only one who's doing something in the hospital. Unlike in the Detective, all of the police are actually doing their jobs. Like wow, right? I pretty far tried Detective and I decided to switch my career into Doctor, but I love the retail stores.

Misfit203 wrote:According to AMD Gaming Evolved I was up to 95 hours of gameplay in TS4 before GTW came out, im currently up to the 150 hour mark lol, so i cant say i can complain, definitely made it more interesting for me. my grim reaper was abducted by aliens and became pregnant and had a son. lol, he is also employed in the doctor's profession LMAO. though i havent played that branch much. i've played around a bit with the detective branch, but most extensively with the scientist branch which had been pretty fun for me. I'm also happy with basements, been waiting for that. 

only thing im really dissapointed by is my loss of mods and C/C. i gave up trying to test them cause i had it all well organized into sub-folders and started by adding subfolders one at a time, and each category i added just refused to work. i had 1500 pieces of mods and C/C which took a huge chunk of my life to obtain, not to mention sims i made to use it with and now it was all for nothing and so im back to using the vanilla game because i feel its senseless to bother getting more if its gonna just end up breaking my game with the next update or EP.

Its not like i keep track of where i download what from and are going to look at each place and hope for updates of 1500 items. so that was my major dissapointment.

coolcandy3001 wrote:

Misfit203 wrote:According to AMD Gaming Evolved I was up to 95 hours of gameplay in TS4 before GTW came out, im currently up to the 150 hour mark lol, so i cant say i can complain, definitely made it more interesting for me. my grim reaper was abducted by aliens and became pregnant and had a son. lol, he is also employed in the doctor's profession LMAO. though i havent played that branch much. i've played around a bit with the detective branch, but most extensively with the scientist branch which had been pretty fun for me. I'm also happy with basements, been waiting for that. 

only thing im really dissapointed by is my loss of mods and C/C. i gave up trying to test them cause i had it all well organized into sub-folders and started by adding subfolders one at a time, and each category i added just refused to work. i had 1500 pieces of mods and C/C which took a huge chunk of my life to obtain, not to mention sims i made to use it with and now it was all for nothing and so im back to using the vanilla game because i feel its senseless to bother getting more if its gonna just end up breaking my game with the next update or EP.

Its not like i keep track of where i download what from and are going to look at each place and hope for updates of 1500 items. so that was my major dissapointment.

I did that with over 4GB worth of CC but only 2 - 3 of mine were broken. The alien thumbail problem bugged me as well, so glad that it can be fixed with Sims 4 Studio.
And yeah, I'm bad at keeping track, I just have all my currently working mods also in a folder on my desktop, so if I download something and it suddenly stops working, I have it already limited down. I think it's because EA made all the new make up and stuff it just.. broke lol. I love CC though, it definitly makes the game more fun, I love customization.

Misfit203 wrote:

coolcandy3001 wrote:

Misfit203 wrote:According to AMD Gaming Evolved I was up to 95 hours of gameplay in TS4 before GTW came out, im currently up to the 150 hour mark lol, so i cant say i can complain, definitely made it more interesting for me. my grim reaper was abducted by aliens and became pregnant and had a son. lol, he is also employed in the doctor's profession LMAO. though i havent played that branch much. i've played around a bit with the detective branch, but most extensively with the scientist branch which had been pretty fun for me. I'm also happy with basements, been waiting for that. 

only thing im really dissapointed by is my loss of mods and C/C. i gave up trying to test them cause i had it all well organized into sub-folders and started by adding subfolders one at a time, and each category i added just refused to work. i had 1500 pieces of mods and C/C which took a huge chunk of my life to obtain, not to mention sims i made to use it with and now it was all for nothing and so im back to using the vanilla game because i feel its senseless to bother getting more if its gonna just end up breaking my game with the next update or EP.

Its not like i keep track of where i download what from and are going to look at each place and hope for updates of 1500 items. so that was my major dissapointment.

I did that with over 4GB worth of CC but only 2 - 3 of mine were broken. The alien thumbail problem bugged me as well, so glad that it can be fixed with Sims 4 Studio.
And yeah, I'm bad at keeping track, I just have all my currently working mods also in a folder on my desktop, so if I download something and it suddenly stops working, I have it already limited down. I think it's because EA made all the new make up and stuff it just.. broke lol. I love CC though, it definitly makes the game more fun, I love customization.

@coolcandy3001

I havent played in a bit, been stuck between watching hawaii 5-0 on netflix and playing dead or alive 5: last round. im also eagerly awaiting the release of GTA V and Mortal Kombat X in a few days, so might be awhile longer til i get back to the sims games lol. but i think im ganna stay playing sims 4 in vanilla til either Maxis fixes whatever broke the c/c or til i hear people not complaining about future updates breaking c/c. 

til then i already deleted my old save game. i went on the gallery, downloaded the best sims i could find that dont require c/c. i evicted all maxis preloaded neighborhood sims. then i played matchmaker with my downloaded sims. took all my matches into CAS and gave most of my matches decent looking children and married some of them. i also added a story progression type mod. i havent played since, but look forward to how things will turn out down the line when i do get back to putting in more sims 4 time. maybe it can be interesting without the need for c/c. this would be a first in my long long history of being a simmer, i always been a c/c addict, but heres hoping lol.

Anarchy wrote:I hope I'm not the only one who thinks The Sims 4 is a disappointment insult in general.

coolcandy3001 wrote:I played a lot of Sims 2 & 1, but never sims 3. So I never saw it as a "insult" anyway, I feel like it came incomplete, but hey, EA is giving us back some things for free, things that most people were disappointed about, so it's okay.

almostanonymous wrote:Speaking of glitches, my sim works in a ghost hospital where the doctor and the assistant are both ghosts

Anarchy wrote:

almostanonymous wrote:Speaking of glitches, my sim works in a ghost hospital where the doctor and the assistant are both ghosts

What's the glitch?

coolcandy3001 wrote:

Anarchy wrote:

almostanonymous wrote:Speaking of glitches, my sim works in a ghost hospital where the doctor and the assistant are both ghosts

What's the glitch?

Isn't the glitch the fact he/she works in a ghost hospital?

coolcandy3001 wrote:

Anarchy wrote:

almostanonymous wrote:Speaking of glitches, my sim works in a ghost hospital where the doctor and the assistant are both ghosts

What's the glitch?

Isn't the glitch the fact he/she works in a ghost hospital?

Anarchy wrote:
Well I've been playing The Sims games for a long time and um... nope, not really.

Carlos wrote:Anarchy's right. It's the same as in previous Sims franchise games basically. Technically, ghosts (as well as other "supernatural" life states like vampires or fairies) are or can still be playable (!) sims, and hence they are capable of doing most, if not all things that "normal" sims can also do.

In Sims 3, I've seen ghosts participating in student protests (in the "University life" expansion), and even ghosts as firefighters - though I don't recommend the latter, as ghosts "flow" rather slowly, which is not good in the firefighter career.

So yes, while it may look weird here to have 2 ghosts as doctors, it's certainly not a glitch.

justpassingby wrote:What made me disappointed was the lack of.