The Sims 4 Community Voted Stuff Pack

The sims team is at it again. They are letting the simming community decide on the content of the next stuff pack. The first community-voted stuff pack is The Sims 4 Laundry Day Stuff Pack. This was announced during the maxis monthly last November 13, 2019 at 3:00 a.m. GMT+8 and was presented by sim guru ninja and sim guru dana.
 

Screenshot of the Maxis Monthly

There will be five voting blocks and the first one, which will open on November 19, 2019 at 2:00 a.m. GMT+8, will let the community vote for the theme and gameplay of the next stuff pack. The gurus presented five themes to choose from:

• Arts & crafts
• Self-care routines 
• Fun-tech
• Science & technology
• Happy Haunts

 

The five proposed themes and their corresponding gameplay features. Photo from Twitter user @TrippeyD

Here are my thoughts about the themes:
 

Arts & Crafts

I’m not exactly a fan of these activities but I do like them for the elders. This pack is giving me TS2 Free Time vibes and that’s not one of my favorite packs in the series.

Self-Care Routines

I kind of like the idea of a fitness watch and healthy living aspiration. I’m tired of having to go to CAS just to see my sim’s level of fitness. As for the vegan trait, didn’t we have a vegetarian trait already? Are they completely different? We also have teas already and I believe smoothie blenders will work similarly.

Fun-Tech

The only thing that interests me is the void critter locator. With so many sims in the worlds, surely you wouldn’t need a portable hologram best friend. Making friends isn’t that difficult anyway.

Science & Technology

Desktop microscope? Yes. Astronomy & Portable telescope? Yes. All of the other things? YES! Astronomy could mean zodiac signs might return. Zodiac signs were a neat thing in the previous installments. It gave sims some personality. STEM kits would also add more means of leveling the Thinking skill for kids aside from the experiment table. Experimenting with food would also be fun. There’d be another use for those harvestables other than cooking.

Happy Haunts

The freelancer careers are very interesting. This could mean more interactions with ghosts. The séance tables and spirit boards would be great tools for summoning ghosts if there are no urns or tombstones in the lot, or maybe even in the daytime.

As for my vote, I think it would be going to the Science & Technology. But if someone convinced me enough, it would probably go to Happy Haunts. 

For more information about this voting activity, check out the sims official blog post!