I don't normally jump on the "could have been a game pack" wagon but... it could have been a game pack.

I would've liked an actual DIVORCE feature where we actually use the Lawyers in the game to do it.

I wasn’t expecting much, but girl they gave us nothing

The audacity of them to show a rabbit hole in a GAMEPLAY trailer 🤣🤣

No gameplay? Are you blind, Satch? CLEARLY the new gameplay is Tinder Swiping Simulator 2024.

My wedding stories but double the price... Funnn....

The question is: How much can they recycle and call it 'fresh'? Same old, same old.

the food stall part is so true 😭 a new restaurant and hotel lot traits would’ve been perfect for this pack

I agree with you. Literally the cycle you described will happen. Specifically the "choose what to do on your date" looks a LOT like the "choose what to do at your wedding" and that freaks me out. This is likely going to be a glitchy mess.

The best thing about this trailer definitley was the part where they made Shanice Shanice canon😂😂

maybe the gameplay is the friends we made along the way

I cackled when I saw Shanice Shanice! Her fancy dating look slays, I cannot believe you didn't notice!

This is sanitized TURBODRIVER and Lumpinou. And a new world. All yours for $40.

I thought the same thing, "where is the gameplay?" Its crazy to me that the last expansion pack is still broken while a new one is about to come out. I want to be excited for lovestruck but so far it seems like a game pack not and expansion pack.

I can’t belive Satch didn’t addresa the Shanice Shanice in the room 😂

If you guys are mad about the quality of the game, stop giving them your money. That's the only way they will listen.

I noticed that Shanice-like Sim also. I thought maybe I was imagining things, glad to see others saw this, too. Yeah, Shanice! She is now a Star.

I immediately thought about Shanice Shanice when i've seen her in the trailer!!

99.999% those dumbbells will be decorative, despite the fact that there are functional from CCs and mods... I'll wait for the play testing and bug hunt to run at least a few months before considering getting that pack.

theyre deleting negative comments on the trailer btw

Love you Satch 🙏💙 just watched the trailer and to be fair, it seems like a game update pretending to be an expansion pack.. wtf

Considering it appears they merely reused the holidays events system for the new dating system, there better be a whole lot of content missing from this trailer because this is barely a game pack's worth of content. Fun fact: every one of my failed relationships included kissing on the first date. The one that has lasted the longest is the one who stood me up the first date. They have been making up for that mistake for years with no end in sight.

How was NOBODY in swimsuits and drinking water?

I do maintain this should’ve been a game pack… but honesty doesn’t it feel like paranormal stuff has more new gameplay than this? 😂

Satch, I'm afraid this is going to be a shallow expansion. I'm hoping the live stream shows more gameplay.

Every Sims 4 'game trailer' just makes me fall more in love with the Sims 3.

This is The Sims 4: My First Romance stuff pack, what worries me more, is that a lot of the UI and relationship dynamic features are reused from My Wedding Stories and Growing Together. My Wedding Nightmares was a disaster to begin with so what are the chances this pack is going to work well? To be fair, since a date is only two sims, there might not be as many problems with interactions, but it's recycled content and a few new animations which appear to barely make up a game pack. This really looks like it could've been put with My Wedding Stories as a general romance expansion pack, but don't fret, sometime in the future, they'll put those two together in a bundle with Romantic Garden Stuff so you can save a little money 🥳💀

sometimes i wonder when the sims player community will stop being blind and actually demand sum changes or quit playing this game. Only then developers and share holders would even consider doing something about it. Until that "revolution" we will continue having this buggy, glitchy, half empty world experience, time after time, plus knowing that they freezed Sims 5 for now...

One of the most important gameplay aspects(romantic coach career) wasn’t even mentioned. Why, WA, why?

All preorder bonus items in an expansion about love are about heartbreak and breakup. Kinda symbolic for those who preorder

They made their own version of Shanice- I noticed so fast

The livestream is how we knew Wedding Stories was broken, they couldn't even make it work in their livestream and were so lackluster it was insane because they KNEW it was broken

1. This is predictive programming for the Sims 5. They want us to get used to the idea of other peoples Sims in our games. 2. The reason they started calling GAME packs EXPANSION packs is because they know we only buy them 1/2 price anyway. So, they end up only doing a game packs worth of effort, can get expansion pack prices. And when it goes half off, still get the game pack price, which is how much it was worth in the first place. They’re marketing geniuses. Edit: I had game and expansion the wrong way. 😂 Just edited to clarify what I meant.

To be fair we haven't gotten a new gym since Get Famous

Honestly, there was almost nothing there. By the end of the trailer, I was left wondering what EP-worth of content this is actually coming with. Some social interactions, the barebones app and a new world?

this is literally the first time I forget about watching the premiere of a gameplay trailer, I usually get excited to watch them... Not this time though, just remembered now when I got this video's notification 😂😂😂

lol “oh no, not the friend date”

Before the trailer…curious…might sell me on buying, after the trailer…meh I can deffo wait til this is half off.

Heavy on the Is the New Gameplay in the Room With Us. My first Tinder/Woke Grindr +1 Flirty Moodlet Stuff

I also spotted the brunette Shanice 😂That was the climax of that trailer for me. And the cold shower came with the love hotel as a rabbit hole... 😑

It would be cool if you could find married / in relationship sims on the app and expose them to their partners for some drama.

Yeah.. there are already mods that do all of this and more. The ones I use have a physical attraction system, one night stands, friends with benefits, etc. So basically this is $40 for a tiny new world with rabbit holes.. no thanks. (Yes I know some people don’t play on pc and detest hearing about mods. Don’t crucify me)

This is honestly what I expected.

I'd bet the price of this pack that the online dating doesn't even work on release

We’ve really reached the bottom of the barrel with the sims 4. All of the recent expansion packs have been nothing more than UI updates that should have been base game updates. To name a few: building apartments, proper infant gameplay, social bunny. Now what we’re essentially getting as gameplay is a dating app and updated UI to pick what happens on your dates. In my opinion none of these actions should be locked behind the paywalls of an expansion pack. None of the worlds or cas/BnB items should be seen as a justification to sell the expansion packs for as much as they do, especially when free CC exists. I just truly find it so crazy people defend this greedy behavior from EA and take it personally when we call it out.

Waiting for 50% sale as per Satch’es advice, but even glitchy for rent won’t go down 😭

I was waiting for this video right after seeing the gameplay trailer

Steam is having a summer sale rn. Ends soon. You could get like 2, 3, maybe even 4 entire games for the cost of this pack.

You are literally my favorite Simmer please never stop making videos oml😭😭 you’re 110% right with all of this I can’t wait to see your videos on the gameplay, will definitely solidify passing on this pack or not

"Personal opinion constitutes an attack." Literally my entire online life. 😔

There's no gameplay in a gameplay trailer LOL!

people coffee date before doing a real date to see if you vibe or not. I'd guess it's probably like that.

"is the game play in the room with us" LMAO Will defo not be buying this pack

Turbodriver is gonna do more magic than EA when it comes to love stuff for sure!

OMG SHANICE SHANICE 😂😂😂

I think the Sims 4 team have lost focus on what an expansion pack is. I think packs like this, wedding stories and high school years give features that we can play pretend with already as opposed to actually expanding them gameplay. I can already go on dates and make a story with just the base game. Like gym dates, dancing dates, woohooing, hookups, leaving a date early etc. Get to know date vs a romantic date. We can already do this. It just feels they are giving actual gameplay to things we already can do.

I literally laughed out when you said “If you dont kiss on the first date, your relationship will never work out.” 😂😂😂😂😂 that’s so not true but it’s hilarious to hear. I love your sense of humor, truly I do. 😂

before watching: i'm kinda hopeful, although ik i shouldnt be after watching: ...where is the new gameplay- (they should have added hotels in this "expansion" pack) 10:18 respectfully, ure wrong.

The sims team every time someone comments with valid complaints: 🙈

EA needs to revise the cost of packs. If they don’t wanna add gameplay into expansion packs than price them the same as sims 3 expansion packs.

Those aren't gimp suits, they're luchadores!

Honestly it will be interesting to see what the modders will be able to do with the pack and their abilities of geniuses.

Saw the plan a date screen, why did'nt they call this game pack my dating stories?

Mods we already have for free as an expansion pack. Its just a world with mods.

Should be called sims 4 cupid's corner not sims 4 lovestruck 😭

I screamed when I saw Shanice but I was surprised you didn't notice her till the end, we see her 2-3 times. It was so funny and caught me off guard. I did not see that one coming🤣💀💀

i don't like these expansion packs that have "hidden" gameplay, like, for example, Growing Together. i like that it changes your game and it gives more depth to your sims characters, but i feel that it could be a base game update. like just put that app and those relationship features in the base game... it's not enough content to be an expansion pack or even a gamepack tbh, execpt of course there is a new world, cas items and furniture, but that's not enough for that price

There was so much room for creativity and fun and this was the most soulless pack I've seen lol. Like.. For the tinder app you just AUTOMATICALLY go on the date with whoever you choose? Why couldn't they have done like a "request" date? Then your sim could be rejected or accepted and get moodlet buffs??? It would add storytelling. Like that is just one idea and I thought of just now while pooping. The Sims team has been phoning it...

I don’t see any difference in the gameplay trailer. Except we got to see how to set a date. That’s it.

petition for more functional furniture and more world interactions

I ligit did a double take thinking it was Shanice Shanice in the trailer. 😂

“If you don’t kiss on the first date, your relationship is never going to work out.” I guess I’ll just throw my 12-year-long relationship away, then, since we didn’t kiss on the first date? 😅 Nothing wrong with someone wanting to just get to know someone in person to see what the vibes are like, Satch! 😂 Anyway, jokes aside, I totally agree with the rest of this. Gross that there was no gameplay in the “gameplay” trailer - probably because it just seems like a game pack’s worth of gameplay that should have been included in the base game. I grew up with TS1 and then TS3, but I’ve been watching TS2 gameplay videos, and I am just so shook by how vastly superior it was to the rest of them in terms of gameplay mechanics and interactions. Lovestruck just feels like it’s bringing back some TS2 mechanics (like turn ons and turn offs) and a few other features. We’ll see what it’s like when it actually launches, I guess, but I will just be experiencing it vicariously through KZfaq rather than paying $40.

I’ll be shocked if the date activity panel has crossplay. Like the club activities list from Get Together for example won’t be there I bet

When I saw the trailer my first thought was ‘omg it’s latina Shanice Shanice!’

I like the idea of "get to know" date, it just make sense to me and I honestly don't think they created it just to look "woke" for example imagine when you go on a first date irl sometimes you don't what the vibe is going to be so you don't want to do super romantic shit, you just want to share a good moment and see if the vibe is there, kiss or not it doesn't really matters in this scenario, then you have 2 choice: you don't go on a second date or you go to a second date and feel more confortable to do a truly romantic date this time so it feels kinda realistic to me

I agree, the most we can expect is a few new hairstyles, outfits, and decorations.

1. yes the microphone is basegame, you get it for free if you choose the entertainer career, and become a comedian. Johnny Zest, has a microphone in his trailer house. 2. Of course we don't get hotels, in a pack about love. If we ever get hotels, it will come in a Hotel pack. Come on now, we know the sims team by now. They are turning everything they can into a seperate pack, so they can get more money. 3. I don't trust those "livestreams", because they are pre-recorded now. They are not actually live. They can easily edit out any big bugs.I will watch it too, but I do not trust it, if they once again, actually arent live.

It’s a game pack that identifies as an expansion pack

Officially another pack I could never justify getting and I know it's still going to sell extremely well regardless.

I'm more excited to see what TURBODRIVER is gonna do with this pack than the actual pack itself. 👀👀👀

I honestly feel like most of the gameplay in this pack could've just been a base game update

"Is the new game play in the room with us??" ☠

I’m going to take a shot in the dark and predict that this will break all original Romance gameplay that’s been in the game.

The sims team every time someone comments with valid criticism: 🙈

when i saw shanice i was like oh snap 😂 💕

Bang on as usual. A reality check was in order- and you served it! Brutally refreshing. Thank you=)

Never was more disappointed with a pack before😭 I can't even defend them with this one, the other trailer was cute at least

I swear to god if this is gonna be mostly reused assets im offing all of my sims

The sailors have turned to pirates with this one 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Don’t even play the sims all that much anymore but I will absolutely still listen to Satch sims commentary

“Is the new game play in the room with us?” 🤣

You know, can I just say, the narrator comes across as an outgoing person telling a shy person to "just get out there, you can do it, just be like me" kinda vibe. That is a friend red flag, because that is someone that just doesn't get you. And it just seems a little reminiscent of how EA doesn't get the sims players.

Imma wait for the reviews … 💭

Updated version of invite sim to lot *yawn*

that sim at the start looks a bit like Shanice

The new necklace almost looks like one of those “choking” necklaces lol

Here's what we wanted: new venue types, live play hotels, and GAMEPLAY from the GAMEPLAY trailer. Here's what we got: same old venues, another rabbit hole and a dating app that basically works like party/event planning tools already in game. I was really anticipating having a Latino world in game, but I didn't see any gameplay related to cultural aspects of that world. The blanket, board game, strawberries, fountain, and cosplay box look like fun additions. Couldn't they have a matchmaker career? More dating types in the app (hook up, meet the family, group date, etc?) A new "woohoo party" event using some of those new costumes? An aspiration to be a home-wrecker, baby daddy, or sugar baby? Traits for machismo, cheater or monogamist, or the five love language types? Venue types like a singles club, an actual romantic restaurant, a beach festival (Carnival)? This pack seems very superficial.

My wedding stories 2.0

Glad to see Shanice Shanice in the new pack. Her being cannon is the best part of this pack.

I honestly hate that EPs come with so many assets. Our build buy in TS4 is HUGE. It doesn't need loads more assets. It needs gameplay depth. This, Growing Together, My Wedding Stories, Bowling Night, Romantic Garden Stuff should have all been one singular pack. Only then would it justify its price. I think individually these add a lot to the game, but I'm so sick of everything being so broken up. I am starting to lose hope that by the end of its life cycle that TS4 will not be good. Also - when are we going to get new ideas we haven't seen in a Sims title before? TS4 is not pushing the franchise forward. Will still buy this when it's 50% off because I'm sure there is something worth it in here that I will like.