Yes, I am getting it, too, at the moment. Probably because Steam website is overloaded at the moment, Autumn Sale just started and people are massively grinding nomination tasks for badge, claiming daily sticker, exploring store for discounted games, etc...
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But you still got the game, right? If you refresh the page does it appear as owned?
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It is DLC for DLC so you'll need to own the base DLC as well. The Sims 4 Cats & Dogs (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1235721/The_Sims_4_Cats__Dogs/).
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The announcement seems to indicate that you should be able to redeem it without cats and dogs.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1222670/view/3871468783997396016?snr=1_5_9_
"From now until January 9th you can redeem the The Sims™ 4 My First Pet Stuff Pack for free! Bring home a rat, hamster, pygmy hedgehog, or miniature bubalus to love and care for. If you have The Sims™ 4 Cats & Dogs Expansion Pack, My First Pet will also give you more outfits for your four legged friends."
also someone in the forums says "Of course the worst "stuff pack" is for free now xD not to mention you still need Cats & Dogs too access half of the items given" <-- https://steamcommunity.com/app/1222670/eventcomments/4036976070303298791?snr=1_2108_9__2107
so technically half of it should work without the paid dlc, so my guess is that this is just a temp error.
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There are DLCs of DLC???? Please stop the train. I'm getting out!
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Currently giving an error message, but the whole Steam store is bugging out right now so it's to be expected.
The more interesting thing about this DLC is that it seems to require another DLC in order to work, so it's DLC for a DLC... I'm not all that surprised that it's EA the one company doing stuff like that.
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I imagine the error will get sorted out in the next few hours, it's probably related to the steam sale since a lot of stuff is currently failing to load for me.
But to me this reads as a strategy to get people to buy the other DLC, as in we get one for free so we're motivated to buy the "base" DLC in order to access it. It's kinda clever, and kinda evil.
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I mean you're not wrong, it's a shitty tactic by ea again. Nothing they'll ever say or do will justify the whole cost of this game, it's around $1000 for the complete game, and even on sale it's still like $400 at least. Yeah, f2p games looked good at first, and then we pay for it by getting incomplete pieces of crap, and to actually get the working full product we have to pay 15x more than we would've normally paid for the game. Of course I agree it's shitty, but I don't see who would stop it. It brings valve as well a ton of money just for cashing in on their % share of the $1000 vs $60, and so it does to every other company, and then you also have other things like in game purchases and stuff of the sort.
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I should probably clarify that I'm not against the idea of having a free to play base game and selling the extras, I see it as a perfectly fine business model as long as it's done in a transparent way. And that's kinda my gripe with how EA is doing this, I'm not gonna complain too much about getting a freebie but the idea of DLC that requires another DLC to work properly is pretty much indefensible from a design perspective, if you are the one developing the DLC and you rather sell it as two pieces of content then split it in such a way that the consumer can freely choose if they want both or just one of them, building the two pieces so the player feels like they simply can't fully enjoy one without having the other is plain old manipulation, and that's harder to justify.
In my opinion if you want more money either make more content or raise the prices, don't play mind games with the playerbase.
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I see what you mean, but I also don't know what's not working. Sure the reviews say dlc for dlc and negative, but no one points out what's not working other than the outfits. Their announcement claims "Bring home a rat, hamster, pygmy hedgehog, or miniature bubalus to love and care for. If you have The Sims™ 4 Cats & Dogs Expansion Pack, My First Pet will also give you more outfits for your four legged friends.". So unless they're straight out lying, the new features work, but those related to cats and dogs don't for those who don't have the required dlc, for probably obvious purposes case in which I can't exactly be mad for that, because when giving it for free they did announce that those with the cats and dogs dlc also get some extra stuff, so they're basically claiming that as not being the standard dlc, but just extra stuff for those with said dlc.
Either way I still don't like their dlc model, it's way beyond anything reasonable, and at least if each $30 pack included a few hundred or thousand items it would feel more reasonable, but they lack in variety and options always. It's like the go on a random 3d model site, pay $100 for a bunch of $3 models and then resell them to users as a dlc for $30 cashing in on millions that way.
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I don't know what to say about that, I haven't played the game nor am I particularly interested in playing it so I quite simply lack the necessary knowledge to argue any further about the specifics of this particular case. I must admit that I took the reviews at face value and ran with the admittedly scarce info provided by them, so there's a good chance that I was mislead and chose to believe it simply because of how many times EA has pulled questionable moves in the past, maybe they're being sincere this time and I'm just showing my prejudice.
At the end of the day my main issue with this is that the concept itself of DLC for DLC is a dick move whichever way you look at it because there's no reasonable excuse for it at the design level, if the same company has control over both the base product and the add-ons being developed for said base product then they should be able to design them in a way that avoids pointlessly stacked add-ons when they could most likely run in parallel. To me this sounds as scummy as when a phone maker stops including a headphone jack in their line of phones and instead sells you a dongle to connect the headphones through the USB port, they're making the user experience worse just so they can make it more expensive in a roundabout way.
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My 1st pets is controversial for literally being dlc for the cats & dogs EP. it released shortly after with items that likely was meant to be in the EP but wasn't ready for the deadline.
Its not just some outfits for the cats and dogs, its also a few pet related items that just don't function fully unless you own cats & dogs
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I mean to EA's defense here, I wouldn't expect said items to work without pets either because what's going to trigger them, ghosts? Unless I misunderstand and you can elaborate for me a little as to what kind of items were supposed to work fully but don't.
From their announcement it seems like all these work fine "From now until January 9th you can redeem the The Sims™ 4 My First Pet Stuff Pack for free! Bring home a rat, hamster, pygmy hedgehog, or miniature bubalus to love and care for. " but they do require the cats and dogs dlc for "more outfits for your four legged friends.".
Haven't tried it myself but I'm wondering if this is just cats and dogs dlc functionality, like playing with the laser with the cat or something.
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the rat/hamster/small rodent is all variants of one gameplay items. the SP itself's entire controversy comes from it releasing like a week or so after the pack and pretty much feeling like the extras of ep was just put into a stuff pack. The requirement to have C&D to fully use the pack did affect console players from getting the pack at all unless they had the ep
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I was gonna say! I noticed this late after I already claimed it on Steam, but useful for those not using it from Steam. Sadly, I don't think consoles would qualify, since given the nature of things and the C&D DLC itself, cannot be obtained standalone without C&D coming with it.
Luckily I already had C&D anyway.
(I had thought I would try to make it overlap in case I switch from Steam for whatever reason that may be. Apparently the license is not removable from my end, and because the EA app detects it, I can't claim it there either. Stuck with Steam. Oh well)
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Do you own another DLC for this game as Dynaw up said?
"It is DLC for DLC so you'll need to own the base DLC as well. The Sims 4 Cats & Dogs (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1235721/The_Sims_4_Cats__Dogs/)."
EDIT: Nah, I personally confirming it this another DLC is not needed to grab this one, just base game which is F2P!
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I had to use the Steam app on my laptop to make it work. The browser login wasn't sufficient and always led to the message "An error was encountered while processing your request". Previously I only had the base game.
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Another free DLC for Sims 4 if you don't have it.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1235764/The_Sims_4_Holiday_Celebration_Pack/
!addlicense ASF a/1235764
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