The Sims 2: Family Fun Stuff 
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I'm going to try to give a fair review of this pack for those of you considering it. But this is going to be hard, so please bear with me.
This "Stuff" pack, released less then a month after "Open for Business" came out, is minimal at best. I bought this, going against the advice you see here by other reviewers. I was sorely lacking for some kids room ideas, having done "Alien Rooms" and "Soccer Rooms" to the hilt. As a long time Sims fan, I generally don't like downloading objects from the internet fan sites, as I've heard stories of viruses being in them, and also them ruining your saved games. This stuff pack seemed to be a happy medium. I would be able to get new objects for my Sims, without introducing a entire new part of the game, as in the previous expansions.
Something about the best laid plans - they never work! I bought this today, luckily at a less expensive price then Amazon, at Target. I installed it, and made a "Sea" and "Castle" theme room for my Sims. That took all of 15 minutes. This is the problem with the pack. Those rooms are neat and spiffy, but to totally go through an expansion pack, trying all the different options within 15 minutes, means to me that it's not worth the money. The clothing options for adults are limited to 3 outfits each in the Hawaiian style. There's no new adult things, just a few minimal decorating objects. This pack would have been better named "Kids Fun Stuff" because it's truly about the kids.
My opinion comes down to save your money. I know people are going to be miffed with this pack and probably sell it in Amazon.Com marketplace for alot less then it's selling for now. If you must have this pack to complete your collection, my advice is to wait.
If Maxis/EA wants to release stuff collections like this one, I would think a downloadable pack on the internet for about five dollars would be reasonable. 20 dollars for a pack like this just isn't fair to your die hard Sims fan. Considering that an average Sims player forks over 50 for the original game, 30 for each expansion, this was an unfair move to capitalize on a weakness of the game. (Weakness being lack of good kids stuff)
Just my two cents :o)
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I cannot believe this!!! I am a Sims 2 addict, and I am stunned with this new way to make a little money on EA's part! This Family Fun Stuff is a joke!! You get three clothing items for women, three for men, 9 for teens, and a bunch of useless costumes for the kids! And the "MUST HAVE items" it claims on the box are ridiculous. Yes, they are cute, yes, they could be useful at some point....BUT I dont think this was worth the $20 I had to put out for it, and you can download a bunch of custom content on most sites for FREE. The worst part is I can't get my money back. I can only exchange for the exact same thing. I am aware that this was not a full expansion, but give me a break! I will NEVER again buy one of these "add-on's".
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Originally when stuff packs were mentioned as an option in the Maxis surveys I was quite excited. The idea of buying a CD chock full of objects sounded like a great deal. But here's my problem. Family Fun has 60 objects, that's it. For $19.99 here at Amazon. That's not such a great deal to me. That's .33 cents per object. I think the face masks, the floor globe and the Hawaiian clothes are nice. The other stuff is plain icky. I like realistic furniture, crayon green, hot pink or purple is not my idea of realistic.
And apparently there are bugs with this stuff pack. If you choose a Family Fun outfit in Create-A-Sim the outfit will disappear from the outfit choices. You have to have the sim buy the outfit at a clothing store until the patch comes out. It's pretty disappointing that a patch is needed for a stuff pack.
If this pack drops $10 perhaps then I'll think about it. Otherwise with the beautiful custom content made by sim fans out there and most kindly shared for free I could easily pass on this pack.
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I considered the Holiday pack to be overpriced, and that at least included 2 new NPCs, new objects with new interactions, a new way to die, fireworks, etc.
This pack? Gives you a minimal amount of furniture, some clothes and facepaint, and lots of bugs.
Frankly, for the same amount of money, I could easily get over 10 times the amount of new objects/clothes/hair from fan pay sites that do not mess up my game. Not to mention that the majority of fansites out there are free, and if you spend some time with google, you can easily find much higher-quality custom content.
(Incidentially, downloading new objects/clothes/hair has never screwed up my game. I've also never heard of a site that carried a virus. The only thing you have to keep in mind is that it is possible for mods - ie, files that modify how some aspects of the game work - to be packaged in with lots. Most custom content sites take care to provide clean lots, but not all of them do).
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Save your money and get free stuff from all the great sims sites online. I have never had a virus problem and not once had my game crash because of something I downloaded. That's why I run an antivirus program. I have loads of stuff, from clothes to objects to homes, why would I waste money on this product? Maxis made stuff is always so boring anyway. Especially their clothing. It is awful.
