User blog comment:Lost Labyrinth/The Sims 4 impressions/@comment-5121915-20140726202408/@comment-4568327-20140726202732

It's ridiculous to add stuff that was in the base game of previous games in expansion packs. The lack of an open-world doesn't 100% bother me (I play The Sims 2!), but if The Sims 3 had open-world it makes little to no sense to just remove it in The Sims 4.