After a vote spanning four days, eco living has emerged as the winning theme! We've compiled the results from all of the various regions players around the world voted from, and here's the order each theme placed in...
1. Eco Living
2. Starter Home
3. Dangerous
4. Wedding
5. Arcade
With a winner selected, we can all look forward to the next important step of development, and to focus discussion here on the forum towards eco living.
So, just what is next? Well, on April 10th we'll kick off another big vote to determine the art style for our eco living theme. Eco living means different things to different people, and I'm excited for all of you to share your vision. I'd suggest that we all think of eco living as a starting point for where this pack could go, rather than using the theme as a box that we constrain our ideas within.
As you saw in the theme vote, there are a number of potential directions we could take. Will laundry be the primary feature? Will green technology that responsibly enhances our home life play a significant role? Or, will we focus on living in ways that are in tune with nature and living off the land? For now, these are excellent discussions to have within this forum. Eventually we will have to narrow the pack down from our broad theme to a very specific direction. Going forward, your votes will help solidify the answers to these questions.
If you're curious to learn more about what happens to the themes that didn't win, I invite you to
click here and read my other thread on that subject.
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But I did not expect Arcade to be dead last. It's too bad. I was hoping for some smaller arcade machines or pinball machines at some point.
I'm also glad we're not pigeon-holing ourselves to one concept. This could go in so many interesting directions.
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As much as I agree with you, this is a stuff pack. It is all about the "stuff" - gameplay is a bonus, so I wouldn't expect too much.
Oh no haha, yeah I don't know much about eco but I wanted to leave the suggestion cause it's kinda hard for me to find the exactly discussion in the forums for ideas/suggestions
Eco living is a theme broad enough for the crazy simmers' imagination
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Since we now know it's Eco living, I have a question you most likely can't answer precisely but hopefully give a vague answer. Quite a lot of the eco living theme is related to the environment, and thus to seasons/weather for example. Obviously, you have far more insight into the content yet to come than us, so how are we supposed to handle it when discussing the community SP ? Like can we brainstorm ideas with seasons/weather in mind ? And how will the community SP integrate with the rest of the game ? Will our Eco living SP still work with seasons/weather if such a theme come in TS4 at some point ? Will you curate the polls to offer only options you know won't interfere with future content or will the EP/GP team take the community SP into account ?
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Anyway, cool!*
And again, Graham, thanks for allowing us to be part of the process.
*By "cool," I don't mean "air-conditioned cool," because, you know, not eco.
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You have to keep in mind that this is a global vote. Any community member created polls are limited to the amount of people that the one individual can reach but as global brand we reach vastly more people which means that your data and ours won't match step for step.
Where did you see it in 2nd? Here on the forum? The poll was world wide.
'here's the order each theme placed in...
1. Eco Living
2. Starter Home
3. Dangerous
4. Wedding
5. Arcade'
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Right??
I thought Dangerous would definitely win!
Not everyone who votes participates on the US forums. We can't exactly go by the people posting here. We're probably a very small percentage of people who voted.
True It just shocked me I expected for it to be last.
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