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I don't really have too many links or anything. I'm just saying it's gotten high praise from the community like alot of sims 2 packs.
I watched alot of reviews, just to quote lgr for example he said it's the most fun he's had with a sims game in a long time.
Ah, ok. I agree to an extent though, the clubs allowed for lots of freedom and control. Some which we never really had before. It'd be nice if they continuously improved AI with each EP.
Yeah when @SimGuruDrake said she'd answer questions the day they make the announcement I kept thinking it's just going to end up a lot of 'I can't talk about that' like the Ask a Guru was.
Yeah he said its the most fun he had with TS4. Which says a lot for us older Simmers.
2. The Sims 3
3. The Sims 4 (5 years later its decent)
4. The Sims 1
We can talk about stuff that is already out or is officially announced (teaser trailers are a gray area where we can discuss what is shown in them but can't talk more until additional information has already been officially stated --these are not the same as launch trailers though). We cannot talk about future content until it has been announced.
SimGuruGraham talks a lot about development and the process on what goes into stuff packs if you're really interested in picking his brain about that
I'm pretty sure you won't be able to answer this but if you could respond with "I can't talk about that." I would appreciate it.
Do you know what things seem to have changed so much since Sims 3 and before. I felt like we got a lot more information about upcoming packs/store stuff in the past. Did EA/Maxis just change their policy on how content is to be discussed? If so is that only for the Sims franchise or all it's games?
Thanks so much.
Also I know we can be frustrated and upset but I think all of us sensible people know that this would be hire ups in the corporation that make these decisions and not you. So I'm sorry if people are yelling/being mean to you guys.
In other words, if they don't announce toddlers coming Tuesday, they're not going to tell us whether they're ever coming or not. So best not to bother asking.
I don't work in development so I would never be able to give that kind of answer but if it was never ever ever ever ever ever going to even in the slightest bit happen at any point ever in the game we would be able to give you an answer.
But you get into a weird area, an example of this would be if we said X is never going to happen and then 2 or 3 years later we decide to do X but during that 2 to 3 years we said Y wasn't going to happen either but we ended up making X happen despite us saying 2 or 3 years ago that it wouldn't ever happen then those who wanted Y would be like "Well you made X happen even though you said it wouldn't so why aren't you doing Y?!"
We'd rather not speak in absolutes unless we know that we never plan to explore something.
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Let's hope that doesn't happen.
I have not been at the company long (will only be a year on May 4 --GIF party that day?! Yes? YES!) but SimGuruGraham provided a simplified version of what we essentially deal with regarding communications (I'm keeping the original comment he was responding to otherwise it sounds weird):
Thank you for answering this. But am I the only one here who did not understand a thing from what Graham said here?
How I read it was that they probably wouldn't because if they said for instance, 'we'll never be able to do toddlers or pets' and then they eventually came out with pets, people would be furious they couldn't manage toddlers as well. I'm guessing they'd rather err on the side of caution and just not comment at all. But who knows, I could be wrong.
> Thank you for answering this. But am I the only one here who did not understand a thing from what Graham said here?
@halimali1980 what Graham is saying is that they cannot announce or talk about future free content unless they are 100% sure they can release it in the same quarter. Otherwise it has an adverse impact on their financials. So basically, if they are planning to release toddlers as a free patch someday, we won't hear about it until they know for certain they can release it within the same quarter.
My speculation (pure speculation here, obviously) is that they are working on or planning to work on toddlers as a free patch. That's why they won't tell us no or rule it out. But they can't confirm that they're working on them until it's almost time to release because of the above reasons. Which frustrates a lot of people because they feel like the team isn't being open, where in reality, the team's hands are tied and they simply cannot say anything (no matter how much they want to). But again... those are just my (optimistic) thoughts.