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Wulfsimmer
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BASKETBALL??? SERIOUSLY???? This is Get Together all over again. Pro-tip: EA/Maxis you simply don't put a gameplay object as a main feature in a $40 PACK! That makes it sound/seem as a small one. Should've learned from the "Closet". Anyways, I won't hate on City Life that much and will give it a chance. It is just this irritated me xD I really hope this pack isn't a small barebone one 
P.S: I know some of you might be thinking that a basket-ball court is a BIG FEATURE and not something small but knowing EA, it won't be a little mini basketball court but more like a little hoop where you throw the ball. Just like The Sims 2 Freetime and the football field in The Sims 3 Seasons thus it shouldn't count as a big feature. UNLESS we get a legit match, which I HIGHLY DOUBT.
P.S: I know some of you might be thinking that a basket-ball court is a BIG FEATURE and not something small but knowing EA, it won't be a little mini basketball court but more like a little hoop where you throw the ball. Just like The Sims 2 Freetime and the football field in The Sims 3 Seasons thus it shouldn't count as a big feature. UNLESS we get a legit match, which I HIGHLY DOUBT.
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On the contrary for me, I really hope they are big. I am in need of fully-fleshed out objects, much better than it being conveniently small yet useless because it is not fun.
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I seriously hope there's more to this because if they spent an year to work on this then I'm sorry but someone needs to be fired ASAP.
This ^^^
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We don t know that yet. You can't go by leaks.
Yes you can. They look legit.
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You said it yourself "NOT OFFICIAL" and guess in which section the thread is? Good God
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But youre acting like it is. Literally all of this is rumor. And if was never stated the basketball was a main feature, just that itll be in it.
As for another person, festivals ARE a major feature. They were advertised as such in sims 3 seasons too.
It was actually, remember the leaker who put the most important features in the pack in bullet points?
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Gurus definitely made a big deal about it and how it can't be in a stuff pack xD So it isn't a far stretch
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I'm not a game developer, or anything of that nature, but how hard can it be to make a LOUNGE CHAIR, which is made for just lounging or napping.
Doesn't sound like anything major to me
Yep...same question
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What are they thinking. They claim to always be listening but i've yet to see decent evidence of it.
The whole pack looks really boring so far so I hope it's fake. To have waited this long for another expansion pack (one which everyone was pinning hopes for being Generations) then to be offered this instead.....
Let it be fake!
I said it before and will say it again...THERE IS A REASON THIS IS IN SPECULATION/RUMOR SECTION...BECAUSE NOT EVERYTHING IS OFFICIAL. I swear, what goes on in your mind when you type.
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Youre not a game developer exactly, so allow me to explain since its what im studying for in college.
Stuff packs have less resources than game or expansion pack teams. Lounge chairs require different animations. They lay at a different angle than with hot tubs or chairs etc. Not only that but it has to work with multi tasking.
Its not that its too difficult, its that it requires too much resources for a stuff pack to INTRODUCE. If a pack with more resources bit off that chunk of work, stuff packs would include them.
There is so much mis imformation in these forums, people are claiming the gurus said they were too hard when they never did.
I would love if @SimGuruGraham would confirm what I just said, although he already has numerous times.
All he did was put a couple of new and interesting features, he never said basketball was being advertised as a new and major feature.
Basketball is not like closets in any way, shape or form.
The hard part isn't making the actual object, it's the sheer amount of animations they'd need to create. Here's his quote explaining why they can't put a lounge chair into an SP's development timeframe.
I agree - I don't want any feature sets which involve basketball courts and basketball is generally undesirable where I come from! A teaser image featuring characters who are spinning basketballs is very un-attractive.