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I usually just come here and I read the News page, but recently I'm hearing things about a new family pack. Teens getting acne, and the like and I can't find this information anywhere. Please forgive if this sounds like a dumb question :confounded: I honestly have thought there has been no news released since the plant sim challenge!

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    JimG72JimG72 Posts: 1,161 Member
    The family game pack and fitness stuff pack were part of the quarterly teaser video about 5 weeks ago. It was posted in the forums by people and on several sites. The teen acne thing was a tease from a dev on Twitter.
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    LadyTachunkaLadyTachunka Posts: 1,454 Member
    twitter or the news page. twitter usually have the teasers on it and sometimes the gurus would have the their avatars to hints of what to come like simguruninja's acne one
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    nanashi-simsnanashi-sims Posts: 4,142 Member
    family :love: OMG, I've been holding off on buying additional DLC of late, but this is a GP and not even an SP! I'm so buying this!
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    catloverplayercatloverplayer Posts: 93,701 Member
    family :love: OMG, I've been holding off on buying additional DLC of late, but this is a GP and not even an SP! I'm so buying this!

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    We'll probably be getting the trailer next week.
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    nanashi-simsnanashi-sims Posts: 4,142 Member
    JimG72 wrote: »
    The family game pack and fitness stuff pack were part of the quarterly teaser video about 5 weeks ago. It was posted in the forums by people and on several sites. The teen acne thing was a tease from a dev on Twitter.

    Hi @JimG72. Thank you for your post. Do you have a link to the video thread? That might've been exam time for me and I probably missed the threads because I usually keep up with these very regularly, so I don't know how I could have missed this!
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    catloverplayercatloverplayer Posts: 93,701 Member
    edited May 2017
    The teaser doesn't hardly show anything new except the new toddler female hair for adults.
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    JimG72JimG72 Posts: 1,161 Member

    Hi @JimG72. Thank you for your post. Do you have a link to the video thread? That might've been exam time for me and I probably missed the threads because I usually keep up with these very regularly, so I don't know how I could have missed this!
    Sure, here you go: http://simscommunity.info/2017/04/04/the-sims-4-new-quarterly-teaser-april-june-2017/
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    JimG72JimG72 Posts: 1,161 Member
    The teaser doesn't hardly show anything new except the new toddler female hair for adults.

    It also shows new clothes for the family game pack...all of them (adults, teen, child and toddler) switch into new clothes. It also shows some sort of painting activity for children and what looks like some sort of diary activity for teens. Plus, there are some new decoration items on display. For the fitness stuff pack, there's new clothes shown plus a couple of new items.
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    brendhan21brendhan21 Posts: 3,427 Member
    I usually just come here and I read the News page, but recently I'm hearing things about a new family pack. Teens getting acne, and the like and I can't find this information anywhere. Please forgive if this sounds like a dumb question :confounded: I honestly have thought there has been no news released since the plant sim challenge!

    apparently the best place to get our updates are on the sims website and i would say twitter now. in an ideal world we should ignore anything and everything else sims related from anywhere else. like for example the leaks about pets.
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    catloverplayercatloverplayer Posts: 93,701 Member
    brendhan21 wrote: »
    I usually just come here and I read the News page, but recently I'm hearing things about a new family pack. Teens getting acne, and the like and I can't find this information anywhere. Please forgive if this sounds like a dumb question :confounded: I honestly have thought there has been no news released since the plant sim challenge!

    apparently the best place to get our updates are on the sims website and i would say twitter now. in an ideal world we should ignore anything and everything else sims related from anywhere else. like for example the leaks about pets.

    Don't forget about SimsVip and SimsCommunity.
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    brendhan21brendhan21 Posts: 3,427 Member

    brendhan21 wrote: »
    I usually just come here and I read the News page, but recently I'm hearing things about a new family pack. Teens getting acne, and the like and I can't find this information anywhere. Please forgive if this sounds like a dumb question :confounded: I honestly have thought there has been no news released since the plant sim challenge!

    apparently the best place to get our updates are on the sims website and i would say twitter now. in an ideal world we should ignore anything and everything else sims related from anywhere else. like for example the leaks about pets.

    Don't forget about SimsVip and SimsCommunity.

    yes and no. as long as they report on stuff that has already been ancounced her cuz otherwise we it get ruined for us when they actually do the big anoucment here on the site. happened to me once during the sims 2. gamespot did an interview showing a bunch of features for the sims 2. a week later the site said we have a big surprise/annocument for you next week take a guess what the suprise/annocument was. they posted the gamespot interview they gave. and when i posted about it apparently it was my fault for looking for info that was not announced on the offical sims site that i was disspointed. so yeah with simsvip and simscommunity you have to be careful i mean they are taking about the pets leaks again which is something i am sure legally we are not supposed to know about and if ea could they would love to have access to a nurrlizer from men in black to rewrite our brains to forget that leak exists and to be able to hide the code better. heck i am surprised they are not sueing the person who found this info for trillions of dollars.
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    nanashi-simsnanashi-sims Posts: 4,142 Member
    Thanks everyone for your replies. This was useful and I'm excited to know that the posts related to the family play weren't just random speculation but official news :relaxed:
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    brendhan21brendhan21 Posts: 3,427 Member
    Thanks everyone for your replies. This was useful and I'm excited to know that the posts related to the family play weren't just random speculation but official news :relaxed:

    i am glad there is that and i really hope it means next week they will annoucne the game pack :)
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    SkobeeSkobee Posts: 2,864 Member
    Mostly Simsvip, i'm so used to go to that site for my Sims news and it's always up-to-date. I always check really quick on my mobile in the morning and evening to see if there's anything new. :blush:
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    LoanetLoanet Posts: 4,092 Member
    Game Packs are always bigger. I wonder what will be special about the Family pack.
    Every time a pack comes out, I upgrade my Special Project.
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    CiarassimsCiarassims Posts: 3,547 Member
    simsvip and the forums :)
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    EnkiSchmidtEnkiSchmidt Posts: 5,382 Member
    No one mentioned tumblr yet? Folks there are quick to repost news from twitter or the various sims news sites, so I usually get them with very short delay all in one place. Other than that my main source of information is this board.
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    PixelsimmerPixelsimmer Posts: 2,351 Member
    Whenever I come into the forums and see people freaking out about something I go to simsvip.com to check what's the news. I also check it every Monday/Tuesday because it's usually when the Sims team makes announcements and releases trailers.
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    CinebarCinebar Posts: 33,618 Member
    I usually just come here and I read the News page, but recently I'm hearing things about a new family pack. Teens getting acne, and the like and I can't find this information anywhere. Please forgive if this sounds like a dumb question :confounded: I honestly have thought there has been no news released since the plant sim challenge!

    I got the news about the obvious pimples for teens and new hair, right here, when the guru posted a comment in a thread and he had changed his avatar. We all jumped on it seeing it was something new probably coming out for the new family pack. 2+2=4 but not in '84. :p
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    ladybreidladybreid Posts: 3,455 Member
    I usually just come here and I read the News page, but recently I'm hearing things about a new family pack. Teens getting acne, and the like and I can't find this information anywhere. Please forgive if this sounds like a dumb question :confounded: I honestly have thought there has been no news released since the plant sim challenge!

    I don't do social media and as far as forums go I don't believe anything until I see it here and confirmed.
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    HermitgirlHermitgirl Posts: 8,825 Member
    I always start here. Usually there is some furor shortly after a posting elsewhere it's usually on twitter.. but I don't twitter and really don't want to get into it. I appreciate the posts from other simmers highlighting tidbits.. leaks or question/answers.
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    brendhan21brendhan21 Posts: 3,427 Member
    ladybreid wrote: »
    I usually just come here and I read the News page, but recently I'm hearing things about a new family pack. Teens getting acne, and the like and I can't find this information anywhere. Please forgive if this sounds like a dumb question :confounded: I honestly have thought there has been no news released since the plant sim challenge!

    I don't do social media and as far as forums go I don't believe anything until I see it here and confirmed.
    well what if you saw an offical interview on an offical gamesite with details about the game that was not this site lol and nothing was posted about it on this site lol.
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    ladybreidladybreid Posts: 3,455 Member
    brendhan21 wrote: »
    ladybreid wrote: »
    I usually just come here and I read the News page, but recently I'm hearing things about a new family pack. Teens getting acne, and the like and I can't find this information anywhere. Please forgive if this sounds like a dumb question :confounded: I honestly have thought there has been no news released since the plant sim challenge!

    I don't do social media and as far as forums go I don't believe anything until I see it here and confirmed.
    well what if you saw an offical interview on an offical gamesite with details about the game that was not this site lol and nothing was posted about it on this site lol.

    Then I wouldn't see it and my life would continue on much the same as it normally does lol.

    Here is how I see it, I can't buy the "whatever" until it shows up on origin so why do I need to know about it months or even weeks ahead of time? The time/energy I would use chasing down every rumor or speculation is time I would rather spend doing something worthwhile to me.
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