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Can EA (and the Gurus) just stop with teasing and just say what the next pack is?
My patience with everyone involved with this game is at 0 right now. Did you Gurus sign NDA (non-disclosure agreements) as to what you can or cannot say about content without the fear of getting shot or something? Whatever happened to better communication? You really can't give ANY amount of information about the next expansion? All you're doing is setting everyone up for major disappointment. Maybe if you "Gurus" (and I'm using that term very loosely here) would just give at least SOME kind of information, maybe the players would be less angry with you when it comes to released content. Seriously, how about PRETENDING that you guys care about the players for once?
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Heck, even permission to give hints has to be cleared through Marketing.
So yes, they did sign an NDA.
I do think that more transparency would help them avoid disappointment and anger from the community, and I dislike the secrecy that EA uses for their games.
We already know when the trailer will drop. We have waited a month and a half since they told us that the next expansion would be announced soon, I'm sure we can wait one more week.
As simple as that.
I’ve been enforced to sign many NDAs by major studios and distribution companies and as an employee you just don’t talk about stuff when you’re not supposed to talk about stuff. It’s like the rules of Fight Club. You don’t talk about Fight Club.
Some projects I’ve worked on have never been released. Still not allowed to talk about them. Just in case they’re revisited. All I can do is bring that secret to my grave. Because I was an employee who signed an NDA.
regarding teasers, yeah i think they can be pretty lame but it's not devs initiative, it's just a common practice to get people "hyped" about upcoming content.
A little speculation can be fun though
Here’s a throwback
https://imgur.com/gallery/Q44kC
That's how it works in literally any business that sells a product, gaming, tech, etc. If you worked for apple for example and you told the world exactly what they were releasing before it was announced, you'd be fired on the spot and probably even sued because that's classed as leaking confidential information. You'd probably also be blacklisted and would never be able to work in that industry again. Literally no company would allow their employees to just announce to the world what they've been working on without permission from higher ups.
I don't have documentation. I just join a SimGuru for crosswords on Twitch every morning (along with about a dozen or so other people. Skim back far enough in the "Sim Gurus on Twitter" thread and you'll see posts about it.) We don't talk about his work too much, but it has come up and that's when he explained the SimGuru "program" such as it is. We may occasionally tease him about trying to get him to slip, but we all respect that he doesn't, and will not, talk about upcoming projects.
And before anyone gets their nose out of joint about it, he does it on his own time, not work time. So he's not shirking anything by doing the crossword on Twitch with us.
That and as Onverser said, it's how creative business works.
That’s literally how a lot of businesses works especially in creative fields. An example of this are actors and anyone working on a film. They are all under contract to keep a tight lip, etc. etc. I don’t like that EA marketing keeps us in complete darkness either, but it isn’t hard to understand that this is how their business markets their product.
The day they stuck the announcement in the game, they could have given us the title of the pack. That would have been decent of them.
Honestly this secret/redacted thing didnt spike my curiosity for the new packs at all even when sims 4 was still my primary sims game.
Hope it isn't Story Driven. I think the Next Pack will be a Mountain Vacation with Resorts.
Because it's Game Development, every game company does it. I have dozens of friends in the industry right now, one of them even at Rockstar Games. Even when everyone and their mother knew he HAD to be working on Red Dead Redemption 2, he still couldn't say he was working on the game until it was announced. In fact, he wasn't even allowed to try and throw people through hoops and go "No no, Red Dead 2 isn't happening." because when you sign those NDA's you're specifically told NOT to talk about anything until it's been formally announced.
I hope that whatever the next pack is gonna be, the contents have to live up to to its dlc category, Expansion Pack; by expanding the core game, not feature that only playable to one world like Island Living and City Living. the problem in TS4 (in my opinion) that majority of its expansion pack lacks the meaningful features that worth categorizing them as expansion.