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Do You Think Kits Are Affecting The Release of Other DLC?
simgirl1010
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Do You Think Kits Are Affecting The Release of Other DLC? 217 votes
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My theory is that they have moved a good portion of the different teams over to work on TS5 and they're running on a skeleton crew and kits are an easy way to still produce content to keep people interested without needed an entire team working on actual gameplay aspects.
Now if the question had been:
"Do you think the minimal amount of content we've been getting lately is due to TS4 starting to wind down?" then I would have voted YES!
I'm thinking similarly. Not that kits are necessarily affecting other releases, but that they could well be an indicator of how little other DLC there is to release. That's not really surprising in any game that's aging.
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But I believe it's not replacing anything. It's filling in the gaps. This all came about once the pandemic hit. It has affected everyone and everything as far as I know. People working for home will never be as affective as working at work, especially on something like this that's very complex and requires a lot of collaboration. So many home distractions too and they have kids. I believe the whole pandemic set their plans and schedule back. Plus who knows what's going on internally at the company? Short staff? EA problems? Lay offs?
Like it could be so many things at play like any other company. The Sims takes a lot of planning ahead to make big packs.
People want them to churn out big packs and huge updates bug free as fast as possible during these uncertain times.
I feel like people mistakenly think kits are taking away other packs when the truth is that we wouldn't get anything at all without kits.
This way they can make money, fill the content
Gap, and non cc users get more stuff too.
Also there may be things even cc users may enjoy in a certain kit. The game play kits got too much backlash so I guess they thought it wasn't worth it.
CAS is the safest option.
But according to what I hear on social media people would rather get "nothing" if it's small than to get "optional" content.
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Personally I prefer the kits to nothing.
Oh and they said multiple times that one has nothing to do with the other. Why would they lie about it?
I don't know how I feel about it to be honest. I would know how I feel if we had a 100% set in stone answer whether or not TS5 is going to stay offline with rotational play as it always has been or if they're going to ruin it by making it an MMORPG.
However, for bad, four kits and you've got the price of a GP without adding any of the gameplay of the GP. Plus, with the state of MWS, it is hard to believe kits have had any positive effects as of yet. Meanwhile, we've been waiting some time for an EP and have thus far only had one refresh.
Who knows, though. They say separate teams are working on them and I can believe it. We don't know the full inner workings to say, but I haven't seen a lot of good yet.
but in bigger picture i feel like they are focusing too much on putting out stuff constantly and too little on putting out gameplay that works and keeping the game stable and running
and the kits are just increasing the amount of stuff vs gameplay some of them coming out bugged and hence resulting in more fixes to do
and idk the game is just getting more and more unstable as more stuff is constantly added to it without adequate quality assurance
when really the stuff is just stuff and what I need is the actual gameplay
like sure theres many things to blame aside from kits but i don't think they are exactly helping with the situation either
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The Sims 4 hasn't introduced a new musical instrument since 2017
This is practically what I came in to say word for word, lol. Considering they have moved people onto whatever the next gen of Sims will be, and 4 has been out for as long as it has, it is no surprise that things are winding down imo. I still hate CAS kits though..
I know some people think that stuff packs should still be coming in place of kits, but I honestly prefer kits to stuff packs. If you consider the cost, and number of items they come out to about the same price point, (EDIT: reconsidered this) but with the kits the variety is more spread out.
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The Sims 4 hasn't introduced a new musical instrument since 2017
The live mode gameplay requires more resources and is probably more affected by whatever issues they have with the pandemic or maybe budget issues etc. I just don't think they make more money from kits than expansions, especially during the holidays. Of course, I can't know for sure but I don't think there is a huge amount of people buying kits over expansions.
One thing could be more resources (as in budget or etc.) used for kits over packs but again I don't think it makes sense for them to do that. I think it also might be related to the state of the game. My game is usually fine but a lot of people have been struggling with bugs and with each pack they add more bugs (which is not anything they can avoid) but it becomes a problem when there is a back log. Which is evident in the game right now since there is many bugs that have been active for over a year.
And I will also add that they are working on multiple base game updates which is probably another thing affecting the release of packs. They are working on a premade townie refresh and pronouns update. We just got neighborhood stories which probably took up a lot of their time last year. They also could be still working on that feature and adding things or improving it. We don't know if there is other updates they are working on that they haven't announced, especially since there was a lot of things mentioned in the survey that had story progression in it. We could be getting some other stuff on that list. Another thing they could be working on as well is pack refreshes.
I still don't think the kits are getting in the way of anything. I think it is dwindling for the reasons mentioned above. And I think they are pressed for time because EA wants new stuff put out on a schedule. I would rather we went longer in between releases, and got game play rather than getting timely releases of stupid CAS kits.
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I'd say kits are slowly killing the whole Sims 4, but maybe it's supposed to so they can move on to Sims 5.
There are some possibilities for the changes like others already mentioned.
- Perhaps Sims 4 is winding and preparing to shift to sims 5.
- Perhaps we are feeling the pandemic for real now. Remember it takes a long time to develop a pack. Just look at the time to create the community stuff packs. So now we are probably in the packs that started development during the pandemic which would not only explain fewer packs but also less quality (=loads of bug) Let's hope the next game pack, presumably werewolves, won't have as many bugs as my wedding stories
- perhaps someone at EA wanted to make more profit with less effort and this lead to the overwhelming amount of CAS and BB kits and abandoning stuff packs.
Whatever the cause, I would have preferred one or two good stuff packs a year over all these kits.