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Who else is waiting for weather before buying?
StilettoBlack
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I am. Maybe if EA sees how many of us will hold off on buying until we get weather, they will add it to the base game. 
I want rain, thunder & lightning.... & maybe a little fog.
I want rain, thunder & lightning.... & maybe a little fog.0
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EA will lose money not adding it. They won't get my 70 buck for the base game. If I have to wait for an ep, I'll probably get them on sale. That's not going to make them money.
I'm waiting to see game play. If the game play is great I don't care if my Sims get rained on while they are doing something.
I do like weather however.
It depends on how things turn out. If I really like the game play, but am disappointed with various other features, I may be waiting for 4-6 Eps come out first and snap up good sale prices. If there is a CC community, they should be running full speed. The base game and majority of the EPs will be patched. And I won't experience the boredom that comes in about 4 months of only having the base game.
If I really don't like it, due to some missing features near and dear to me, I would probably just skip it and use the money for other entertainments.
If I buy the base game at launch, it will be because I am feeling strongly satisfied with what EA has shown. Not happening yet, but there is plenty of time left.
They should have whoever worked on ITF work on TS4. I have never seen so much new stuff in an ep before.
Did you ever think that if game play is better we won't need so much "stuff"?
I see frantic players who can't wait for the next EP, the next SP, the next world, the next store set for TS3.
It seems that we try to make play better by adding stuff and new scenery. What we end up with are the same intellectually challenged Sims living in pretty places with another hot tub.
I think that if the Sims themselves are better and game play is more compelling it's not going to matter as much where they are or if they have a new food processor.
A lot of people are tired of the same type of ep. Its always: Some type of nightclube theme, theme with animals, a theme with weather, a university.
Maybe the eps will be something completely new!
The sims 4 is shaping up to be a different style than 3 ever was, so I'll be buying day of release.
ill probably end up getting it as soon as it comes out
I like my Sims 3, all my CC & mods...not to mention my families. Giving up weather, pets & the diving all at once would be too much.
I need to see what the graphics will be like & how realistic the Sims 4 Sims will be.
I'll watch closely & see what EA shows us as it gets closer & closer to the release date, but would never pre-order.
I think I want to read what everyone thinks of the game first & how their gameplay is going. Naturally then I want to see their screenshots.
I'm happy to wait & decide if I'll ever buy it. I may just stick with Sims 3.
If EA follows the pattern with Sims 3, you'll get some old standbys (Seasons, Pets, Late Night, University), along with new concepts (World Adventures, Ambitions, Generations, Showtime, Supernatural, Island Paradise, Into The Future)...and people will complain about what we didn't get (OFB, FreeTime, Bon Voyage, farm life, amusement park, whatever). :roll: Remember, every Sims game brings new players as well as us long-time folks -- those new players are going to want weather and pets and college life just as much as we did when they were first introduced. And there are ways to make even the old standbys better -- Sims 3 brought in horses to the world of pets, brought festivals and holidays so Sims got a day off to play, gave us additional traits for completing university, gave us a way to build our own bars and clubs with the professional bars in Late Night. While it would be cool to include everything we've already had in the base game, not only would that be economically infeasible for EA (they'd probably have to charge close to $100 for base game with all the programming involved), it also would be unfair to those who really DON'T want weather or pets or whatever in their game for whatever reason.
Because of the effect weather can have on emotions (which seems to be the main selling point of Sims 4, how emotions affect behavior), I hope we don't have to wait till close to the end of the Sims 4 run to see it; having it available as one of the first few packs would be far better.
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This. :-)
On another note.... I know a lot of people are talking about not wanting to see the same EPs over again. I want those EPs though..because weather is a part of life, pets are a part of life, night life is a part of life, etc....BUT.. I want them to have those things and THEN some. I think all of those things should be in the game as default and they could come up with some NEW things to add to those packs, OR, those things just become a part of the regular game, and we have totally new EPs, OR, we have all of these things as a part of the regular game, we get those same EPs, AND we get OTHER EPs that are totally different as well. Bottom line, is I think those things need to be in the game... at least my game, anyway. That is not to say however, that I don't want new things. I do! I'd love to see so many of the ideas for new EPs that this community has thought of. So many ideas came up for new EPs from TS3 community, and by people talking about what they want in TS4. I think so many of us would be thrilled by some kind of amusement park type of EP, for example. And although it's a 50/50 toss up within the community. I'd LOVE to see a medical EP with not only careers, but illnesses, dental-related, medical related, broken bones, chipped teeth, sicknesses, all of that.
..and as I saw another Simmer mentioned in another thread, I am waiting for options too. Without CASt, I'd be passing it up no matter what.
I'm waiting for:
More than just basegame (ie, several EPs to come out)
CASt
Price to come down, or sales