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This is how i predict the future for the sims 4. It wont be fun, but thats what the game has showed me for the passed 1.5 year now.. No fun.
* Cars will never be added
* Toddlers might come one day.. but not soon! And not free..
* Loading screens will never dissappear. Sub hoods wil also never be added.
* They might add some driving cars/walking sims on the map, just as how they add some simple colors to it and half listen to our ideas.
* CAW will never make it.
* Supernatural will make it (not my fav, but thats what i think).
* Culling we never be totally gone, but everytime 'fixed' in an useless EA way. By raising the gap or by removing it and then adding it back, cause of some new expansions that couldnt handle too much freedom for us players.
* Some new packs we never had before in previous games (that might be one of the good things)
* NOT so many useful packs and expansions in a short time period as we knew from previous games.
* They will continue their marketing strageties that completely fail on us, but also them. Things as almost no anouncemens, unanswered questions, no future content, no leaks, no lists of info on whats to come etc.
How do you predict the future for the sims 4? It can be positive or negative. Its what you truly think, not what you wish it will be.
* Cars will never be added
* Toddlers might come one day.. but not soon! And not free..
* Loading screens will never dissappear. Sub hoods wil also never be added.
* They might add some driving cars/walking sims on the map, just as how they add some simple colors to it and half listen to our ideas.
* CAW will never make it.
* Supernatural will make it (not my fav, but thats what i think).
* Culling we never be totally gone, but everytime 'fixed' in an useless EA way. By raising the gap or by removing it and then adding it back, cause of some new expansions that couldnt handle too much freedom for us players.
* Some new packs we never had before in previous games (that might be one of the good things)
* NOT so many useful packs and expansions in a short time period as we knew from previous games.
* They will continue their marketing strageties that completely fail on us, but also them. Things as almost no anouncemens, unanswered questions, no future content, no leaks, no lists of info on whats to come etc.
How do you predict the future for the sims 4? It can be positive or negative. Its what you truly think, not what you wish it will be.
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- Supernaturals is a maybe. I'm leaning a bit more towards yes however
- Don''t think cars will ever make it in, I just don't think they'd work with the way traveling is set up now (like going straight to the world map and just appearing on the lot)
- As much as I'd hate for it to be true, I would not be surprised if we never got toddlers.
*There will not be Seasons as people imagine them from previous games but instead a "snowy" or "sunny/rainy" vacation pack(s) that will be widely touted as "WEATHER!"
*There will never be CASt.
*Supernaturals will be harmless creatures dredged up from the mind of a five year old and designed more for slap stick, sophomoric humor then as anything serious and they'll smile and act "sexy" a lot.
*Over all the game will be remembered by and large as a misstep by EA/Maxis and while I think it will ultimately prove to be fun and successful it will not live up to it's lineage.
* Cars will never be added
* Toddlers will never come.
* Loading screens will never disappear. Sub hoods will also never be added.
* CAW will never make it.
* We will never get a colour wheel.
* Supernatural will not make it.
* Culling will never be totally gone.
* They will keep adding random romantic flings to played/switched households.
* They will continue to cut corners at every opportunity.
* They will continue churning out SPs, GPs and EPs that capture their 'vision' but nobody elses.
Packs are only announced shortly before it's released, people say there's hint about everything but in fact it's just our imagination, some of then may be true hints but we will never know, because there's currently a whole sea made of hints where it's impossible to identify a true hint. Other than that, the way some people feel about TS4 is always changing, sometimes it's obvious they are listening to the players, but then they just ignore everyone the other day.
But i will try to predict some stuff, here are my EP predictments:
EP3: Generations or Town Life.
EP4: Pets or Generations.
EP5: Vacations and Seasons or only Vacations.
EP6: Seasons or Showtime.
EP7: Supernatural.
EP8: University.
EP9: Metropolis.
Maybe University will be combined with Generations but idk.
- Toddlers will be patched in for free.
- I would say there's 50% of chance of pre teens being patched in but it would be something very very bare bones.
- Cars may come in a patch too, if they don't then maybe carpools and taxis will.
- CAW will be dowgraded version of TS3, but what i think is very possible to happen is that we will get TS2 style neighborhood maker.
- Horses will never be added, but they will possibly replace it with other animal.
- CAST will never be added but we can still get a program like TS2's Body Shop, but one that works much better.
Forget the fact that TS4 will never have some features that TS3 had, such was Open world and CAST, i still think a big majority of the players will end up liking it, even the people who say TS4 is just a boring mess, in my opnion it has a lot of potential and i think the developers and the community is still going to surprise us a lot. It's unrealistic to think toddlers will never return, and after they return i think things will settle down a little and we will slowly start to get more communication and info about future content.
That's my predicment and i'm probably wrong about 80% of the stuff i wrote, but we never know.
I think toddlers will come, I just have this fear it's not going to be what we imagine. They will also NOT be free. We will never get preteens.
I think that despite the outcry of our "object babies", they will stay that way the whole game's life (no revamping). That goes for teen height as well.
I think that cars won't return until very late in this game's life.
I think weather will only be in certain areas (like vacation lots).. Not in neighborhoods.
I think pets will return, but we won't get horses again.
I think culling/family tree loss will always be an issue in this game without mods. The same goes for this story progression with love interests and such. I think there might be a patch to add some sort of faithful trait to hinder it, but that's about it.
Overall, I think this game will get better (it has in many ways for me) but only for those willing to dish out the money.
Deffo more Stuff.
Which doesn't mean others won't love the game. I'm just unsatisfied with the game.
I don't expect any World editing tools past something for open spaces or only lots.
I don't expect anything with a challenge in the game- to keep them alive or interesting.
I don't expect any engaging Emotions
I don't expect any home business
I don't expect more than small things in small packages and long waits for information.
But all i hear is: Impossible, cant do it, too much work, coding wont let us for now (or ever) etc. Guess that basegame isnt so strong after all.
Of course they're going to say that....
What else would they say? "Please accept this Frankenstein of a game that we Elmer glued the last year and half of development" (?) The serial patches after launch of a few major ticket features (pools, ghosts, genealogy etc..) screamed half baked.
If anyone of them working on that project really claimed to play this from 1-3 they must know this sequel is lacking in many ways. The smiles and the avoidance are all just business. The lies are just for PR to shakily enforce that everything is under control when it's clearly not. A year later and we finally get a Gardner? No word on toddlers. I mean at ALL. Cars neither. The basic stuff. Almost at year 2 and we're excited about restaurants.
Dynamic maps are something I do not believe they will do...It's probably not even possible.
Anyway, I agree with most of what you listed OP.
2. Weather will be in the form of destination worlds with each destination having themed activities around that particular weather.
3. Cars will be added as a destination world/adventure thing (Not my kinda thing at all but still that's what I'm guessing.)
4. More careers will be added, rock star, bands that kind of thing, eventually.
5. Supernaturals will be added (omg they have to be otherwise I'll die) but not as we expect them... lol (preparing myself for disappointment) There's been mention of 'elementals'. I hope this isn't going to turn into a rehash of the completely underwhelming reactions of 'soaking' a sim using voodoo... that would be terrible. Or being able to control 'water' by soaking up puddles. *shudder* Surely even this iteration couldn't be that lame.
7. Pets.. dunno how but I guess it will focus more around cutsie groom them up stuff.
8. University? I really don't know, hope so but the thought of not being in a completely separate world (and time freezing for everyone else back at home) kinda freaks me out. The fun of university, for me, was complete immersion and getting a break from controlling all your other sims back home)
9. As for town life etc, probably in some form or another but I can't see apartments in this series at all.
And the obvious Cast and open worlds not returning as we know this from conversations from the devs so those points are closed imo
Basically, I don't really have a clue as so far nothing has been as I've expected really. *shrug* I'm going through another "I think I like it but I'm not 100% sure" phase again... this love/hate relationship is a killer!
“Instead of putting players in the role of Luke Skywalker, or Frodo Baggins, I'd rather put them in the role of George Lucas.”Will Wright.
Honestly? As a Sims 4 player, I don't bother with General Discussion anymore if I want to keep my morale up. I'll hang with the people who are having fun with the game. Most aren't here, in GD, anymore. It gets awfully boring if you're having fun with the game to see the same people complaining about the game for 18 months, even if all you see is the latest new topic, who started it, and how many posts it gets to before the next same-old topic starts. And when you're one person visiting the forum, you don't feel like you can drown that out with your positivity, because you're one person in the face of it. It's like the opposite of what some of you feel like confronted with the supposed "happy happy joy joy" of Sims 4, I guess: it's a bit overwhelming. Tumblr and Twitter are more fun and have much higher morale re. the game, as are other parts of this forum.
Not saying you don't all have a right to complain, etc. etc. Just pointing out that the morale of "the community" isn't represented by just General Discussion and Feedback.
My prediction for the game?
* Cars will never be added
I definitely think cars are coming.
* Toddlers might come one day.. but not soon! And not free..
Toddlers are coming, likely within a year or two. Might not be free.
* Loading screens will never dissappear. Sub hoods wil also never be added.
Agreed. Sub hoods maybe, but likely not.
* They might add some driving cars/walking sims on the map, just as how they add some simple colors to it and half listen to our ideas.
I think the maps might get updated again with CAW and that's why they didn't put much energy into adding colours.
* CAW will never make it.
CAW might make it, not sure on this one.
* Supernatural will make it (not my fav, but thats what i think).
Yes, definitely.
* Culling we never be totally gone, but everytime 'fixed' in an useless EA way. By raising the gap or by removing it and then adding it back, cause of some new expansions that couldnt handle too much freedom for us players.
Could be right. But I think they'll figure out a way to save family trees.
* Some new packs we never had before in previous games (that might be one of the good things)
Yep.
* NOT so many useful packs and expansions in a short time period as we knew from previous games.
I don't know. We got two packs last year and GT was great, GTW just ok, but some liked it. That seems like a normal release rate.
* They will continue their marketing strageties that completely fail on us, but also them. Things as almost no anouncemens, unanswered questions, no future content, no leaks, no lists of info on whats to come etc.
Sadly I think yes on this one.
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Yes for sure and they know.. Its pretty ugly to see how low a human's soul can go for money. That will always remain.
I would not be surprised if they never add toddlers to the game, nor would I be surprised if they did. There does not seem to be any pattern or logic to what gets added to the game. Packs get released that are not needed and enhance little, whilst the major deficits and flaws go ignored.
Who knows what the people in change are thinking.
I completely agree with the above and I also agree with the original OP that we are stuck with ridiculously backward loading screens.
“Instead of putting players in the role of Luke Skywalker, or Frodo Baggins, I'd rather put them in the role of George Lucas.”Will Wright.
I bet even Maxis doesn't know if they can or can't. It might be too complex to add toddlers or they might be done with them...
A lot of positive players who play the game and enjoy it fled general discussion area because it's absolutely flooded with negativity. Most are either gone to other sections or moved to other social media sites.
Also, the total registered people on the forums don't even make up 0.05% of the fanbase, so there is no logical way to assume that 85-90% of the fanbase is unhappy with the game judging by the forums.
People will start needlessly speculating (what this thread is pretty much about) and trying to take everything as hints and then they will start to believe what they are speculating, ultimately setting themselves up for disappointment because they didn't get what they wanted.
Oh.... wait. Did I say start? I meant continue. Sorry.