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Would u prefer 2 expansions in 8 months or more stuff/game packs?
TOLKIEN
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It took nearly 2 years to bring us 3 expansions and at this rate it will be nearly 2020 when we receive the final expansion (ok I don't really believe that but still) and while I know different teams work on different packs/expansions I wonder if they wouldn't be better suited at pooling their resources and focusing only on expansions. Especially after the feedback from "influencers" like LGR lol.
After all we have 8 stuff packs already and 3 game packs - to put that in comparison the Sims 3 has 9 stuff packs over its entire life span (and yes I know they are replacing Sims 3 store content in the form of stuff packs).
Its not that I have an issue with them, but I know they take up resources (aka man power) and teams could be put together to work on full blown expansions instead of broken up. Plus lets face it the quality of items in the last expansion (read bird animations) was horrible...I've seen better animations on tumblr by students still in highschool lol...
Anyway, would you prefer to see more expansion pakcs with fewer stuff packs or stuff/game packs with fewer expansions released?
P.S This isn't so much a quantity over quality question - its about how they are allocating resources to produce what content.
After all we have 8 stuff packs already and 3 game packs - to put that in comparison the Sims 3 has 9 stuff packs over its entire life span (and yes I know they are replacing Sims 3 store content in the form of stuff packs).
Its not that I have an issue with them, but I know they take up resources (aka man power) and teams could be put together to work on full blown expansions instead of broken up. Plus lets face it the quality of items in the last expansion (read bird animations) was horrible...I've seen better animations on tumblr by students still in highschool lol...
Anyway, would you prefer to see more expansion pakcs with fewer stuff packs or stuff/game packs with fewer expansions released?
P.S This isn't so much a quantity over quality question - its about how they are allocating resources to produce what content.
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Yeah, yeah, IDC if they sell individual destinations one at a time. Then I can pick and choose the ones that mean more to me. Like Vegas, or the beach over skiing and a snowy mountain.
I don't want more stuff packs. I've barely touched kids room or BY. I need more game play. More expansions and more game packs.
My question wasn't so much about quality or speed by type of content you'd PREFER to see them work on. Expansions or stuff/game packs. The timing thing was just a number I threw out there.
I'll be honest I don't expect we will see more then 6 expansions...maybe 7 but no more at this rate. I expect there will be a pets, there better be some kind of seasons expansion and a school one. TBH to me it makes sense if they actually did a school and seasons pack in one (aka follow the school year). Not only would this make more sense (aka prom not taking place in the middle of a snow storm lol) but since the game is no longer open world they have a LOT less things to do for seasons (besides introduce holidays) as they basically will only effect your home lot now.
edit: I've updated my post as to reflect my question better - stuff packs or expansions and which you prefer to see more of.
This is what I would also prefer.
They were able to do a seasons pack fr the sims 2 I hope they do something like that if they can't make it because of the closed worlds.
Agreed.
I would love more EP if they were more like Sim3 EPs. They don't add enough to the game.
I did a comparison the other day of "Get to Work" and Ambitions because a friend had just started to play Ambitions and I was playing Get to Work. From our conversations, his gameplay seemed so much richer than mine was and had way zanier, so I wanted to investigate the differences.
This is my basic breakdown.
Now, I know that they aren't the same pack, and I am sure I missed things, and I ignored CAS and Build/Buys objects that offered no gameplay.
But notice how many columns where Sims 4 offers nothing in the same category of comparison (traits, rewards and LTW) or less (pretty much everything else).
Also, notice how many of the things offered in Get to Work only help you if you are playing in a certain way or as a certain sim. Whereas, the Sims 3 allowed you to play with the objects in a number of ways. Eg. You could be a Policeman by day and an inventor by night. You didn't need to be in a certain Career to unlock anything.
Also, the lack or traits and LTR alarms me across all packs. Because I feel like I am playing with the same sims, over and over, because while they don't look the same - they want the same things or, have the same traits. EPs are meant to expand that.
So in short- I don't really care how many pack there are in a year, as long as they have the same depth and quality of content we've come to expect during the Sims 3. At present, there aren't many expansions on offer, and they are a lot smaller than previous EPs which makes the gaps in the base game get bigger and bigger.
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But quite frankly, as exposed perfectly by POLLYANNA2, the expansion for the sims 4 are incredibly bare compared to the sims 3 EP, so I don't feel they are worth the same amount of money of a the sims 3 EP.
I agree totally, especially from bad experiences with earlier sims games.
A company like EA which only is about business and who's board members and CEO are businessmen who just by random circumstances are selling games instead of other products only care about sales numbers and the market. So when they see the sales numbers for SPs, GPs and EPs they compare the profit and they choose SPs mainly because they are cheap to make and sell very well. Sales numbers also indicate that it wouldn't be profitable to release even more expansions each year than EA does now because then too many simmers wouldn't buy them all. So EA seems to have experienced that it is more profitable to release more SPs and to replace about half of the EPs with the new GPs.
I still believe that EA will stop making expansions for TS4 not later than early in 2019 and then probably release TS5. But if the sales numbers are disappointing then EA will reduce the number of expansions even before that.
It won't be a rushed product if they have enough people working on it. They can do a nice expansion in 6 months if they have enough people hired to do it. It's a matter of having a big enough staff to work on it in that time frame.
An awful lot of what happens in game design and development can't be sped up just by having more people. The only way to get twice as many EPs a year is to have twice as many people on the EP team, overlapping development.
Anyway, I'd like a couple of GPs a year as well as the EP a year we seem to be getting. A lot of things we used to get in EPs like holiday destinations, supernaturals, and the like can be done in GPs. I'd like Active School, and it might be a GP possibility. Get to Work could have been two GPs: one for active careers, one for retail. And I like the SPs. I wouldn't have wanted to have to wait until a complete summer-themed EP to get a backyard water slide, and then to have it have to replace some other thing in the pack. SPs expand what we get overall, and they mean we can get some things sooner, since they don't have to wait for a theme to fit into.