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no toddlers pretty much confirmed
I guarantee you, this is not a yes. This is pretty much a straight up no.
http://simscommunity.info/2016/10/24/the-sims-4-city-living-dotsim-interviews-simgurugrant/
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"you're lucky to even get updates" says nothing to you? As that sounds like a really condescending no to me.
I thought this was pretty much well known. The only official comment we really have on toddlers is that "leaving them out was the best decision they ever made", and that was quite a long while ago. I know there is a large number of folks holding out hope, but honestly I've never seen any indication the dev team is the least bit interested in adding them. After two years and no news on them at all I find it more surprising that folks still think there is a chance of them being added at some point.
*Fairy Jared and Vampire Connor*
Where does it say you're lucky to even get updates? And if he's referring to the fact that we get updates to the game every month, which not many other games do, especially with trying to add "new content" with each one, then yes, I would say that we are lucky to even get updates, especially since last time around they only came out with a pack.
I was actually looking for a direct quote myself...and I didm't see one on the link provided.
If EA announced tomorrow that we will get toddlers eventually and to just be patient, who wold that hurt? No one, everyone would be happy and wait, people that gave up hopes of toddlers would come back and probably even buy the packs until they get the toddlers, but right now a lot of people get hurt and exploited, some just leave and the more EA wait the worse it will be in both cases (that we get them or not), cause let's say we get toddlers in a few years, people won't bother to come back after that much time, but if the game end in 5 years and that we didn't got toddlers and haven't be warned about not getting them the backlash will be way much worse than if tomorrow they was announcing us there won't be toddlers for the Sims 4.
"Why The Sims 4 City Living doesn’t come with functional subways and cars?
Producers don’t want to make us confused by adding new ways of traveling to the game. The addition of the subway could make it difficult to players, which is why it was decided not to add it to the game. In The Sims 4 travel system is to select the appropriate interaction and choose the place on the map. The creators don’t want us to lose our way in a number of options."
But who would their boss be? The investors? Executives? Would they really care that much? Andrew Wilson? As a CEO, I'm sure he has more important things to work with and he wouldn't be able to spend much spare time with one request from one worker on one game in the entirety of EA.
Fair arguments, but considering the way this game is laid out, it sounds like what you are asking for is animtations that would serve only to add extra realism to the game at the expense of adding extra time to get from point A to point B.
Toddlers, I'm with you...to me that seems like an inexcusable omission.
Transportaion?...not so much.
I didn't say anything about toddlers, did I? But it was the tone of the answer I found condescending. I don't know if having an animated loading screen would add more time than that awful white-with-a-plumbob. But I can't imagine that clicking on an object for transportation could really be THAT confusing for players.
I'd love to see toddlers, don't worry, but seriously, why are we never happy with what we have? There's always something we're demanding. The game is never enough.
So what you are pretty much saying is that when they say ''we are listening to you guys'' that's just 🐸🐸🐸🐸? Gurus have no powers and people that does don't give a 🐸🐸🐸🐸 about us?
OK I get you didn't like the answer, I found it a bit sketchy myself...but honestly if we can't have an open world, would the community better be served wirh working elevators and cars? Or toddlers?
I think that getting into a car and having it drive off the screen would be a bit less immersive breaking than the field-of-white that is currently there. But I can see technical difficulties with it being a car seeing as you have to go to a map screen first. Actually, thinking about the way travel is set up, it would be a mess since you really can't just select a destination from a list I suppose.
Still, "confusing to players" seems like an insult to our intelligence for the designers not being able to figure out a clean way to do it.
the right question here would be "what survey?", EA surveys only select few individuals and not community as a whole. It is never an open survey. As a customer I have never received a survey from them, nor did I ever see them post an open one on facebook, twitter or the forums.