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Will The Sims 4 beat Sims 3 for most Expansion Packs?
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Currently The Sims 3 holds the title for most Expansion Packs for a Sims game with 11.
Do you think the Sims 4 will cross that with 12 or more? Currently we know that EP 7 is coming in the next 6 months, and we still have at least 2 1/2 more years of content.
How many EPS do you think The Sims 4 will get in total?
Do you think the Sims 4 will cross that with 12 or more? Currently we know that EP 7 is coming in the next 6 months, and we still have at least 2 1/2 more years of content.
How many EPS do you think The Sims 4 will get in total?
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I also expect we’ll have around 12 Game Packs in total as well.
I don’t see The Sims 4 ending in 2 1/2 years. I see it going well into next-gen, and probably a PlayStation 5/Next-Gen Xbox Port if they come in the next 12 months.
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We also have to keep in mind that GPs are a thing now, but we don't have a store. In terms of volume of content, TS3 might still win out, but if we're counting only EPs, TS4 might end up with more than 11.
I'd say quality matters more than quality, though. TS3 has a lot of great content, but it has a lot of stability issues and poorly implemented features, like the celebrity system and the romantic reputation (widows are apparently cheaters if they decide to date someone after their spouse's death, which I hated). And I've heard complaints about Isla Paradiso becoming unplayable after a while. Plus I had to install NRaas to fix a save error in my 6-generation save file.
TS4 is on its way to becoming like that too. It still doesn't crash that much for me, but I've heard complaints about features not meshing well together, like City Living festivals not adapting to inclement weather, or celebrities interfering with employees on public lots. I hope they manage to balance new content releases with maintaining the current game's stability and quality
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imagine we get 2 exp every year
2019-7+8
2020-9+10
2021-11+12
So it could be possible. but like always they like to change things arround and try new things so we of course dont ultimatly know.
And i kinda skip Sims 3 since its engine is horrible; not even today i can play Sims 3 without horrible laggings, and i can play Sims 4 smooth...
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So if you’re counting in the general sense, TS4 already has more packs than any iteration thus far.
Personally I don’t see them releasing much more after this year. TS5 is inevitably coming and time slows for no man.
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The only thing announced is over 20 content drops across all platforms in fiscal year 2020. It tells us absolutely nothing as the two mobile games are updated frequently and they would easily have 20 content drops by themselves.
FreePlay's FireMonkey studio was desolved and handed over to Sims Mobile, it may not get as many updates as it did. But I see what you are saying, but I still don't think this game has more than TS3's twelve EPs. They seem to like building GPs or selling GPs as EPs. (smaller and focused rather than broad and expanding).
I prefer EP that are focused. Get Famous are focused on Celebs and imo it is very done well. If it was a GP, we probably only got the acting career. But there are atill tons of extra and those packs, and i like how well they integrated on past content and dlc. I don't like broad packs if that means getting unsatisfying features. I prefer how they focus all of their rescources in an EP on one theme then expanding it, rather than picking a broad theme, adding as many features as possible, making it feels dissapointing.
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/924539/features-that-needs-depth-and-ways-to-improve
Get Together is probably the only *small EP*
Get To Work, City Living, Cats & Dogs, Seasons and Get Famous provide much more content than EP’s like;
TS2 Uni (tiny EP - if TS4 brought the same content out today it would be a Game Pack), OFB (relied heavily on other packs for gameplay otherwise it was just retail, the other business content came with other packs & while the Retail is better than TS4’s it’s still not worth the jump from a 1/4 of an EP to a whole EP),
Free Time (would be a hobbies GP it’s basically a gameplay object pack with some annoying NPC and some low coded community lots),
Apartment Life (was literally a reuse of the Uni dorm system with some NPC gameplay, witches saved this pack from being a rip off but even then they were limited)
Generations (slightly bigger than Parenthood, but heavily relies on rabbit holes)
Not to mention TS4 usually provides the most CAS and B/B (yes even if we ignore the rediculous decals and reskins).
If it went even further in-depth they would even closer (eg a lot of older EP’s require you to buy other EPs in order to get a full experience, rather than providing that experience on its own - EG Late Night requiring Showtime for proper celebs and nightclub venues - or Bon Voyage needing Nightlife in order to provide proper Hotels with Room Service and the ability to eat meals that aren’t cooked yourself)
Everyone says TS4 Seasons is the “best pack yet” and is “full of content” yet it’s about the same size as the others,
The issue is, it’s probably the only pack where the majority of content is actually wanted by all play types.
Packs will always feel small when they have a specific play type that it’s aimed at.
TS2/TS3 were much better at making universal themes I’ll give EA that. They’ve lost that skill with 4.
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You may want to add Game and Expansion Packs together. And if you do that then it’s definitely more packs for TS4.
True, but TS3 did have a fair amount of gameplay objects on the Sims store, and new worlds.
They are sort of similar in that regard. Game Packs are a great addition though and do still require a lot of work to get off the ground, it’s just EPs mean that EA can just keep adding stuff to them.
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Gamepacks and Stuffpacks in TS4 are like the Sims 3 Store. Basically it's the same thing with the exception your getting a lower price with Game and Stuffpacks.