SimGuruFrost has posted yet another Community survey link just a couple hours ago
Link to the survey
And honestly, what it implies regarding the current state of sims 4 is VERY BIG
Let's discuss this.
I'll talk in this thread on the assumption that you know everything presented in the survey. So to the people in the future who may see this topic, watch
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My guess is that EAxis makes their community surveys in 3 phases of their development:
Either
A-They aren't working on the content presented in the survey AT ALL. (Unlikely)
B-They're in the pre-production/design phase A.K.A what we see in the survey are just at a concept art level and any one of them that don't get enough hype will be scrapped. (Very likely)
or
C-They're far in development and want to gauge how hyped we are so they can pinpoint a deadline and shuffle release dates accordingly. (Maybe)
Now if I were to take a guess from how the knitting stuff pack is developing. It takes 7-13 months to go from pre-production to production to release. And that's for a pack that's object-oriented.
For a pack that's more gameplay oriented (or a base game update as big as NPC STORY PROGRESSION) I'd guess something around 10 months.
So we can only assume that, unless EAxis is already working on these stuff, we won't get them until early 2021.
But let's put that aside for a moment.
What are you most excited for?
For me personally i want a trait revamp and more consequences more than anything. The base game needs them BADLY.
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I'd also love bands to make a comeback. BRING BACK BANDS! I am desperate to make my own rock or metal band in the Sims
I do like that they're addressing more meaningful personalities for our sims. Means that they're well aware that we think the sims as they are now are staler than stale white bread, which makes me hopeful of a good update somewhere along the line. And romance? PLEASE TELL ME THIS WILL INCLUDE BETTER WEDDINGS. PLEASE.
I only bring this up because so often I've seen a survey and then people expect their personal selections (and we never see the results of these surveys) to show up within 1-4 months. I mean people have been expecting a Winter Vacation pack to show up any day now since the last survey. And the Knitting pack shows that what the Community (defined as Forums and various Social Media) wants doesn't always line up with what the Player Base (defined as all players, including those who aren't even aware there is a forum) wants. And the Player Base is larger.
What if the heists are actually scripted plots like Strangerville, and you don't really get to plan the heists? Though I'd like my sims to learn some Capoeira to get through the laser beams to steal Simlisa.
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The Sims 4 General DiscussionI'd personally be okay with not planning every detail of the heist, but Id like to able to choose how I'd like to do it. Like for starters, Id want a good array of heists to perform. 2nd, I'd like it if there like a few different lans of attack in which to do the heist, for example a stealthy approach or something akin to a guns blazing approach (note I am NOT asking for guns in the game whatsoever, this is an example). And each plan would have their own chances of success and loot gain depending on the skills of your sim AND the crew. Heist went off without a hitch? Your sim gets a huge cut of the loot! Not so well? No loot and a day or so in the pokey. And probably decreased relationship with everyone who took part in the heist. If something even relatively similar to that was ever put in the game I'd be pretty stoked.
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The Sims 4 General DiscussionI got you voted for it.
Voted for it as well. I wish they could add some coding that could use real life eye probability to determine the eye color. Sometimes children have a certain eye color because of a grandparent.
And I would like to see my neighbors come to life.
I was playing TS3 (Before obsessed with Final Fantasy VII Remake) and I was delighted to see the next door neighbor walking in her back yard to go to the inventors bench that was located in her garage. Her toddles was crawling around in the back yard and she waved to her as she walked by. Not easy to see, but she's walking on the path.
I would like to see the neighbors in TS4 coming out of their homes to go places, or using the objects on their property.
I for one voted for that as well.
I voted for highschool second and cheerleading was either third or fourth because I wanted shopping malls so they may be flipped idk. Lol but cheerleading was high on my list.
Yup me too also because I miss Sims 2 and they drama lol.
I also voted high on my list Romance,Shopping Malls and controlling npc sims.
My top three were the Brazilian Beach, Greece, and Italy.
I'd say A is very likely, B is unlikely, and C is very unlikely.
I believe the terms "pre-production" and "design phase" only apply to packs/content that have been officially greenlighted to make. The content presented in the survey are likely things that are still on the drawing board. The initial brainstorming/idea pitching/deciding on a theme phase is not part of the pre-production.
Oop- I voted for American High School. We NEED more teen and YA gameplay
I agree with the teen gameplay but not YA they have been catered to since the start of Sims 4.
I hope that's the case because some of those things that were available in the survey are quite difficult to make. I have always thought that the reason why they did not want to add story progression, or other emotions is because it is so dependent on everything in the game and all their packs so they have to redo everything, and also because they can't really sell story progression or emotions as a pack.
It's also odd that they want to do these changes now after almost 6 years.
I'm almost suspecting that these are just ideas. Something that Maxis might do something with depending on what happens in the future and how much money they will get. Some of these choices like culinary chef, cheerleading and fan clubs sounds so much like what we have gotten for the sims4 already where they will reuse assets and save money, while an overhaul of emotions or story progression sounds way more expensive and difficult to sell.