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Is there a reason for no more Winter DLC?
Sheepiling
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So like, way back in like 2016 when we only got 1 pack a year, it was usually in November so the new EPs would drop around the holiday season. Then once they went back to making 2 packs a year like previous Sims iterations, it was both a summer and winter release. Now, we're back to 1 pack a year it seems, and they're dropping in the summer instead of around the winter holidays where everyone is buying gifts for each other.
Is it really more profitable to release a pack in summer? I'm just wondering why the Sims Team seems to not release anything new other than kits around gifting seasons for 2 years in a row now.
Is it really more profitable to release a pack in summer? I'm just wondering why the Sims Team seems to not release anything new other than kits around gifting seasons for 2 years in a row now.
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Or then again, maybe the production team is quite a bit less than before and people have been shifted over to work on Project Rene. Kits obviously are much easier to make since they're essentially nothing more than just meshes and textures, there's no coding, programming, UI changes, or any type of gameplay.
It could be the effects of covid/working from home but with their new studio logo and with them also recruiting people it could be that they have shifted things around and maybe will still shift things around. More people will work on Project Rene so in order to do that they have decided to not have a large release schedule for the holidays (like a second expansion pack that they used to have).
I guess maybe winter might get more Christmas/full price purchases where as a summer release might end up selling more later in the year during a sale. But then people generally have more expense at winter anyway, so probably less people will buy for themselves at this time.
We can never really know unless they tell us. But I would imagine there’s not a huge difference.
Not saying you’re wrong but there’s nothing to substantiate that. They’ve said that it is not affecting Sims 4, that it’s a different team and they’ve pushed out more kits and SDX since the announcement than in the timeframe before it as well as announcing two expansions and a big feature update which will make 2023 one of the most content rich years in the games history.
Asides from its existence there is nothing to suggest Rene impacts Sims 4 production right now. They were scaling back anyway before Rene was a thing seemingly due to Covid or kits being cheaper to make.
A. Stated private guess, acknowledging that do not have hard data
B. 2015-2017 had 8, 7, & 6 packs respectively. Toddlers update was somewhere in that timeframe. Compared to that, 2 packs and the infants update pale almost to insignificance.
TS4 has been in decline since the end of 2020. Have been in the corporate world since 1976, including a management degree, so suspect that although Renee was recently announced there have been resource reallocations since 2021, if not before, and work being done. The leaves have been rustling in the wind for a good while now. All products have a life cycle, that of TS4 extended beyond the norm for the type, and we are in the inevitable down phase. It would be bad business to devote more than the minimum necessary into TS4 at this point.