I think involving game changers to provide stronger builds in packs has been a great addition, but I'd love to know if there are plans to involve other game changers (or honestly just people in the community in general — I'd hate for this community inclusion in making packs to be excluded to all but game changers) to help with other more prominent game mechanics. For instance, making townies that appear in packs and who are involved in crafting their story, personality, and skills. A lot of us who play the game and build families would love to have packs going forward that feel as though they really keep in mind full stories and lore. I would love for my worlds to feel lived in and like the sims there know each other and have history. I feel like Mt. Komorebi was a good step in this direction, but the skills a lot of the sims had didn't seem to make a lot of sense with where they are in their careers and there were some weird missteps with some sims knowing some sims in a family but not others. But again, I would love to know if this is a community collaboration you would be interested in going forward because I know there are many talented storytellings CAS players who would love to be involved in building packs.
To further that point, though I'm mostly interested in community involvement in deepening character creation and storytelling, I would like to know if the team would be interested in continuing building collaborations with the community outside of the game changers. I understand why the game changers are picked because they are already vetted, but I wonder if it would be possible to include some sort of process by which you can "interview" community members to collaborate with future in-game builds, characters, and storytelling elements. I think that would be really cool and would go a long way in making the whole community feel like they matter even if they're not a game changer.
EA Staff (Retired)