Are you happy Quarterly Teasers are gone?

"jackjack_k;c-16584760" wrote:
Honestly, the months before Seasons were probably the worst months we’ve had, only because everyone went all doom and gloom, and were still doing that even when Grant and Kate were being active on Twitter. It only turned around when the Seasons teaser was posted.

2016 was bad, even with the addition of Quarterly Teasers. (Who remembers the wait for Dine Out?)

Gurus have to remember why they introduced them in the first place, because not knowing whether something is coming or not makes me lose interest.

I’ll just constantly check for news and if I don’t get any, I’ll just lose complete interest and it will be harder for them to reel me back in.

I can play the game without new content BUT it’s harder when you don’t know whether or not new content is coming.

I agree with this 100%. Everything you said here is how I feel and they already lost me when I had too wait too long. I agree 2016 was awful waiting on DO. And I voted they should have expanded on the teasers instead of dropping them.

"Dannydanbo;c-16585242" wrote:
I like the short wait time and the joy of seeing the first trailer. The only thing the teasers really did was build up tension with everyone trying to guess what a sim turning into a skeleton meant. "What does it mean.. I don't understand." No more of that nonsense thank you very much.

I think you’re mixing up the teasers... there won’t be anymore QUARTERLY teasers, but we will still get teaser announcements before the full trailer...


Personally, I was only ok with it with seasons because Seasons was AWESOME and highly anticipated. I’m not going to have the same level of excitement with other packs. I feel like this just keeps us in the dark for longer.

I felt like maybe Seasons was a special surprise since it was an EP that was released on a different timeline than might have been expected. I know I thought we wouldn't see it until the holiday rush.

I do like having the teasers for other content such as SPs and GPs. Even if I can't get the content right away, I like knowing about it.

I want to know the themes of what is coming up, at the very least. :frowning:

All too often, the teasers only ever seemed to give the drama queens a stick to beat everything with. Then the blanks would start getting filled in with made-up stories from things that people imagined, and it only got worse from there.

I think the gurus need to be able to work with whatever time frame is best for the current project, and they shouldn't have to worry about having to hold the hands of masses of people who have whipped themselves up into a frenzy because of what their overactive imaginations have deduced from a picture or 30 second video.

I'm more than fine with teasers going away, as long as we still get the regular standard announcement whenever the release is ready to be announced.

"EveryDaySim;c-16586365" wrote:
All too often, the teasers only ever seemed to give the drama queens a stick to beat everything with. Then the blanks would start getting filled in with made-up stories from things that people imagined, and it only got worse from there.

I think the gurus need to be able to work with whatever time frame is best for the current project, and they shouldn't have to worry about having to hold the hands of masses of people who have whipped themselves up into a frenzy because of what their overactive imaginations have deduced from a picture or 30 second video.

I'm more than fine with teasers going away, as long as we still get the regular standard announcement whenever the release is ready to be announced.

Eh, some of us save up for something new or don't spend our game money on a different game if we think we would be more interested in what The Sims is offering in a few weeks or months/quarter. So, not knowing we might go spend that money somewhere else and forget about this game. Or maybe some wouldn't be able to go ahead and buy it later if they spent their gaming money. It's all relevant in my eyes. For the producers/EA if someone spent their game money on something else instead of waiting to find out what they were going to release. But then EA probably might not care gamers do budget their money sometimes, they are probably depending on those who have it to throw around.

ETA: It was hardly drama queens who were unhappy with the ball pit.

"LeGardePourpre;c-16588560" wrote:
It doesn't really matter as long as new packs are released for The Sims 4.

The Sims franchise is 18 years old, we were able to live 16 years without quarterly teaser.

But in the old sim days, we had leaflets that told of future Packs, though? (At least, the few expansion packs I had of the older sims games had those.)

ETA: Oh, are we still going to have the regular promo announcements, blog posts, twitter preview pics, and livestream like we did with this Seasons pack, at least? Those were great! :smile: I could wait if we gave us tons of preview announcements like we got for Seasons.

I don’t mind either way about the teasers as long as packs are still being made.

"LeGardePourpre;c-16588560" wrote:
It doesn't really matter as long as new packs are released for The Sims 4.

The Sims franchise is 18 years old, we were able to live 16 years without quarterly teaser.

I still think our main purpose should be to find the way to have fun with the 26 existing packs instead of being focused on what is missing.

DLC system is that : Never be satisfied, Always expect more.

Half of the packs felt really small to me like the many Stuff Packs, though, or felt lacking like the Get To Work Pack, so I’m still waiting for more of the bigger or more detailed packs with more gameplay.

Clubs from Get Together aren’t really my thing, and its world was always really buggy for me.

Seasons, Vampires, toddler patch, and maybe Parenthood are my fave ones, for example. :smile: Dine Out is a really nice one as well. Spa Day is also really nice, but it’s not really a pack I use often for every sim.

ETA: I love Stuff Packs, but a) not everyone does, and b) they do not have lots of in-depth gameplay like Expansions or even Game Packs.

Half of the packs are stuff packs. We had, what, only 4 Expansion Packs? The Game Packs are more niche, and not everyone enjoyed them until maybe around Vampires.

If the packs were more in-depth (which it seems like they would be going forward with Vampires and Seasons), then there would be less anxiety regarding future packs.

Time will tell.

I didn't mind the teasers but I do like more straight forward info when it's getting close to the release date. Less rampant speculation that way. Less disappoint and time to speculate about what it might not have. I did really enjoy how much info they gave us about Seasons during the time leading up to it... and how they came out and said folks this isn't going to be in it (thinking about snow depth). I still liked the teasing nature of some of the info though