Are you Tired of Kits?

"Stormkeep;c-18031390" wrote:

"GreenTurtle;c-18031387" wrote:
Everybody's been saying kits don't interfere with development, but there's been no EP this winter, yet somehow EA tricked their fanbase into shelling out $40 anyway.

You're looking at it backwards, if whatever EP they are working on had some development issues which needed to be worked out, that doesn't take the staff that make CAS and BB items, only the ones that work on code. i.e. those other people had time to work on stuff for kits.
The development teams consist of a lot of different skill sets, and the ones who handle gameplay and code are not the same people as the ones that design clothes, furniture and wallpaper (etc.).

I also imagine the development of TS5 is likely to effect content for TS4 as well. Different stages of the new game development process require more or less of the varying skill sets as well, so at any given point I can see specific types of content for TS4 being impacted if they have to shuffle people around to meet project goal deadlines on TS5.

I think the reason why we have seen so many kits are probably because of limited resources and covid19, 4 kits in a a row and almost 10 in a year feels like too many though. It doesn't feel like so many kits could have been made unless they were prioritized over packs.