Curious about EP budget allocation

"cheescaeks;c-17482294" wrote:
i think most of the money was spent on making the water areas swimmable.

THIS. Water in The Sims 4 is like VFX, just like the Cars, the boats and everything else in the game. To make them available for swimming they have to re enginer the engine to make it possible. After that, they have to make sure that the water looks different and clear since all waters in Sims 4 are not transparent. Then make sure that sims are able to path in these waters, trigger the animations, etc. So yeah probably.

The only thing I wanted them to do is since game development is full of limited resources, they should have use the resources on the features that people would really want. Honestly, instead of dynamic Island as a main feature, I would rather have Scuba Diving area for example.

I'm guessing it's more about time rather than budget, it's clear from the pack that the sims team set out to do a lot with Island Living but EA demands a certain amount of expansions, game packs and stuff packs per year so I'm guessing they had strict deadlines which didn't give them time to finish the pack before EA made them move on. EA cares more about the dollar than the quality of what they're giving out sadly, people give the Sims team too much hate for it when it's really beyond their control. I think they want the game to be good and fully fledged because it's their game which they're passionate about, but they simply don't have the time or the staff numbers thanks to the higher ups.

#makemermaidsfun

I just wanted an underwater area for mermaids...

I would have been very happy for this to be a GP. No way it is a EP.

@Sindocat yes there are minor features like these but they don’t seem to have meaningful impacts on the game. Dolphins are just there for visual and animation. Suntan changes skin colour which is also visual. Kava is just another drink which we already have plenty. Etc etc.

Perhaps I am not their main target audience for this pack. :)