Do we no longer get free updates?

I can’t see your link/image.

But to be fair here we only got free content last month.

"MidnightAura;c-16280732" wrote:
I can’t see your link/image.

But to be fair here we only got free content last month.

This.
And also, basements and swimming pools, dishwashers etc were all things that should have been in the base game upon release. It is good that they added them in the first year, but it was not groundbreaking new content. This was the reason I did not buy the game until December 2015.

They spent all the free patch budget when they made the talking toilet in City Living. :D

Yeah, the free updates in 2014 were just features that didn't make it in time for release. The genealogy too. So they had been working on those for some time before they were released, I'd say.

Right now, it seems that they're prioritizing other things. They might be working on some other free content, but probably not as much, and they probably started from scratch so it'll take longer from our perspective.

Btw, the infographic looks really nice.

I'm still waiting for the Zodiac patch, the sim biography patch, the laptop patch, the trash compactor patch, the food processor patch, the landline phone patch, the bed animations patch, etc.

"icmnfrsh;c-16281118" wrote:
Yeah, the free updates in 2014 were just features that didn't make it in time for release. The genealogy too. So they had been working on those for some time before they were released, I'd say.

Right now, it seems that they're prioritizing other things. They might be working on some other free content, but probably not as much, and they probably started from scratch so it'll take longer from our perspective.

Btw, the infographic looks really nice.

Realistically, only ghosts and pools were in the works before the game released. Genealogy (family trees) took 6 months to be added. They specifically said that the two new careers and the move objects cheat (December 2014) were added based on player feedback so they were the beginning of the non-base game holdover content. Everything we have gotten since was started after the game was shipped. Even toddlers.

"LeGardePourpre;c-16281122" wrote:

"Sigzy05;c-16281119" wrote:
I'm still waiting for the Zodiac patch, the sim biography patch, the laptop patch, the trash compactor patch, the food processor patch, the landline phone patch, the bed animations patch, etc.

..., car patch, seasons patch, terraforming patch, spiral stairs patch, ...

the toaster patch, the fix sim autonomy patch, the advanced relationship interaction patch, the school patch...

"drake_mccarty;c-16281181" wrote:

"icmnfrsh;c-16281118" wrote:
Yeah, the free updates in 2014 were just features that didn't make it in time for release. The genealogy too. So they had been working on those for some time before they were released, I'd say.

Right now, it seems that they're prioritizing other things. They might be working on some other free content, but probably not as much, and they probably started from scratch so it'll take longer from our perspective.

Btw, the infographic looks really nice.

Realistically, only ghosts and pools were in the works before the game released. Genealogy (family trees) took 6 months to be added. They specifically said that the two new careers and the move objects cheat (December 2014) were added based on player feedback so they were the beginning of the non-base game holdover content. Everything we have gotten since was started after the game was shipped. Even toddlers.

Yeah, that makes sense too. The new careers were probably easier for them to make.

@SimGuruDrake has said that patching in content every month is over, so giving you more ways to play with life every month is done. At this point free content is random but now seems to be used to draw players back in before a bigger pack is released.

And there’s the fact the game is doing much better now than it did in the beginning. Which means two things:

They realized they had to hand this stuff to the angry players without charging them; they weren’t buying

They can afford to return to their old habits now, people will buy anything