Do we no longer get free updates?

"drake_mccarty;c-16283561" wrote:

"stilljustme2;c-16283542" wrote:

"Sk8rblaze;c-16282510" wrote:
I think it was more so The Sims 4 was rushed, and we had gotten these frequent updates because they were being worked on prior to release, and afterwards, too.

And, of course since it's EA, they created the illusion that all these patches were a good thing, when realistically, they were playing a huge game of catch up.

I'm pretty sure that was the case with pools, but I think they'd never considered adding ghosts till the community outcry over their absence. (Ghosts are still a bit problematic especially with the culling issues that finally got solved to a certain extent with the My Households and Other Households mechanism. I do still need MCCC in order to manage ghosts (plus aliens and vampires).

I figured ghosts were originally planned as DLC. I remember the unintentional leak from before launch (Ryan and Graham’s play through) where they went in the gallery and showed an ad for camping, spooky “stuff”, and a party pack (the first and last realized as Outdoor Retreat, and Luxury Party Stuff). I don’t think the ad was in reference to the spooky stuff pack that released over a year later, and ghosts were the very first content addition so it wouldn’t be too far out. Pools were also mentioned in a survey, so I could also see that feature too as something that was in development as a paid feature but was later released for free in response to backlash. Just speculation on my end though.

I still would like to see a pool pack with pool toys (floating rings, pool noodles and the like), plus a pool slide and water basketball.

"LeGardePourpre;c-16284286" wrote:
SimGuruDrake's update list :
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/16244804/#Comment_16244804

• Jan. 2017, free content
  
• Feb., free content
  
• Mar., free content
  
• Apr., challenge
  
• May, free content
  
• June, nothing
  
• July, nothing
  
• Aug., nothing
  
• Sep., free content
  
• Oct., HCP update
  
• Nov., free content
  
• Dec., HCP update
  

We never get stuff during those 3 months because the main devs that head the packs( and many of the team has summer vacations as well) is off making the rounds of all the electronic shows - so they can't very well be making stuff for the game or releasing stuff. They are required to go to the electronic shows so you can't blame them to be fair. Those world wide big shows are important to all the big game companies and part of the business.

http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/886697/the-sims-4-complete-list-of-content-released#latest

Here's a list, Drake keeps it up to date of all the content including free stuff as it came out. We still do get free content. Where it says Base game update - that is the free stuff.