Do you think we will get another expansion this year?

"SimTrippy;c-16494021" wrote:

"Erpe;c-16494015" wrote:
@SimTrippy I know. But in EA’s terminology “soon” usually means about 8 months and “for years out” could just be some wish he said deliberately ignoring what he knows about TS5 because he isn’t allowed to talk about TS5 yet. If he could guarantee that TS4 still will get new packs at least until 2020 then why doesn’t he say so?

Yes, he knows that simmers always have wanted more and also about everything from TS2 and TS3. But instead everything has been simplified and there is no way that he suddenly can guarantee that it all will come anyway. He also has to encourage us to buy more though. So is this just what he attempts with loose promises that he knows he won’t fully be able to fulfill anyway?

I don't think this will be the last EP. I can't be sure, no, but neither can you. It wouldn't surprise me if there was still a farming EP, perhaps magic will be an EP with a big magical world. Perhaps not. We will see.

I agree. We can’t know anything for sure because we don’t know if something unusually has changed for now apparent reason. But logic tells me that EA makes the games not just to please us but to earn as much money as possible. Also TS4 has been targeted even more at young new simmers than the earlier big Sims games were. We can see this from all the omissions and simplifications in TS4 and also by the fact that the gurus now so clearly prefer to give information and discuss TS4 on Twitter instead of the forum as they used earlier. But those young simmers become older and most of them stop playing the game after a few years and TS4 has already become too big and with too many packs for the next new generation to start with now. Therefore sales numbers will go down and EA will lose most of a generation of new young simmers unless EA soon moves on to TS5 and start over once again. But it would be very unlike EA to let something like this happen.