Do you think we will get another expansion this year?

"IceyJ;c-16495018" wrote:

"Erpe;c-16494147" wrote:

"IceyJ;c-16494076" 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?

So this is what being in denial looks like, lol. Grant literally said 'expansion' in the earlier tweet and has made it clear TS4 isn't going anywhere for years. Too proud to concede, huh? :D

Your guess is as good as mine. But Grant isn’t EA’s CEO or even on EA’s Board of Directors. So I don’t believe that EA’s top have told him that he can continue to just make EPs for TS4 at least 5 years more ;)

He may not be CEO, but as lead producer of EPs and the game in general, he surely knows how many years in advance they've planned out packs. So if they're planning packs for years out, they're obviously not ready to release TS5. Logic.

The logic isn’t that obvious to me.

A thing that I noted was that when TS3 was about to end then EA increased the number of yearly EPs from 2 to 3 and afair more other things were increased too in 2012-2013 and even after TS4 already had been announced. I wondered why? Sales numbers obviously still were high enough to make this profitable even though they must have become lower than they were in 2009-2011. So why did EA suddenly release more just before TS4 was about to be released anyway?

My guess is that the reason mainly was that each new basegame (and especially TS4) are targeted at new simmers and that EA knows that simmers who already own the old game will hesitate and often wait a couple of years before they maybe will buy the new game anyway. But then EA wants to give them a little more packs to buy until they switch to the new game. But those packs still sell best anyway if they are released before the new basegame is released. So if EA increases the number of yearly packs then this could actually be a signal that a new basegame soon will be released (and still mainly targeted at new simmers).

I am not sure that EA plans which packs to release even years before they are released because EA has often changed the schedule and suddenly made unplanned packs with short notice. Apparently EA studies the market all the time and is ready to make changes whenever they feel that this could be profitable. But if even EA’s top don’t know then Grant sure doesn’t know either. I agree though that he knows much more than he tells us because TS5 must have been in development in the same building and he surely knows how far the development of TS5 is now. He just wants to encourage us though and therefore mainly wants us to be exited about the remaining packs for TS4 for now.