Do you think we will get another expansion this year?

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I won’t be surprised if Seasons even becomes the very last EP for the Sims 4. But I expect EA to release both an SP and a GP too this year.

You must have missed this tweet:
https://twitter.com/SimGuruGrant/status/999310302498848769?tfw_creator=SimsVIP&tfw_site=SimsVIP&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsimsvip.com%2F2018%2F05%2F23%2Fsimgurugrant-asks-pick-a-wacky-expansion-theme%2F

No, I didn’t miss it. But where does it say that those are EPs for TS4? Maybe only one of them will ever be released and then it could be a GP for TS4 or maybe even some pack for TS5?

Grant specifically clarified later that the poll is for TS4 and not TS5.
https://www.twitter.com/SimGuruGrant/status/999319135589875714
https://www.twitter.com/RhiannonInStyle/status/999696426086158336
https://www.twitter.com/SimGuruGrant/status/999696549666996224

I notice two things:
1. He said pack and not expansion pack. So we don’t know what kind of pack it will be.
2. “After some normal stuff” likely means after the packs they make in the rest of 2018 or just after one of those packs. So it could be some extra pack they will make while we wait for TS5 to be released.

I thought TS 4 was supposed to last for several more years. Have they said anything about TS5 yet?

Yes, TS4 will apparently last for several more years.

No, they have refused to say anything about TS5. This tells me two things:
1. TS5 has almost certainly been in development for some years. (Otherwise they would have told us.)
2. TS5 will likely very soon be announced which was the likely reason why a lot of gurus suddenly went on twitter about a month ago to guarantee that TS4 still will get a lot of packs (even after TS5 has been released).

But I feel that I am repeating myself way too much and we will likely very soon know much more anyway. So I am out of this discussion for now.

The thing is, they can't talk about future content. Whether it exists or not. So we can never be 'certain' about the Sims 5 development.

I partly agree. But I think that Grant could have answered the question about the packs maybe being for TS5 by saying something like: “No, TS4 will still be our main Sims game for a few more years.” Instead he avoided this by saying just: ”No, the packs are for TS4” and I feel quite sure that the reason was that he knows that TS5 is about to be announced (which also was the most likely reason why he came back to Twitter a month ago just to quite unusually guarantee that TS4 still will get a lot of new content for a few more years). The most surprising thing until now actually was that he was able to talk about unannounced future packs for TS4 in this way. But I guess that he somehow had got a special permission from EA’s top to do this - and for the mentioned reason.

He came back on Twitter a couple of weeks before seasons was announced and has said they want to focus more on open communication and getting feedback from people. I don't see why him going on Twitter means TS5 is about to be announced. They've clearly been given permission to talk more openly than they could in the past, most likely the success of Laundry day has made EA realise the financial benefits of involving the community. I say that because Grant said the pack was a huge success and they want to do more things like that, while talking a lot about how they're trying to work on improving communication with us. The reason he spoke about the future of TS4 specifically is because he gets a lot of people asking him about whether TS4 is ending. He didn't just decide to talk about it randomly, he was getting frustrated with constantly being asked about it. And as for the exact wording, every time they have brought a new version out, they have ended the previous version, therefore from his point of view, saying they are working on TS4 for years is the same as saying there's no TS5 about to be announced. Grant isn't someone to over-analyse every way his tweet can be interpreted, therefore it doesn't make sense to read so much into what he doesn't say. Not to mention it sounds better to say they're still working on it for years, rather than it's their main one for a few more years, the latter is highlighting the fact that they're going to drop it and move on. I mean they obviously will drop it at some point but still a poor idea to highlight that to the customers.

Then why did he go on twitter just now? He hasn’t been active on twitter since he talked about the basegame in 2014 and you can be quite sure that both he and most of the other gurus will disappear again within the next couple of months. So there are for me to see only two possible reasons:
1. The gurus became active to prepare people for EA Play, E3 and Gamescom.
2. The gurus became active to make people ready for an announcement of TS5 without simmers going into panic because they (incorrectly) would think that TS4 wouldn’t get more new content.

I think it was a combination of those two points. But I don’t believe that the gurus would have become that active and even suddenly completely unexpected guarantee that TS4 would get new content “for years to come” unless TS5 is about to be announced.