Do you think we will get another expansion this year?
We're getting seasons next month, so do you think we'll get another EP in Nov/Dec? I hope so!
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- I would love to see another one.... farming with animals especially!
"CeCeDot;c-16522260" wrote:
"Erpe;c-16517411" wrote:
"elelunicy;c-16517369" wrote:
"@Erpe;c-16491924" wrote:
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.
SimGuruGrant has now officially confirmed that Seasons is not the last EP.
https://www.twitter.com/SimGuruGrant/status/1003769017125834752
https://i.imgur.com/AmVjjlM.jpg
I know. You have just answered a very old message from me where I still expected EA to stop releasing packs for TS4 when TS5 is released. But even though that would be the traditional way I don’t believe at all anymore that this will happen this time. What I instead expect now is that EA as usually will release a new basegame (TS5) after 5 years but not stop making packs for TS4 anyway. The reasons for this change most likely are:
1. EA has always lost more than half of the current simmers every time EA has released a new basegame.
2. It is important though for EA to release a new basegame after 5 years because an old basegame with way too many already released packs don’t attract many new simmers.
3. EA wants as many games as possible to become multiplayer because that is usually what young gamers prefer and it gives also EA much better options for ingame advertising if the games are multiplayer and mainly online. But EA also know that older simmers likely won’t like this idea. So it is better to release more packs for TS4 even after TS5 has been released.
4. I think that EA mainly plans to let the Sims 5 developers make extra content for TS5 while the current Sims 4 devs likely just will continue to make new content for TS4 for a couple of more years. This also means that EA likely won’t start developing TS6 very soon and that TS5 therefore also according to EA’s plans will get a longer life than the big Sims games usually have had.
https://www.reddit.com/r/thesims/comments/8ms3ic/comment/dzq3uux
Sim guru houts talks about sim guru grants tweet about content for years to come being about Sims 4 and not Sims 5.
He just confirms that he is a part of Grant’s team and neither the Sims Mobile team nor the Sims 5 team.
As I said I agree that TS4 will get new content for years because otherwise Grant wouldn’t have said so. We don’t know for how many years though because EA likely hasn’t made that decision though.
But EA has other teams. We now know the Sims Mobile team too. But we didn’t know any gurus in that team until EA suddenly soft launched the Sims Mobile in Brazil only about a year ago even though they had worked on the game for years.
In the same way we don’t know any of the devs who for years have been working on TS5 because they won’t become gurus before TS5 is officially announced. The reason of course is that there isn’t any fun about being a guru if you only can say that you are working on an unannounced game and can’t even tell in the forum or on twitter if it is a Sims game or something else."Erpe;c-16493645" wrote:
"elelunicy;c-16492680" wrote:
"@Erpe;c-16492583" wrote:
"IceyJ;c-16492416" wrote:
@Erpe"Erpe;c-16491924" wrote:
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?"SheriSim57;c-16523270" wrote:
"Erpe;c-16493645" wrote:
"elelunicy;c-16492680" wrote:
"@Erpe;c-16492583" wrote:
"IceyJ;c-16492416" wrote:
@Erpe"Erpe;c-16491924" wrote:
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."Erpe;c-16523278" wrote:
"SheriSim57;c-16523270" wrote:
"Erpe;c-16493645" wrote:
"elelunicy;c-16492680" wrote:
"@Erpe;c-16492583" wrote:
"IceyJ;c-16492416" wrote:
@Erpe"Erpe;c-16491924" wrote:
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."CeCeDot;c-16523291" wrote:
"Erpe;c-16523278" wrote:
"SheriSim57;c-16523270" wrote:
"Erpe;c-16493645" wrote:
"elelunicy;c-16492680" wrote:
"@Erpe;c-16492583" wrote:
"IceyJ;c-16492416" wrote:
@Erpe"Erpe;c-16491924" wrote:
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."elelunicy;c-16517369" wrote:
"@Erpe;c-16491924" wrote:
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.
SimGuruGrant has now officially confirmed that Seasons is not the last EP.
https://www.twitter.com/SimGuruGrant/status/1003769017125834752
https://i.imgur.com/AmVjjlM.jpg
why would anybody think it was going to be the last pack in the first place :o
I mean its not even been a year since console came out."marcel21;c-16523376" wrote:
"elelunicy;c-16517369" wrote:
"@Erpe;c-16491924" wrote:
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.
SimGuruGrant has now officially confirmed that Seasons is not the last EP.
https://www.twitter.com/SimGuruGrant/status/1003769017125834752
https://i.imgur.com/AmVjjlM.jpg
why would anybody think it was going to be the last pack in the first place :o
I mean its not even been a year since console came out.
And only 3 months since the Sims Mobile was officially released :)
But maybe because he is mainly talking about stuff (packs):
https://twitter.com/simgurugrant/status/1005103855426723840?s=21
I can not see a reason they would not tell us the truth. So then just believe him. I think he tells the truth as far as he knows it to be the truth.- What they tell us is (a part of) the truth. But they clearly hold back a lot of information!
