EA_Mage said ''soon'' ! How ''soon'' ?

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"Lomelindi7;c-16421083" wrote:
I believe “soon” may be on or about the time if EA Play. So a few weeks prior to the event perhaps. I still believe nothing is coming this quarter (paid content) and an expansion could be announced just before EA Play, playable at the event, then released first week of July or August. I am happy to be wrong, but I won’t get my hopes up for any news before the end of May.

I don't see that happen. If they announce the EP just before EA Play and have it playable there, they have almost no time themselves to show us the game via livestreams, blogs and all that stuff. EP's have like 8+ weeks marketing attached to them and if they make it playable at EA Play, they cannot have a solid embargo/NDA.

With thousands of people coming to such events, it's impossible for them to control what info gets out and what stays in. So IF we are getting an EP this quarter, I guess they will announce it within 2 weeks, just to have enough marketing time before the event to promote the EP and tell us more about it. Then they can release it after EA Play in late june.

But we will see.

If they let people play “Seasons” at EA play then a lot of things in it will likely be disabled because it isn’t ready or stable enough yet. Also only few of the developers will likely be there and they know what they can tell and what they can’t tell people.

I think it will almost be finished then. I'm predicting Late June for release.

Unless it is a GP it will surprise me if it is released already that early. My guess for the next EP is October or November.

Then why are they announcing something and we're not getting any quarterly teaser this quarter? There has to be paid content coming sometimes this quarter. That's why I'm thinking Expansion Pack in Late June.

Maybe they're working on so many projects that they're not sure what's going to be done this quarter. I still think that MFP was originally planned to be an April release but since it finished early the executives wanted to release it in March so they could count the revenue before the fiscal year ended. And that's why it wasn't in the teaser for last quarter.

I still feel like it's way too early for Seasons -- but they could be working on a GP for release in late June (after first reveal at EA Play), either Witches/general Magic, or something to do with education that could be a prequel for University in 2019, with Sims 5 announced late in the year and released February 2020, the 20th anniversary of the original The Sims release.