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

"Erpe;c-16422299" wrote:

"catloverplayer;c-16422265" wrote:

"Erpe;c-16422168" wrote:

"rudy8292;c-16421505" wrote:

"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.

One thing that still makes me think though; a GP or SP wouldn't make to much sense to me. We had no quarterly teaser and if they are planning on releasing a GP or SP, why didn't we get a Quarterly Teaser? We got it before. The only packs that have never been in a quarterly teaser -Before they got announced officially- were EP's.

So either we are not getting anything in this quarter, or we get the EP.

And another thing that doesn't really make sense to me is; if they announce the next EP at EA Play in June, they aren't going to wait until november to release it. That's just way too long of a wait.

Also a lot of people saying we didn't get a teaser because Drake left; well, she wasn't the only one responsible for the teasers. They knew how the formula of a teaser worked by now, so I guess they could have done it without her too.

Well, EA Play or whatever the announcement is can't come soon enough. Now we're back at the sitting in the dark waiting 2.0 era. meh.

@SimTrippy

Maybe She is a CM until they find the new one.

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"rudy8292;c-16422310" wrote:
The only packs that have never been in a quarterly teaser -Before they got announced officially- were EP's.

So either we are not getting anything in this quarter, or we get the EP.

That's not entirely accurate. EPs were in their respective QTs (ever since these exist anyway), they were simply announced before the quarter. They were not left out of the QT and then suddenly released in that same quarter. Doesn't mean we won't get an EP this quarter, but the reasoning is still not applicable here :)

Maybe She is a CM until they find the new one.

Possible! Or maybe they've got a global one and .. another one? :D I like Mage though, wouldn't mind her as CM. If she bring back the QTs ;D

"SimTrippy;c-16422314" wrote:

"rudy8292;c-16422310" wrote:
The only packs that have never been in a quarterly teaser -Before they got announced officially- were EP's.

So either we are not getting anything in this quarter, or we get the EP.

That's not entirely accurate. EPs were in their respective QTs (ever since these exist anyway), they were simply announced before the quarter. They were not left out of the QT and then suddenly released in that same quarter. Doesn't mean we won't get an EP this quarter, but the reasoning is still not applicable here :)

That's what I said: 'Before they got announced officially' (That means they were in teasers if they announced them, GP's and SP's were already in teasers before they announced them officially).

Oh alright it just sounds confusing to me, because they have always been in the QTs of the months they were announced in :D But yeah ok I see your point. Nvmd me!

"rudy8292;c-16422310" wrote:

"Erpe;c-16422299" wrote:

"catloverplayer;c-16422265" wrote:

"Erpe;c-16422168" wrote:

"rudy8292;c-16421505" wrote:

"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.

One thing that still makes me think though; a GP or SP wouldn't make to much sense to me. We had no quarterly teaser and if they are planning on releasing a GP or SP, why didn't we get a Quarterly Teaser? We got it before. The only packs that have never been in a quarterly teaser -Before they got announced officially- were EP's.

So either we are not getting anything in this quarter, or we get the EP.

And another thing that doesn't really make sense to me is; if they announce the next EP at EA Play in June, they aren't going to wait until november to release it. That's just way too long of a wait.

Also a lot of people saying we didn't get a teaser because Drake left; well, she wasn't the only one responsible for the teasers. They knew how the formula of a teaser worked by now, so I guess they could have done it without her too.

Well, EA Play or whatever the announcement is can't come soon enough. Now we're back at the sitting in the dark waiting 2.0 era. meh.

We can guess all we want. But the situation is special just now for two reasons:
1. They don’t want to announce everything before EA Play such that they don’t really have anything new for this event.
2. They are likely also preparing to announce TS5 quite soon.

EA usually only releases one EP each year and quite late. Because EPs seem to have got lower and lower priority (and less and less content too) this isn’t likely to change. Therefore an early release of the next EP would surprise me.

4-5 SPs and 2 GPs each year have become the rule. So we should soon get more SPs and likely a GP too.

But where does a likely soon announcement of TS5 to be released in the middle or in the autumn of 2019 fit into this? And exactly what will EA present at EA Play this year?

What games, you ask? At EA PLAY 2018, you will have a chance to play our next Battlefield™ experience, new EA SPORTS™ games, and get an inside look at the stunning new action game, Anthem™. The Sims™ 4 and our mobile games will be on hand, and of course, we have a few surprises as well.


The above quote was taken from the EA Play website. Looks as if Anthem, Battlefield and the new sports games are what EA is heavily promoting. Sims4 and the mobile releases seem to be coming in last on their list. But the action games bring in a lot of fans to this type of event so it isn't at all surprising those would be mentioned and promoted before Sims4. According to an article I read in January, Anthem's release date has been delayed to early 2019 rather than the previous release date of fall 2018. In spite of doing more research, I haven't found any news to contradict that. So EA could be doing some damage control during EA Play to keep Anthem fans happy and interested in the game.

EA has been releasing EPs mostly in November and December. Get to Work was released in March 2015 and Get Together came out that later that same year. City Living and Cats and Dogs were released in time for the Christmas market in 2016 and 2017 respectively. But knowing EA will not be releasing Anthem until 2019 rather than this fall, they may take a look at releasing more packs for Sims4 this summer and fall to keep their sales numbers up since they won't have the surge of sales from Anthem they had expected to have. That strategy might be the reason EA is withholding announcements of any kind. The development teams for game packs and stuff packs might be hard at work to get these packs out ASAP, while the expansion pack team is scrambling to finish an expansion to be released in September.

"Paigeisin5;c-16422411" wrote:
What games, you ask? At EA PLAY 2018, you will have a chance to play our next Battlefield™ experience, new EA SPORTS™ games, and get an inside look at the stunning new action game, Anthem™. The Sims™ 4 and our mobile games will be on hand, and of course, we have a few surprises as well.


The above quote was taken from the EA Play website. Looks as if Anthem, Battlefield and the new sports games are what EA is heavily promoting. Sims4 and the mobile releases seem to be coming in last on their list. But the action games bring in a lot of fans to this type of event so it isn't at all surprising those would be mentioned and promoted before Sims4. According to an article I read in January, Anthem's release date has been delayed to early 2019 rather than the previous release date of fall 2018. In spite of doing more research, I haven't found any news to contradict that. So EA could be doing some damage control during EA Play to keep Anthem fans happy and interested in the game.

Yes. People will get a chance to play TS4 and the Sims Mobile beside some sports and action games. Then there will be a few surprises - and I guess that an early announcement and a short video about TS5 could be among them. But likely it simmers won’t be able to try it yet.

At least that would be my guesses for now. But something about a SP and/or GP for TS4 could of course also be among the smaller surprises.

I would hope there is some kind of teaser, whether it’s content for Sims 4 (which is good), or an announcement for Sims 5 (which would be very exciting!).