EA Says 2021 will be another big year for The Sims 4

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The "life simulator" argument doesn't really entitle anything to be free. Plenty of content that caters to "life simulation" comes in packs. The Sims has never been an accurate real life simulator so asking for cars to be patched into Sims 4 would be the equivalent of wanting Aliens or Magic patched as well. (Not saying that would be a bad thing, just that those things are not essential.) Some people may want them, but they're not absolutely necessary. While cars made a lot more sense in Sims 3 for traveling across a large open world, they aren't needed in more closed world games like Sims 2 and 4.

@LiELF I am sorry but I am going to have to disagree with you. Transportation is an essential feature in order to simulate life. People don't teleport from their bathroom to the park. They use transportation.
Sure, maybe Sims owning actual cars isn't so important but not having any kind of transportation makes no sense in a game like this. All Sims are teleporting from one world to another, no taxis no nothing. Pizza delivery comes on foot! C'mon even the Sims 1 had transportation and that game was bare bones.
We might not necerssarily need cars to drive around but we definitely do need some means of transportation. Nobody teleport in real life, sorry.

That's fine if you don't agree. It's going to be a different view for everyone. I never saw the Sims games as "real life" simulators to begin with. I don't think they were ever intended to be, with ghosts and reapers and magic, etc.

I do understand and will acknowledge your point as a logical one, however, because cars are indeed a basic part of life in the modern era. And a game that is at least somewhat based on the modern era would be expected to have them. But they are not necessary in a practical term, gameplay wise, because Sims 4 is a closed world. Sims 3, with it's huge amount of space and the eons it took to get a Sim anywhere, needed cars, definitely. So I don't feel they should be patched. Sims 2, with its closed worlds, had cars come in a pack, so I don't think it would be unusual for them to be offered in a similar way. It's possible they could possibly end up going the route of making a dedicated world that's more vast and open, in a pack with cars being a feature. If they patched them in, they may be somewhat simplified, because there's really no place to drive to.

Only time will tell.

ea keeps on pushing real life issues & stuff on the game thanks to their lovely marketing so of course some people will get the idea the sims are meant to be a realistic life simulator. but anyways cars were present on every sims game so it's understandable that some people also wants them on ts4, even if the game isn't very car friendly.

Hmm. Well, if they put in some antique Addams family/Munster style cars or Victorian horse-drawn carriages or fantasy coaches, I could be excited for vehicles.

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The horse-drawn carriages would be nice. In fact they were asked for back when they were still releasing packs for Sims 3. But the carriages never made it into the game because EA was against animal cruelty at the time. And I doubt that EA has changed their stance on animal cruelty since then. So I seriously doubt that horse-drawn carriages will make it into the game.