EA to release 20 new content drops and Expansions in fiscal 2020

"king_of_simcity7;c-16944739" wrote:
Shame it is not TS5 really. I mean by next year TS4 would be 5 years old and well, still not got your cars, Open World, proper teenagers, life like babies or even CASt. That is appalling :(

It does seem that they are moving away from TS4 though in the number of content coming for it.

Open world was never meant to be a part of this iteration...

"rudy8292;c-16946466" wrote:

"awlchick;c-16946456" wrote:

And with The Sims 4, in my opinion they didn't expand upon anything, they only took away the good stuff because they wanted to make this game Online and had little to no time left to turn it around to a fully amazing offline Sims game.

See this is why I want a new base game I think Maxis we’re kinda forced by the powers that be to make an online game as at that time EA had this idea that all games should be online and then the company line changed and suddenly the sims 4 is going to be a single player game and because they already had the engine for this online game and it was so far in development they had to release it.

I want the Sims 5 so that we get the game that the devs wanted to make and I just don’t think that’s the Sims 4

"CK213;c-16946279" wrote:
University
Witches
Farming
Tropical Vacation
Future Technology
Something entirely new.

This is what I would like for the completion of this series.
I would love to see University and Witches this year.
I have no idea what EA is doing and what we can expect. I just play other game and check in from time to time.
I start playing again when something new drops... for about 4-6 weeks.

I don't want a Future EP again.

And your list leaves a lot of stuff out. I would like another vacation EP, not just another vacation GP, with more than one vacation world but that might not happen sadly. And I would like a Freetime EP too. Also kind of sad that other iterations had many lifestates but TS4 only has 3 (ghost, alien, vampire) plus 2 temporary ones (plantsims and skeletons) .

"mika;c-16947020" wrote:

"king_of_simcity7;c-16944739" wrote:
Shame it is not TS5 really. I mean by next year TS4 would be 5 years old and well, still not got your cars, Open World, proper teenagers, life like babies or even CASt. That is appalling :(

It does seem that they are moving away from TS4 though in the number of content coming for it.

Open world was never meant to be a part of this iteration...

Yes, open world is never coming to TS4 nor open neighborhoods, that has already been disclosed.

"LeGardePourpre;c-16946783" wrote:
Keep in mind this announcement is for the investors, it's only in order to encourage them to keep on supporting EA.
There is no gain to worry the investors.

That is only an Illusion Show.

Yeah, and as someone just pointed out this also sounds like when they told us how many packs would be released the last year of TS3. They went ahead and told us everything. We knew a sequel was coming and the investors knew there was a sequel coming and how many things would be released before they wrapped it up.

If TS4 was this rushed, I don't see any incentive for EA to make TS5 any better.

"awlchick;c-16946456" wrote:
Everyone always complains that the sims isnt like an older sims. The whole point of making a new sims is to make it different!
Yeah, some things are cool to have forwarded to a new game like cars and such, but not everything. May as well play the old sims games if that's the case!

Well, you think it would be cool to have "cars and such" forwarded. Someone else might enjoy such and such forwarded, this person over here likes these things forwarded, that person over there a whole other set of content forwarded...

Please don’t say you all. I actually enjoyed getting a stuff pack each month they didn’t have an expansion or game pack.

"catloverplayer;c-16944464" wrote:

"rudy8292;c-16944460" wrote:

"catloverplayer;d-955182" wrote:
Doesn't sound good for Game and Stuffpacks cause they weren't mentioned.
https://twitter.com/SimsVIP/status/1092984609346854913

They mentioned this before in their financial reports, but every piece of DLC are ''Expansion Packs'' to them.

No way they are going to release a ton of (real) EP's in 1 year of time. 2, MAYBE 3 at most.

I think what it meant are 2 EPs and 20 free content drops.

Thet probably doesn't mean the whole PC. They have a console, and mobile. For stuff packs, it won't surprise me they stop doing them entirely. Some were interesting, but a lot of them were meh.

> @TheGreatGorlon said:
> @Anmirla That's what I would assume. I think 20 is a very generous estimate if it was instances of brand new generated content, and EXTREMELY generous if it's free content via patches (this IS EA we're talking about here, and "free" is a bit of a dirty word there), so I think that 20 includes patch content and packs for PC and consoles. It depends on whether they qualify Mobile as one of their content platforms, and also whether they consider XBoxOne and PS4 as separate content drops. So in reality, it could actually be a fancy way for them to inflate their numbers without actually releasing an overwhelming amount of new content.

It does say across mobile, PC, and console so I doubt we're getting a lot.