I actually recently noticed (even before reading this thread) that every 4th Gamepack tends to be an occult-themed one. I never took into consideration the vacation/profession/generations-esque pattern as I don't particularly pay that much attention to that form of gameplay. (I use it in conjunction with my occult playstyle but never alone with the occult play) so that's actually a very good call.
As I really don't want to wait another two and a half years before getting another occult pack, I'm hoping that they'll continue the 2GPs a year trend from here on out, but I don't want to hold out too much hope based on another pattern I've noticed regarding GPs, in which it tends to alternate between 1 and 2 GPs a year (with 2021 being the exception, presumably due to Covid and many people still working from home)
2015 - 2 GPs
2016 - 1 GP
2017 - 2GPs
2018 - 1 GP
2019 - 2GPs
2020- 1GP
2021 - 1GP
2022 - 2GPs
If this pattern continues (ignoring 2021 for the moment) we'll probably get 1 GP in 2023, and 2 GPs in 2024, none of which would be occult based on the current pattern of them coming in multiples of 4, meaning the next occult would come in 2025 at the earliest, which would be incredibly unfair to occult players seeing as we get so little content as it is. Waiting to get a single pack every other year while still not great would be much more preferable than waiting till 2025 to get the next occult. Which is why I'm hoping that they'll break away from the alternating 1 GP-2GP patterns from here on out and give us 2 GPs every year until the end of TS4's lifespan. Especially since stuff packs seem to have been phased out.
Regardless of how many GPs are released per year though, I think we should be fairly safe to assume that GP 16 is going to be the next fully occult themed pack. And since fairies and werewolves seemed sort of "tied" in regards to which one occult fans wanted first (as opposed to genies and zombies for instance) I would place my bets on Fairies being the next "big occult" with the other remaining ones coming at a later time.
So if I were to "predict" the next 4 game packs I would imagine something sort of like this. (GP 16 being the only one that's "solid" in terms of position/order of release.
GP 13 - Bands/Music GP (profession/active pack) - as I'm sure we're all aware by now, there are usually hints to future packs hidden in item names, descriptions, etc of other packs. And well while I can't same the same is true for HSY, I can verify there are definitely subtle hints of something music related in Werewolves. There's the new guitar we got, posters depicting music/bands in some manner (one of the posters shows a werewolf hand making the "metal horns"/"rock on" symbol for instance) and the fact that many of the pre-mades come with pre-set musical preferences (Lou likes Alternative, S-Pop, and Winter Holiday. Rory likes Metal music, Wolfgang hates metal but likes Classical. Kristopher likes focus music, Celene likes Strange Tunes?) or musically related skills (Lou has some singing skill and Jacob has guitar skill.) So I think there's a good chance that we'll get something band-related in this next set of game packs.
GP 14 - Hotels? Or Scandinavian/Slavic inspired GP? (Travel) - I suppose this one could be both. But I haven't seen very many hints towards hotels so I'm leaning towards something either Scandinavian or Slavic simply because in a lot of recent packs there have been a lot of premades with either Scandinavian (ie Lunvik, Morlind) or Slavic (Volkov, Markovik) surnames. If not for a GP, I suppose somewhere Scandinavian or Slavic could be the setting of an EP instead.
GP 15 - Unknown Generational Pack. - I honestly have no idea on this one.
GP 16 - Fairies (occult pack)
