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7 years ago
"Scobre;c-16212914" wrote:"Simsfan99111;c-16207138" wrote:
The one ep a year thing is such a pain especially when your still waiting for something that really gets you excited and interests you.
It is painfully slow. Part of the reason why I hope the Sims 4 ends in the normal life cycle in 2019 for a Sims game. I'm ready for a new base game with a different release schedule with a different focus than what the Sims 4 has had with CAS focused packs. I want to see EPs redeem themselves with the franchise. I've never been a fan of SPs and Sims 4 focusing mainly on those packs than the other packs makes it a real downer when coming up with ideas for the Sims 4 given how limited the scope packs are this iteration. Hopefully GPs will replace SPs for the next iteration and we will see 2 EPs released per year again. I don't think anyone can honestly say $40 worth of SPs offers the same amount of gameplay a $40 EP offers even if EPs haven't impressed me this iteration. Game packs have exceeded my expectations so I wouldn't mind if that pack type continues with future Sims iterations. So I am hopeful for the Sims future and seeing the franchise grow some more. At least the gender patch was a push in expanding the franchise and nice seeing more grown up toddlers this time around.
Anyways good article despite the goof up of the Sims 3 EP release schedule being not correct. I hope that 2018 does impress me more than 2017 did and brings some sort of real transportation into the game, so here is hoping for Sims 2 type of cars that pull out of driveways and have fun interactions again while still exceeding my expectations for them for the Sims 4. I would love if Sims could use the ferry and streetcar as transportation too.
Alas I don’t see it likely that the number of yearly EPs will increase in the future or that SPs will be replaced by GPs because this hasn't been the tendency at all :( Instead the tendency has been:
1. More and more SPs and stuff replacing new gameplay.
2. EPs being more and more replaced by GPs.
So I fear that TS5 won’t get EPs at all.
If I should guess about other new things in TS5 it would be:
1. More online options.
2. More options for ingame purchases such that some of the free content now will be sold as ingame purchases instead.
3. SPs could maybe at least partly be replaced by ingame purchases.
4. GPs as the main expansions. But maybe with more stuff and less new gameplay in them.
I don’t like stuff myself. But for a company like EA everything depends on costs and sales numbers. Stuff is many times cheaper for EA to add than new gameplay is because new gameplay requires a lot of programming, testing and bug fixing. Stuff mainly only requires artists. So stuff can be made much faster than new gameplay and with much fewer developers working on it. So when simmers just buy stuff just as much as new gameplay then EA will always give stuff much higher priority than new gameplay. No surprise there! I would just wish that there wasn’t so extremely many simmers who just buy all the SPs too...
The low priority of EPs can in my opinion only be caused by lower sales numbers for them which again must be caused by their higher price which makes it difficult for especially very young simmers (who need their parents to pay the bill) to get them. This problem has only become bigger when everything now is sold as digital downloads which makes it hard for young simmers to get EPs as presents for birthdays of Christmas too.
So it doesn’t really surprise me that EA’s main strategy now is “more, but cheaper expansions and with more stuff and less gameplay”. I just don’t like this strategy at all :(
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