I think the community jump the gun

Well, it's been 2 whole years since we last had an occult sim. Occult Sim fans are just starved for more occults, especially Witches/Magic as that's always been the most popular I believe. Hype will be hype ever since the occult poll last year.

As far as proof, we don't usually get any when it comes to new content besides dev tweets or obscure/secret rare in game references, I guess. Though from the moment Strangerville was announced you could wager it was going for a sci-fi theme rather than magic/fantasy.

And while I appreciate it, I suppose some just got disappointed that it was a completely random pack over something that has been requested for years, and a staple of pretty much all Sims games.

"SimsBro;c-16974656" wrote:
Well, it's been 2 whole years since we last had an occult sim. Occult Sim fans are just starved for more occults, especially Witches/Magic as that's always been the most popular I believe. Hype will be hype ever since the occult poll last year.

As far as proof, we don't usually get any when it comes to new content besides dev tweets or obscure/secret rare in game references, I guess. Though from the moment Strangerville was announced you could wager it was going for a sci-fi theme rather than magic/fantasy.

And while I appreciate it, I suppose some just got disappointed that it was a completely random pack over something that has been requested for years, and a staple of pretty much all Sims games.

Basically this.

Ofcourse there was/is no evidence about what the next pack was/is going to be, but Strangerville (to me) seems very random. While I do appreciate the fact they are trying to throw some new stuff in the mix, I personally do not want this game to become some MMO where we have to fight bosses and continue a prefabricated story. I mean seriously, I don't care about it at all. And I don't know if I understood this correct, but I remember @SimGuruHouts saying that you can ignore the story element if you don't want to engage in it, but for it to completely turn to normal you have to go through the story at least once per save file. I mean, IF I understood this correctly, why? Why can't we turn off the story completely and make the town just behave like the others with no weird Sims and strange stuff going on.

Do I really have to play through the story every time I decide to make a new save? That's not my definition of having fun at all.

Back to the original topic; I am 1000% sure that we are getting Witches, we are getting University and probably more fan requests and new things, but the point is that a lot of people (at least If im speaking for myself) find the releases extremely random. People waited for years for a new occult to come out, and then they come with something like this.

This basically means that players have to wait even -longer- for their requested pack to come out.

I don't expect another gamepack so soon again. It will probably take months for a new chance of getting Witches or anything supernatural themed to come out. Heck, maybe it doesn't come this year at all.

That is, I think, where most of the disappointment comes from. From all the waiting all the time, while they know exactly what this community wants.

Same goes for different stair types. They know for years already we want them, but they are still not here, same with cars. They started flaunting the cars all over the place in the worlds, it was bad with Get Famous, but now with this new town it's car extravaganza all over again. Yet here we are still waiting....

At this rate they will (if they ever introduce said features) add these features when the game is almost done and we can start the whole cycle over again. I think stuff such as cars and spiral/U/L shaped staircases should have been base game material, not some after thought years and years down the line.

I agree with the OP. I understand why some people are upset, but try to understand EA's perspective. If the ONLY packs we got were ones we've had in the past, people would complain that TS4 isn't unique, doesn't add anything new, is a waste of money... They're stuck at this point where they need to create new content, but also have SO MUCH great past content to live up to. I'm sure that's a really hard balance for them to achieve.

I also respect the devs for giving us something off the wall that they thought we'd like. Remember that when Will Wright (the creator of The Sims) originally proposed The Sims concept, most people said it sounded boring and they weren't interested. It turned out to be a great success, though! Sometimes its hard for us to understand the concept in someone else's head until we experience it ourselves. I'm grateful the gurus are giving us this new experience :)

In regard to others thinking that The Three Years of Planned Stuff is just three yaers of the Sims 4's Lifetime, lets keep in mind that when they said this, they probably had UP to three yaers Planned, so most likely this iteration of the Franchise is going to be around most likely for another Decade (possibly two, lets keep in mind that were to the 4th generation of sims games, I'm pretty sure they aren't going to begin work on Sims 5 for a while).

"AuronoiChieftain;c-16974823" wrote:
In regard to others thinking that The Three Years of Planned Stuff is just three yaers of the Sims 4's Lifetime, lets keep in mind that when they said this, they probably had UP to three yaers Planned, so most likely this iteration of the Franchise is going to be around most likely for another Decade (possibly two, lets keep in mind that were to the 4th generation of sims games, I'm pretty sure they aren't going to begin work on Sims 5 for a while).

I really doubt this is going to last another decade.Another five years? Maybe but a decade no.Especialy when there is proof they are making another sim game.

How do we know it's going to be the next iteration of the sims, for all we know it could be Spore 2.

"AuronoiChieftain;c-16975170" wrote:
How do we know it's going to be the next iteration of the sims, for all we know it could be Spore 2.

They said it was going to be a Sims game, and it will be an AAA game. They were also looking for people who can create realistic style.It is probably sims 5.

"rudy8292;c-16974766" wrote:

At this rate they will (if they ever introduce said features) add these features when the game is almost done and we can start the whole cycle over again. I think stuff such as cars and spiral/U/L shaped staircases should have been base game material, not some after thought years and years down the line.

Sims 4's Launch was a total mess. There were a huge ton of stuff from older iterations not present in the base game (TODDLERS, POOLS, FAMILY TREES) but there were also stuff one would expect to see in Later Patches rather than on release (Astronomer Career, Woodworking table, Cowplants etc) It was so messy EAxis is still playing catch up with content from the past AND ALSO trying to not make simmers complain about ts4 not giving unique content to them

"KaeChan2089;c-16975769" wrote:
Sorry but can you blame us for being disappointed when we are constantly being disappointed from this shell of a game. -shrug-

You can be disappointed, but I m saying that some people kinda set themselves up for disappointment.When there was no proof we were getting witches

I don't think people in general are going to complain about devs implementing just same old features, since in in the end many of these play a tremedous role in a life simulation game such as University & Seasons, or add fun and special things to the game people are used to from other Sims like Magic.
If anything, the complaints tend to be that some of these features ought to be included in the base game by now.

Whenever I see wish lists for TS4, a lot of the wants are actually features seen in TS1-3 that 4 is still missing, though some are indeed completely new.