"Gelysen;c-16353393" wrote:
Several simgurus have mentioned they expect the sims 4 to have a longer life span than 1,2&3 did tho because it's still very stable and they still think there's loads left to add.
Where have you seen that?
Where as with the other games there were set numbers how many expansionpacks etc the game could handle, the sims 4 doesn't have that (Simgurus mentioned this)
TS1 got many more EPs than EA had planned. They therefore were quite difficult for the developers to make and for us to install.
TS2 wasn’t planned to get SPs and it didn’t for two years. But then EA made a Christmas SP just as an experiment. It sold so amazingly well that EA decided to make another SP and release it 3 months later. Both those SPs were without copy protection because they were only experiments. But when also the second SP got huge sales numbers then EA decided to release also SPs on a regular basis. So also TS2 got many more packs than EA originally had planned.
So no there isn’t a fixed maximum number of packs or EPs each game can get. But I agree that especially GPs and EPs become more and more difficult to make after a few years. They also sell less and less especially because most new simmers usually prefer to buy old discounted packs instead of the new more expensive ones. Therefore EA has always preferred to start over with a new basegame after at most 5 years. I don’t expect this to change unless EA at some time turns also the big PC versions of the game into a MMO game.
