"Erpe;c-16397049" wrote:
"Cheekybits;c-16396943" wrote:
"catloverplayer;c-16396759" wrote:
"Cheekybits;c-16354767" wrote:
Sims 4 has a long way to go here’s a article stating they still have a ton of content. http://www.pcgamesinsider.biz/interviews-and-opinion/66418/we-see-crunch-as-a-sign-of-failure-says-sims-4-lead-producer/
They even state the end of pets the start of the second wave. So I’d say another few years to go.
I remember Grant saying before TS4 was released that it would have 50 Packs. Now I'm starting to believe it.
Yep, we’re on pack 26 I believe. In that article Grant said we’re on the second wave so that would make sense. I’d say another 2 years of sims 4 content and sims 5 near end of 2020.
But Grant is only a producer too. So he doesn’t make the decisions. Managers do. Therefore I don’t overinterpretate statements from producers because they aren’t responsible for those things and therefore always says something vague when they are asked about things which they don’t know for sure.
The decisions are made by top managers instead and the reason why those managers don’t tell a lot of details about the future clearly is that they don’t make all the decisions before it is necessary. Many of their decisions they also change or adjust later. So they don’t tell us about their plans early and they usually don’t tell the devs about the plans either before the devs need to know. That way they don’t need to explain to everybody why they dropped a game, decided to suddenly make an unplanned game or changed the schedule or content for a game already in development.
So when producers only make vague statements it is usually because they don’t know more yet and only are guessing. But people study every detail in their statements anyway and analyze the statements as if the producers instead were the top managers who made all the plans and decisions. But they aren’t.
As an example we can ask the producers forever if there is a TS5 under development. They won’t answer. But if somebody in 2016 or 2017 instead had asked a top manager in EA if TS5 was under development then this top manager most likely would have confirmed it (a top manager did this when he got a similar question a few years ago and I think it was about TS3 in the TS2 days).
They know they don’t tell because it breaks there contract. You can’t really let people know about any future content until an official statement. That’s how it normally works for a lot of things not just video games. They know for sure they don’t get to make the call on when it comes out but they have the most understanding as to what’s going on. At the same time they won’t all agree to mention all the time that hey sims 4 will have a longer life. They can’t openly tell people that unless they are told they can mention it. People overly examine what they say because anything that they do say is what they can say. It’s all planned years in advance of what is going on.
