Is the Refresh thing still happening?

"Vines12;c-18152458" wrote:
I truly hope more packs get refreshed, I thought the spa day refresh got a lot of positive feedback.
I see so much potential for Get To Work to have a refresh, I truly believe the developers see it to and can only hope its on their laundry list of things to do.

Yes, I hope for a GTW refresh too.

I like the refresh, was hoping for a few more, even if they were smaller than the Spa refresh. Maybe we got our hopes up too high, wishing for new worlds and careers etc, and a small thing would disappoints a lot simmers?

I don't recall when the Spa refresh did hit, but if it was in the early pandemic, perhaps this was easier to work with from home, than to work on brand new content.

I have a sneaking suspicion that they're in the process of throwing new and different ideas at the wall to see what sticks. Community voting hasnt been a thing for awhile, Sims Spark was a thing for a little while but no ones really talking about it anymore, we had one refresh with hints of more but we have yet to have confirmed news of anything. Now there's probably extenuating circumstances and yeah these arent directly related to one another, but its not like we're told much of anything unless there's new content on the horizon. So we're just left to speculate. I personally feel that refreshes was just another idea to help keep the series fresh and relevant, but someone up top said "no this is turning out stupid, scrap it."

They tend not to tease refreshes on the road map. Spa day wasnt hinted at in the roadmap. So we might get an announcement on September for all we know. Maybe next week?

"Calico45;c-18142867" wrote:
It isn't off the table and they did introduce it as an entire concept, however it isn't a guarantee either. Long story short, no official comment.

It might have come down to a cost benefit analysis of how many additional units of Spa Day sold, and last I checked no one but EA/Maxis has those numbers.

This. Money talks and unfortunately we don't know the numbers on how Spa Day sold AFTER the refresh additions and whether the devs/ deemed it worth the investment or not.

Also, it's possible a lot of the resources have been spent in other places/updates instead. Neighborhood stories, pronoun/sexual orientation updates, etc. They may not be the same team who did the Spa Day refresh who worked on those updates but I imagine it's likely/possible.

Spa Day refresh was great, really hope we can get something similar again. But I don't know how realistic that would be.

Since Sims 4 is going free to play, maybe there’s now a better chance of more refreshes. They’ll have to rely on DLC sales to get money from the free players, so they now have incentive to make DLC more appealing.