It’s been so...

"Dannydanbo;c-16717700" wrote:
The teasers were new to this version of the game. We had never had them before and, if you read simgurukate's post about the reasoning of dropping them, maybe you'll understand it better. We will still have the normal announcement trailers when the time for a new pack is eminent, maybe two or three depending on what features they want to highlight. This whole "there's no more communication...." because the teasers were dropped is silly. With no teasers, we will be getting the same amount of information we've had in the past, not less because we didn't have teasers in past versions.

Reading through her post doesn't reveal anything, so I don't understand it better. She just says:

"As much as we enjoyed sharing a sneak peek into the future, there’s a good reason why they don’t make sense moving forward.
Since the beginning of The Sims 4, we’ve been forthright in saying that pack releases won’t fall into predictable patterns, and to expect for things to change as we try new approaches to creating fun experiences. As you may be guessing, we’re mixing things up. there will be quarters where we don’t release new paid content, so quarterly teasers won’t be the right format for sharing information."

What is that "good reason"? They want to spice things up and be unpredictable because a new trailer could drop anytime now? Is that the new "fun experience"? Looking at the forums it seems to have the opposite effect of fun... Of course it makes sense to not do a quarterly teaser when there's nothing to announce, but I don't understand how that affects all the other months where content is released and things could be teased at. And what is that new "format for sharing information"?

So they only take communication away, but don't add anything new. There are the Twitch streams, but afaik there's only been one until now and they only did some Let's Plays. They didn't give out any kind of informations. (Here's hoping that the Guru Garage stream next week will reveal something.) Even the Twitter conversations only happen once in a while and then it's just reduced to a bunch of "Maybe" and "It's a possibility"
And no, we don't get the same amount of informations - Previous Sims games usually had infos about upcoming packs months in advance. With TS4 the teasers were the way to go, but they don't exist anymore.

I'm just trying to say here that we do get less informations and denying this is just disagreeing with a fact. I don't want to attack you in any way (maybe my post sounds like this). You can be okay with less infos and that's fine. No one tries to force you to be upset or angry. But I'm bothered by the promise of better communication and then seeing the exact opposite happening.