March Patch Speculation 2020
Time once again to speculate on the Next Patch for The Sims 4. I feel like that this patch will be big cause I think it will be a Pre Gamepack Patch and add stuff to the base game but I could be wrong...
Forum Discussion
"catloverplayer;c-17427906" wrote:"darrenfroggy;c-17427760" wrote:
A statement from EA:
https://www.ea.com/news/an-ea-update-on-the-coronavirus-situation?isLocalized=true
It's not as simple as "they can work from home". They had entire studios around the world completely shut, which I would guess has heavily affected even those working from home. And some of those closures would've been with short notice (if any) so they might not have been ready to move staff to working from home - they need to bring their work equipment etc, set up for communication. Every step that's normally done on site takes longer, especially anything that's outsourced to other companies. QA might be the most hit of them all because bug fixing needs multiple devices for tracking and reproducing bugs.
I think it's going to take a lot of luck to get even an April patch since most quarantines/lockdowns in Europe are only just starting.
Yes but what about the US? As far as I know they haven't closed any US offices so that shouldn't effect new patches,packs and content. I do wonder however how this will effect EA's Fiscal in April.
The announcement says that all offices (including the US ones) are now work from home. And again, it's not as simple as "well, this office is closed", their offices are linked and if, for example, their localization ones (in Spain) are closed or on lower ourput, it affects ALL produced content. It's not like TS4 is only done in Redwood.
