"LeGardePourpre;c-16463826" wrote:
A spin-off is possible only if Maxis can't add the gameplay to the main game, like The Urbz, Castaway Stories and Medieval.
Life Stories and Pet Stories could have been added to Sims 2. But they were instead spin-offs because EA wanted to see if they sold better that way.
Medieval could have been replaced by something else or made a little differently if EA had wanted an EP instead of a spin-off. So EA likely just wanted once more to see if a spin-off would be able to attract some new customers.
So I still believe that the main reason that EA hasn’t released any spin-offs for TS4 is that EA already has TS3 for new customers who want to try a Sims game that is different from TS4. A spin-off now would likely just steal some of those customers such that they would buy it instead of TS3 - and EA sure doesn’t want that!