New Stuff Pack Coming
https://twitter.com/TheSims/status/970750844378365952/video/1 So a Pets expansion pack was too much. Funny how Sims 3 Pets featured cats, dogs, horses, snakes, turtles, hamsters, raccoons, deer, ...
Forum Discussion
"cameronw209;c-16362860" wrote:"drake_mccarty;c-16362717" wrote:
It has nothing to do with inflation. This is just to make more money. EA is a huge publisher which funds dozens of big name titles, they know how to adjust their development for inflation without piecemealing DLC.
Does it not make you wonder how a pack, such as an EP, stays the same price over 18 years, as it has for me, when various cost factors contributing to development would've risen sharply (dev salaries mostly come to mind)?
You outsource components of development for cheaper labor costs. EA already does this with SP’s. I remember the tweet from years ago where a concept artist called out the large number of producers assigned to The Sims 4 (Jace Wallace) after he was laid off right before the game launched. Producers (managers) are high cost drivers, and eat up the resources even though they aren’t actually making the content.
