"kaiwrysims;c-17999469" wrote:
"Laruhell;c-17999450" wrote:
"HeyYoDiscoNick;c-17999346" wrote:
Also, are we all going to ignore the worldwide pandemic that impacted literally everything this year and last? I'd like to see more new content too, but it's wild to me how people are talking about this like EA/Maxis were completely unaffected and just chose to produce less. Like, we've had less new movies this year too. Books and TV shows have been delayed. Why are we talking about The Sims like it exists in a vacuum? Heck, I haven't been the most productive version of myself either because of, well... *motions vaguely at the whole world*
If they had been more honest and transparent with players and just told us that this year will not bring us as many content packs due to the pandemic, i think people wouldve been more accepting over the fact that we got only 3 of them this year. Instead, the team kept this all completely silent, had everyone stringed along with vague tweets on upcoming content and even said when releasing kits that ''they wont impact the release of normal content packs'', which obviously gave everyone the hope that kits will just be random small content packs and well still get the usual 4-5 content packs this year.
People wouldve still been angry and disappointed of course lmao, but i think now people are far more justified to be so because ea really made it sound all this year as if nothing will change and that we are still getting the usual amount of content packs and updates.
Idk what they said about the pandemic. I'm sure they said something because a few people have been saying that the devs are still working from home.
They haven't said much officially, but if you follow some of the SimGuru's on twitter, they make references to still working from home, GrimSuruDoi does his crossword streams from his house at times when, if he weren't working from home, he should be either at work or on the road to or from work (and he said he had like a two hour commute), and when they do the Inside Maxis streams, they're still in individual and what look to be home offices, while pre-pandemic streams had everyone crowded into one office or a conference room or something.
So from that, I'm guessing they're still more at home than in the office.
As for why they haven't said anything... as I said, last year when the pandemic was new, they still managed to keep on time. They probably hoped that the same would happen this year, but it didn't. They probably didn't know back in March that they wouldn't have anything ready for fall. And that's probably also why they didn't say for certain that there wasn't going to be an EP this winter. They're probably still trying to pull it together in time for a Christmas release, but they don't want to promise that unless they know they can deliver.
