Occult Sims

"Sjofn;c-16729503" wrote:
Something to bear in mind, if he did a 'what occult next' poll without putting witches on it, that would've started a HUGE flurry of 'OMG WITCHES SOON!!!!!111!!' that I can't imagine would've been smiled upon. They could well have started a witches GP before that poll (as anyone who has even slightly glanced at this forum can see people who like occults REALLY want witches), but it was way too early to acknowledge it.

Not saying they did! But it's not impossible.

If they were already doing Witches, why put out a poll in the first place? And why so soon after Seasons? The Focus was still Weather and there was Talk about farming. The Occult Poll didn't fit thematically into the Seasons Talk. And what if Witches didn't win? Either the poll would have to be manipulated in order to favor the one that is already in the works if it wasn't actually winning, which would render the information gathered from it almost useless because many people tend to follow the heard or the release of Witches, again assuming they didn't win, would make the community think the Poll was meaningless and just teasing, and it would cause an outrage.
If they were already working on witches when the poll came out, they must have already been very sure about what the results would be, because if there was a chance that the results were different than expected, the poll would cause way more harm than good to them. And in this case, why do a poll, if you already know everything that poll could tell you, other than to tease? And too much time has passed without an announcement for it to be a real tease.
Simply not adding the occult they are already working on would have been a confirmation. I agree.
Unless they are actually working on a Plantsim Overhaul. Or Mummies. Or Bigfoot.
The Polls had Werewolves, Robots, Fairies, Imaginary friends, Mermaids, Witches and two more I can't remember, but I think it might be Zombies and Genies. Everything else is simply not obvious enough. And was, for a large part, not really popular.
Unless the poll was actually for them to decide what Occult to do in what order, what Occults to skip entirely and what occult to start working on right now.
Witches are coming, but they aren't near completion and in the bug fixing and fine-tuning phase. I think the concept arts are finished and the features are currently being discussed. No CAS or Build Mode object or gameplay animation has been created yet. We are lucky if they have placeholders for the Witch hidden trait and the lot traits.

Edit: Here on the Forum, Werewolves are popular too. Similar to Witches even. In the Twitter poll, Werewolves made second to last. (I think) So, not really a safe bet.