Opinion Rant: I think I just found a reasonable reason why we are not getting Snow Depth.

"Erpe;c-16510568" wrote:


TS2 had a little depth in the snow to make it look more interesting and impressing.
TS3 got even more details in the deep snow t make it look so impressing that even simmers who already had played TS2 Seasons would become exited and buy TS3 Seasons too.
For TS4 Seasons they considered deep snow too. But if it couldn’t look even more detailed and impressing than the snow in TS3 Seasons then it wouldn’t be much worth in the sales videos and presentations anyway. People would likely just become bored seeing it and ask if TS4 Seasons didn’t have something better than just a repetition on the deep snow from TS3?

So the team needed to use the time and the resources to make something new and impressing that could make simmers exited even if they already had played TS3 Seasons a lot. This couldn’t be better snow. So they simplified the snow instead to get more time to invent other new and more impressing things for TS4.

Also remember that EA can’t just increase the budgets without increasing the sales numbers or sales prices too unless EA wants to not have an equally profitable game anymore. But EA can’t increase the prices for the packs without sales numbers going down. So if EA must put a lot of new things into the packs then EA has to simplify and omit other things. We can’t have it both ways.