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

"ClassicalSim;c-16594033" wrote:

"SimzSizzle;c-16594016" wrote:

"Erpe;c-16526885" wrote:

"Drearydeary;c-16526758" wrote:

I suspected that. But deep snow is way too expensive for EA to make unless it can be sold for real money. Otherwise EA would have included it in the Seasons EP which they also considered. But they assessed that it would be a huge work which they therefore chose to do on other things instead.

I read all the reasons why they decided to not have snow depth, I just can't accept that "it would be to expensive" as a reason because it's not like they would be hurting for money. To me that just sounds like the turn around for money wouldn't be as big which I don't like. Your entitled to your opinion and I'm entitled to mine, the only reason I want to state mine is because I'm a huge fan of the sims since the sims 1 and I hope that by stating my concerns they can be heard to make the game better.

The general problem is that EA can’t increase the price for the EP even if EA puts twice as much content into it as their was in the Sims 3 version of Seasons. Therefore EA has to choose between:
1. Make Seasons for the Sims 4 very close to be a copy of Seasons for the Sims 3.
2. Replace some of the content in Seasons for Sims 3 with new content.

But option 1 would likely be critizised a lot too and fewer would buy the EP because they would feel that they just as well could play Seasons for the Sims 3 if they have this EP. Therefore EA chose option 2. But simmers don’t like to see something from the earlier version of Seasons removed. The devs just chose to do it anyway because they knew that just adding deep snow once more wouldn’t satisfy people as much as new content likely would.

P. S. I can't quote properly because I'm a new member and it won't allow me to yet

I know :)

commenting on the bolded part of your comment
huh ?
It used to cost 39.99 ( somewhere around that ballpark)
Now it and all the other expansion packs cost

FYI: That price increase was due to an increase in exchange rates in different countries. In the United States, where Maxis is located, the price for expansion packs remains the same, $39.99. Here's a short article by EA that gives a brief explanation:

https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/the-sims/the-sims-4/the-sims-4-extra-content-price-changes/