"Stormsview;c-16423980" wrote:
I think the toddlers were always meant to be in the base game because its the only way it would work, after all, they are part of the Sims family.
Think about it, if you give birth to a baby in sims 4 you age it up to a toddler only if you buy the pack, NoWay! I think that would have been unreasonable.
I do not feel they ever had the intention of selling the toddler apart from the base pack.
Those are some beautiful toddlers and with very lifelike animations. It would take about two years in creating them.
I agree with you that EA wouldn’t plan to sell the toddlers for money. But this is far from the only time that EA has released a Sims game without toddlers and the Sims 2 games for consoles didn’t even have children at all. Therefore I don’t really wonder that EA planned to let TS4 just become a Sims game without toddlers (and with simplified babies and teens too) when the main new things in TS4 instead were planned to be more multitasking and more happy partying for adults.
The toddlers became nice when they released them. But it can’t have taken more time for them to make the toddlers anyway than they usually use on a GP which they can make in just about 4 months.
Also EA never would have let them use that much time on making toddlers as free content unless EA was desperate and believed that impressing toddlers were the only thing that could get the sales numbers for TS4 packs up to an acceptable level. And the reviews all over the web surely confirmed EA in this! Therefore I am still sure that toddlers were made in desperation and not at all as a part of EA’s original plans for TS4.
