@Stormsview You just forget that the developers aren’t the managers in EA who decide how EA’s money should be used. Also there are two other things that simmers usually forget:
1. The developers aren’t very often simmers themselves. When they list their own favorite games they usually list very different games instead. This shouldn’t be surprising at all because their education is about making games in general and for all platforms. Also the developers in Salt Lake City had mainly just made a lot of Tiger Woods golf games before EA suddenly chose them to make Sims games and also to release 4 EPs for TS3 in only 2 years (2012 and 2013). So of course a lot of those developers likely preferred sports games over Sims games.
2. EA’s top managers are mainly interested in sports games and action games too and they don’t really understand why people are playing Sims games. They negotiated of course with Rachel Franklin about this. But on https://simsvip.com/2015/09/14/rachel-franklin-on-the-future-of-the-sims-4/ she says:
”(Q) So you’re satisfied that not having toddlers was the right choice?
Rachel Franklin: That’s the decision that we made based on all of the information that we had at the time. So absolutely, I feel like it’s the best decision for the game to date. I’m not talking about future stuff. But I do think it’s important to know, that players play in very different ways. We see all kinds of different play styles and family players are very passionate, so are players that play other ways.
And I want to make sure that all of those voices are considered when people are thinking about whether or not we’ve included the right things. Because we do, we take it very seriously about whether or not we’re approaching all of those different play styles. We take it just as seriously as the players do that are asking for the things that they want.”
So again: EA knows that simmers play in different ways and that a lot of young simmers seem to be more interested in romance, flirting and partying than in raising kids. Therefore EA chose to use less money on babies, toddlers, children and teens than in the previous games and the plan can’t IMO have been to change that later.
