Snowy Escape is the next EP!

"APotts;c-17690004" wrote:

"Scobre;c-17689610" wrote:

"Sharonia;c-17688456" wrote:

"graventhe;c-17688307" wrote:
Anyone notices how they're announcing expansions packs too close to release date so people dont have enough information on the pack and buy it anyway, very smart move EA..

We used to get a month gap between announcements and release when expansions were good and 3 months before release in Sims 3 when expansions were TOO GOOD

I expect this EP to be horrible that's why EA announcing it so late and close to release which I'm expecting mid November..

I don't know if it's just me and my horrible sense of time but it doesn't seem like two minutes since the Star Wars pack released and now they're announcing another new pack already. I love getting new packs but it really feels like they're coming so fast now. I think I preferred it in the Sims 2 days when we got a new pack about every six months and the packs were much better quality.

I prefer it like that too. I never understood the need to push DLC after DLC with the Sims 3 and the Sims 4.

I am torn about this, on one hand even though I now own all available DLC, I still can't make a matching home, or find great outfits for my males sims.


I can't do alot of the things I enjoyed from earlier games this makes me want more and better DLC, but I have learned that is foolish thinking, because I will likely never get the items I most want and I should cut my losses and stop buying new packs, especially when I go into build/buy mode and my game hits major lag causing me to need to shut it down. Obviously, I have too much stuff and more dlc will only make it worse... Such a drag and a shame we can't remove or disable individual content we don't use to speed things up. Especially, in CAS. I would lose the majority of hats, and a bunch of the clothes and jewelry choices.

CASt in Sims 3 tended to cause a lot of lag, especially if you did a lot of custom styles. I think that might be one reason why we didn't get it in Sims 4. I miss it for some things, like being able to add a few grey streaks of hair when my Sims age up to Adult.

EA is a business -- part of that business is providing content for their games. The Sims 4 is unique because it's expandable; you buy a game like FIFA or Madden NFL, that's pretty much it, there's nothing to add on. But just like people can do "retail therapy" and go out shopping for new clothes or furniture or what have you, DLC adds in those new items for your Sims. And look at the Ideas Corner and other threads with what people want; all those ideas require new items, new animations, in some cases new worlds, so that means DLC. For us completionists who want to have everything, it can make it tough especially on an older system. My current computer is about 5 years old and still runs the game on High settings, but it's starting to get a little creaky so I'm looking to upgrade after the first of the year (I have some money coming in then), something with more RAM (I've got 12GB, looking at 16) and definitely a newer graphics card.

One more thing to remember -- the Forum isn't the only place that EA gets input. There's social media, such as Twitter and Facebook. The company does the occasional surveys -- some people have mentioned a winter themed pack was in one, which I probably missed when I was away due to health issues (bad eyes, now fixed). Many companies will bring in focus groups to react to an ad campaign or a new product; EA probably does the same, though in the COVID era it's probably more a Zoom meeting than actual face-to-face contact. And sometimes they get approached and asked to make tie-ins with other brands -- in Sims 2 we got IKEA Stuff (and I'd love to see something similar!), Sims 3 brought us Katy Perry (with mixed results), and with Sims 4 we've seen Star Wars and Moschino joining the party.