Snowy Escape is the next EP!

"fruitsbasket101;c-17689319" wrote:

"izecson;c-17689174" wrote:
I'm more interested in upcoming threads and youtube comments talking about this particular pack that we're going to see

Same. You know you've lost faith in a game when your more excited for the reaction to a certain pack than the actual pack itself. :D

Yes, but I still want to be surprised(good surprise) by the decision the gurus pull for the wellbeing of TS4.

"stilljustme2;c-17689628" wrote:

"Simburian;c-17689431" wrote:
With all the packs I am feeling a bit like Old Mother Hubbard with too much to do. I'm going to have to stop buying sometime as I haven't got time to do everything.

I just hope it'll be an expansion that I can use the contents of in all the worlds. I'm using all the StrangerVille stuff in Oasis Springs and Sulani for example as I don't like the StrangerVille world much and the Get Famous stuff too as I'm not fond of that actual world either but love the objects and building stuff.

I'm working on a new template save; I used the cheat to complete the Strangerville scenario, then I moved the Eclectic Arts household (my favorite from that pack) to an apartment in the San Myshuno Arts Quarter and deleted the rest of the premades in that world. I'm going to use it as a retirement town for elders when I no longer actively play them but I don't want them consigned to Not In World. I've also got a cool museum I found on the Gallery all about the Strangerville story, plus my Latin-themed restaurant. I'm going to replace most of the houses with smaller 1-story places, probably midcentury themed. Might play one family there, a teen taking care of his elderly grandparents, then when he ages to YA send him off to University.

I moved Eclectic Arts household to a bunker in Oasis Springs as they are a likeable lot when recovered from that sickness! I copied that Bridlington museum to Willow Creek, making it Tudor Style, changing the contents and with one of the public toilets in the gardens around it Club Calico makes a very good lounge in Oasis Springs too with a desert style refurbishment.

I always save the Community Lots to My Library first thing after getting an expansion as it saves time filling empty worlds. I download them and change them around a bit or download unfurnished to put new stuff in.

I'm hoping that the new expansion will bring a lot of mix and match with it too, fully useable in all worlds not like Eco Lifestyle

Having everything makes it so easy to mix and match then.

"Robyn536;c-17689527" wrote:

"Goldmoldar;c-17688391" wrote:

"SageRainWillow;c-17687546" wrote:
The Sims 5 will just be a base game with no content. So the people asking for the next iteration will then complain about all the things that are missing compared to now. On the upside, there would be less bugs with less gameplay. And the vicious cycle continues...

Yeah with Sims 5 they will again remove what little features Sims 4 have and you are right the same ole cycle. I learned my lesson with Sims 4 do not purchase and just wait and see how it rolls first.

This is exactly what I did. I bought The Sims 4 the day it came out, checked it out for about a day, viciously missed Sims 3, and then deliberately set it aside for about 18 months. When I came back to 4, it had a lot more content. So less painful that way.

I bought the Sims 4 on release. Played it until my sims first baby burst out of the bassinet as a full grown child and quit it until seasons released. I was not happy about the lack of toddlers and I still can't believe they ever thought it was okay to release the game without them.

"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.

"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.

"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.

OMG YES! I really wish we could disable individual aspects of the packs. Like not having the Strangerville world or CAS, but keeping the BB stuff, or not having any of the Discover University gameplay or BB, but keeping the CAS items.

My game would run a lot better, cause certain packs are only installed because of either BB or CAS, and not really for the gameplay features.

I wish the clothing was organized better. Like under each EP, SP, etc. I don't use half of the clothes I could because it such a mess in CAS.

"catmando830;c-17690083" wrote:
I wish the clothing was organized better. Like under each EP, SP, etc. I don't use half of the clothes I could because it such a mess in CAS.

I thought they'd done some fixes, with BG items first then everything sorted by pack from newest to oldest. And you can filter by pack -- but I usually can't remember what pack had what outfits except for a few (there are some nice full body outfits for male Sims from GT, for example). I've been using the Randomizer more when clothing Sims in CAS, with some interesting results; sometimes I'll get nice pants and just have to look for a good shirt, or (more often) vice versa (most of the pants are way too short for my tastes).

"stilljustme2;c-17690094" wrote:

"catmando830;c-17690083" wrote:
I wish the clothing was organized better. Like under each EP, SP, etc. I don't use half of the clothes I could because it such a mess in CAS.

I thought they'd done some fixes, with BG items first then everything sorted by pack from newest to oldest. And you can filter by pack -- but I usually can't remember what pack had what outfits except for a few (there are some nice full body outfits for male Sims from GT, for example). I've been using the Randomizer more when clothing Sims in CAS, with some interesting results; sometimes I'll get nice pants and just have to look for a good shirt, or (more often) vice versa (most of the pants are way too short for my tastes).

If they would put a notation even in the pic of the clothing item to let us know what EP, SP, etc. it is from.

Yeah, let us filter by installed packs like in Sims 3. That sort of categorization and theming is really useful when creating certain content.