Spring Road Map?
Was just wondering if you all think there is going to be a road map for spring April - July potentially? Or do you think they will do a 6 month road map from April - October? And what do you expect w...
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"logion;c-18251531" wrote:
EA's Chief Operating Officer said several years ago that games these days are often lasting longer with a lifespan of 10-15 years. There are some successful games out there that have lasted that long but there are also newer and successful games out there that proves the opposite.
EA/Maxis seems to have focused a little bit more on the more requested features that people have wanted lately so I believe we might actually get some other heavily requested feature with the Spring update.
Unfortunately, games lasting longer nowadays is almost never to the customer's benefit. Usually it comes down to either being a "live service" game, or simply the insane budgets AAA games have nowadays. Frankly, it's often not even to the publisher's benefit (let alone the developers). Live service games tend to crash and burn if they don't catch on, and the huge budgets often mean low profits even for popular releases. As a corollary, Jedi: Fallen Order was proof even to EA that a humble singleplayer game with no post-launch content can absolutely still be worth making.
The Sims 4 is a good example of this itself. Look at how many of these threads are pointing out the swathes of content it's still missing from earlier entries. The Sims 4 has almost lasted twice as long as those games, and it has less content to show for it.
With the Sims 5 not coming any time soon it can't be helped at this point, so it'd be great if we could finish as much as possible for the Sims 4, but we're not really getting more because it lasted longer.
