Spring Roadmap Announced: April-June

"jomilej;c-18236104" wrote:
I wouls say there are three themes with high probabilities right now:
- Horses: All the hints are there but I feel like they're planning on creation a whole EP around them so I'm not sure
- Hotels and B&B: the temporary stays feature is what convinced me about an upcoming hotel/resort/B&B pack
- Fairies: There are some hints sprinkled here and there and it's the last BIG occult not in game yet before moving to the other occults

I feel like they have been hinting at fairies for the past few years. I'm surprised we haven't seen a fairy pack yet. But then I also feel like they hinted very heavily about bands for a while there and then... nothing.

Horses, this seems the most likely after the sims Twitter post a few months back and the horse puzzle in GT. I definitely think we will see them before the end of the year, I think they are a strong possibility in the next roadmap.

Hotels/BB- the top of my wish list. I don't want to let myself believe it until I see it. Hopefully if they do come the gameplay is good.

"maggiemae8135;c-18236107" wrote:
I would love an EP for horses, with horse ranches, ability to teach horseback riding as an active career on your ranch and be able to ride your horse around the town, like bikes in Henford. I also want Hotels and B&Bs. I have a haunted B&B that currently is just a house but would be easy to change with an EP for hotels. And I will take any and all occults they want to give us, but would love fairies again in game and genies, as well as updating the mermaids, plantsims and aliens!

I love your ideas for horses. I would hope it would be a GP though and not an EP. I feel like we should be able to get the experiences you mentioned housed within a GP. In addition to what you mentioned I would also like to see a ranch type vacation experience where families could go learn to ride, experience the outdoors etc without having to fully commit to having a permanent horse.

I'm hoping that second EP they mentioned coming this year will be hotels/bed and breakfast

Horses are the most likely since The Sims team on their tiktok account when someone asked them about horses they responded with eyes emoji and horse emoji, even if they had never responded to such questions or requests. Also bands GP is a thing
Or they might mix bands and hotels and merge it into one huge expansion

If we do get horses... and I very much hope we do... I would love to see a pack set in a world outside of the typical US setting. Argentina, Brazil, Australia, Mongolia would be interesting and appropriate settings, and I'm sure there are many other possibilities.

"Amapola76;c-18236302" wrote:
If we do get horses... and I very much hope we do... I would love to see a pack set in a world outside of the typical US setting. Argentina, Brazil, Australia, Mongolia would be interesting and appropriate settings, and I'm sure there are many other possibilities.

Argentina or more specifically the Patagonia region would be my preferred location. There are certainly beautiful areas of the US that would fit an equestrian pack, however I would like to see something different as well.

I didn’t get to play with horses in TS3, so I would love getting them now because I have nothing to compare them to. I hope it would come with a non American world as well and I’m American. I want to play in new places, places I can’t or havent been myself.

"amydunne;c-18236681" wrote:
I think there is a high likelihood of hotels/b&b and horses to be combined into one expansion pack, set in a world outside the US. Either that or horses will be a separate game pack and the next expansion will be centered around hotels/b&b.

I think it would be more likely that horses would come in a game vs expansion pack. They would have to have so much more to sell than just horses when it comes to an expansion. Even if they introduced a new occult like fairies and added unicorns/horses, I still think it would be a game pack since the rest of the occults came in a game pack (correct?).

I definitely think a hotels/b&b pack would absolutely have to be an expansion with a new world and I would want that world to be not U.S. based. I want something so vastly different than what we have now. I miss the sims 3 vacation worlds and the local townies there. They had more depth than selvarodrian townies. My question though is if they do do an hotel expansion pack would that new world be livable or a vacation world? I don't like getting new worlds where I can't live in.

"lovemy4s;c-18236688" wrote:

"amydunne;c-18236681" wrote:
I think there is a high likelihood of hotels/b&b and horses to be combined into one expansion pack, set in a world outside the US. Either that or horses will be a separate game pack and the next expansion will be centered around hotels/b&b.

I think it would be more likely that horses would come in a game vs expansion pack. They would have to have so much more to sell than just horses when it comes to an expansion. Even if they introduced a new occult like fairies and added unicorns/horses, I still think it would be a game pack since the rest of the occults came in a game pack (correct?).

I definitely think a hotels/b&b pack would absolutely have to be an expansion with a new world and I would want that world to be not U.S. based. I want something so vastly different than what we have now. I miss the sims 3 vacation worlds and the local townies there. They had more depth than selvarodrian townies. My question though is if they do do an hotel expansion pack would that new world be livable or a vacation world? I don't like getting new worlds where I can't live in.

I also think horses will come in separate gamepack soon, maybe May/June?

"lovemy4s;c-18236688" wrote:

"amydunne;c-18236681" wrote:
I think there is a high likelihood of hotels/b&b and horses to be combined into one expansion pack, set in a world outside the US. Either that or horses will be a separate game pack and the next expansion will be centered around hotels/b&b.

I think it would be more likely that horses would come in a game vs expansion pack. They would have to have so much more to sell than just horses when it comes to an expansion. Even if they introduced a new occult like fairies and added unicorns/horses, I still think it would be a game pack since the rest of the occults came in a game pack (correct?).

I definitely think a hotels/b&b pack would absolutely have to be an expansion with a new world and I would want that world to be not U.S. based. I want something so vastly different than what we have now. I miss the sims 3 vacation worlds and the local townies there. They had more depth than selvarodrian townies. My question though is if they do do an hotel expansion pack would that new world be livable or a vacation world? I don't like getting new worlds where I can't live in.

The benefit to vacation worlds is that the population can be controlled. If you are trying to create a specific look or culture with the townies that can happen in a vacation world where with a residential world anyone can show up there.

I also loved the vacation worlds with sims 3 though I preferred the hotels of sims 2. I doubt we will ever see a pack that comes with multiple worlds
A pack that gives the option to run and stay at a hotel and b&b with 3 highly themed destination worlds would be my ideal pack.

"RapidRabidRabbit;c-18236768" wrote:
When did they say there were many more years of TS4 left? Because if they said it in like 2020, they would have been more or less correct at the time given that it’s 2023 and they’re still releasing content.

Maybe at the time they said TS4 has many years left, it was true, and now we’re just reaching the end of TS4’s lifespan.

yep, they said it a few years ago but they have also said they want to keep releasing The Sims 4 dlcs when The Sims 5 launches so I don't know. Seeing, how many and good things we are getting, how they are listening to out demands and requests I think it might be coming to the end. We wanted bunk beds, playable babies, more depth and family/age groups oriented game play, werewolves, better teens and kids and we are getting all of that. I think they will give us cars as an update, horses, fairies, singer/music bands, hotels and vacation packs, maybe they will give us something completely new and experimental like space themed pack and it will end