Tea ceremony coming soon?

"bixters;c-18050676" wrote:
I'm afraid it will just be those boring tea dispensers from City Living that they use at the Romance Festival. :/
I hope they will make a functional tea set with unique animations. It would have been great in Cottage Living for a proper English Tea.

This is my fear as well.

I would love to be a fly on the wall for some of these internal meetings. After decades of office work/team projects, I fully believe that the conversations go something like this:

Project lead: "okay, so we've decided that the tea ceremony is going to be one of the objects we add to the new wedding GP..."

Enthusiastic SimGuru1: "Great!! Guys, I've been thinking about this for months, and I've come up with a tea set that I think the community will love! It looks similar to the TS3 tea set that community members loved, but with our own little unique spin. I'll need another week or so to nail down the coding, but I'm really happy with the look that our art team came up with. We've been hearing about this request for years on the forum and social media, and I think people will be really happy with this."

Cynical SimGuru2: "Or, hear me out... while you were talking, I just recolored the tea table from City Living. Works exactly the same, will take us half a day to tweak and add to the pack."

Project lead: "I like your initiative! Let's go with the one that's almost done."

The following week...

Cynical SimGuru2 completes the minor changes to the City Living asset in about 20 minutes, spends the rest of the day playing a non-EA game, eating takeout, watching TikTok, and videochatting with attractive GameChangers. Emails the recycled asset to project lead at 4:00 p.m., with a note, "This went even faster than I thought!" and receives a text praising their efficiency from the project lead.