Theory on The Sims 4 Seasons
I apologize if this has been posted somewhere else, but I just had a thought. I know a lot of people want Seasons to be an expansion pack for Sims 4 as it was with Sims 3 (myself included). However,...
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"aclavo;15092454" wrote:"azxcvbnm321;15091980" wrote:
I think the real reason we're not going to see stuff like Seasons or Generations (no toddlers) is that the game engine is extremely limited and they CAN'T do those without redoing the entire game. How would seasons work with the set backgrounds? They'd have to do a custom background for each world and each season. While this is possible, it seems like too much work for them to bother with. I also doubt pets will be released, ever. Pets would require new animations and ways to multitask. If they did Pets but not toddlers, that would create a firestorm of controversy on the forum and elsewhere. So they'd have to do toddlers if they are going to do pets, and they aren't going to do toddlers because of the difficulty of programming carryable toddlers while multitasking, which is why babies are restricted to the crib as objects in the first place. This indeed is a new type of Sims game, it is very very limited as to what can and can't be done.
Do you really believe someone creates a game whose sole purpose is adding to its foundation with expansions and so forth have a limited game-engine? How interesting.
The engine in question was previously made for another project that was cancelled. Instead of building an engine from ground up for Sims 4 they used that engine so therefore to play it safe they have to work around that engines capabilities so the engine is limited in what it can do and Imho the reason for so many SPs and not enough EPs and the creation of GPs. If this engine was strong enough I believe most features would be assessable regardless of time line, another issue it was made for low end machines so they can enjoy the game and anything above that there is really no perks and again that is speculation.
