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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> @azxcvbnm321 said:
> 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.
They did add toddlers, and "pets" (Cats & Dogs expansion) is being released in November. It's already on the EA website. EA has many animators and they can work on multiple things at once, and they won't stop in any area that could make them money, regardless of the workload given to animators, writers, etc. I believe that seasons will come with a game update though, because it'd increase popularity of the game and would sell more, or at the very least come in an expansion. After all, they did come through with the others. (I apologize because you didn't know that these would be added to the game at the time, but never underestimate EA)
> 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.
They did add toddlers, and "pets" (Cats & Dogs expansion) is being released in November. It's already on the EA website. EA has many animators and they can work on multiple things at once, and they won't stop in any area that could make them money, regardless of the workload given to animators, writers, etc. I believe that seasons will come with a game update though, because it'd increase popularity of the game and would sell more, or at the very least come in an expansion. After all, they did come through with the others. (I apologize because you didn't know that these would be added to the game at the time, but never underestimate EA)
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