In my opinion they ran out of ideas within the first week or so of TS4 release. We are now into the fourth month of the sixth year. If the expected content has all been done, then I would like to ask where are automobiles? Where are the zillion new aspirations and traits compared to the ones in TS3 by this time? Where is the chemistry system? The slow dancing, let alone the facing each other and tuning out the crowd? The werewolves and other lifestates? Actual apartment, duplex, condo, tenements building tools for players? The ability to build our own custom worlds or at least edit all of Maxis worlds? change the backdrops, the sky, the terrain? Move a tree...
Where's the graveyard? Where's the bus stop, the taxi, the Uber drivers? I could go on. The fourth month of the sixth year and we are still asking, while we get those so called surprises, like My First Pet Stuff, Island Living, Strangerville, and that horrid clothes pack, (right up there with KP Sweet Stuff), sorry, no, they have not gotten the major requests out of the way, if they had any of their EPs or GPs would have included the things I mentioned, and there is still a bucket load of things not in TS4 people would expect in a life simulator in it's fourth month in it's sixth year.
ETA: Had to correct everything getting bolded. But maybe I missed something. Can Sims sit on a beach and watch the ocean in IL? Or cuddle on beach and watch waves together (TS2) in IL? Can singers, comedians or others (TS1& TS3) go to studio and work like the actor in TS4's GF ? Or even bands? like in TS3? Is there a prom or graduation for teens in TS4 like in TS3's Generation pack? Any babysitting/ running daycare like in TS3? in Parenthood? Any hotels and or running hotels like in 1,2,3? Any tractors and farming equipment like in TS3? The point I'm making is they say they got the big packs out of the way, ok, but less for more doesn't mean they actually fullfilled those requests in those (expected) packs. It's almost to the point by this time line, we have to ask what have you been doing?
Sorry, no, I expect their new twists and turns will be the same old song and dance. Use the Sim pc, or jog or paint and slap a new name on it as a new career or hobby.
