TS4 is getting a complete "refresh" in design and look. I guess TS5 isn't happening soon....

I like it! :) I don't know why people think TS5 is happening. They have said repeatedly that they still have years worth of content for TS4.

Sooo are they making the UI blue too?

"Sigzy05;c-17156428" wrote:
Sooo are they making the UI blue too?

Thankfully no.

"Chazzzy;c-17156301" wrote:
What's the point of that? New cover designs? Who cares about that? Why don't they "revamp" some of the features of the game and make them work better?

This X 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000

New loading screen is ugly but whatever. I hope it's at least faster.

"Chazzzy;c-17156301" wrote:
What's the point of that? New cover designs? Who cares about that? Why don't they "revamp" some of the features of the game and make them work better?

Pretty sure all the branding stuff is done by an external brand design agency, not the studio itself. So no development time is wasted on this.

"SimGuruGraham" wrote:
Once we have suggestions on what could visually represent the pack, we hand those ideas off to a brand design agency who takes each idea and develops it into an icon for consideration.

This agency has helped define the identity of The Sims 4 packaging that you see on store shelves - going all the way back to base game. We continue to partner with them to assist in developing the branding for each pack that’s released.

"Chazzzy;c-17156301" wrote:
What's the point of that? New cover designs? Who cares about that? Why don't they "revamp" some of the features of the game and make them work better?

This was my thought too.

"elelunicy;c-17156459" wrote:

"Chazzzy;c-17156301" wrote:
What's the point of that? New cover designs? Who cares about that? Why don't they "revamp" some of the features of the game and make them work better?

Pretty sure all the branding stuff is done by an external brand design agency, not the studio itself. So no development time is wasted on this.

"SimGuruGraham" wrote:
Once we have suggestions on what could visually represent the pack, we hand those ideas off to a brand design agency who takes each idea and develops it into an icon for consideration.

This agency has helped define the identity of The Sims 4 packaging that you see on store shelves - going all the way back to base game. We continue to partner with them to assist in developing the branding for each pack that’s released.

They need a new agency.

Everything about this new design is ugly as sin. The new covers look like they belong to PS2 games, and the new plumbob looks like it was designed in MS Paint in about fifteen minutes.

I can get over the ugly design, because it mostly won't affect me in game, but I feel like I'm also going to get annoyed having to click "no" every time I create a new sim and it tries to get me to use this story feature. I hope there's a toggle, or at least a mod to turn it off. Adding more background to your starting sims is a good idea in theory, but I don't think it looks well implemented. This isn't going to let me create the sims I want in CAS; this is just a fancier trait randomizer.

Do they honestly think this looks appealing? Also, are they out of things to fix/improve that they decided to work on something literally NO-ONE asked for?

Cause if they’ve run out of ideas, they could spend 5 mins. On the forum and get 100+.