Genuinely curious: would y'all mind if they just stopped releasing new stuff for a few months and instead spent more time revamping old packs?And by this I mean both revamping as they did for Spa Day, but also revamping in the sense of critically reviewing packs which should offer more cross-pack compatibility than they currently do.Some examples I could think of are:Occults- More interaction between all the occults (especially between witches and vampires); maybe a way for witches to create vampires - Maybe add an occult-specific world map with lore that relates to all the occults we have (but especially witches, vampires and werewolves; as mermaids for me only really make sense at the beach)- Give mermaids a REAL power system like the other occultsParenthood / HSY- Add WAY MORE things to the parenting "force to ..." / "ask to ..." wheel, including: walk pets, brush pets, ride bike, play in the snow, go to prom, join a club at school, and more I can't really remember right now- Speaking of which, I'd also like a way to discipline things like bad grades Cats & Dogs, Cottage Living, Horse Ranch- A way for families to go on dog walks together (I hate that couples or parents and kids can't walk their pets together, and with the group walking thing from Snowy Escape, I feel this should be possible to add ...?)- Expand on the vet career: let vets also treat cows, llamas, horses, goats, ... . Add an option to the career where they can specialize in small pets, large pets or all pets- And frankly, I'd like a non-active vet career as well where we don't need to purchase our own clinic to be a vetI am sure there is a lot more but you get the gist.That being said, I am curious what else you guys would like to see revamped? I don't mind updating my list here, maybe it helps the SimGurus with some ideas lol

"SimTrippy;d-1009954" wrote:Genuinely curious: would y'all mind if they just stopped releasing new stuff for a few months and instead spent more time revamping old packs?And by this I mean both revamping as they did for Spa Day, but also revamping in the sense of critically reviewing packs which should offer more cross-pack compatibility than they currently do.Heck, yes! Especially if revamping also includes finally addressing longstanding bugs, for example, plants not growing at the science lab. I would love to see improved aliens and ghosts. It bothers me so much that living sims are so UNbothered by the presence of ghosts. Makes no sense at all. And aliens are just a woefully neglected occult type. They need more, better powers and interactions. More ways for children to play together (e.g., tag, jump rope). Better basegame infants. They are ridiculously pointless right now. Even bg toddlers have skills; I don't see why infants were so shortchanged. Controllable pets (and horses, I guess). More household slots to account for the fact that we now have three types of animals that can be added to a household. More consequences, please! For example, a sim shouldn't immediately go back to being friendly with a mean sim who insults them. Unlock the vacation worlds and make them livable. We have rental lots now; why do we need dedicated vacation worlds? If I want a whole world to be a vacation world, I can just change all the lot types! More after-school activities. Better festivals (CL festivals are the best and should be the standard). The list could go on and on..!

I would actually much prefer to have updates to existing content than have new packs but thats just my 2 simoleonstheres lots of things that could be a small update but make world of differencethen again I assume they would not be so kind because money ?

Spa day style refresh to old packs over new packs anytime! <3 But I know it would cause lots of complains.

Um, apart from kits they stop releasing new stuff "for a few months“ all the time. If they release even less packs, nobody will remember that the game exists.

I would love it, but I do see a problem when it comes to incentive. Now we as players would love it, but would EA make money on it? With the refresh of spa-day the hope was probably to sell more of the pack to people who had not bought it yet. I think the lack of new refreshes means they didn't sell as many as they had hoped. (I loved the refresh and bought the pack because of it so I hope I am wrong).

Would you mind if we got fewer packs so they can spend more time on revamps?

PandoraTO
Seasoned Vanguard
2 years ago
"SimTrippy;d-1009954" wrote:
Genuinely curious: would y'all mind if they just stopped releasing new stuff for a few months and instead spent more time revamping old packs?

And by this I mean both revamping as they did for Spa Day, but also revamping in the sense of critically reviewing packs which should offer more cross-pack compatibility than they currently do.

Heck, yes! Especially if revamping also includes finally addressing longstanding bugs, for example, plants not growing at the science lab.

I would love to see improved aliens and ghosts. It bothers me so much that living sims are so UNbothered by the presence of ghosts. Makes no sense at all. And aliens are just a woefully neglected occult type. They need more, better powers and interactions.
More ways for children to play together (e.g., tag, jump rope).
Better basegame infants. They are ridiculously pointless right now. Even bg toddlers have skills; I don't see why infants were so shortchanged.
Controllable pets (and horses, I guess).
More household slots to account for the fact that we now have three types of animals that can be added to a household.
More consequences, please! For example, a sim shouldn't immediately go back to being friendly with a mean sim who insults them.
Unlock the vacation worlds and make them livable. We have rental lots now; why do we need dedicated vacation worlds? If I want a whole world to be a vacation world, I can just change all the lot types!
More after-school activities.
Better festivals (CL festivals are the best and should be the standard).

The list could go on and on..!
Simmingal
Hero
2 years ago
I would actually much prefer to have updates to existing content than have new packs but thats just my 2 simoleons

theres lots of things that could be a small update but make world of difference

then again I assume they would not be so kind because money ?
Ellupelluellu
Hero
2 years ago
Spa day style refresh to old packs over new packs anytime! <3

But I know it would cause lots of complains.
alanmichael1
Seasoned Hotshot
2 years ago
Um, apart from kits they stop releasing new stuff "for a few months“ all the time. If they release even less packs, nobody will remember that the game exists.
JesLet40
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
I would love it, but I do see a problem when it comes to incentive. Now we as players would love it, but would EA make money on it? With the refresh of spa-day the hope was probably to sell more of the pack to people who had not bought it yet. I think the lack of new refreshes means they didn't sell as many as they had hoped. (I loved the refresh and bought the pack because of it so I hope I am wrong).
Joanne_Snow
Rising Traveler
2 years ago
"alanmichael1;c-18291126" wrote:
Um, apart from kits they stop releasing new stuff "for a few months“ all the time. If they release even less packs, nobody will remember that the game exists.

Yeah you’re right, releases have been pretty meh. Part of me is looking forward to TS5 not so I can buy that but so that they stop patching TS4 as much and I can just mod the hell out of the game ?
Joanne_Snow
Rising Traveler
2 years ago
"JAL;c-18291221" wrote:
I would love it, but I do see a problem when it comes to incentive. Now we as players would love it, but would EA make money on it? With the refresh of spa-day the hope was probably to sell more of the pack to people who had not bought it yet. I think the lack of new refreshes means they didn't sell as many as they had hoped. (I loved the refresh and bought the pack because of it so I hope I am wrong).

Nah sadly you are right, they definitely wouldn’t. I just feel that some of these things (that aren’t adding entirely new features) really wouldn’t be that hard for them to do, like updating Parenthood interactions (as it’s just more ways to tell sims to do things they can already do, no new animations have to be added to any of this), adding a non-active traditional type vet career (with the three tracks - even if we’d never get to see them treat the large animals but well..), or as @PandoraTO has suggested unlocking vacation worlds or more household slots.

Like I get that most of the big(ger) things they’ll never actually do, but with how they started this iteration, I can’t help but feel that throwing their most loyal fans a bone on the way out, by taking care of some of the low hanging fruit, might just make them a little less…terrified, of just how bad the online multi-platform TS5 will be.
atreya33
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
The amount of DLC is getting really overwhelming, especially if the sims 4 is gonna last a few more years. So more focus on improving existing DLC would be very welcome. I really enjoy how they handled spa day. I especially hope for an update on toddler and child occults. Let child spellcasters use a child wand, let child mermaids show a fish tail in bath or while swimming,...
rjssim
Rising Scout
2 years ago
I'd say a balance between the two. I want more content, but I also want inprovements.
OldeSimsFan
New Traveler
2 years ago
Would be nice, but doubt EA would do anything unless they anticipated a lot of profit from it. EA cares about money, we are merely the means to that end.