Please note that this post is pure speculation until proven otherwise.
UPDATE #2: Our staff member Cassie3k translated the survey manually with more accurate information.
UPDATE: Yoann, the person who received this survey, revealed more information on how he got this survey. According to him, the survey was released through GlobalTestMarket, a website which offers companies to pay for surveys which will be filled out by GlobalTestMarket members (you can even sign up yourself and get rewards for finishing up surveys).
We know for a fact that the person who published this survey has been a member of this website for quite some time. Yoann explained that he couldn’t go back and take the survey again and / or give more evidence than the screen captures that we’ve shown down below.
SimCookie’s reader received an e-mail with the following Expansion Pack / Game Pack theme ideas for The Sims 4. Although it’s not confirmed yet if the survey that was sent out in french is official, the e-mail content and screens do look legit.
Here are some of the EP / GP themes that were suggested in the survey.
The Sims 4 – Small Pets
Sims who long to own a pet but lack the space to accommodate them will love The Sims 4 Small Pets. Adopt a wide variety of new small animals, teach them tricks or even breed them to unlock rare specimens. Earn simoleons by building your own pet shop with adorable creatures and their accessories!
- Adopt new animals – Have your sim adopt a new pet and take care of them. Your sim can choose between a talkative bird, a mischievous ferret, an adorable guinea pig or a furtive reptile.
- New breeds and tricks – Teach new tricks to your pets, like how to say new expressions, or “go fetch an object”. Create your own rare species with distinct looks and unique personalities.
- Build a pet shop – Create your own pet shop and put animals up for adoption to earn some simoleons. Sell animal habitats, pet food and even toys for their entertainment!
What is the probability that you would buy the Small Animals pack were it available for 19.99€?
The Sims 4 – Dream Jobs
The sims may now pursue careers that very few people have access to in The Sims 4 Dream Jobs. Go for glory and fortune by floating in space as an astronaut, leading dangerous heists as a burglar or by strumming guitar chords on stage!
- Become an astronaut – Launch into space and land in a fascinating space station. Conduct scientific experiments, float around, and even leave the station to roam around outer space.
- Lead the life of a scoundrel – Sims looking for a more thrilling lifestyle may become world-renown burglars. Successfully pull off risky heists, steal jewelry, and manage a company of international thieves.
- Rock your way to the top – Get a band together and go on tour to become rich and famous and live new experiences! Practice playing multiple instruments, ranging from the guitar to the drums, to better your performances.
What is the probability that you would buy the Dream Jobs pack were it available for 39.99€?
The Sims 4 – Beauty Salon
Sims who want to change their looks or want to build a career in the cosmetic world will love The Sims 4 Beauty Salon. Put together a team of cosmetologists and open a Beauty Salon to win simoleons! You may offer a variety of services, including haircuts and manicures. The Sims may also get tattoos… or have them removed.
- Open a Beauty Salon – The Sims, being entrepreneurs, may own their own salon and benefit from it. Hire hairdressers, offer unique services and build a solid reputation.
- Enjoy all the Beauty Salon has to offer – It’s make-over time! Give your Sims a new haircut, a waxing, a new hair color or even a manicure to boost their confidence!
- Get ink – Sims who are looking for a more permanent look can get tattoos on any part of their body. Alternatively, they can also get laser tattoo-removal.
What is the probability that you would buy the Beauty Salon pack were it available for 19.99€?
The Sims 4 – Summer Holidays
School is out for the Summer and it is high time your Sims relaxed and took a seat in the sun in The Sims 4 Summer Holidays. Choose your living arrangements, then go make a sand castle at the beach or take part in luau! Tame the waves with your surf board or relax, go shell-hunting or discover new marine plants and animals.
- Choose your lodgings – The Sims may rent a cabin on the beach, buy a summer home on a cliff, or go to a lusureous hotel with a breathtakingocean view.
- Time for fun beach activities! – Embrace the sun rays and go to the beach to build a sand castle, make camp fires or learn new dance moves at the luau!
- Surf’s up! – Pull off the prefect hang-ten and show off your gnarly surf skills. Choose your own surfboard and work on your skills to become a local surf legend.
- Explore the beach – Mosey down the beach and discover rare aquatic plants and marine animals! Find new corals of all colors and maybe even have a magical encounter with a mermaid at sunset.
What is the probability that you would buy the Summer Holidays pack were it available for 39.99€?
Dream jobs sounds cool I love get to work but with there was more options. Also I was trying to build a house today why the F is there an octagonal room tool but no octagonal roof tool. And I wish u could change foundation and walk height to each room not each story
I think I will buy Summer Holidays, Small Pets (but i want the normal pets like cats, dogs, horses too) and beauty salon but dream jobs is not what i think that it is good…in my opinion it sounds very boring
These don’t sound all that appealing. The small pets one sounds like a pretty good deal (although in my opinion,they should just add them in the pets EP). If they added tricks, running a small pet store, and small pets all in the pets EP (especially since it seems like horses may not be a thing), then the EP could be a great deal.
The dream job idea sounds terrible like GTW 2.0. The only thing I like about it is the fact that you can make a band. However that would be better suited for a GP. Also please don’t make bands like the singing career in the sims 3. I want bands to be more of a hobby so that any sim can start a band. Maybe anyone could make a band, but you could also get a career as a band musician.
Sims 4 beauty salon is totally MEH. We already have similar things such as the makeup station from vintage glamour stuff and we have a spa. It just doesn’t seem like something I would repeatedly reuse in my game.
Sims 4 summer holidays doesn’t seem terrible, however definitely seems more like a GP than an EP wit the amount of content it offers. If they added a bit more to it, it could be a better version of outdoor retreat, except instead with a a beach location.
Small Pets sounds cool, specially for a Game Pack since it seems to come packed with content. My biggest problem is that we know they are already working in a pets expansion pack that will include, at least, active cats and dogs; so if they are thinking of doing a Small Pets game pack, what else is going to come with the Pets Expansion Pack??
Dream Crafts makes no sense to me, i’m not going to buy another open-job expansion pack. Specially if it only includes astronaut (we already have this job in the base game and how are they going to make it open? by creating another Sixam-like world?), criminal (again, another job we already have ingame, and yes it sounds interesting but i’m sure it’s not going to be connected to the police/detective job that came with Get to work so…) and working in a band (yes, this one sounds cool but would sound cooler a Superstar-like Expansion pack with the options of working as an actor, as a musician -solo or in a band- and as a model? those being active jobs and also including a celebrity system?). Get to work didn’t only include the three active jobs, but also a retail system; and it sold because of that and also because it was the very first expansion pack. So, to me, EA; you are going to do much more in that expansion pack.
Beauty Salon. Meh, it doesn’t sound utterly bad but it also doesn’t hype me significantly. We already have make-over objects with the dresser in get Together and the vanity in Vintage Glamour. And there’s also the contents of Spa Day. I know, i know, spas and beauty salons aren’t the same thing but i’ve been in plenty beauty salons that include some spa-like offers as in massages and skin treatments. And, well, again, i don’t expect them making Spa Day compatible with this… Still it doesn’t sound that bad, and having the opportunity to offer new services in game is always good. But, to me, this content would make more sense as a secondary feature in Dream Crafts that as in a standalone game pack.
Summer Holiday made me panic when I started reading, I though they really were considering selling us Seasons as multiple packs but it seems is more a naming thing that anything else (i would consider changing the names). It sounds a bit like Island Paradise, a vacation-like pack, and i really enjoyed that pack. I’m worried though because they barely mention hotels so it seems like there aren’t considering to include a create/run your own hotels feature, i’m worried if the include it will be like apartments in City Life ugh. Still it doesn’t sound as cool as Island Paradise was, its features to me don’t justify being it an expansion pack.
It a more open one like scientist and doctor career jobs with Astronaut career.. Look at it like this if you want you be able to explore outer space and land on a space station like real astronaut do. It a dream Job. Your sims can not become burglars rather then have burglars come at their house.
I know they are open jobs like in Get to Work, but do we seriously need an open astronaut career? Like I said, probably an open Astronaut career would be your Sim going to a lot, doing some task, then using the rocket, loading screen, now your sim is on new lot similar to Sixam with a spacesuit and… lets do more task, like collect rocks… yeah, very interesting. About burglars, actually in the game you can’t have burglars coming into your Sim’s house but there is the Criminal career. This Expansion Pack would introduce an active/open criminal career, yes, but I can imagine it being like the Detective career mixed with the Kleptomaniac trait; again it douesn’t sound that interesting, specially because I can see it no being compatible with the Detective (?) I’m not saying it’s an absolut useless idea of an Expansion Pack but, to me its kind of a let down if it only brings these three things.
I was meaning your sim could be a burglar as a job
Beauty Salon just does not sound appealing, Simmers can already go into CAS, use the dresser or use the mirror (or Vanity if you have Vintage Glamour) to change their look.
Dream Jobs would only be cool if you could travel with your Sim to work like Simmers can in Get To Work, otherwise it’s just another job where we wait for 6-8 hours and maybe get one or two decisions we get to make for them while they are at work
Small pets would be nice but only if regular pets are released first, having only small pets (Like the ones mentioned above) would be a saddening tease, especially for cat and dog lovers.
Summer Holiday sounds similar to Outdoor Retreat and I can see why they may want to include something like this to add to their “Destination Worlds” but $39.99 isn’t worth it unless its similar to The Sims 3 where it comes with new types of houses, lot types, ( maybe jobs? New activities?) along with the already mentioned, that can be used outside the Destination World as well.
With surveys going around asking about vacation areas based on weather (This one its Summer Holiday, another one, Winter Vacation) it feels like they may not actually make a Seasons expansion but instead replace it with vacation spots… Which would suck…
In my opinion, these should all be components of EPs. I don’t want to be paying more for separate packs that would have come as one expansion pack under a specific theme in previous Sims games. These all sound like good ideas I would want in my game but I would want them all added to EPs. The small pets should be in the Pets EP. The others should all go into a hobbies EP.
First of all the pack for Small Pets was a Game Pack not an EP…second of all we don’t have rock stars…
I like the pets… but not really anything else also for the pets you should add cats cause they are small too. Love that you can open your own pet store. Also plz just add PETS with dogs, cats, and horses!!
None of these packs sound appealing whatsoever. Small pets? Give me a break. What about the dogs, the cats? Or are you planning on selling those separately so that you can gain more $$$?
I’d personally love a generations pack. Let us have preteens! More stuff for toddlers and kids! What about seasons?
C’mon, EA.
I am really waiting for the moment when EA releases Supernatural like in Sims 3 and Seasons and normal pets: cats, dogs, horses
I rather have summer holiday then any of the others except maybe small pets!!
I would get Dream Jobs in a heartbeat. I need my bands!!
If this was an accurate description of the packs and not just a way to gauge interest in certain things, it would be straight up offensive. Splitting minor pets into a separate pack, active versions of careers that already exist, an individual Summer EXPANSION separate from Seasons? What a slap in the face.
Sounds like they have a lot of plans to keep milking TS4. If that’s the case, Smaller pets could possibly be added to a farming pack (with two new careers: farmer and vet) and the careers could be placed into an Ambitions style GP. As for the summer (and winter from the other survey) packs, I’m sure there won’t be a Seasons EP (not sure how they will do spring and fall of winter and summer are in seperate packs) if they go that route, and hopefully at some point we’ll be able to run our own accommodations.
None for that price.
I love everything except for the Beauty Salon, to me that doesn’t seem that interesting, especially with CAS. I do wish they’d come out with a pack that had a Supermarket and a Laundromat.
I would like wherever would have sports, is something always missed in the game. Greats ideas anyway!
These all sound super disappointing honestly, except for maybe Summer Holidays. What about Seasons? How about a Generations-like EP that would expand gameplay for every age (especially for elders, which is desperately needed)? Or an EP that includes a celebrity system, a system for forming bands and playing gigs, paparazzi, and new celebrity interactions and careers, like actor/director, talk show host, model, dancer, etc? These are things that people actually WANT and have been asking for.
A whole EP just for small pets? That’s ridiculous. A pets EP should include small animals, cats and dogs, and I would LOVE to see some farming related things like horses, cows, chickens, etc., plus farming game mechanics. The pet shop sounds fun, but there still needs to be more.
Dream Jobs sounds completely useless. Astronaut? Already have it. Burglar? We already have a criminal career. Rock star? We already have that too. What’s even the point of this pack?? Not that we don’t seriously need some new career choices, but those should be included in EVERY EP. ALONG WITH MORE CONTENT.
Beauty Salon sounds like an EP literally based around ONE new career. That’s just not enough content to warrant an EP.
It’s really getting frustrating that new expansions are so desperately lacking in new content. New packs in TS2 and TS3 included SO much content. Each new pack should include a new town, new CAS items, several new careers, plenty of new game features, new interactions, new lots, and new build items. They seem to be milking every new EP for all it’s worth, charging an arm and a leg for the tiniest amount of new content possible. Honestly I’m about to stop playing TS4 and go back to either TS2 or TS3 because this is ridiculous.
I love the Sims3 sea activities and animals, it would be in this sense that I would like a future future, thank you to ask for our opinion, beautiful day to all;)
i really hope this isn’t real, like is that actually the stuff EA thinks they can sell sims players?
I buy every pack, so I’d get them all. But I’d actually look forward to small pets and dream jobs. I MIGHT like summer holidays, but I rarely use Outdoor Retreat as it is. I’ve found it kinda boring.
I think this survey just further proves Pets is actually coming out soon. Why offer a “small pets” GP and not release a cats/dogs pack prior to it?
By the look of those files found i would say pets is a sure thing, I would love to see the beauty salon! Id love to be able to run a salon it was my fav part of the open for business ep in sims 2 with the salon chair! I dont really care much for summer holiday. Dream Jobs sounds awesome but i would personally prefer to have a full fame ep like superstar with other things like modelling acting etc not just rock star. Wouldnt mind being able to go to space!
Make a farm expansion!
I still don’t like any of that ideas. I want Pets (definitely!) with horses, big and open world (as much as possible) and farms.
Dream Crafts? Why? Enough focusing on Sims carreers. We’ve got GTW careers, retail stores, restaurants, City Living careers. They could bring The Sims 1 Superstar and Showtime back I guess but that’s it.
Beauty Salon? It wasn’t fun in Ambitions. Maybe from the beggining. Customisations are very limited in The Sims 4. It doesn’t make sense.
Summer Holiday for $39.99? Ok, it needs to be Island Paradise kind of summer holiday with houseboats, hotels, scuba diving and everything but from the description it sounds more like Outdoor Retreat game pack.
Open world for the game to be slow(on powerful PCs) and bugged like TS3?
Open for Business
Now with 5 parts
Get ot Work
Dine Out
Dream Jobs
Beauty Salon
Summer Holliday (own an hotel)
Pets would go well with the camping pack that was released…
Ok I like the summer holiday one for sure but not all there I wish there was more than just beach I personally want more maybe add a city getaway too idk I personally don’t like the beach but I see why they do it…
We have City Living instead of a city getaway , it sounds the same
Yeah I know what you mean at the moment I couldn’t think of another different type of vacation spot that would work for the sims cuz yeah city vacation doesn’t work for the sims, but snow would be good like people go to Lake Tahoe or aspen to snowboard and stuff that would be good too!
We need a talking toilet stuff pack so we can get more gamplay for our piss. I mean flushes!
SUMMER HOLIDAY!?!?! OMG, yes pleaseeeeee!!
I still didn’t lost hope for fame part these suggestions don’t sound interesting, also cannot wait for University along with active teacher career
I think the next one might be to do with bands.(as in music)