In today’s official announcement The Sims Team has stated a couple of things regarding the future of The Sims 4 and what they’re working on. Among the statement that they’re planning to update The Sims 4’s skin tones and addressing some of the community requested features, they’ve also stated that they’ll be announcing a brand new Expansion Pack for The Sims 4 “in just a matter of few weeks”.
To set the expectations for the community, they’ve stated that some of the currently requested features such as babies, farming, cars and bunk beds won’t be a part of this Expansion Pack.
In just a matter of weeks we’ll be sharing more about our next Expansion Pack, which we’ve been working on since last year. I want to set expectations now, though, that cars, babies, farms and bunk beds are not part of this EP. We understand how important these features are to you but we want to be honest that they are not part of this upcoming pack.
The last expansion pack for The Sims 4 – Eco Lifestyle was released on June 5th. With some of the “foundation” Expansion Packs already being released such as Pets, Seasons, University and others, the next Expansion Pack could be a surprise. Personally I’m hoping for a return of Hobbies and more activities for my Sims that will flesh out their personalities even more, but time will tell.
Until then stay tuned on Sims Community for all the updates on the next Expansion Pack!
“Personally I’m hopping for a return of Hobbies and more activities for my Sims that will flesh out their personalities even more, but time will tell.” Yes me too, 100%!
I’d like that too, but I feel like it could be a game pack?
I’m personally hoping for a resort/hotel pack where we can own vacation houses in other worlds, especially a snowy world resort!
Yes please!! I miss the resorts
I would love to see cars in the sims 4.
Yes. Shame they’re not adding them in this expansion. hotels sounds fun though. personally I’m hoping for something similar to generations
Me to and carry the baby around
Yea I would love that too. Add new lot types like vacation home (so we can actually own the lot instead of renting like in granite falls and maybe pay bills for maintenance), resorts including as you said snowy areas and condos (condos so we can be landlords since I don’t see them overhauling the apartment system). I really want the condos to function like dorms do so it feels more alive compared to the apartments where there’s loading screens between neighbors. If they don’t go that way then hopefully the coding isn’t as difficult as with apartments so modders can make changes.
Yesssssss!!!! I agree
That would be great!
yes this is what we need!!!!
Yes!! I am hoping for something like that too!
When exactly Pets or University got released? Having a Foxes and Raccoons pack and DLC to DLC, doesn’t equals Pets at all. Same goes for Discover University, which as the name says – only allows you to discover American university without any proper university gameplay (rabbit holes and basic homework is not a proper high education we should be having) and a lot of unnecessary stuff like half of the pack being a glorified robotics pack.
No farm or babies? :'( better it be about “improving personalities/relationships” then!
Really hope for hobbies also. While I would like another world I do think fleshing out their personalities is more important for now. And I wished they’d add more things like fears, likes and dislikes. I really wished they’d look back at thing, not just the DLCs like usual, from past games and incorporate them (as I mentioned fears etc).
Fix Crash Expansion Pack, hooray and no more Future Cubes/Silly Puddies too among many other issues.
I hope they make a supernatural expansion pack
I miss that from the sims3 the most
i just like to see another vacation destination location placeation or perhaps wild west pack
I want for them to erase Vacation locations, make them into proper worlds and allow to have vacation anywhere – like in real life.
There is a mod for that but I don’t know how much damage it can cause if it’s part of the game itself because if a mod screws up your game you can easily take it out but not bugs especially ones that revamp older worlds. I would like this idea to happen but I am concerned on one hand if it does.
That would be awesome!
Yes really, I want to make fairies and werewolves
Uhhhhh dont that would mean a dlc for a dlc for a dlc
EA: Did you say hobbies or… Hobbits Lord of the rings Game Pack?!
Aww no Hobits please… Even though i like lord of the rings 😀
I’m hyped!!
Please be hotels.
Please be hotels.
PLEASE BE HOTELS.
praying with you!
I hope the expansion is the supernatural one and its in october. I want to read tarot (which I do IRL) and be the grim reaper DX
Babies can be in the update ;D
They did take out some of the more popular supernaturals and gave them their own pack. So they might bring the others in an expansion or game pack like werewolves, zombies and fairies. But I don’t know if the reaction will be positive because of vampires and witches missing this time. If it’s an EP hopefully it’s a decent size world including one that would suit werewolves and one more magical in nature for fairies. Hopefully they don’t make the mistake they did with mermaids (primarily no transformation from becoming a mermaid, no real effort to become one, and no perk ranks). One of the things I really enjoyed about vampires were their ranking system. It fell short overall with witches in comparison.
I personally want a snowy themed pack. Something like a ski resort up in the mountains with a German styled town with a mall, a couple lots for houses, like 2 lots for your own resort or something, a couple shops. You know a ski resort with a small town fell to it
I don’t think anything supernatural should be a expansion pack. Im someone who more down to earth and prefers real world game play. Don’t get me wrong its fun to spice it up with some supernatural theme thing here and there but in small quanities. With game packs its easier to control and personally I feel if its a game pack its not so big I need it if I don’t want it.
At this point I don’t know how well a supernatural pack will be received since popular occult like vampires and witches are already out. Granted in past sims games they introduced vampires and then later expanded on them in another DLC. But I think vampires were done really well. Witches need some work but are far better than mermaids and aliens which both need an update. I think the perk and tier list they came up with vampires made them more detailed and I wished mermaids and aliens had this to freshen them up a bit.
Great but overpriced
Bring back story mode “get a life!” Please!!!!!
can we have more careers/hobbies which we can interact with?
child care?
specialise in a medical field?
tattooist?
hairdresser?
Resorts! Holidays! Buffet for free! snow! beach! In a world where we cannot go to holidays we need them back!
Can we have another Star Wars one?
I’d rather eat a rock.
lmao
Good, many cc will follow. Company has their own ideals for their products. Fan ideals is just for consult when they out of ideal anyway. No one can tell they give up their own ideal to do other’s ideals first with nothing in return.
Can you make an expansion for toddlers And kids with cribs and bunk beds so we don’t have to use custom content
Please be Generations or something similar that provides more family gameplay and add depth to the game, the sims and their lives. They have absolutely no personality or whatsoever. Better not be a freaking supernatural pack. Hotels would be ok I guess but I‘d prefer more depth in relationships over that any time. I want something that ties all the loose ends together by adding more in depth interactions! Oh and yes, I NEED STORY PROGRESSION in my towns!
I’m not much caring at this point. I’m just tired.
I hope it’s going to be a farming themed pack or adds at least more things to do with lots, traits, and hobbies.
The sims team stated that we the players of the sims ate not going to get what we want. They ate saying we don’t matter. But we need more skills and hobbies. But all I wish to know why they can’t give us what we want. Why have they stuff that we don’t want and expect us to buy the stuff we don’t want. Why should we waste our time playing a game we use to play so good and spend money on becoming a boring. Adding Harry Potter theme and Star Wars was a waste. Please bring everything back to what we liked and loved about this game back. Give us milkshake maker back. Allow us to make more alcohol drinks. Give our sims more to talk about. Look at the real world. Add drums, saxophone, and other musical instruments, allow us to start a band. Add sewing machines. We can build a garage but no vehicles to drive or motorcycles to drive. In island living we should of had surf board. We had skating rinks but winter retreat. We can’t have skate boards. We can’t have anything. Not even more stuff to grow. This game is boaring and dull and a big waste of time and money. If you can come up with retro looks and hippie looks it would be cool. For laundry days should of have added a iron and ironing board that actually worked. Push mower or riding lawn mower and vaccum cleaner your sims could actually use. Who ever is making these packs do it right for the rest of us.
What’s the problem with making a hippie? There are both sliding pants, long, floral skirts, and long hair.
They did want to add iron/iron boards but only if they had leftover in the budget which they ended up not having as stuff packs have very limited resources compared to an GP or EP. If they were going to do hippies I would rather it be a SP like they did in the past. I think adding a little Harry Potter theme wouldn’t have been bad if it went along with ROM like having spell casters attend actual school (like a boarding school) and having easter eggs. It wouldn’t overpower the pack as it would still be generic. Unlike star wars which was too niche for the sims, had some good ideas put was poorly executed and was an EA money grab at its finest. If it had been more generic at least players who like space, aliens and played with aliens would’ve had a pack for them (and updated aliens because frankly they need the tier perk list that vampires have because they’re lacking) and I think that group is larger than the star wars group especially after reviewing this pack.
In winter, what belongs to winter is usually released, in summer, what belongs to summer. These are just my fantasies, but I think – can be a winter vacation in an alpine village, with hotels. Because the survey was an Alpine city.
I like the idea of hobbies, if they are going to bring back anything, I would want more dept in game play—please. But if I was them I would take the opportunity to make the game better by doing some of the items we requested.
I think that was a popular vote in the poll the team did regarding gameplay (and personality). I really think we need the sims to be fleshed out including updating the babies and the occults specifically mermaids and aliens and adding more everyday things that people use and do like hobbies. I really, really hope they take TS4 as a big lesson for what not to do with TS5. Granted TS5 isn’t going to be on a mobile engine like TS4 so that puts it way ahead at the starting gate.
I miss bon voyage and the 3 different vacation destinations
Also I want burglary again it was such a rush lol
There was a leak on Twitter, claiming it will be a murder mystery expansion, “Murder at the Mansion” https://extratime.media/2020/09/08/sims-4-new-expansion-leak-murder-at-the-manor/
Yeah I saw this and it would be different in a good way. The team hasn’t (that I know of) said it was or wasn’t accurate as they usually will say if something is fake if enough people mention it. I’m curious if the team would have murder in the title especially since their customers range in age and some of them require a parent to purchase so I would think the marketing team would ponder on if this will impact sales. Granted, the game isn’t bloody and even the deaths are that graphic. Maybe it’s not the final title. And if it drops around early November it would be perfect even though it’s after Halloween.
*deaths aren’t that graphic (or scary)
What if they are releasing around Halloween and we could be looking at ghost hunting, werewolves, the faries ect.
yeah, I really would love it if the sims 4 added the ability to own multiple lots. not including shops, vets, etc.
I think we should have a Sims 4 farm game pack and fairy stuff pack and a twilight saga stuff pack and Harry Potter stuff pack
I think we should have a twilight saga stuff pack and game pack and a Harry Potter stuff pack and game pack and and a farm game pack with horses and unicorns and sheeps and donkeys and goats and ducks
I bet the next EP will be The Smurfs themed.. (which coincides with the skin colour improvements that they’re planning to release soon).
So, like. It’s been a month. Where’s our news?
I don’t really care for cars, babies or any other traditionally mentioned options. I wish they fixed that awful emotions system. Right now it overrides everything and personality traits are nonexistent, reputations non impactful, relationships do not affect gameplay in any meaningful way, interactions are very limited or sloppily one sided, differences between sims are not noticeable (no attractions system, likes dislikes). I wish they just fix it. Right now they are emotionally unstable clones. Little happy robots that occasionally go into a rage because they burned their toast and look near suicidal because they have to pee. In terms of buildmode this game is fantastic, but in terms of gameplay it’s a shell of its predecessor games like sims 3 or sims 2. Even the neighborhoods although more open then 2 and less then 3 still are less interactive. Half of the animations are gone, nuance that made the predecessor games fun are gone. Apparently now the idea of fun gameplay is to sit in front of a computer watching your sim do the same, reading overly long descriptions of adventures you won’t actually take part off, making everything not challenging or having things just materialize from thin air. Not to mention the list of constant glitches. My idea of an expansion pack would be “The Sims 4: making sim interesting”. They cut traits, animations , moodlets, likes, dislikes, quirks, nuances, tasks to actually watch sim complete, but hey It is pretty.
Please don’t make us do household chores, doing them irl is enough for me 🙁
Please be hotels.
Please be hotels.
PLEASE BE HOTELS.
praying with you!
Great but overpriced
No farm or babies? :'( better it be about “improving personalities/relationships” then!
Fix Crash Expansion Pack, hooray and no more Future Cubes/Silly Puddies too among many other issues.
I hope they make a supernatural expansion pack
Uhhhhh dont that would mean a dlc for a dlc for a dlc
Yes really, I want to make fairies and werewolves
That would be awesome!
i just like to see another vacation destination location placeation or perhaps wild west pack
I want for them to erase Vacation locations, make them into proper worlds and allow to have vacation anywhere – like in real life.
There is a mod for that but I don’t know how much damage it can cause if it’s part of the game itself because if a mod screws up your game you can easily take it out but not bugs especially ones that revamp older worlds. I would like this idea to happen but I am concerned on one hand if it does.
I miss that from the sims3 the most
I hope the expansion is the supernatural one and its in october. I want to read tarot (which I do IRL) and be the grim reaper DX
Babies can be in the update ;D
They did take out some of the more popular supernaturals and gave them their own pack. So they might bring the others in an expansion or game pack like werewolves, zombies and fairies. But I don’t know if the reaction will be positive because of vampires and witches missing this time. If it’s an EP hopefully it’s a decent size world including one that would suit werewolves and one more magical in nature for fairies. Hopefully they don’t make the mistake they did with mermaids (primarily no transformation from becoming a mermaid, no real effort to become one, and no perk ranks). One of the things I really enjoyed about vampires were their ranking system. It fell short overall with witches in comparison.
Really hope for hobbies also. While I would like another world I do think fleshing out their personalities is more important for now. And I wished they’d add more things like fears, likes and dislikes. I really wished they’d look back at thing, not just the DLCs like usual, from past games and incorporate them (as I mentioned fears etc).
can we have more careers/hobbies which we can interact with?
child care?
specialise in a medical field?
tattooist?
hairdresser?
I don’t think anything supernatural should be a expansion pack. Im someone who more down to earth and prefers real world game play. Don’t get me wrong its fun to spice it up with some supernatural theme thing here and there but in small quanities. With game packs its easier to control and personally I feel if its a game pack its not so big I need it if I don’t want it.
At this point I don’t know how well a supernatural pack will be received since popular occult like vampires and witches are already out. Granted in past sims games they introduced vampires and then later expanded on them in another DLC. But I think vampires were done really well. Witches need some work but are far better than mermaids and aliens which both need an update. I think the perk and tier list they came up with vampires made them more detailed and I wished mermaids and aliens had this to freshen them up a bit.
“Personally I’m hopping for a return of Hobbies and more activities for my Sims that will flesh out their personalities even more, but time will tell.” Yes me too, 100%!
When exactly Pets or University got released? Having a Foxes and Raccoons pack and DLC to DLC, doesn’t equals Pets at all. Same goes for Discover University, which as the name says – only allows you to discover American university without any proper university gameplay (rabbit holes and basic homework is not a proper high education we should be having) and a lot of unnecessary stuff like half of the pack being a glorified robotics pack.
I’d like that too, but I feel like it could be a game pack?
I’m personally hoping for a resort/hotel pack where we can own vacation houses in other worlds, especially a snowy world resort!
Yes!! I am hoping for something like that too!
Yes please!! I miss the resorts
I would love to see cars in the sims 4.
Me to and carry the baby around
Yes. Shame they’re not adding them in this expansion. hotels sounds fun though. personally I’m hoping for something similar to generations
Yea I would love that too. Add new lot types like vacation home (so we can actually own the lot instead of renting like in granite falls and maybe pay bills for maintenance), resorts including as you said snowy areas and condos (condos so we can be landlords since I don’t see them overhauling the apartment system). I really want the condos to function like dorms do so it feels more alive compared to the apartments where there’s loading screens between neighbors. If they don’t go that way then hopefully the coding isn’t as difficult as with apartments so modders can make changes.
Yesssssss!!!! I agree
That would be great!
yes this is what we need!!!!
I’m hyped!!
Can we have another Star Wars one?
I’d rather eat a rock.
lmao
EA: Did you say hobbies or… Hobbits Lord of the rings Game Pack?!
Aww no Hobits please… Even though i like lord of the rings 😀
Bring back story mode “get a life!” Please!!!!!
Resorts! Holidays! Buffet for free! snow! beach! In a world where we cannot go to holidays we need them back!
I personally want a snowy themed pack. Something like a ski resort up in the mountains with a German styled town with a mall, a couple lots for houses, like 2 lots for your own resort or something, a couple shops. You know a ski resort with a small town fell to it
Good, many cc will follow. Company has their own ideals for their products. Fan ideals is just for consult when they out of ideal anyway. No one can tell they give up their own ideal to do other’s ideals first with nothing in return.
Can you make an expansion for toddlers And kids with cribs and bunk beds so we don’t have to use custom content
I hope it’s going to be a farming themed pack or adds at least more things to do with lots, traits, and hobbies.