The Sims Franchise is making a big leap out of their comfort zone for the first time ever!
The Sims Team acknowledged their 21st Anniversary of The Sims Franchise yesterday with an interesting tweet:
Grab a Simsmapolitan! We’re 21! To celebrate, we’ve partnered with some talented creators to create a gift for our community, by our community #YouMakeTheSims. We can’t wait to share on Feb 25th!
Although the tweet didn’t reveal much regarding their next surprise – many simmers have started speculating that it could involve custom content creators and their contribution to The Sims 4’s next update considering that the surprise is “a gift for our community, by our community”.
The official twitter profile for The Sims France has revealed a bit more – saying that The Sims Team has hired 21 creators for their next surprise.
For the occasion, we collaborated with 21 talented designers / creators to prepare a gift for the community!
Préparez votre meilleur Simsmapolitan ! 🥂 Les Sims ont 21 ans ! 🎉
Pour l’occasion, nous avons collaboré avec 21 créatrices/créateurs de talent pour préparer un cadeau pour la communauté ! 🤭
Rendez-vous le 25 février !
Quelle a été votre première expérience avec les Sims ? 🎈 pic.twitter.com/7shDBUiY3E— Les Sims (@LesSims) February 4, 2021
LuumiaSims, a talented Custom Content Creator and Modder for The Sims 4 seems to be one of the 21 CC Creators who have collaborated with The Sims Team to bring their unique content to The Sims 4:
I’m 23 today and I’m wearing my Spark’d Challenge Winner hoodie to celebrate! 🎂 Is it a coincidence that I share a birthday with the game that changed my life?! (also very excited for you all to see what’s coming on Feb 25 to The Sims 4👀💚) pic.twitter.com/la4UouLMov
— Luumia (@luumiasims) February 4, 2021
He is best known for his Maxis Match custom creations such as Body Hair, Hairstyles, CAS Outfits and more! You can check out his CC catalog HERE!
This would be the first time that The Sims Team has broken the mold by hiring community members to create content for The Sims – and we’re definitely here for it!
Whatever content we get on February 25th in The Sims 4 please note that this would be the first project collaboration with CC Creators to have their content included in the game. Even if the content we get doesn’t include any new gameplay elements we can still be proud of this amazing milestone – and that’s that CC Creators are finally being acknowledged and recognized by The Sims Team.
as long as they dont make us pay for it.
Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if they bring back the sims store since a lot of people in this community act like they can’t live without custom content. EA loves money so this could be a way to test that out by seeing the community response to this collab.
lol, I could DEFINITELY see EA doing paid mods
I really hope this true! Back in the Sims 1 (I am old) Maxis featured links to CC creators websites on their own page. Maxis was super supportive of the CC (seemed to ignore the mods) and it hasn’t been that way since they were bought out by EA.
They were bought out by EA before the Sims 1 even launched, yer bum’s oot the windae
I do hope they continue to embrace the community and use people’s talents. They started on a good foot using game changer builders for DLCs and hopefully will look to custom creators for ideas with clothing, hairs and accessories. I do understand the hesitation with embracing mods especially since some people aren’t responsible with updating their mods and I’ve seen a few actually want EA to be responsible for them. When a guru brought up mods because they didn’t make have additional wanted option some people went batsh*t crazy offended meanwhile others have any issue with EA “stealing” mods even though most mods are fine tuning the game/bug fixes and aren’t so original as they’re often based on features missing (obviously there are exclusions). Honestly there will be no excuse for lame or blotchy textures for sims 5 since they already pulled that mess with 4.
I just hope the quality and artistic style is consistent with Maxis content. I hate it when CC clashes with official content.
>He is best known for his Maxis Match custom creations
Hopefully they give us a free new world.
Awesome!
Translation: “we forgot the anniversary, again, so we’re getting the modders to do it”
honestly without the Modders Sims wouldn’t even exist.
Maybe I forgot the patch release pattern.
I had as patches are at Tuesday, being Thursday for pre-pack patches
if it’s 21 ppl it has to be something huuuuge.