This shows that not only do the games they’re creating open up tons of gameplay possibilities for the future, but they blend together into one seamless gameplay experience. The upcoming Get Together expansion includes the club system that can easily adapt to future releases, such as being a member of a dog lovers club in a potential Pets expansion. It also opened up tons of gameplay potential with the active careers system. Get to Work included the business system, which we’ve already seen affect future game release potential, such as opening an ice cream shop with the Cool Kitchen stuff pack. This allows the team to easily create new vacation worlds as the coding is already in place. Outdoor Retreat introduced vacation worlds and renting lots.
It’s also worth mentioning that most of the game releases we’ve seen thus far have continued to build a framework for future games. Executive Producer Rachel Franklin said there will be something for Sims 4 every month, however it wasn’t clear if she was including patches in that timeline, or if it was strictly game releases. Since its release, The Sims 4 has seen the inclusion of one expansion, two game packs, and three stuff packs with a second expansion announced for release later this year. It’s an interesting concept and includes a ton of stuff and gameplay, but it’s not a theme they could design a whole game around. This allows the team to introduce gameplay aspects they wouldn’t have been able to previously because it’s not a concept worthy enough for a full-blown game, as we’ve seen with the Spa Day game pack. These changes were made so the gameplay surrounding them were more fluid and less of a grind to complete them. These have ranged from small tweaks such as the redesign to the loading screen to big gameplay revisions like we saw with the changes to aspiration and career requirements. Sims 4 has seen several tweaks, updates, changes, and revisions from the initial release build. This is something they’ve done for Sims 4 that they’ve never done in previous iterations. And they won’t stop there, as they shouldn’t as the game is still lacking critical features of past versions, such as toddlers. Other gameplay features added to Sims 4 via patches have been family trees, lockable doors, half walls, basements, a new world, and dishwashers. These are aspects that were added in without being tied to a future expansion, like basements being added into Sims 3 after being designed for World Adventures’ tombs. It was then introduced the following two months would add pools and two new careers.
This started in October with the inclusion of ghosts.
Patches now come out monthly, so not only are bugs and issues fixed at a much quicker rate, but new gameplay is included as well, outside of being introduced in an expansion.
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