Back in September, The Sims 4 team released a roadmap titled Season of Selves. It outlined upcoming content comprising three global fit kits, one build kit, and further free base game updates. Many Simmers assumed that this roadmap would cover the next three months, leaving space for an expansion release in December. However, SimGuruFrost, The Sims 4 Community Manager, has now confirmed that the roadmap covers the entirety of 2021. This means for the first time since 2017 we will have only one expansion pack this year, news that hasn't gone down well in the community.

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The confirmation came unexpectedly on a Twitter thread promoting the next Inside Maxis Livestream, which is due to take place on October 26, at 11 am PT. The Inside Maxis agenda focuses on Latin America, and is highly likely to be related to the theme of the final kits in the roadmap. Since this rounds out the expected content, it prompted Twitter user @E4Epic to ask about another roadmap. It was at this point that Frost stepped in to set the record straight, confirming that kits and updates are all that's coming in the remainder of this year.

At this point, two expansions a year is a pattern that players have come to expect and the response was predictable disappointment, especially since kits have not been well received.

Sims 4 content creator and Game Changer Iron Seagull lead the pack with his sad Pikachu, a sentiment many copied with gifs and memes. This was followed by his observation that this pattern follows 2016 - the year that gave us the notoriously buggy Dine Out, which remains glitchy even now, the City Living expansion and a bunch of stuff packs.

This sentiment is backed up by Jovan Jovic in his Sims Community news piece, as he notes that the DLC numbers for 2021 are one expansion, one game pack, one game pack refresh, one stuff pack, and nine kits. When DLC has been so abundant the last few years the community is finding it hard to believe that kits aren't affecting other DLC, even though Frost was quick to confirm this.

At this point, we have no idea why the schedule looks this way. Are we looking at the wind-down of Sims 4? Should we have had another expansion that's been delayed, like many games over the last year? Should we have had a Sims 5 announcement by now?

Whatever the reason, Simmers are now clinging to Frost's confirmation that "We still have two base game updates we have yet to talk about..." Here's hoping they are as impressive as the last one, especially since they're going to be carrying the community into 2022.

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