User blog comment:LostInRiverview/The Sims 4 has been announced!/@comment-203.218.22.207-20130508084908

I am not meant to criticize others' opinions, but I think that it's simply not practical or realistic that EA will put, or you can demand EA to, add most features from the expansion packs into Thje Sims 4 Base Game. I shall say that I don't want Sims 3 to go too as I am playing Sims 3 and have spent money on it, but when it comes to The Sims 4, I think EA needs to take care of most of the people's computer specs and will design a base game which is meant for everyone. The meaning of an expansion pack is to be an option for players whether they can afford some new features, both about computer specs and money. If there is a "all-expansion-is-here/most-expansion-features-are-included base game", then it would cost a high price and some people running on lower end computers wouldn't buy it. Please do not demand impossible things.

Beides, if you really demand a base game with most features, it will make Base game not "basic" anoymore. The core engine behind the game is enough for the price, and what's more, it will make the base game losing its charcteristics. I do agree that some really, really fundamental features should be insisde,such as Seasons. But, I wouldn't agree with the other suggestions.

As for the Rabbithole design, I do think that some should be open, like restaurants, but for the jobs, it's hard to create animations for every jobs and people will be hard to mod new careers.

Please, use your sense to demand. Think carefully and critically :)