User blog:Lost Labyrinth/The Sims Wiki News - 6th February 2014



It's everybody's favourite time of the week again. Without further ado let's get through the news.

The Sims news

 * The Sims turns 14! Last year it could finally edit the wiki.
 * The Sims 3: Town Life Stuff is being given away for free if you have your CD-key of The Sims 3 registered on TheSims3.com. Note that unless you fancy redownloading everything through Origin, Steam TS3 players are without recourse.
 * The Sims 4 is rumoured to be released in the Autumn of 2014, originally stated as September.
 * Cutbacks have been made, with numerous developers being made redundant, at EA Salt Lake, with claims that the development team for The Sims 4 is "mismanaged", leaving the state of the product in question.

Wiki news

 * Some community discussions taking place:
 * Proposal to do-away with the voting stage of RfX and clarifying how consensus is determined
 * Proposal to change/remove the mosaic header image
 * Wikia's watchlist bug
 * Reforming the wiki's policies

Poll
With EA's recent layoffs, including at EA Salt Lake of whom were assisting the development of The Sims 4, gamers have become worried of how the end product may turn out. Other games in the past with troubled development have suffered in terms of quality, which gives me the jumping off point for our poll this week. Are you worried that The Sims 4 will be a major disappointment? Not at all. I'm concerned but no less optimistic Indifferent Abandon ship. Now.

That's all I have for this week. Follow, comment, whatever. 14:59, February 6, 2014 (UTC)