User blog comment:Knc1w2h3n4c5t/The Sims 4 is NOT Open World - Thoughts?/@comment-9930331-20140616134309/@comment-1997588-20140616135017

Personally, I don't mind the world is divided into neighborhoods where we would get loading screens between the neighborhoods, as long as there's progression and aging, and as I know it, TS4 would work like that.

It's never clear, however, about how they really define "loading". Would it be really a loading screen like The Sims 2, or just short rendering of certain area in the world like The Sims 3.