Given some new announcements from EA moving forward with the Sims franchise, it's become clear that long-term support for the old Sims 4 packs is becoming increasingly difficult to justify.
While the Anarteq: Top of the World Story Pack will still get its completed handbook, it will be one of the few packs not discontinued soon. Magic of Movies and Memes will remain up. Oughties Big Rapids Living will remain up. Everything else, however, will be discontinued. Anything that isn't on IMDB, and doesn't have a handbook, and is Sims-related, will soon be pulled from DzMD.
The wiki articles will still document everything about the history of these Sims 4 packs. However, the handbooks won't be completed. The labor can no longer be justified.
Lot blueprints will get screenshots. As much will be reconstructed as possible using Planner 5D, SweetHome 3D, and/or House Flipper 2.
This transition will affect more than just DzMD. Comics will get remade. Krea will become the de-facto format generator.
In less-depressing news, the new Dozerfleet Mac means that X-Code can be deployed for making the Shrimp on a Treadmill Calculator an official Mac app. Once the Windows EXE version also exists, all that remains is to make a Linux-end version that's compatible with Mint.
What was going to be a peaceful send-off, with rumors of predatory pop-up ads entering the Sims' ecosystem, has now become an evacuation project. EA's business model, post-private equity acquisition, is becoming borderline predatory. And that's not a healthy situation for DzMD.
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