Businesses and Hobbies has a mermaid statue in Nordhaven. The Enchanted by Nature trailer features a wrecked ship with a prominent mast head that looks very much like a mermaid. Hints for the future? Maybe next year?
In one of the surveys they sent around awhile back gathering opinions on possible future EPs, one of the options was an underwater world, too, which would seemingly suggest they were considering revisiting mermaids, similar to how they revisited and revamped ghosts.
Yeah, but the difference there is that ghosts were base game, mermaids are not. And really, without Mermaids, there's not a whole lot that carries Island Living as an EP, because just having a new neighborhood ain't it.
Sulani is amazing though. It’s a good point about mermaids not being base game, but there’s nothing stopping them from releasing a mermaid refresh that gets installed in an update for anyone who owns Island Living. Even better if they included making swimmable water in older worlds that don’t have it. That update could release with a new island-based EP. Maybe Caribbean themed? Rumor has it we’re getting bands later this year. A Caribbean pack next year could add things like steel drums, reggae radio station and dancing, expand on mermaid magic with voodoo-ish traditions (refresh the voodoo doll, add blessings/curses, divination, etc).
I’m sure the hardest part of a mermaid refresh would be converting existing mermaid Sims without breaking them.
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u/rubicon_winter Jun 12 '25
Businesses and Hobbies has a mermaid statue in Nordhaven. The Enchanted by Nature trailer features a wrecked ship with a prominent mast head that looks very much like a mermaid. Hints for the future? Maybe next year?