What direction would you like to see The Sims to go?

I never create myself and play in the game so I would definitely not want to walk around in my game. VR is out.

Oh the flashback of Sims online. Yeahhhhh NO!!!

I don't want a combo either. EA is on this make everything multiplayer kick and they are spending too much development time on it. In my opinion, it is killing the single player game. Just look at all the backlash with Mass Effect Andromeda. Sims 4 was on the road to plum, I wouldn't want to see Sims 5 start off on the wrong foot either. If they make Sims 5 multiplayer, I will definitely be done. It might be a good thing because I am tired of waiting 5 years for them to add weather.

I like to be connected with other Simmers through the Gallery. But that's enough.

Well, I am a little bit of a control freak and simply don't want to have to deal with others while I make my sim worlds. So multiplayer is off the table.
Also I don't see VR being great for the sims, I see it being useful for RPG games, where you are one character and exploring a world (basically it lets you be a character/you are the character), in the sims I like building my own worlds and playing multiple people (You are not being a character).
Also as someone mentioned VR makes a lot of people motion sick that I know. When I was using it I was fine, but most people in my family didn't do very well, so I could see it being annoying if it didn't also play normally.

Open sandbox wins because I play the sims to create. That sandbox is the most important part of the sims for me, if it wasn't for the sandbox I would not be playing the sims.

I hate the idea of VR for sims except when it comes to a few horror games. ;) I HATE the idea of having other players in my world.

VR and online would be a nightmare I prefer single player sandbox and would never purchase a Sims online version or use VR I imagine that being fun for all of a minute. If anything they need to bring back the true sandbox we had in past game with customization of the worlds and give us all the tools me need to make it our own be it creating our own NPCs or making our own oceans.

Multiplayer would be cool.But that means less speed-up time movements.And you have to bare to wait for processes to be done.Sandbox platform would be nice too

For me I'd like to see the game re-entering the sandbox direction that it used to have. It used to be so cool to play The Sims, because you could just do everything you wanted. You had so many options. And every iteration before The Sims 4 expanded on that. In The Sims 4 it's more about "What can you do?", and when we do get new features and stuff to do it's poorly executed.

I would not like an online direction. I think there are already many games that tackle that and from what I've read, we could never have a good online basegame (since TS4 was supposed to be an online game but that failed).

And VR, idk, I would probably never buy something like that. It could be cool, but not really my jam.

Even though I voted for Single Player in a heartbeat, I want to reason why I didn't vote for the other ones.

VR: Never been a fan of it, and The Sims has always been in a "dollhouse style", that we control other characters. This has never been ego-perspective and shouldn't be. To be honest, VR sims as a part of the main series would just kill it for me.

Multiplayer Online:I think multiplayer just wouldn't work in The Sims. The way the game is set up is not comparable with games like Minecraft. How is this supposed to work? Arguing with other players about the house you wanted to buy? Other players constantly annoying you because they want to visit your home so desperately? Don't forget a chat function - it's the worst thing that was ever implemented in online games. I just can't stand online games, too many prepubescent 12 year olds (play/played League of Legends, I know what I'm talking about :D )

Singleplayer Offline - Sandbox:It doesn't have to be completely offline. I actually like the way TS3 handled this - you can choose to play online or offline, but you need to be online to download stuff from the store or exchange. Mix this with the in game gallery from TS4 and it would be perfect for me.

Combination of the above: Like I said, I don't think that things like multiplayer or VR would work in a game like this. It would just eat development time for the things that are really important.

Tl;dr: Just stay with the sandbox single player experience we have. It always worked, why not stick with it? It's not like there won't be any singleplayer games out there in a few years, their demand is still high enough.

Definetly only Singleplayer/Sandbox. That's what the game always was and should stay, for other things there are other games.

This game should never be anything but SINGLE PLAYER. We have enough of those online game multiplayer. Sims is its own breed of the game. Instead, they should always focus on how to improve the depth, creativity, and imagination possibilities within the single player experience of The Sims!