Why having Sims 4 continue indefinitely is a bad move.

Nothing lasts forever except for time and space....😶

I think it's a really bad decision.

You are making it even more difficult to move forward. A lot of people have invested a lot in this game and spent more than $1000 on DLC, keeping The Sims 4 going even longer is going to force this community into an even larger sunk cost fallacy. It's incredibly unhealthy and the decision to end the support of The Sims 4 is going to be even more difficult to take.

You are oversaturating The Sims 4. Packs are going to feel even more similar than ever because we are stuck on the same platform which is bound by the same rules that were created in 2014. 

You will constantly chase technical debt. The game is built on code from 2014, is constantly getting new updates, every single line of code that is being added with every new pack is going to have to be compatible with 50-100 DLC packs. Trying to keep up with every line of code is going to be incredibly difficult.

You are going to be left behind. Technology is moving forward, the video game market is incredibly competitive and are coming up with new ways to attract people and build communities, the sims community is going to be stuck in the past unless you want to play on a mobile phone.

People's saves are going to become too large. The game is going to have to cache and load over 300+ lots with sims, relationships, build/buy, potential cc, autonomy rules, pack rules, and who knows what else. This is going to result in a save that will be similar to a software program having a memory leak where it will just grow, and grow, and grow. Noticed how The Sims 4 is using a huge amount of RAM when playing your old save? That's why. And it's going to get even worse. 

The game will be incredibly vulnerable to bugs. Remember when all sims started getting mean to each other? Or when shower/bathtub combos stopped working? That was because they missed one single line of code somewhere, having everything built on top of each other means that it's incredibly easy to make a single mistake which will make the whole thing fall over and cause bugs. And the developers at EA/Maxis moves on, people need to replace their roles, maybe they are not familiar with what they did back then, many people that built the sims4 could have moved on to another company.

Going for the mobile market means that you have to compete with them. You have to spend loads of development cost against a market that is not as nice as the PC/IOS market that you had with the sims4. The mobile market is incredibly competitive. The success of The Sims 4 comes from it having no competition, that will not be the case with Rene.

I didn't know there was a mod for no autonomous phone, thanks for mentioning it! I am off to find it! (running for the door) :)

Sims 4 is already a huge bugged mess without just adding more and more to it , Some of the bugs in it have been there since the very early days and not even been looked at to fix . Then of course every time they bug fix or patch they add a whole slew of bugs because they do not play test it at all it seems . 

I honestly wish i could go back to Sims 2 to play with its humour and game play but i cannot even get past the loading screen as it won't recognise my graphics card with it being a new one and crashes .

I think it's a great idea that they're holding onto it, especially since they're still actively releasing add ons for it. Why start a new project when you can improve on a perfectly balanced game. It just needs work and they weren't doing it so let's wait and see.

spaghetti coding.

I like the idea of having the TS4 continue indefinitely, but how much longer is the game going to last with all these updates just keep adding more game breaking bugs? I haven't been able to play the game since the last couple if patches around the release of Lovestruck that caused three critical eye issues. They have a changed the appearance of the sims in a negative way, and I can no longer take screenshots for my story.

I only use TS4 for storytelling, so this these three critical eye bugs render the game unplayable for me and many other storytellers. They have two of these issues flagged as open, but one of them they still haven't even flagged as open despite numerous people reporting that it is an issue in both the dedicated forum topic and the other eye bug topics.

These bugs are destroying TS4, with every update and content they release, they are creating more bugs than they are fixing. I love TS4, but the way things are going, TS4's future is not looking looking to great.