Online Platform suggestions MMO

@Anna25130545 

It was tried long ago with Sims Online and was an utter disaster. 

Who should get to control the sims and who should watch? Should you take turns say every 5 minutes or how do you picture it?

@jpkarlsen 

I see it more of you have your sims that you have control of yourself and you can visit other simmers in their city at their houses and be able to chat with them and “go on vacation” or hang out. Then when your done go back to your own town and play your usual game. It just adds the option to play with friends and see what they have built. 

@Anna25130545 

That is not possible as the Sims are not multiplayer.

EA wants to bring it back with the Sims 5.  News so far.  Kind of hoping they bring back MySims characters for it.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/gaming/the-sims-5-news-multiplayer-rumors-and-everything-we-know-so-far/ar-AASt2XR?

@jpkarlsen 

I believe it is possible. There are games like RuneScape and World of Warcraft that provide the online experience. EA can make a way. Besides when they first tried it, technology and gaming wasn’t as advanced as it is today. 

@Anna25130545 

The difference between Sims and these two games are that they are both multiplayer which as I wrote earlier the sims are not.

But yes, EA would be capable of producing an entirely new game that would be multiplayer. In fact they already have many such games.

Technology had nothing to do with it. People simply was not willing to pay for other people to come to their houses and change what they had created. And have someone stand in the way as you try to do stuff around house is not going to go over well either.

I just worry about the safety of it.  I think of forums as a good guinea pig how Sims Community relates to each other and right now they seem more divided than ever before.  I think it would be safer having the characters be gender neutral across the board that way there are no restrictions on what their characters want to wear kind of like how Animal Crossing works.  It just varies if Simmers want to role play as another character or as themselves across the board, so having the freedom and removing stereotypes would benefit the Sims community a lot and bring back the you rule direction to the franchise.  Characters should be able to dress in whatever and honestly would give them a leg up in technology versus other MMO games.  I also think the design of side games are a better fit for a Sims MMO such as medieval or castaway.  Without that danger and goals and exploration the game would get boring fast like the Sims Mobile did for several of my friends.

Please no hell is other people.

@Anna25130545 , while this would be impossible for The Sims 4 (as @jpkarlsen stated), It could be possible for the Sims 5 (if and when there is to be a Sims 5). However, the Sims really isn't the best match for online play, as was seen in the Sims Online (also mentioned by @jpkarlsen ).  This is similar to how SimCity isn't really suited to online play, as seen in 2013 with the online multiplayer version, which didn't do very well.  

However, the Sims might work better if it was like Animal Crossing where you would just invite over people you know, 😊, instead of jumping into an online pool with a bunch of strangers! 😱 This would make it safer for younger players!
That said, if they are thinking about having online play for the Sims 5, I hope it is just an option and not a requirement!  Many people love the Sims because they can play on their own and create their own little world and not have to worry about dealing with other people! 😅

Happy Simming! 🥳

Yeah, I not a fan of an online modus. I don’t want that stranger mess with my sims. I tried sims mobile, I don’t like it that I had sims from others in my game (or that my sim was in their world as townie)

I don’t play animal crossing, but I think this would be nice that you can go to your friends’ sims world. I just don’t want it as sims3 showtime had. You needed to send your sim away to get rewards. I don’t trust EA with this, specially not after the statement *Single-Player-Games are dead*