will the sims ever be online like the original TSO (The SIMS Online)?

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@Scobren wrote:

I think that is why so many companies are moving to Texas including Maxis Sims 5 team because cooling for servers are better there are less of a drought problem than California.  It takes a lot of water to keep servers cool. https://www.computerworld.com/article/2510244/in-texas-heat--servers-take-dip-to-keep-cool.html. Why Tesla moved there too.

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For the rest of the world, Texas is a terrible place to put servers. Ping to Texas is rubbish and with US infrastructure being notoriously bad...and Texas being right in middle of all the bad infrastructure...let's just say rest of world hates Texas servers.

@Scobren , that isn't why companies are moving to Texas.... Texas is notoriously hot!  😉 I know this firsthand! 😅 The summers here are miserable.  Much of Texas is in a drought right now, though it doesn't seem as bad since it is winter.  They are testing that new cooling system in Texas probably because Texas is hot, but in that case it would work just as well in California, if the tests can prove that a cooling system like this can work!  I would think that if their hypothesis with this cooling system is correct, then they could implement this system all over the world. Only time will tell. 😎

@MzMolls We don't even know for certain if there will even be a Sims 5, let alone it will be online or not. There is no official confirmation on any of this as of yet.  That said, I do think EA is probably working on the Sims 5 , but that is just my guess.😉  I do not work for EA, so I really have no idea.  Employees have spoken publicly about the future, but this isn't the same as an official announcement. 🙂

  But game development takes a long time and, in the past, even when they did announce a new Sims game it was way in advance of it being released. For example, The Sims 2 was announced on May 5, 2003, but didn't release until September 14 (or 16 depending on where you lived) 2004. That is a year and 4 1/2 months gap!  For The Sims 3, that was announced March 19, 2008, and released on June 2, 2003, with a gap of a little over a year. Sims 4 was announced in May of 2013 and released in September 2014, which again was a gap of year and 4 months.  

While EA employees have mentioned online capability for the future, we don't know if this will be The Sims 5 or if they are planning on another branch of the Sims like they did with The Sims Online (20 years ago!)  or the Sims Medieval, or the My Sims franchise. And even if they are specifically talking about The Sims 5 and not another offshoot of the Sims , since the Sims 5 has not been officially announced yet, it would most likely be over a year away (at the earliest) if they were to announce it today.  That said, EA has also mentioned having enough content for a few more years for the Sims 4.

I hope that if the Sims 5 has online capability, that we can still play it by ourselves if we want to! 😊
Happy Simming! 🥳