Yeah it is supposed to. EA CEO confirmed the Sims 5 will be. https://www.ibtimes.com/sims-5-features-seemingly-confirmed-ea-ceo-291587 There are also mobile versions with the Sims with the Sims Free play and the Sims Mobile you can play with family. Sims 4 was going to be the next Sims Online, but with SimCity 2013 servers crashed so much with the traffic. 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.
@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! 🥳
@Scobren , thanks , you stay safe too! 😇
So far this year our weather isn't too crazy for this part of Texas. The temperatures are up and down but that is normal for winter. We are in a bit of a drought, but that was because we usually get a decent amount of rain in the fall, especially around October, but that didn't happen this year. However, last winter was a doozy! 🥶
But I hear other parts of North America had a big snowstorm! 😨
I loved the Sims Medieval! I do miss that game! 😊 I can't imagine if it were online! 😅
@PugLove888 Thanks had some snow but nothing like the East Coast. Mostly freezing fog which causes car batteries to freeze and stop working. Just the ice storms and fires have been bad. I do need to check out the Sims Medieval sometime. I know there is a FreeSO mod that brought the Sims Online back. I do play Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley and Minecraft with a lot of my friends, so at least for me I have options in a safe environment. Eco is getting quite large too especially in the role-playing community and neat to see some Simmers enjoy that game. Farm Together was a blast too with friends and very life simulation as well with an adorable art style. I do think it will be harder for the Sims to enter the online market now compared to 22 years ago. A lot has changed in that time and Simmers are far more diverse now and multi generational now with kids, grandkids, and great grandkids. I tend to observe social media on how well the community gets along or not and at this time, don't think the community can handle the main game being MMO, but yeah with Sims Online being a side game sold separately from the Sims, hard to tell if it will sell as well or be as successful as Fortnite. I mean their events are literally Epic from what they show on YouTube with real musicians performing live in game and players attending like a concert. Sims events well are kind of pale in comparison which is sad. There just isn't that community feel with events even with the mobile game events. It is all achievement and time sensitive focused. Makes me miss the community events Sims 4 used to have with the Jasmine Sim.
