Do you think we will get another expansion this year?

"Armilus616;c-16526488" wrote:
Judging by the way EA has set their policies shifting away from AAA singleplayer to competitive pay2win multiplayer mobile games as they believe this will be the future of the gaming industry, I highly doubt there will ever be a Sims 5.
They will keep releasing packs for Sims 4 at least until 2020, but after that, there will be no more new content for the Sims on PC.
The Sims Mobile Remastered will probably get more resoruces than Sims 4 in its entire existence when it is in developement.
EA will eventually stop producing games for the PC altogether at some point, focussing at mobile games only.

The markets for PC games and for mobile games are very different and there are no chance that EA will release a free online Sims game for PCs too within the next few years! The reasons are:
1. The big PC versions of the Sims games give EA many times higher profit than the mobile Sims games do. This is the reason why EA never has even considered to let the Sims Freeplay and the Sims Mobile become available for Windows PCs and Macs too even though a lot of other mobile games are available in such versions too!
2. The PC game mainly earn money to EA by making it possible to sell a huge number of extra packs which are cheap to make with the dedicated game engine which EA therefore has developed for each PC game. So EA would really like to make a Sims game with a lot of paid packs for mobile devices too! But this isn’t possible with current technology. Therefore EA makes free Sims games for mobile devices instead and has to be satisfied with income from showing adds and from selling extra but unnecessary stuff.

So even though I expect EA to soon announce “Sims 5” as an online multiplayer PC game I don’t believe at all that it will be a free game or that its packs will be free because that would reduce EA’s income and profit much more than EA ever would accept! Instead I think that EA likely sees the online multiplayer part as something that maybe can give EA even higher income by selling subscriptions too - or at least from showing adds in the game. It is more about porting this model from other multiplayer games from EA (like the Battlefield games and so on) to the Sims games too. But exactly how EA will do it we can’t know before the game is actually announced.