EA Play - New Sims 4 Experience Speculation

"Simsfan99111;c-16460813" wrote:

"Erpe;c-16459894" wrote:

"Writin_Reg;c-16459874" wrote:

"filipomel;c-16455294" wrote:
I hope the new mobile game is an actual pay once and play port of the Sims 4, or something similar, I’m not interested in the Sims Mobile, the gameplay is too straight forward and repetitive for my tastes, I really hope they bring a true sims experience to mobile. From an aesthetic point of view it seems possible since Sims Mobile reuses a lot of game assets and animations from Sims 4 and still looks really good. From a simulation point of view, perhaps it would be a bit more simplified, but as long as the heart of what a Sims game is about is present, then I’d buy it in a heart beat.

I doubt that -

EA already has two mobile Sims games (the Sims Mobile and the Sims Freeplay). So it will certainly take a couple of years before EA even considers to make a new mobile Sims game and it won’t likely happen before EA takes the game server down for at least one of the two existing mobile Sims games!

Also mobile Sims games have not really anything to do with the PC game as long as the mobile games are MMO games while the PC game still is just a traditional offline game.

Is it another sims mobile game or another maxis title? Seems a bit silly to have 3 mobile sims games.

They had 4 mobile Sims games in the Sims 3 days (the Sims 3, the Sims 3 World Adventures, the Sims 3 Ambitions and the Sims Medieval). But they were just offline games that sold a little in a couple of years until they were removed again from the app stores by EA.

But the Sims Mobile and the Sims Freeplay are as mentioned very different because they are online games and live services that get updates and new content every week. So EA uses a lot of maintenance resources on those games.

If we compare with the PC games then they correspond with TS4 and not TS3 even though TS3 and its packs still are sold for high prices too. But EA doesn’t use maintenance resources on TS3 or make updates for that game anymore.

So to have two Sims game for mobile devices to make updates and maintenance for is already more than EA does for any other platform. Therefore I am quite sure that EA doesn’t plan to release any new games for mobile devices very soon.

The rumors about TS5 being only for mobile devices I view as just unfounded panic among simmers in this forum and I don’t believe those rumors at all.