EA Project Atlas
Electronic Arts is preparing for the future, and one that is increasingly focused on streaming and cloud technology. "At EA, we envision a future in which games go even further beyond the immersive...
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"Writin_Reg;c-16815461" wrote:"FreezerBunnyCowplant;c-16815427" wrote:"MidnightAura;c-16815415" wrote:
Well EA very foolishly in my view said that Single player games are dead. Tell that to all the games I listed on the page before that are all single player and have sold millions of copies. ;)
I hope they don't do the same mistake twice. They started developing Sims 4 as an online game, but then SimCity was failing really hard because of its online focus and so The Sims 4 was becoming an offline game. (Which is great, but Sims 4 had so much potential that was just wasted like the color wheel, open world or toddlers while half or even more of the development time was originally spend on making it an online game. Also online games usually have many limitations and Sims 4 is based on the remains of this online game codenamed "The Sims Olympus")
None of that from Sims 3 was ever planned for Sims 4 - by the way. The Devs mentioned that in the early Q &A's we used to have with the developers in the forums back in 2014.
That's what I'd also say if I had to build on the remains of a multiplayer game and didn't had much time anymore. (Not saying that they didn't do their best to create a good game, they gave us many things we asked for like toddlers, pools or terrain tools, but it could have been much better if they focused on it being a single player experience in the first place so that they could've used their time more wisely and maybe include these things in the beginning like Sims 3 did)
