How many more years of TS4?

"Writin_Reg;c-16210911" wrote:

"BuzzBuzz;c-16210895" wrote:
About two more years. The other games lasted for five years

I hear this game is going to be made - in their own words "as long as it is feasible to do so". Doesn't matter what the other games did - EA want longer shelf lives for all their games through updates and dlc - both free and paid. Besides all the other games varied a bit. Sims 1 was barely 4 years, Sims 2 was almost 5 years and Sims 3 was well over 5 years.

Yes EA wants to change all their games into online games and live services. But the problem here is that TS4 that way instead.

TS1 wasn’t planned to really have expansions at all because it was only planned to be a small sidegame to SimCity. But to EA’s huge surprise the sales numbers just exploded because very young girls just loved that game even though only few such girls had been interested in the SimCity main game. So EA had to release no less than 7 EPs for Sims 1 even though EA at most had planned to maybe make just one EP if the sales numbers became good. This meant that all those unplanned EPs were quite hard both to make and for us to install (unless they were installed in the correct order there were no chance that they would work). So already after 4 yrs EA preferred to release TS2 as a much bigger game that also was much better prepared for a lot of later expansions. But since then each Sims game has always had a lifespan of almost exactly 5 yrs (only with a variation of a couple of months). So I will actually be surprised if TS5 won’t be released at some time in the second half of 2019.

But if TS5 really will be an online game where we can play with our friends then it will likely have a much longer lifetime just as all other such games have because the game companies know that many gamers won’t move on to the next version of the game if they lose all their online friends in the game.