How many more years of TS4?

"jackjack_k;c-16234005" wrote:

"@Cinebar;c-16232764" wrote:
@jackjack_k New careers in CL actually just pertained to using a pc (again) are not my idea of new careers. Yes, I like Sims can work from home, but c'mon all the careers require a pc. TS3 part time jobs and or self employed careers do not require a pc. Everything in TS4 requires a pc. Yes, that is an exaggeration but at this point it really is overkill. Granted the flea market table (which I placed around worlds in the open spaces) were a great object, one of the best objects ever added to any game in my opinion. I wish I had it in TS2 and TS3, but that is about all CL brought to my gameplay since obsession with basketball became too annoying, and obsessive, and once you got to the festivals (especially the romance festival) no need to ever go back. Seen it, done it.

Late Night did something for TS3 it didn't have and that was giving it community lots (open ) that it was sorely lacking and from then on we were able to build 'open lots' and hangouts with any object for Sims to use, and until then they didn't have any bars or clubs to visit, so you can't say it didn't add anything. It also added TS3's attraction system which most don't actually understand like we can TS2's attraction system. TS4 still needs one three year's later. But this game is so politically correct I doubt you would ever see a Sim attracted to another based upon eye color or hair etc. That is probably too taboo for TS4 to judge other Sims own physical attributes. ETA: Apartment buildings (you never had to use shells) are a big deal to those of us who like playing and building apartment buildings, duplexes, condos etc.

I give it another six months.

Do you not use a computer when you work from home? Serious question.

Also, tell me what uses a PC in The Sims 3 that was done differently in 2 or 3. I’m thinking you’re creating a problem that doesn’t exist, honestly.

Hangouts were added with the Ambitions patch, not with Late Night.

Late Night just added NPC staff to venues we already had, that should have been in the base game.


There’s a difference between Apartment buildings that The Sims 2 had, vs the Skyscrapers The Sims 4 has.

It’s already confirmed that Sims 2 style Apartments may come later. Same way that they sort of arrived later with S3 University.


They just launched the game on PS4/Xbox and they are launching The Sims mobile in around 6 months that will use content from The Sims 4.

I’d say you’d be closer to 6 years than 6 months. EA are still exceeding sales and player stats.

This has a chance to be like Elder Scrolls where the game just doesn’t slow down, so there’s no need for a sequel.

How can you compare TS4 with a game like Elder Scrolls which already has 5 generations but only very few expansions for each generation?

Elder Scolls is a game that just sells in several years before it becomes so outdated that Bethesda wants to release a new game. But the Sims games are mainly made for EA to be able to sell a huge number of expansions year after year until the game has so many expansions already that sales numbers for the new expansions go down and become a little unsatisfying for EA. Then EA releases a new basegame (which until now usually has happened every 5 years).

The console version of TS4 is mainly made by another company who has developed a technic to port PC games to consoles quite easily. But the Sims Freeplay and soon the Sims Mobile too are very different games that will live as free games almost forever but let EA earn a lot of money from adds and from offering stuff that mostly only will be available for a short time. So those games live their own lives and haven’t really anything to do with the PC game.