How many more years of TS4?

it may have been out for ages but we still dont have a lot of things than we should, staircases carpeted ones spiral ,L shaped any shape pls for the love of god! weather, university etc

My hope is that it ends in 2020. My dream is that it ends sooner than later.

Hopefully not too many. I want it to end ASAP. I want TS5 with TS4's toddlers.

As Long as it takes to satisfy my needs.

I hope it last for a while. I feel like the game doesn't have much depth to it and there are lots of room to expand. It would suck to know I spent a ton of money buying packs to try to get the game to feel complete to have them dump it to start a new one with probably less to do as a base game and then I'd have to spend a ton of money trying to make that game and start over.

I'd estimate two.

Their answer has been a rather cryptic and empty "we'll keep making packs as long as it makes sense to" or "Sims 4 could have a longer life than previous titles." I think that with Sims 1, 2 and 3 they probably followed that exact same rule and kept making packs as long as it made sense to. After all, why would they go to work one day and say "let's stop making Sims 2 for no apparent reason! \o/" No, there would've been a reason, and that reason is likely that they hit a point where it ceased being profitable to continue and they stood to make MORE money by making their way to the next title.

The furthest a game has gone until now is about 4 and a half years with Sims 3. I would guess this one will likely go to five or five and a half. The reason for this is both because they seemed to get a bit of rejuvenation to sales once Toddlers released, and I think they risk outrage if certain features like Seasons, University and Witches aren't accounted for OR this title doesn't even have as many expansions as Sims 1. 5 years gives them time to release 2-3 more expansions (assuming they pick up the pace at the end for +1 expansion), which would be just enough time to meet these demands, match the Sims 1 in expansion count, as well as watch their sales steadily decline as they tend to do. Over time sales tend to drop off, and Sims 4 and it's packs are no exception to this rule.

Anything longer seems overly optimistic and fails to account for the fact that a lot can change in just 6 months. Anything shorter seems to not account for the fact that currently we are seeing hints of Seasons, this does suggest at least 4 years of life, and we've not really seen any hints Seasons will be the last as of yet.

My speculation is that we'll have at least 2 more years of TS4 to go- 2018 and 2019 with the release of the next Sims series releasing in 2021. We've been receiving 2 game packs a year now, and 1 expansion pack a year (not including Get to Work and Get Together which released in 2015).

I could see Seasons and Vacations combined into one expansion- with 2 or 3 new travel destinations centered around the different seasons- Country Life- autumn/fall; Island Paradise- summer; Winter Ski Resort- winter; each world being the size of Granite Falls or Newcrest. So that would leave University for it's own expansion pack with the possibility of adding a grade school element into it as well and calling the entire pack Get to School. So that would leave Seasons/Vacations for 2018 and Get to School for 2019. After that I predict that will be the end of the major expansions for TS4.

As for Game Packs that would leave us with 4 to 5 game packs, assuming they carry releases over into 2020. I could see a Finding Love GP centered around romance, Witches & Werewolves GP since those are two of the most requested supernatural occult life states, along with a Family themed GP similar to Generations. I personally want a Get Famous pack similar to TS1 Superstar, so hopefully Maxis is planning a celebrity-themed GP for the future.

And who knows how many more stuff packs we may see until TS5 is released. So far, since the first SP released in 2015 we've received 12 SPs and technically 13 if you count the free Holiday SP in a 3-year span. So if TS4 carries over into 2020... we could see an additional 12 SPs. So who knows... we may receive things like new active careers, new businesses, and new life states in upcoming SPs that didn't make it into EPs and GPs.

To sum it all up, my prediction is that TS4 will end Spring/Summer 2020 with the release of TS5 in Fall of 2021.

Hopefully next year will be the last EP. TS4 just needs to go. It's the worst in the series and it feels like it's just here to make time for an actual sequel. Let's be real TS4 was not even meant to be a sequel it was rushed and at this point I don't see the devs adding any new features. Just re-using over and over what they introduced in the first two years. Plus every add-on has so little content and so many limitation it's tiring really.

I hope it never ends. I love the Sims 4.

I would say at the *least* until 2020. From the off Sims 4 was touted as "Live" meaning they would update as they go along. I think that by favouring a cartoon art style, alongside a snail pace approach with releasing EPs suggests that the Sims 4 era will be longer than Sims 2 and 3.
I think that's a good thing though for both us and Maxis. This is our 4th time being sold Pets, *when* they get round to doing Seasons it will be their 3rd time selling it. Although Seaons/Pets are pretty much essential. It must be difficult trying to market things that have already been established so heavily in previous iterations of the Sims...and to the fans it can have an aspect of "been there" and "seen that".
Plus....*both* Sims 3 and Sims 4 base games have received their fair share of criticisms on release for certain game aspects being "missing." One of those reasons being that they haven't been a massive leap from their previous iterations like Sims 2 was from Sims 1, if there is to be a Sims 5 I would like it to completely blow Sims 2, 3 and 4 out of the water, making it difficult for us to compare and contrast the previous versions.