I live in hope...dashed yet again :(

"Cinebar;14498734" wrote:


A company will not pull the plug on a money maker. Only on something that isn't making them money anymore. Please don't blame customers for this direction (which is o.k. but not awesome, great, mind blowing) and for going mobile. EA Maxis went mobile months ago, and EA as a whole believes that is where all the money is these days and in the future. Customers unhappy with a game has nothing to do with what EA's bean counters tell them where they can even more money. Yes, I believe this is the last one for pc, as a pc game genre but probably not for mobile so it's not going to be my fault because I complained about something lacking or a bug or something I felt was just poor workmanship or not thought out or whatever in some cases. Please, don't blame me for being 'blunt' when I give my feedback. EA/Maxis would drop it like a hot potato in the morning if they had another Sim title for mobile they were sure would clobber this one.

Mobile games are cheaper to develop, so they could stop the PC products. I mean the Sims Freeplay is pulling quite a profit and EA is extremely happy about that according to their conference calls, the Sims Freeplay is performing much better than the Sims 4. I didn't want to believe when a developer said mobile games might take over the market a few years ago, but it could happen. It is just where the gaming trend is going and has nothing to do with Sims customers. EA is pretty much does what it wants to do like deciding to pull the plug on SimCity PC game in favor of the mobile market. I wouldn't be shocked if the Sims followed the same direction.

It just makes me think if the Sims 4 had remained an online game, it would have died so fast because of all the community bickering. It wouldn't have lasted long and would have been too much work for the mods to control the servers. Online plus the Sims have never mixed well together.