If something new is shown at EA Play regarding The Sims Franchise, what do you think it will be?

The next Expansion Pack. I doubt it woll be The Sims 5, do it amd backlash will start to rise again.

If EA has followed their usual plan about releasing a new basegame every 5 years and announcing each new basegame about 15 months before their release then of course it will be TS5! ;)

Many simmers just don’t believe that because they think that TS4 still is missing all the “usual” EPs now that EA has replaced them with GPs and SPs instead. Beside that those simmers haven’t yet understood that it never was EA’s intention to just let TS4 become a new version of TS2 or TS3! Instead it always has been EA’s plan to let TS4 become a new and very different Sims game.

So EA planned to let TS4 even become a Sims game without toddlers and also without all the “traditional” EPs. It should be a new game and simmers who preferred the old style were expected to just still play TS3.

Later EA decided to release toddlers anyway though because the sales numbers for TS4 had been disappointing. So has EA also changed the plan about not releasing EPs like Seasons or University? I don’t know. But EA still mainly wants to release SPs and GPs because their low prices make them sell better and because they are much cheaper for EA to make. Also I am quite sure that EA wants the GPs to have mainly new content instead of becoming reduced versions of traditional EPs. But anyway all the traditional reasons why EA wants a new basegame to be released every 5 years are still clearly valid (mainly an old basegame not appealing to new simmers, new packs for an old basegame selling less and less and EA being unable to discount old packs without hurting the sales numbers for new packs). So unless EA really wants to stop the whole series soon I can’t see why EA shouldn’t announce TS5 in the middle of 2018 and release it about 15 months later as usual?

"TS1299;c-16347159" wrote:
The next Expansion Pack. I doubt it woll be The Sims 5, do it amd backlash will start to rise again.

They’ve never announced an EP at EAPlay before, and you’d think Cats & Dogs would have been the first, if they were to ever do so.
No I don’t think it will be a pack announcement, it’s either a teaser for TS5, or nothing. No EP is big enough or important enough to break the trend of ‘no announcement at EAPlay.’

Something for Sims 4, I highly doubt we’ll see a Sims 5 any time soon. Creating stuff for Sims 4 is bringing in money now, why would they bother and put their energy into a completely new game?

"keylimepiesims;c-16347238" wrote:

"TS1299;c-16347159" wrote:
The next Expansion Pack. I doubt it woll be The Sims 5, do it amd backlash will start to rise again.

They’ve never announced an EP at EAPlay before, and you’d think Cats & Dogs would have been the first, if they were to ever do so.
No I don’t think it will be a pack announcement, it’s either a teaser for TS5, or nothing. No EP is big enough or important enough to break the trend of ‘no announcement at EAPlay.’

The topic says if there is something new is shown, so It is just my wishful thinking :) Tho, I don't think that they will announce anything. Not even TS5. I don't think they are ready for announcing the next pack yet. They announced Cats and Dogs on August and it was still on development. Tho, I kinda wish they would announce one, even a gamepack lol. I mean a simple gamepack to wait during the dry content month(summer) is enough for me :)

"TS1299;c-16347261" wrote:

"keylimepiesims;c-16347238" wrote:

"TS1299;c-16347159" wrote:
The next Expansion Pack. I doubt it woll be The Sims 5, do it amd backlash will start to rise again.

They’ve never announced an EP at EAPlay before, and you’d think Cats & Dogs would have been the first, if they were to ever do so.
No I don’t think it will be a pack announcement, it’s either a teaser for TS5, or nothing. No EP is big enough or important enough to break the trend of ‘no announcement at EAPlay.’

The topic says if there is something new is shown, so It is just my wishful thinking :) Tho, I don't think that they will announce anything. Not even TS5. I don't think they are ready for announcing the next pack yet. They announced Cats and Dogs on August and it was still on development. Tho, I kinda wish they would announce one, even a gamepack lol. I mean a simple gamepack to wait during the dry content month(summer) is enough for me :)

Well Parenthood came out May of last year, around 4 months after Vampires, so I could see another GP releasing 4-5 months after JA, perfect timing for the Summer content drought!

"JoAnne65;c-16347252" wrote:
Something for Sims 4, I highly doubt we’ll see a Sims 5 any time soon. Creating stuff for Sims 4 is bringing in money now, why would they bother and put their energy into a completely new game?

So was creating stuff for TS2 in 2007-2008 and creating stuff for TS3 in 2012-2013. So why did EA then announce TS3 in 2008 and TS4 in 2013 anyway? What has changed?? Doesn’t EA care about sales numbers becoming lower after a few years anymore??

"Erpe;c-16347269" wrote:

"JoAnne65;c-16347252" wrote:
Something for Sims 4, I highly doubt we’ll see a Sims 5 any time soon. Creating stuff for Sims 4 is bringing in money now, why would they bother and put their energy into a completely new game?

So was creating stuff for TS2 in 2007-2008 and creating stuff for TS3 in 2012-2013. So why did EA then announce TS3 in 2008 and TS4 in 2013 anyway? What has changed?? Doesn’t EA care about sales numbers becoming lower after a few years anymore??

I genuinely think things have changed in this respect. Time will tell if I'm right. As you know I hope you are right here and I'll be proved wrong ;)

"JoAnne65;c-16347482" wrote:

"Erpe;c-16347269" wrote:

"JoAnne65;c-16347252" wrote:
Something for Sims 4, I highly doubt we’ll see a Sims 5 any time soon. Creating stuff for Sims 4 is bringing in money now, why would they bother and put their energy into a completely new game?

So was creating stuff for TS2 in 2007-2008 and creating stuff for TS3 in 2012-2013. So why did EA then announce TS3 in 2008 and TS4 in 2013 anyway? What has changed?? Doesn’t EA care about sales numbers becoming lower after a few years anymore??

I genuinely think things have changed in this respect. Time will tell if I'm right. As you know I hope you are right here and I'll be proved wrong ;)

Just see the huge payouts to EA’s top executives on http://insiders.morningstar.com/trading/executive-compensation.action?t=EA they don’t get so many millions of dollars each year for doing nothing and just let EA’s games go on and on without changing anything.

So instead EA always pushes new games out as fast as possible. Studios get closed when they don’t earn enough money anymore and top executives get fired if they can’t tell about a lot of new game releases. That is just the kind of company EA is.

So assuming that EA now just will cash in on TS4 by releasing SPs for several additional years in spite of the sales numbers going down is contradictory to EA’s whole way of doing things. EA’s top can’t impress the stock holders just by telling them that even though TS4 isn’t the best selling Sims game ever they will just let the developers make more and more SPs until they don’t sell at all anymore. They need instead to talk about a new fantastic Sims basegame to be released soon and with a good chance of getting even better sales numbers for both the basegame and the packs than ever before.

I doubt it is Sims 5. There was too much backlash about Sims 4 missing features, still is. I will not buy Sims 5, if they don't 'finish' Sims 4 first. I just wouldn't trust them to finish Sims 5 either and then I am left with two games with missing content.