"Loanet;c-16393798" wrote:
Who's gonna buy any more Sims 4 packs if there's a whole new game coming out in 18 months? I know I wouldn't.
Why not?
If TS5 is released in about 18 months then it at that time will have only the basegame. Would you really stop playing TS4 for a coulple of years and just wait to only play with the basegame for TS5?
They haven't even released Seasons yet.
Correct. But if they release Seasons later this year and then TS5 a year after that then you will have a whole year to play with Seasons. Won’t that be enough?
I think there are three things to be discussed - Sims Mobile release, and whatever game pack is out this quarter, while also fielding questions about this year's EP.
You see, while some people clamour for Sims 5, EA knows that it can appeal to many more new customers than Sims 5 would get for their money, by employing porting teams. You see, the younger audience IS on the phone apps.
Yes. Therefore EA has released the Sims Mobile. But something points in the direction that EA doesn’t even know for how long that game will be interesting to play because EA has strongly pointed out that EA has reserved the right to close the game’s server down with only one month notice before it is actually done.
There's a good reason the Devs would want Sims 4 to last. You see, Triple-A Devs are in a pretty lousy position when it comes to job stability. As soon as a game is complete, their jobs are pretty much over. Bye-bye, don't let the door hit your plum on the way out. A sequel with an identical engine is their only chance, and not much of a chance at that. When Sims 4 was made, a whole new team was brought in for a whole new engine, and then the Sims 3 staff got laid off.
Not really. Only the studio in Salt Lake was told to make other games until EA was sure that the studio wouldn’t be needed for TS4 too. But when it became clear that this wasn’t the case because the cheap-to-make SPs and GPs sold very well EA then decided to finally close Salt Lake down less than a year ago.
No way is it just EA who treats devs that way. So Devs are not going to turn to their employers and say "We're out of ideas, I guess you've got to pay us to make Sims 5 now" cuz for sure they won't be on the team making it. And I'm not knocking at the Devs for it either. That's what happens when you don't have a union.
You should just study a little how EA’s top usually treat EA’s employees ;)
EA has bought a lot of other companies just to get the rights to use their most profitable game series. But EA has also closed most of their studios down after a few years when EA didn’t need those studios anymore and without caring about their employees at all. EA’s employees get nice surroundings to work in and discounts when they buy EA’s games. But then they also have to accept a lot of overtime and they have no job security at all. You can read much more about this if you search for “EA employees” in Google because both current and earlier EA employees have told about it many times.
So no. EA’s top won’t at all consider the devs when they decide the future for the Sims games - but only how they can maximize the profit from those games.
