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

"Erpe;c-16353041" wrote:

"aprilrose;c-16353012" wrote:

"paradiseplanet;c-16348142" wrote:
I swear if they've already started developing Sims 5 then I will simply just laugh condescendingly, when the Sims 4 is nowhere near "finished" as is. Sims 4 has so much potential to be a great game and to think they would go ahead and reveal Sims 5 already is an absurd joke that's nowhere near funny. Typical EA mindset though.

I agree. It's not time for Sims 5 when Sims 4 isn't even complete.

But for EA TS4 was already “complete” when they released the basegame and all the later packs have just been “extras”! ;)

Where did the sims 4 mention the game was ''complete'' ?

"Gelysen;c-16353293" wrote:

"Erpe;c-16353041" wrote:

"aprilrose;c-16353012" wrote:

"paradiseplanet;c-16348142" wrote:
I swear if they've already started developing Sims 5 then I will simply just laugh condescendingly, when the Sims 4 is nowhere near "finished" as is. Sims 4 has so much potential to be a great game and to think they would go ahead and reveal Sims 5 already is an absurd joke that's nowhere near funny. Typical EA mindset though.

I agree. It's not time for Sims 5 when Sims 4 isn't even complete.

But for EA TS4 was already “complete” when they released the basegame and all the later packs have just been “extras”! ;)

Where did the sims 4 mention the game was ''complete'' ?

The idea that the released games aren’t complete until and unless they get a lot of later packs to “complete” them only exist in the minds of simmers. No game company will guarantee a certain number of later additions to their released games to “complete” them and EA isn’t different in such matters either. I agree that simmers now expects at least 5 years with such additions for each new Sims basegame. But only because they happened to get it for TS2 and TS3. EA has never promised that to happen for any of the games and it won’t unless the sales numbers for EA seem to indicate that releasing that many additions will be worth it.

Still the question about whether to release TS5 five years after the release of TS4 was something that EA had to decide 2-3 years ago. But we won’t know EA’s decision until some time in the middle of this year (2018).

Several simgurus have mentioned they expect the sims 4 to have a longer life span than 1,2&3 did tho because it's still very stable and they still think there's loads left to add.

Where as with the other games there were set numbers how many expansionpacks etc the game could handle, the sims 4 doesn't have that (Simgurus mentioned this)

"Gelysen;c-16353393" wrote:
Several simgurus have mentioned they expect the sims 4 to have a longer life span than 1,2&3 did tho because it's still very stable and they still think there's loads left to add.

Where have you seen that?

Where as with the other games there were set numbers how many expansionpacks etc the game could handle, the sims 4 doesn't have that (Simgurus mentioned this)

TS1 got many more EPs than EA had planned. They therefore were quite difficult for the developers to make and for us to install.

TS2 wasn’t planned to get SPs and it didn’t for two years. But then EA made a Christmas SP just as an experiment. It sold so amazingly well that EA decided to make another SP and release it 3 months later. Both those SPs were without copy protection because they were only experiments. But when also the second SP got huge sales numbers then EA decided to release also SPs on a regular basis. So also TS2 got many more packs than EA originally had planned.

So no there isn’t a fixed maximum number of packs or EPs each game can get. But I agree that especially GPs and EPs become more and more difficult to make after a few years. They also sell less and less especially because most new simmers usually prefer to buy old discounted packs instead of the new more expensive ones. Therefore EA has always preferred to start over with a new basegame after at most 5 years. I don’t expect this to change unless EA at some time turns also the big PC versions of the game into a MMO game.

My feeling is its just an opportunity to market the TS4 console version and Sims Mobile to gamers. Not getting my hopes up for any kind of massive announcement.
Also theres no way TS5 is being announced just yet. They just came out with the console version and theyd essentially be like "hey guys this ones pretty much obsolete already, why bother buying the future packs we convert?"

"Erpe;c-16353357" wrote:

The idea that the released games aren’t complete until and unless they get a lot of later packs to “complete” them only exist in the minds of simmers.

Yeah, this is something that bugs me too. I remember reading a statement of one of the devs where they said they like working on the base game but they prefer to work on additional packs because they're the fun part of the game.
Now just translate that to any other game : You pay ~ $70 for a seemingly full game, but heyyyy the DLC is where the fun part of the game lies.

I could enjoy The Legend of Zelda : Breath of the Wild as a full game. I got the DLC for it but not because I felt it was incomplete but because I thought it added some nice extras to an already fantastic game that's filled to the brim with content, both the given one and the one I could create for myself with its sandbox elements. I can't say the same about the base TS4 game.

Sims 4 has a long way to go here’s a article stating they still have a ton of content. http://www.pcgamesinsider.biz/interviews-and-opinion/66418/we-see-crunch-as-a-sign-of-failure-says-sims-4-lead-producer/

They even state the end of pets the start of the second wave. So I’d say another few years to go.

Guys, guys, can't we all just wait until June to finally do the "I told you so" posts? I'd rather just wait and see so this silly arguing can subside and then the latest argument about what is revealed begins.

"paradiseplanet;c-16354794" wrote:
Guys, guys, can't we all just wait until June to finally do the "I told you so" posts? I'd rather just wait and see so this silly arguing can subside and then the latest argument about what is revealed begins.

Agreed :)

For me it isn’t about “I told you so” though because I am just curios to see if TS5 will be announced and released at the time that I see as much the most likely and also to see how it will be different from TS2, TS3 and TS4?

It is just a little hard for me not to answer when somebody claims to have found “proof” that TS5 won’t be released until 2020, 2022 or 2025 :)

"Erpe;c-16354849" wrote:

"paradiseplanet;c-16354794" wrote:
Guys, guys, can't we all just wait until June to finally do the "I told you so" posts? I'd rather just wait and see so this silly arguing can subside and then the latest argument about what is revealed begins.

Agreed :)

For me it isn’t about “I told you so” though because I am just curios to see if TS5 will be announced and released at the time that I see as much the most likely and also to see how it will be different from TS2, TS3 and TS4?

It is just a little hard for me not to answer when somebody claims to have found “proof” that TS5 won’t be released until 2020, 2022 or 2025 :)

No one is claiming to have absolute proof. It's no different than the article you linked to in another thread showing possible release dates for console dlc. That doesn't 'prove' anything. It's all speculation until EA announces it. And the only argument you have for a June announcement of Sims 5 is "that's the way it's always been done." Don't forget a popular phrase from several years ago. Things change.