If the sims 5 is free, the sims 4 content continuing?

"Sarah26Cat;c-18284039" wrote:
Most likely Sims 4 will be dropped by EA as soon as Sims 5 gets a trailer. You will continue to be able to play it, unless they break it before then. >:) Not saying they will, but you know EA. Then there will be no more official Maxis content, and no more bug fixes. No more patches. Nothing.

It was the same way for Sims 1-3. I doubt they will change things up now.

My advice to anyone, is to wait before adding new content to the game. Wait for the first glitch reports, because if it is the last expansion, you may have to live with those glitches for the next 10+ years.

The previous parts haven't been dropped, but finished

Haven't they said that they have a few years of ideas and plans for ts4 and it will continue even if ts5 releases? But who knows

I think it will for marketing strategy

I hope they continue as this is probably my last in the sims series. Buying sims5 will depend mostly on my health & somewhat finances. I'm probably looking at being able to play maybe another 5-10 years (hopefully more) so not sure I want to reinvest in another series.
I'm so glad they put horses in 4 while I can still play.

I don’t want or care for another new Sims Version game. My Sims 4 is enough & I do love that it keeps growing. Also, I still really like my Sims 3 & can’t wait until I get a new memory chip put in my CPU so I can reinstall my other PC games.?

The shots showed during Behind the Sims tells me that we've got at least another year. It seems that Rene is still pretty early in development.

I fully expect there to be no more TS4 content once Project Rene is released. But I also fully expect to be able to keep playing TS4 for a long time to come after Project Rene is released - the same way I can still play TS2 and TS3. And I’m optimistic that there’ll still be some kind of team working on serious issues in TS4 once Rene arrives. In 2020 a new 64 bit version of TS3 was released for Mac users so that we could still play it on Mac. In fact, I hadn’t been able to play TS3 for years before then because of various graphics issues, but this new release has made it totally playable for me again. So I’m hoping the same will be true for TS4…

Project Rene seems to be very early in development and they seem to be split into different teams when making it, at least that's the impression I got from the recent sims summit because they all seemed to be working from different places and I don't think that will be enough to make a full game... but maybe they will pull it off?

Depending on what they are aiming for I think everyone at Maxis needs to shift to Rene when they have decided on everything that they need to make so they can go into full production. There were familiar simgurus working on rene in the sims summit video so I don't think it's unlikely that they will shift more and more people who have worked on the sims4 over to rene.

So they might still make content for the sims4 after rene is released, but I'm not sure that is something that Maxis would like to do because they have all shifted over? and maybe people would not want that either because the content will be made by different teams who might not make content that people want.

I think simguruAzure said that they had many ideas yet on what they wanted to make for the sims4 a couple of years back and what they said had come true, they talked about generations for example, but she was shown working on Rene in the recent sims summit as a producer. So I think it will be very much up to Maxis if they feel that they can handle making content for both games.