"king_of_simcity7;c-16441444" wrote:
"Erpe;c-16441441" wrote:
"king_of_simcity7;c-16441407" wrote:
"Erpe;c-16441374" wrote:
"king_of_simcity7;c-16441342" wrote:
"@alan650111;c-16441221" wrote:
Same here! What the plum is EA's insistence that every game be online or mobile? They destroyed the Simcity franchise by making it online required. The Sims games are SINGLE PLAYER experiences! They've made millions and millions off of Will Wright's creative franchise and for some reason keep wanting to mutate it to be like the thousands of horrible to average mobile games saturating the market! The Sims series is near and dear to my heart. There truly is nothing else like it out there! They had easy access to people's wallets if they just kept releasing quality packs that dig into great ways to play. THAT IS ALL THEY HAD TO DO! The Sims was a phenomenon that EA is illogicaly slicing and dicing into some plum mobile product that will be nothing but a shadow of the game's original genius premise.
I was thinking about Will Wright as well. This game started out as a PC game as did the Sim City games and spinoffs before it. There was no mobile games in 1990, 1995 or 2000 and not in 2004 or 2009 either so why now? Who said that this is the 'step forward' considering that game play wise an mobile game will still be a step backwards
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Because everybody now owns a smartphone, because mobile games generated about $46 billion in 2017 and because the market for mobile games is exploding especially in China. See http://www.pocketgamer.biz/asia/comment-and-opinion/67626/h2-2017-china-mobile-games-market/
Smartphone games are basic games. The Sims was never originally a basic game and any attempt to make it one would be a cruel way to treat the series
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Even that isn’t true anymore. Just look at https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/classic-pc-games-play-android-device/ and see how some of the biggest PC games just a few years ago now have been transferred to mobile devices where we therefore can play the full games. I still remember trying Baldur’s Gate, XCOM: Enemy Within, Doom and so on when they a few years ago were too big for most PCs. But now I can even play them on my tablets :)
They are not Sims games though... :no_mouth:
No. But in a year or two EA could even make TS2 or TS3 available on Android and iOS too. So we shouldn’t just give up :)
