Is The Sims 4 Endgame?

I voted yes. But it's more of a yes and no really.
Sims 4 was the end of an era for a lot of players like me who've been playing since very beginning. It just deviated too much from what we fell in love with. It's the first in the series where I stopped buying after only one EP and I haven't touched it in years, I regret the purchase.
But, it (slowly) drew in a new crowd. My 14 year old daughter likes Sims 4 and is considering adding EP's to her wishlist. As long as there are enough players like her to turn a profit, they'll keep churning out iterations (mobil or otherwise) of the game. I just don't hold any hope they will be "my" Sims ever again. Hence, my yes vote.

"princess_kaguya;c-16447884" wrote:
bring will wright back!

He left after EA destroyed his greatest work Spore. Look it up its nothing compared to what we were going to get. The final product was a prime example of a No Man's Sky or Sea of Thieves. Nothing but a major disappointment. Though Spore was decent to say the least especially with Galactic Adventures.
Wright will never come back, there is no creative freedom for him here.

I voted no. I think as long as they keep selling enough games it will be around. Cats and Dogs was a huge seller. I'm not fond of the mobile versions, I feel they are too limiting and prohibitively expensive in the long run. The last iteration of Sim City was a disaster. I think there comes a point in a game series where the question is what to do next. If they can come out with something more novel or interesting that will keep people buying games or not. If there is ever a Sims 5 I hope the developers listen to the gamers as to what they really want and just don't rehash the same stuff over and over again, because then it would just become boring. I didn't even scratch the surface of all the possibilities of the Sims 3; with the Sims 4 I probably am not getting the most out of it because of lack of documentation and guides to help to access all the features and not just find things by trial and error.

Id say we cant know.
But PR is doing a horrible job if so many people think the game is dead.
In Sims 3 they released an EP and right away announced they are working on the next one. There was no Gap of several months where you didnt know if anything is happening at all. Actually most people only buy addons if they know there is alot more coming as one pack alone will not make the game complete. They could announce they have atleast 5/6 EPs X GPs and X SPs planned and end all this uncertanity about how much content the game will get. (Yes people will be unhappy if they might not do as planned but i cant think of people beeing happier when they stop developing the game without releasing a plan beforehand)

Sims 4 is suffering alot under a handfull of bad design and PR decisions they stick to like the holy grail. You gotta feed your cashcow or not even the strongest milking machine would do any good.
Actually i do hope the cash they make from console ports and handy port will go into a new flagship Sims 5 to bring the brand back on top. Its likely not going towards sims 4 as they keep reducing the staff, activity and what not.

"Nelus;c-16448179" wrote:
Id say we cant know.
But PR is doing a horrible job if so many people think the game is dead.
In Sims 3 they released an EP and right away announced they are working on the next one. There was no Gap of several months where you didnt know if anything is happening at all. Actually most people only buy addons if they know there is alot more coming as one pack alone will not make the game complete. They could announce they have atleast 5/6 EPs X GPs and X SPs planned and end all this uncertanity about how much content the game will get. (Yes people will be unhappy if they might not do as planned but i cant think of people beeing happier when they stop developing the game without releasing a plan beforehand)

Sims 4 is suffering alot under a handfull of bad design and PR decisions they stick to like the holy grail. You gotta feed your cashcow or not even the strongest milking machine would do any good.
Actually i do hope the cash they make from console ports and handy port will go into a new flagship Sims 5 to bring the brand back on top. Its likely not going towards sims 4 as they keep reducing the staff, activity and what not.

Remember when Maxis announced an Sims 4 Expansion pack to early? When they announced Get Together so early, they have nothing to show. Heck the clubs which are the major focus of the pack aren't there yet. So they just wrote a blog post then bam look at what happen, full of threads such as "The franchise is ending", "Boycott The Sims" threads. I mean have them release a trailer and don't talk about the game for months? People are already complaining about the lack of communication. No matter what they will do, people will think the game is coming to an end, such as the same thing when Get Together announced.

As long as it is doing well financially which it does so far according to the numbers, it can last as long as they want it to.

I voted yes earlier, but after reading this now I think probably not.
forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/939060/you-can-relax-its-not-over#latest

"lisamwitt;c-16447872" wrote:
I voted yes. But it's more of a yes and no really.
Sims 4 was the end of an era for a lot of players like me who've been playing since very beginning. It just deviated too much from what we fell in love with. It's the first in the series where I stopped buying after only one EP and I haven't touched it in years, I regret the purchase.
But, it (slowly) drew in a new crowd. My 14 year old daughter likes Sims 4 and is considering adding EP's to her wishlist. As long as there are enough players like her to turn a profit, they'll keep churning out iterations (mobil or otherwise) of the game. I just don't hold any hope they will be "my" Sims ever again. Hence, my yes vote.

It is like you stole the thoughts out of my head.

I think this is the end of PC. With them laying so many employees off and now their focus seems to be only on mobile and console, it's probably the end for PC which means it's the end of the sims for me. I refuse to play the horrible mobile version and I don't even own a console to play it on. It's so sad how much they want to alienate their core audience by doing this. I wish it weren't true but I'm pretty sure it is.

"TheGoodOldGamer;c-16440236" wrote:
I'm hoping the next one is a full on official reboot, personally. Just 'Sims' or 'The Sims' or 'Sims 2020' or whatever. Just so long as it's clearly marketed as a full on reboot. Cut the ties and keep the basics. A refresh would do this franchise good.

They tried that with SimCity and we see what happened there...