"ClarionOfJoy;c-17566075" wrote:
"Camkat;c-17565408" wrote:
"ClarionOfJoy;c-17565226" wrote:
"davina1221;c-17565181" wrote:
"LeGardePourpre;c-17561583" wrote:
As Andrew said the TS4 community keep on growing year after year, so The Sims 4 is extended by 5 or 6 years
2014
2015 (64-bit)
2016
2017 (Console)
2018
2019 (Rebranded) (Legacy Edition and 64-bit only/macOS Catalina)
2020 (Steam)
2021
2022
2023
(2024) ???
Yes, they've already said that there's years left and that was what 6 mnts ago.
They're just saying all that so you'll keep buying The Sims 4 stuff until the very last minute. I'm glad I didn't get pulled into that, lol!
They were selling TS3 University and Into the Future after they announced TS4... So I really don't think that's the case at all. They know they can sell packs for whatever is current regardless.
They're still selling TS3 at full price with TS4 fully out and 6 years in! If they were worried about this or if this was an actual problem, TS3 wouldn't still be for sale. :/
TS3 sells a lot better than TS4 in general. That's why it's still full price because there is still a good level of demand for it such that the market can bear the product at full price. But TS4 is a different story. If TS5 was announced now, people would stop buying TS4 which is a poorly made game to get ready to buy TS5. Also, they may discontinue TS3 as well, like they did TS2 (since it's closed world like TS4 only better in every way).
So if the devs just keep fooling people into thinking that TS4 still has so many years, people will keep buying it.
I'm pretty much sure that they will announce TS5 shortly before its official release, not a year in advance like they usually had done before.
I finished my shopping at Steam's Summer Sale, but I've pretty much stopped shopping for any other game to save up for Paradox Tectonic's game, Paralives and TS5.
The bit I bolded... You don't know that, and you don't speak for the entire population of simmers. Believe it or not but there are a lot of people that actually do like TS4 and will buy anything and everything for it and all the cherry pickers in between.
I love TS3, but I'm also still interested in TS4. I agree that TS4 was poorly made, but I still do like the game and have some fun with it... and even if TS5 is announced, I know that I for one would still buy a pack for TS4 while I wait if that pack interested me. I am surely not the only one.