"Sk8rblaze;c-17441634" wrote:
"Huiiie_07;c-17441019" wrote:
"Sk8rblaze;c-17440862" wrote:
The Sims 4's AI (abysmal intelligence) had always made me feel as if I were fighting the game to enjoy it. Sims ignored my interactions and just lack smarts.
Honestly, I just let it win that fight, and stopped playing. If my urge for Simming comes back, I'll certainly do what I have been, and go straight back to TS2 and TS3, which are definitively Sims games in the experiences they offer. Hopefully, when the world gets back on its feet, Maxis will too, and head straight to the planning board for The Sims 5.
I actually don't really want them to make a The Sims 5, probably because it's already being rumored that i's gonna be multiplayer (or atleast having a multiplayer component), which is already showing that they couldn't care less about listening to us, the players. Also me (and my parents) already spent too much money on both TS3 and TS4, going through this whole process again isn't really something I should have to do to get a modern, enjoyable sims game. I can understand though why you and other players rather want to move on to the next iteration instead of this one getting fixed. Sims 4 isn't for everybody, some players find it unenjoyable at its core, something no patches could fix. I personally just wish they would start looking more at what the players want to see in the game. Atleast here on the forums, a vast majority wants bug fixes, no new packs that could add onto the problem.
Don't get me wrong, I agree entirely, but I truly believe that pumping more money into The Sims 4 wastes more money than investing in a successor. Either way, I know I'm not buying a thing for The Sims 4 because developer communication and development quality are still just as horrid as it has been since 2014.
The Sims 4 released six years ago. We are running with the longest Sims game iteration, yet with the weakest foundation of all of them yet. The requests you, myself, and many others have, ranging from serious AI improvements, Sim improvements, world improvements, bug fixes, and more of the sort just amounts to the work comparable to making a whole new base game. And as I said in my previous post, I like TS2 and TS3 a lot, sometimes wishing each had more dev time. However, I think at some point, each game needs to end to allow for the next one to (hopefully) bring new, much-needed improvements. TS4's time is dragging too long for too little. I don't think The Sims 5 would fix everything, but I do believe a game planned as a single player life simulator from the get go is better than what they salvaged and tried running with for TS4.
And if they do design The Sims 5 as a multiplayer experience, at least the majority of us would know it's definitely time to jump ship.
I kinda have the bad feeling that with TS5, the game won't improve that much. Don't forget that TS4 is the best selling game of the entire franchise. Maxis/EA are still companies that live from making money. Now that they've seen that even a lacking game like TS4 can make them enough money, even more than its predecessors, I highly doubt they would put more care into TS5 when they could do the same or even more amount of money with less effort.
To be honest, their biggest mistake was turning a failed online game into singleplayer in the last minute. They should have completely scrapped the game and tried again, building TS4 from scratch. It would have most likely turned out a much better game and we wouldn't have all these discussions now. I really hate to sound pessimistic here, but I really think that the only thing that could save TS5 from utter failure is a worthy competitor for The Sims franchise, which would force them to put more care into their games if they don't want to permanently lose their costumers like SimCity lost them to Cities:Skylines.
