No "Simish" for The Sims 4. Be able to speak real languages.

Kennybenny19 wrote:
It would be cool to see what their always saying but they would never do that because then they couldn't release it worldwide without making a Japanese or Chinese version.

This is not the problem at all because if EA made sound files for the game so the Sims could speak English then it wouldn't be any big problem to translate those sound files to a lot of other languages. The sound files would be big files however. But they didn't all have to be distributed with the game because EA could just make all other language versions of the sound files available as downloads.

No, the problem is to make the original English version of those sound files. In real life we repeat many words but we are still able to vary the way we use all those words almost infinitely. The Sims could not do that without making a lot of meaningless random sentences which wouldn't give any meaning. To avoid this EA would have to save all possible exact sentences in the sound files and just let the Sims pick random sentences from the files. But this would never give meaningful conversations anyway. Just sentences without context or a lot of irritating repetitions. There is no way to make such conversations interesting for us to hear except for the first few hours. After that we would just be forced to play the game without sound because we just couldn't stand to hear those monotone repeating "conversations" anymore.