"Evil_One;c-16517115" wrote:
"Erpe;c-16514840" wrote:
"Evil_One;c-16510913" wrote:
The snow in this pack perfectly sums up TS4... Without depth.
Yes, TS4 was too targeted at new simmers and therefore a little disappointing for us who had expected more. But I think that TS5 is about to be announced now and for the first time won’t mean the end of TS4 anyway. This makes me think that TS5 likely will be even more simplified and multiplayer because most experienced simmers apparently are expected to just stay with TS4.
Anyway we apparently can’t get the more advanced and deep game that we want and the shallow snow in TS4 alas is for me to see just one of many things that show this.
Even new simmers like depth, while changes may draw in new simmers, only depth will keep them.
I agree. But the problem is that EA thinks that new simmers are a huge majority for this game and that only a quite small minority of them will keep playing the game anyway. I don’t know what statistics EA has based this upon. But EA knows that many more than just half of the simmers have stopped every time that EA has released a new basegame. The worst example was actually the switch from TS1 to TS2 because we know that TS2 only sold about 6 million copies while TS1 sold almost twice as many. We also know that millions of simmers played TS2 as their very first Sims game. So when TS2 only sold about half as many copies as TS1 did then this must mean that likely 75% to 80% of the Sims 1 simmers never bought the Sims 2. EA of course knows this even better than we do. But EA has always released a new basegame every 5 years anyway because EA thinks that the millions of new simmers always will be more important than the decreasing number of older simmers would be anyway.
I doubt they'd try for multiplayer again, not if they want to have a fanbase left... It just can't work for a game like The Sims, there's just too much going on.
It worked for both the Sims Freeplay and the Sims Mobile. So if EA (as it seems) still will release packs for TS4 even years after the release of TS5 then I don’t see why EA wouldn’t make TS5 into a multiplayer game targeted even more at new very young simmers?
