SimGuruLyndsay confirms The Sims 4 has no planned End-Date.

I hope 2030

I know I'm in the minority here, but I absolutely love this game. So yeah, great news for me personally. ?

No good news.

"daenerystubborn;c-17101320" wrote:
I know I'm in the minority here, but I absolutely love this game. So yeah, great news for me personally. ?

I don't think we're such a minority as is popularly depicted by forum pundits. The Sims 4 would not be as profitable as it is if this were the case. EA is not a sentimental publisher, and they would not continue to support this title if it wasn't making money hand-over-fist.

I sure hope this is true just to have a complete Sims 4, and equally important, a complete Sims 5 Base Game.

I mean, I love the Sims 4 as it is and I really love most of the DLCs of it, but let's be honest, if they DID have toddlers from the start, the club system, restaurants and tons of contents would be more immersive; if they DID have terrain tools from the start, we would have all worlds to have open water instead of only the new worlds starting from Sulani; and let's not forget Cars, we all know it will inevitably become a DLC no matter how useless some state they will be, how will they work in old worlds, especially in Windenburg and City Living?

A better base game means more inclusive DLC so I could wait years just for a complete base game.

And a response from SimGuruDuke.

https://twitter.com/SimGuruDuke/status/1137967580830789632

"RexZheng;c-17101332" wrote:
I sure hope this is true just to have a complete Sims 4, and equally important, a complete Sims 5 Base Game.

I mean, I love the Sims 4 as it is and I really love most of the DLCs of it, but let's be honest, if they DID have toddlers from the start, the club system, restaurants and tons of contents would be more immersive; if they DID have terrain tools from the start, we would have all worlds to have open water instead of only the new worlds starting from Sulani; and let's not forget Cars, we all know it will inevitably become a DLC no matter how useless some state they will be, how will they work in old worlds, especially in Windenburg and City Living?

A better base game means more inclusive DLC so I could wait years just for a complete base game.

It is very possible that a theoretical Sims 5 has toddlers in the base game, but I don't think we will ever see things like restaurants or clubs in it. The traditional approach to piecemeal DLC is far too profitable, and so things like the business, pets or seasons packs will continue to be as they are.

"OEII1001;c-17101343" wrote:

"RexZheng;c-17101332" wrote:
I sure hope this is true just to have a complete Sims 4, and equally important, a complete Sims 5 Base Game.

I mean, I love the Sims 4 as it is and I really love most of the DLCs of it, but let's be honest, if they DID have toddlers from the start, the club system, restaurants and tons of contents would be more immersive; if they DID have terrain tools from the start, we would have all worlds to have open water instead of only the new worlds starting from Sulani; and let's not forget Cars, we all know it will inevitably become a DLC no matter how useless some state they will be, how will they work in old worlds, especially in Windenburg and City Living?

A better base game means more inclusive DLC so I could wait years just for a complete base game.

It is very possible that a theoretical Sims 5 has toddlers in the base game, but I don't think we will ever see things like restaurants or clubs in it. The traditional approach to piecemeal DLC is far too profitable, and so things like the business, pets or seasons packs will continue to be as they are.

When I said clubs and restaurants I was referring to toddlers not being able to visit the restaurant and not being able to be in a club. Sorry for being vague about that.

I mean, I like Sims 4 just fine, but it's still limited by its base and could've been so much better if things had been planned better from the start. TS5, assuming it's done well, would be appreciated

I'll keep playing as long as there's interesting content, but if something better comes along before TS5 comes, I would probably switch over

While I don't doubt this to be true, I wouldn't be surprised if development for Sims 5 starts soon behind the scenes. Games take a long time to develop and while I like Sims 4 a lot of its major problems imo come from it's very framework/system limitations and I wouldn't be surprised if they have a small team work early on just making sure Sims 5 does better in where Sims 4 does not.