Sims 4's development is ending?

"Phuxion;c-16352119" wrote:

"Erpe;c-16351948" wrote:

Just look at https://www.ea.com/news/the-sims-4-in-development-for-pc-and-mac to see how EA announced TS4. It was in May 2013 and EA then released it in September 2014 only 16 months later.

The Sims 4 leaked before it was announced. Test renders of the game got out publicly before the game was announced.

http://www.unseen64.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/clip.jpg
http://www.unseen64.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/clip1.jpg

They wouldn't be able to keep a Sims 5 under wraps much in the same way Ubisoft can never keep the next main installment in the Assassin's Creed series from leaking.

It is completely up to the company how secret they want it to be. If they tell their employees that they don’t want anything about the upcoming game leaked under any conditions then of course nobody would leak it if they want to work for EA in the future!

But sometimes it can be good marketing to leak just a hint about “maybe we will soon release a new game” just to make people curious and then refuse to say more at the time. This tactic has also been seen in the past. Just not always.

But people have made it easy for the developers not to say anything because nobody have even asked them? If they are asked directly then they have much more trouble because they don’t want to lie too much and guarantee that TS5 won’t be released soon if they know something else. So in that case they will probably try to avoid to answer the question. But that would be giving us a hint too ;)

It is like people here just are in denial. Most of them don’t want TS5 to be released very soon if they still play TS4. So they insist on interpreting EA’s silence as something that proves that EA hasn’t even started to develop TS5 yet - and they make sure not to ask the gurus if that really should be the case ;)