Sims 4's development is ending?

"Erpe;c-16352936" wrote:

No, they wouldn’t! People only lie if they have to. So if they said no I would actually believe them. But they will much more likely just smile and answer something like: “Who knows - you will just have to wait and see!” and then smile ;)

Again, no. The staff members who are media trained might say something to that degree however in most instances when asked about something like that your average artist, programmer, etc, won't have that type of answer.

Also more often than not developers say "There are no current plans." even if there are and your “Who knows - you will just have to wait and see!” would actually be a horrible/dumb response for a team member to give at a time like this because it could be taken as a hint that a Sims 5 is in fact in development.

They won’t tell a direct lie because they don’t want to be known as people who always lie to the public. You wouldn’t like people to see you that way either ;)

Now you are talking about somebody like EA’s CEO. Yes he could lie if he was asked if TS5 is in development if he would see it as important to not give EA’s competitors that information. But the Sims games actually don’t have competition. So opposite the developers I actually think that he would confirm that there is a Sims 5 in development. The former CEO did that for an earlier Sims game a few years ago when he was asked a similar question.

EA has been around for 35 years. The Sims franchise has been around for 18 years. In that period of time there have been lies told/stated about games from EA and The Sims. It's literally impossible for there not to have been at this point.

There have been plenty of instances where companies like Bethesda have said "There is no new Fallout or Elder Scrolls" game in development when there was in fact one but nobody actually cares if they lie about it, no matter how many times they've done it because the end result is always worth the lie.

Still I am quite sure we would know that TS5 is in development if only more people would have been interested in asking EA about it.

No, we'll no that a Sims 5 is in development because the team will start posting job posting for positions they need for a Sims 5 and/or it will just flat out leak. There's no way it won't, much like there's no way the next Assassin's Creed won't leak.

If speculations about that was discussed all over the internet then somebody like Gamespot or IGN would have asked EA’s CEO about it and as mentioned above I am quite sure that he actually would have given them the information.

Wrong again. The reason why major press publications aren't interested in asking stuff about the Sims is because Sims new stories don't generate a lot of traffic (clicks, etc) on sites like Gamespot and IGN. They're not GTA, Red Dead, Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, Elder Scrolls, ie games that are guaranteed to generate traffic/clicks no matter what the article is about.

But simmers are still mainly only interested in the next packs for TS4. So nobody really care about TS5.

Nobody cares about TS5 yet you're currently posting an almost 10 page thread about TS5. Yeah, looks like nobody cares.