Paralives will do just fine over on Steam. It will depend on whether Maxis gets all the newbie players and or if Paralives captures them over on Steam, once the game is ready. EA/Maxis is going to require you install Origin even if you use Steam to play TS4. And TS5 might just be a console game for PS5 at release. I read that many players old and new like Steam and don't like Origin. Now, which game would attract new players more if many more people like Steam better than Origin? I can see that maybe Paralives has a better chance of getting brand new players new to a life simulator than an established company that makes you install both downloader systems, and has a sketchy reputation of not building games that are problem free.
I'm harder on this series because I know Maxis can do better than they did with TS3 or TS4 as far as bugs and ideas and actually sticking to the roots of The Sims. Both games had great ideas, but implementation of those ideas seem to me not to be up to snuff with what Maxis did with TS1 and or TS2, both later games seem to be riddled with more bugs, flaws and just not thinking about and or fleshing out features. And though I don't love TS3 it was a huge game after TS2 and the right way to go I suppose, with open worlds and CASt, but because of those things players lost a lot of the nuance of The Sims personalties and or animations etc.
TS4 doesn't have any excuse of why it should be flawed and or lack animations and or interactions and or fully fleshed out gameplay when it's a closed world system and tiny 'worlds' ten times smaller than any 'world' in TS2. So, yeah, it hasn't lived up to all that was promised. Paralives might be a passing interest but if they can gain new players from Steam I suspect it will do just fine.
