The Sims 4 will continue into 2018!

"drake_mccarty;c-16234165" wrote:

"TS1299;c-16234043" wrote:

"divine56;c-16233925" wrote:
> @TheGoodOldGamer said:
> The gurus have made it pretty clear they intend to support this game longer than any other in the series. Obviously other circumstances can come up to change those plans at some point, but part of the whole live service thing is to make updating easier n all that. The gallery has done a lot to promote creativity within the community as well.
>
> I get the feeling a lot of the doom n gloom is propagated by people not wanting/not liking the idea of further support, rather than any actual evidence to back up such claims.

The Sims 4 should end and they should revive the Sims 3, which is by far the best game of the serie. I don't know why it should be the longest game that they will support, it makes no sense!

Just because you don't want the game it doesn't mean they should end it. A lot of people bought The Sims 4 because they loved the game and and they are hoping for EA/Maxis to return the features they loves from previous games such as Seasons and Universities in the game. Scrap the game as soon as possible and market The Sims 5 will result to angry fans, and many will boycott the Sims 5 seeing that EA may not give a game that is expanded to its fullest. Add the controversy that the publisher had with Star Wars Battlefront II, Mass Effect Andromeda, and UFC 3, a lot are already boycotting EA, and if EA release Sims 5 without expanding Sims 4 to its fullest potential, angry fans will result to boycotting of Sims 5 which will result to the end of this franchise. It may be a waste of money for you but for others it wasn't.

If EA can release a rushed, sloppy offline game built in less than two years from an low quality online game why on earth would players boycott The Sims 5? Clearly you don’t understand how easily people are sold on Sims things.

They could release a Sims 5 that was worse than 4 and people would still buy it, and some people would still defend the bad choices made for it.

If you only count the time from the first announcement of a new basegame to the actual release of the basegame then all the basegames for TS2, TS3 and TS4 were made in only 15 months for each basegame. So there isn’t anything new there ;)

But I think that we all know that each new basegame took longer time than this. So why didn’t EA announce them earlier? Well, I think that the reason always was that in the early stages the developers are mainly just experimenting and everything can therefore change. EA then likely doesn’t want to announce anything before EA at least knows some of the main new things to be included in the game.

Simmers wouldn’t likely buy the new game if it became too similar to one of the previous games. So EA just want the games to be as different as possible. But then most simmers just buy all the games and even all the cheap SPs out of curiosity. EA sure knows this :)