The Sims 4 will continue into 2018!

If TS4 skips Pets and Seasons I'll gladly quit.

"SimmeringBree;c-15723253" wrote:
If TS4 skips Pets and Seasons I'll gladly quit.

You'll only know that at the very end though won't you ;)?

"aws200;c-15722802" wrote:
Whatever it was all that matters is Sims 4 sells decently so we can get a better experience with Sims 5...that is unless they remove more stuff. But who knows, for all we know emotions won't be in the next game and the click and drag create a Sim will be gone as well. Seeing how they weren't enthused on bringing back many things from previous Sim games to Sims 4 who knows how lacking Sims 5 will be. I just hope they work things out, have better coders (so there's no major lag this was the problem; bad coding), and take many things from Sims 3 to bring back such as create a style, open world, and sandbox non-linear gameplay. Sims 4 is too linear and goal oriented. No more you need to cook chicken and take an angry poo at your party to have a successful one. Sims 3 just had you throw a party and if people enjoyed it they would say so or not and complain. You could see if they were having fun without goals. Linear and lacking gameplay is hurting Sims 4, not to mention the shallow $40 Expansion Packs. You can only patch so much skin onto a skeleton but it doesn't help how dull it is inside. If the foundation isn't strong things will only get worse over time. Sims 4 is somewhat fun yet missing features and gameplay hurts it.

Alas I am sure that EA also will want TS5 to focus on a huge number of smaller and cheaper expansions. (Probably because EA's experience is that small cheap expansions just sell better.) But at least I don't think that EA will dare to make the Sims 5 basegame even smaller than the Sims 4 basegame was. So hopefully the Sims 5 basegame will be better.

Besides that EA will also want TS5 to be different from TS4 which gives it a good chance to become a better game. But who knows? ;)

"SimmeringBree;c-15723253" wrote:
If TS4 skips Pets and Seasons I'll gladly quit.

let's hope they can squeeeez them in this year! :(

"MiataPlay;c-15723714" wrote:

"SimmeringBree;c-15723253" wrote:
If TS4 skips Pets and Seasons I'll gladly quit.

let's hope they can squeeeez them in this year! :(

EA will almost certainly only release one more GP, an EP and some SPs this year. So unless you want one of them to be a SP then this would mean that either Pets or Seasons would have to be a GP? ;)

@Erpe It would be nice to have Seasons as an EP with it's own world along with a free vacation destination patched into the base.The team could add Pets as a GP before the year ends and produce SP's for both of them$$ this winter. I'm still hoping a Transportation EP or GP can be added to the game sometime next year ..It's time to put the sims in the sky :)

"JoAnne65;c-15722424" wrote:
Found this post (that was copied and pasted on the forums here a while ago:

http://i.imgur.com/nr8xHYl.png

According to this Olympus wasn't a practicle joke, it was real alright. But it wasn't the original Sims 4, Sims 4 had code name Icarus.

Why do you believe this guessing from somebody else???

You can find lots of guesses. Almost all of them just believed Patrick Kelly because he was supposed to have worked in EA. But if you want to document something then you need to actually find statements instead from EA. Statement from naive persons who just believed Patrick Kelly's practical joke don't prove anything :)

"Erpe;c-15724100" wrote:

"JoAnne65;c-15722424" wrote:
Found this post (that was copied and pasted on the forums here a while ago:

http://i.imgur.com/nr8xHYl.png

According to this Olympus wasn't a practicle joke, it was real alright. But it wasn't the original Sims 4, Sims 4 had code name Icarus.

Why do you believe this guessing from somebody else???

You can find lots of guesses. Almost all of them just believed Patrick Kelly because he was supposed to have worked in EA. But if you want to document something then you need to actually find statements instead from EA. Statement from naive persons who just believed Patrick Kelly's practical joke don't prove anything :)

And I reiterate; so the people who listed The Sims 4 "as an online game" on their professional portfolios were just playing a practical joke?

I don't agree with the picture they posted because it's a whole lot of nonsense inspired by someone's desire to deny information that's been around for years now. However, I do believe previous employees who have listed it as an online game at the early stages of its development.

"drake_mccarty;c-15724439" wrote:

"Erpe;c-15724100" wrote:

"JoAnne65;c-15722424" wrote:
Found this post (that was copied and pasted on the forums here a while ago:

http://i.imgur.com/nr8xHYl.png

According to this Olympus wasn't a practicle joke, it was real alright. But it wasn't the original Sims 4, Sims 4 had code name Icarus.

Why do you believe this guessing from somebody else???

You can find lots of guesses. Almost all of them just believed Patrick Kelly because he was supposed to have worked in EA. But if you want to document something then you need to actually find statements instead from EA. Statement from naive persons who just believed Patrick Kelly's practical joke don't prove anything :)

And I reiterate; so the people who listed The Sims 4 "as an online game" on their professional portfolios were just playing a practical joke?

I don't agree with the picture they posted because it's a whole lot of nonsense inspired by someone's desire to deny information that's been around for years now. However, I do believe previous employees who have listed it as an online game at the early stages of its development.

The only earlier employee who listed it as an online game was (afaik) Patrick Kelly which I don't believe because it is obvious to me that the pictures he gave us were pictures from his modified version of TS2 for consoles. All other persons were just naive simmers who trusted Patrick Kelly because they believe that even the employees in EA who only make coffeee know everything about EA and all EA's games and decisions. (It has never worked that way in companies where I have worked myself btw.)

Simmers seem generally to be very naive and have a high belief even in people with tiny authority. But they rarely know anything about the way computers and their software work. (I am a highschool teacher in mathematics and computer science which probably is why it seems that way to me.)

Patrick Kelly had left EA in 2013 when he posted his "information" and videos and I doubt that he even ever had worked on the Sims 4. The TS2 for consoles was multiplayer too btw which no other versions of TS2 were.

"Erpe;c-15724100" wrote:

"JoAnne65;c-15722424" wrote:
Found this post (that was copied and pasted on the forums here a while ago:

http://i.imgur.com/nr8xHYl.png

According to this Olympus wasn't a practicle joke, it was real alright. But it wasn't the original Sims 4, Sims 4 had code name Icarus.

Why do you believe this guessing from somebody else???

You can find lots of guesses. Almost all of them just believed Patrick Kelly because he was supposed to have worked in EA. But if you want to document something then you need to actually find statements instead from EA. Statement from naive persons who just believed Patrick Kelly's practical joke don't prove anything :)

Who says I believe it? It's just another theory by someone who claims to know more (they are referring to predicting CL but I have no idea if that's true). For all we know they are making it up to sound interesting. It does beat this practical joke theory of yours though.