The Sims 5 is rumoured to be going online. For it or against it?

EA, I wish you would listen to us.

Normally I'd say, well as long as we can still play single player, that's fine, but we saw what happened when they shifted Sims 4 halfway through (thereabouts) production from multi to single player. Things get limited. I truly believe that most games that are both single and multi player suffer in one of the two ways, depending on the main focus of the game. And sometimes both single and multi player suffer.

I have no problem with there being another SEPARATE main Sims game developed, to the pay to play or tapping type games we have now, but something as fleshed out as the main Sims series. Multi players can have that.

FWIW I am kind of sorry I feel that way, as I'm normally a "more options is always better" type of person, but I do see the complications and limitations of it.

I’m all for an online game, but I’d also like single player (accidentally chose the wrong one).

Don't even, EA.

I would not enjoy it being online. Most online developers port more DLC into the online portion and nothing for singl-player. I don't want that to happen to one of my favorite games.

I'm torn, because I wouldn't mind an option for online. It would be fun to be able to make sims that could interact with my sister's sims, but I don't know... I also feel like the game just doesn't need it.

There's an old saying--You live and you learn; or in EA's case, "Well, we see how badly this went the last time, so let's try again!". Part of the reason TS4 is so stripped down is that after Sim City (2013) bombed, it was completely retooled, while still being based on the same watered-down engine.

Part of the reason I got into The Sims 3 (while it was already well into TS4's lifetime in 2017, TS4 was not having the big sales it seems to enjoy now) and later TS4 was the online-always connection, real-time game clock, and constant micro-transactions of Sims Freeplay. that led me to grow tired of it.

The other problem I have with it being online is the servers. Once the Sims 5 is outside of its lifecycle, they will obviously be taken down. Thus, the game, if dependent on an online connection, would be useless.

I see that really, there is no need to have an online component aside from the gallery. I just don't see why I should interact with actual people in a game that simulates real life. That just seems weird. Leave online play to the smartphone versions of the game.

People talk a lot about how they'd love the social aspect to it, but I just don't see the point to it. There are so many games that you can play with other people and your friends, where you can be social, and I just don't see how it would be enjoyable in TS. But my views are my views.

I'm all for options too, but when it comes to a potential multiplayer feature, I feel that most of their focus would be on that aspect of the game and I'd really rather it not be. In my opinion, a multiplayer option just doesn't belong in The Sims.

I agree that multiplayer or online needs to be separate in some way. I'm not immediately on the market for a new basegame though if at all.

Sims 4 was apparently gonna be online, but it didn't work and now we have this limited engine that apparently makes it difficult to program.

Do we need a part 2 of this error?

They're just asking for viruses & hacks.
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