The Sims Summit

"simmerorigin;c-18182896" wrote:

"DaniRose2143;c-18182841" wrote:
I hope the announcement is something else besides The Sims 5. I hate to be negative, but TS5 worries me. I have a bad feeling that when that day does come, it's going to be the end of an era, the end of the single-player sandbox Sims. My intuition is wrong about as often as it is right, so that's what I pin my hopes on for TS5 to continue the tradition of single-player offline simming. I'm a realist, and the people I know who fit their current target demographic love mobile gaming and online multiplayer. On the other hand the majority of the Sims community still prefers the single-player experience. I don't feel like loyal players who've been playing this game for the last decade, two decades in a lot of cases, have a lot of sway in the direction the future takes unfortunately.

I don't care if they make it multiplayer, just include an offline option for the rest of us, the one's that stayed the course and got them to this point. Without us they wouldn't be developing a Sims 5. The franchise could just as easily have died after 2 or 3 without keeping us coming back. I hope loyalty means something.

Sims 5 doesn't worry me because Sims 4 already worries me. Personally, I don't play TS4 anymore in favor of TS1-3 so I don't think I could be more disappointed with whatever Sims 5 cooks up.

I've tried going back and playing TS3 on this game machine and it lags worse than it did on my old non-gaming computer. The old software doesn't like my new hardware I guess. As far as 4 goes, I've been lucky and the bugs have been irritating instead of destructive. But things are trending in the wrong direction with wants and fears because they have the potential to totally wreck my storytelling. My mods are working to keep that in check but I had been trying to use fewer mods and mostly ones that are enhancements, not fixes.

I have a bit of eternal optimist in me, that's why on one hand I would hope that 5 might just be good, but if it goes totally multiplayer, then what I have is it. I would look into other Sims alternatives, but there's just something about the current group of sims I have that I've bonded with and I'm not sure I could recreate that magic again in another game. You could argue that there's no guarantee I would be able to do that with 5. As I type all this I'm thinking about the situation. I really think it's my love for the sims I've created that keeps me going. I may have said it once before, it's them I love not the game itself. That's likely why I carry in spite of the issues.