TS4 is starting to smell like TS3. Meaning, my game kept freezing when I was placing lots yesterday. I wound up having to repair my game and reset the TS4 folder. That seems to have controlled it but it gave me some major TS3 vibes where it was constantly crashing in build mode. The culprit was the spaghetti code and I see that happening with TS4. You can only apply so many Band-Aids (without fixing the core problem) until they stop working. TS4 feels likes it's getting to that point. I'm honestly amazed that it's made it so far.
TS5.... I don't know how I feel about that. I was so resistant to TS4 and now I like it. It has never drawn me in like TS3 did but I'm not 100% sure if that's the game or me just bored with playing sims in general. I'm very worried that it will be multi-player/microtransactions. That seems to be the path that many of these developers are taking. That will be where I get off the Sims train. I have ZERO desire to play multi-player. Just let me have my little sandbox where I decide everything and get to play Goddess of my domain. Stop trying to take that away from me!
I don't trust these "insider". They are either an EA plant leaking stuff to get us to pipe down or it's somebody lying and making things up for attention. We will find out when we find out. Till then? Keep your rumors and whispers, I'm not interested.