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"Sigzy05;c-17147742" wrote:"icmnfrsh;c-17147721" wrote:
Single player will always be king. If you're going to make online multiplayer, it should be a side feature
Honestly they shouldn't even be spending any budget on that. I want the main game to be a good sims experience and not a Habbo knockoff. Don't want online touching the sims at all.
I want multiplayer so badly, but it should work more like Minecraft than like any MMO or co-op situation. People can just host their game and open it up for people to join - with the user responsible for setting permissions or not.
I'd love for my roommate and I to be able to play in the same save simultaneously together - either cooperating towards a shared goal or competing and setting each-other's sims on fire.
If they have to sacrfice a robust game for it, I'm against it (and what they had planned for Sim 4 looked... bad. And everything "multiplayer" they've done with facebook games and mobile games also hasn't been good), but in theory if done well I really would love it.
ETA: I think the problem with most approaches to Sims as a multiplayer game is they assume sims are player characters instead of assets/another tool in the sandbox. If you approach multiplayer with a mode of "the sims represent the player", you're already messing it up. The sims, like the walls, the decor, the pets, the weather, are an in-game tool. I, the god-king of the universe, am a first-person player from the heavens. If we go with that sandbox minecraft analogy, the sims are more analogous to the sheep or the blocks than they are to the player. Which means that, honestly, both "players" should be able to interact with the sims (and, if a sim is left uncontrolled, take control of them) by default. And it should only work differently if the players set up rules/protections before opening up their game to host.
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