What do you want

"filipomel;c-17446516" wrote:
The longer Sims 4 lasts the longer the development for Sims 5 will be, so bring on those extra five years if it means Sims 5 will be the Sims game of everyones dreams. Hopefully within those five years they'll add features everyone has been begging for since launch, I said it before and I'll say it again, b e t t e r p e r s o n a l i t i e s. Also cars and more family game play would be nice, and maybe more small pets like rabbits, birds and reptiles, more locomotive options like skate boards, scooters, and possibly free up the rollerblades from seasons. Also more diverse world options. We still only have eight expansion packs compared to the eleven we got in Sims 3, so we'll see what gaps they decide to fill.

This is 100% how I have come to feel.

On the one hand, the Sims 4 will never and can never be the open world life sim of my dreams. On the other hand, it has been improving slowly for years. There have been several free updates that have completely changed the game from the infuriating thing that was first released. And there is no technological barrier preventing it from being really good with continued changes.

We already see that they’re looking into personality and relationship overhauls and such. We’re getting firefighters and ladders and free window placement and the two most recent surveys have been promising.

Fine tuning an existing game is way cheaper than making a new one. I hate EA so much. They are greedy and contemptuous of their players. But the dev team are not their stockholders. And I feel like our best chance at a good Sims 5 that is playable on launch is giving them a good long dev time. And the best way to get that good long dev time is for them to just keep tinkering with The Sims 4 for as long as they can make money off of it. Which isn’t to say we should be complacent and mindlessly consume substandard packs and content. We should complain and make bug reports and hold back our dollars and let our outrage be heard when they mess up (which is... too often).

It’s just to say if I heard they were planning on releasing Sims 5 next year I’d actually be really nervous about that. My hope is they are working on Sims 5 already and we won’t hear anything about it for several more years because they’ll take their sweet time.

(I mean my hope is EA crashes and burns and the franchise or the concept is picked up elsewhere, or that Paralives actually delivers, or something, but regarding The Sims with the premise that they’ll stay with EA, my hope is they take their time on The Sims 5)

And in the meantime they can work on updates, packs, and gameplay overhauls to make The Sims 4 the game it deserves to be.