What do you want

"rottmeister;c-17491757" wrote:
I definitely would prefer an entirely new game as long as it's more inovative and daring than this game.

I just feel like TS4 is a pretty bland game despite having brought in emotions and multitasking.

A few years ago I already wanted to see a new game being developped and now even more so.
I'm just tired being disappointed every time a pack gets revealed. I'd love for expansion packs to really expand the game again, to the point it feels like an entirely new game. 40 euros is a lot of money!

I feel exactly the same to the point that I will not be buying the new EP

I didn't want S4 as I felt S3 needed more farming options and other things, but people wanted an S2 in S4, which may not also make it to any future games as it was talked about all the time in the Sims3 forums and yet we got S4. I don't want to leave another game I've poured money into just because some are hoping for a S2 reboot yet again, which won't necessarily happen if we get a new game. As many simmers have said, why buy it all over again when you have 1-2 copies already. Some have said that they won't put open world in it, so I can't imagine any reason to start over or anything that S5 would give us that we don't have.

If there's no open world for S5, then I would like Sims4 to put out some content that makes the game seem real. I'd rather have an EP focused just on farming/farm work (save the clothes and furniture and put it with an antiques pack), freed infants, cars (drivable rv, utvs, antique cars, variety of campers, tricycles/ peddle vehicles for toddlers, 4 wheelers, and motorcycles.), Dangerous stuf(/wills/grim interactions/cemeteries/ funerals/ afterlife EP), winter lodge with skiing ECT, own/run resorts/hotels/apartments, and petting zoo/rides/carnival games ECT. Plus other stuff like bunkbeds, hammocks, flat boxes/papers bed, more kids stuff/toys, playground equipment that we don't already have, gym equipment that we don't already have, and toddler passies, riders, toys, fat baby doll, ECT. Wedding planner, cake maker, jewelry store(all three playable jobs) wedding building options, rings, loads of dresses. House building, interior designer, nanny career, real babysitter career, real teaching ( kid, middle school, highschool, and college professor, toddler daycare goth stuff

"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.

Recode Sims 2 with open world, sims 4 graphics and totally sims 2 content.

Bring families from previous existing worlds to mix in with new Sims.

Sims is finished maybe the next generation will like it but for me I can't justify buying the same thing over and over again.