"Hestia;c-17389259" wrote:
They already have The Sims Freeplay and The Sims Mobile as some kind of successor to The Sims Social/The Sims Online. It’s a good concept as it is because it’s mobile and doesn’t cost as much resources to develop versus a PC version.
If they want to continue with an “online multiplayer” IP, I would prefer if they continued on with the mobile road. This way, they can invest on even more resources to develop The Sims 5. A lot more focus towards the main game and give us a stable, working great product. I would rather that instead of EA envisioning a cross-platform game or releasing it on multiple platforms on day 1 as a quick cash grab.
I just hope that, even though every single one of us is a Simmer at heart, we would be a lot more observant, skeptical and passionate about the next sequel as to not simply allow EA Games to get away with a bare bones release again.
The big thing here is that Sims Studio/Maxis/whatever they are now are not involved in FP or Mobile anymore since they've both been transferred to Firemonkeys now. So the development of those has no impact on resources of the main PC/Mac/console game.
I do think they will go for cross-platform, but not mobile. Rather, as they're aiming for now, they'll try to make sure that all the current platforms will get a concurrent release. Mac and console have previously been behind and I think they'll try to avoid that with the next installment. It's still different teams working on console vs PC vs Mac though (well, the PC/Mac ones overlap) so that should not impact anything other than the release date.
If they're looking at some form of multiplayer
added to the usual single-player game, I think it's a good sign that we're not going to end up with the same start as TS4 (aka a MMO converted into a SP on an impossible deadline).
