When are you guys going to let players join each others game?

I will definitely uninstall the game if that happened.

"Hestia;c-17418477" wrote:

"charlesberg;c-17418458" wrote:
To the rest of the replies, I can't quite grasp how you're entirely opposed to multiplayer, something to potentially add more hours to the game to those of us with friends, yet you're fine with watered-down packs and partially-working if not broken basic features.

@charlesberg No, I am not fine with it and no, I will not allow you to generalize myself within that group of people. Even though there are unfortunately in fact a group of players who enable The Sims Studio to continue with it. I am not them. :|

Adding multiplayer or keeping it single player (as it should be) doesn’t necessarily define “added hours of gameplay”. In defense of The Sims 3, The Sims 2, The Sims 1, The Elder Scrolls series, The Witcher and many more successful single-player games out there.

According to the data, which admittedly also counts the time the game is paused, I just passed 2150 hours in Sims 4.
I also have 800+ hours in Crusaders Kings 2, 1500 hours in Fallout 4 and Skyrim, and i know for sure I finished Baldur's Gate II back in the day (a 100 hours per playthru with all expansions) 12 times.

I would love it. It would probably get me to play sims again. That is one reason I removed the game because playing by myself is boring. I would love it if my boyfriend and friends could play with me. I love playing with people and not everyone that plays in an MMO is a pest or whatever some of you think of them. There are some very nice people out there.

"Dianesims;c-17418531" wrote:
No. It would make me uncomfortable. Then you lose control over what you want your own game to be.

Also I think offline multi-player with your family or friends could be fine, but online multi player could be dangerous and potentially open the door to creeps, bullying, crooks, harassment...

In all my years of playing MMOs (I started with SWG), I have never had someone that bullied me or harass me as such. Maybe because I just walk off or ignore those types of people and regardless of everyone thinking there are more of those types of people, I have found the opposite to be true. Most people are friendly and polite and helpful.

When I was little back in TS2 times my friends and I thought it could be cool, but now I'm hoping it never happens - not in the main series. The Sims Online must be in the gaming books on "how not to" considering how I still encounter mentions of horrors that happened there. There are way too many disgusting people out there for an online life simulator unless extremly heavy moderation, but we are talking about EA/Maxis who still allow for incest/pedo bug to happen in TS4! After so many years! When I was little I played strongly moderated kids oriented games and things still went wrong from time to time.
As for my personal prefrences, I want to rest from any kind of people when I play not to engage with them in any form - I don't even use gallery.
Overall, it will be another "murdered by EA's innovations" for me. And what for? With TS4 model it already must be bringing money not every loot box can bring. The irony of how we already have a few examples of how EA breaks things people love to make money and then fails to even, well, make money is too much. The fact that they still attempt to do so even more.
That said, from seeing trends, lurking forums and reading interviews I doubt we still have a choice. Feels like they are testing waters for something that is already in work. Hope it's just a feeling.

"tmcevoy1121;c-17418775" wrote:

"Dianesims;c-17418531" wrote:
No. It would make me uncomfortable. Then you lose control over what you want your own game to be.

Also I think offline multi-player with your family or friends could be fine, but online multi player could be dangerous and potentially open the door to creeps, bullying, crooks, harassment...

In all my years of playing MMOs (I started with SWG), I have never had someone that bullied me or harass me as such. Maybe because I just walk off or ignore those types of people and regardless of everyone thinking there are more of those types of people, I have found the opposite to be true. Most people are friendly and polite and helpful.

A life simulation MMO is enough to attract those kinds of people. There are several of these games already in existence and making The Sims online isn’t the essence of the product.

I’m an MMO veteran myself and have spanned across many in my life. The Sims is definitely not the place for it.

"charlesberg;c-17418458" wrote:

"Babykittyjade;c-17417468" wrote:

"Disat3r0usB;c-17410831" wrote:
When are you guys going to let players join each others game? Like play with other players?...... I think that would be awesome!

No. I'm sorry. But I don't want to see you in my game ?????

I feel the same about you. But then I'm sure if you were in my game, I could either close it to friends, go offline or simply kick you from it. I mean, that's how that would probably work.

Unless you honestly thought otherwise.

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To the rest of the replies, I can't quite grasp how you're entirely opposed to multiplayer, something to potentially add more hours to the game to those of us with friends, yet you're fine with watered-down packs and partially-working if not broken basic features.

If all those problems exists in a single player game how many more problems do you think there might be where devs split their time into two different parts of single and multi-player game elements? Any better? I think not.

Lots of Simmers like to play offline as they hate Origin and some even EA/Maxis. I,myself, wouldn't mind if you were given the choice, when installing, if you wanted to play online or not.
The online game would need to be heavily policed though and no mods allowed. It might be a good way to spread a bad mod or CC virus if EA/Maxis got a bit lax. (They seem to have had a bit of a hit lately with their servers going offline from what I gathered from Twitter chat).

"Hestia;c-17419065" wrote:

"tmcevoy1121;c-17418775" wrote:

"Dianesims;c-17418531" wrote:
No. It would make me uncomfortable. Then you lose control over what you want your own game to be.

Also I think offline multi-player with your family or friends could be fine, but online multi player could be dangerous and potentially open the door to creeps, bullying, crooks, harassment...

In all my years of playing MMOs (I started with SWG), I have never had someone that bullied me or harass me as such. Maybe because I just walk off or ignore those types of people and regardless of everyone thinking there are more of those types of people, I have found the opposite to be true. Most people are friendly and polite and helpful.

A life simulation MMO is enough to attract those kinds of people. There are several of these games already in existence and making The Sims online isn’t the essence of the product.

I’m an MMO veteran myself and have spanned across many in my life. The Sims is definitely not the place for it.

Really? come on, people don't need a life simulation to come up with ways to make it more "real". I played SWG, Wow and now playing SWTOR and people can ERP with others but they keep it to themselves. No one is forced to play that way and they take it to private chats. It is easy to tell someone no and they just move along. They don't force you to play their way.

"ClarionOfJoy;c-17419516" wrote:

"Hestia;c-17419065" wrote:

"tmcevoy1121;c-17418775" wrote:

"Dianesims;c-17418531" wrote:
No. It would make me uncomfortable. Then you lose control over what you want your own game to be.

Also I think offline multi-player with your family or friends could be fine, but online multi player could be dangerous and potentially open the door to creeps, bullying, crooks, harassment...

In all my years of playing MMOs (I started with SWG), I have never had someone that bullied me or harass me as such. Maybe because I just walk off or ignore those types of people and regardless of everyone thinking there are more of those types of people, I have found the opposite to be true. Most people are friendly and polite and helpful.

A life simulation MMO is enough to attract those kinds of people. There are several of these games already in existence and making The Sims online isn’t the essence of the product.

I’m an MMO veteran myself and have spanned across many in my life. The Sims is definitely not the place for it.

That's good that you pointed that out! I don't play a lot of online multiplayers - just Borderlands. It has a good community, not toxic at all, but that's because the gameplay is very focused and limited - all you can do in the game is shoot NPCs or other players. The only thing that you might get mad at is if the loot gets hogged by the other players, but for me, I already earn so much money and acquired my favorite weapons during solo play that I don't even bother getting any of the loot. Also, if you don't want other players turning on you and shooting at you, thus turning it into a battle royale session, there's an option to not allow that in your settings.

MMOs are largely like that - focused and limited gameplay that's mostly shooting/fighting and foraging for materials if there is crafting in the game. There is no woohoo or any other shenanigans where other sims can get into your sim's personal space (and thus you). But The Sims is totally different from MMOs, and as you have pointed out, a life-simulation game that has all that. I know without mods, the game is pretty tame, but I don't even want some stranger sim coming on to my sims for that. Also, what if someone was able to hack the online game? Someone most likely will. It wouldn't be safe for children or adults.

There is what people call ERP (Erotic Roleplay) between two people but it is easy to tell them no thank you. I have told people no thank you, not my style of play and they move along without any problems.