When Do You Think Sims 4 Will End?

"@Pancakesandwich;c-16288325" wrote:
Late 2019 or 2020 will be the end of Sims 4. It's probably not going further because that's where making a Sims 5 might become more profitable than developing new packs for this.

"@drake_mccarty;c-16291836" wrote:

"TheGoodOldGamer;c-16291745" wrote:
I voted beyond 2025 because the thought of this forum then amuses me greatly. :D

I want it to go as long as the devs want to and are able to keep working on it. I'm sure Sims 3 players would say that game ended 'too early' for whatever arbitrary reason, and I wouldn't want Sims 4 to end just because of something arbitrary like the franchise anniversary. The gurus have said they expect it to go longer than previous versions, and not to take past release patterns as current ways to predict things, so I'm hoping for that.

Unlikely that EA would draw the game out for more than 6-7 years. Definitely not over 10.

Going longer than previous installments could be as little as a year. A 2020 end for Sims 4 would be 7, which is 2 longer than Sims 3. Regardless, those plans are all determinant on the game continuing to be profitable. As any product ages it becomes less profitable, it’s just the reality of the product life cycle. With the price increases across several countries on Sims titles it will be interesting to see if that does pose a potential decline in sales.

But with that said, they have said The Sims 4 gets bigger each year.

In 2016, the player base grew "two thirds" which is huge. And then in 2017, active players grew 33%.

It would save them a huge amount of money to pump out more EP/GP/SP then build a brand new engine, unless they reuse TS4 engine like they reused TS2 engine for TS3.