When Do You Think Sims 4 Will End?

"Erpe;c-16294469" wrote:

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"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.

I don’t think actually many Sims 3 players say that game ended too soon. It has 11 expansions with quite some substance, enough to still enjoy it years later. Same goes for Sims 2 and 1. Wanting it to go on just to be amused by those not amused is what I’d call an arbitrary reason.

I feel like The Sims 3 could have had heaps more packs, like a true Vacation EP, Business EP, Hobby EP etc. I feel like there was heaps more to do.

And The Sims 2 ending when it did was horrible, I reckon they could have squeezed one or two more EP's out. The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection feels quite small in comparison to 3 or even 4.

They could have made other choices (personally I was disappointed with the last one, science fiction and robots are not really my cup of tea, though the result turned out more enjoyable than I’d feared), but that’s a matter of personal preference. I’m not interested in running a business myself, IP for me fully meets my wishes for spending a vacation (in combination with features from other packs) and my sims have more than enough hobbies to choose from. You can’t have everything obviously, but Sims 3 doesn’t exactly lack content ;) And considering there are also still people playing and enjoying 2, the same goes for that game. Personally I think any game benefits from being truely renewed every five years. Expecially a game with a weak and limited basegame.

Not only that but games start to get buggy and unstable with lots of dlc. I feel both ts2 and ts3 ended at the right time largely because they were starting to show some cracks.
4 is also starting to get more bugs that even with live service are getting hard to control. Combine that with how sales slowly drop over time for games, it is not realistic for a game like the Sims to keep going. I can't see it going on for more than ten years personally.

WoW was released in 2004 and still gets expansions. I don’t play the game because I don’t like games that need paid subscriptions. But I have never heard people complain about that game becoming unstable and full of bugs in the same way.

I could say the same about other programs and games too. MMO games just get expanded forever while paid offline games usually aren’t supported more than at most 5 years. So I am sure that EA actually could fix the bugs in the games instead of just abandoning the games after 5 years. It just wouldn’t be profitable for EA because such old games don’t sell very well anymore and EA seems to clearly prefer to release a new well selling basegame instead of using more money to stabilize the old game. The problem with bugs seems to me clearly to be that EA assigns way too few programmers to work on bug fixing because EA can’t sell bug fixes anyway.

Isn't that an online game? Mmo kind of deal? Because those are slightly different in how they are managed and built up, from my understanding.
If it's like ddo (doungens and dragons online, for anyone wondering) for instance they will sometimes e's shut down servers to do maintenence and rework entire systems. I think if simmers were told that nobody could play the Sims for a day so the devs could rework stuff, people would get angry.