When Do You Think Sims 4 Will End?

"Cheekybits;c-16309562" wrote:

"drake_mccarty;c-16309543" wrote:

"Cheekybits;c-16309529" wrote:
I don't understand why people assume if sims 5 comes out it will be better. If they use the same game engine it will take just as long for packs if they don't it will take just as long to redo animations. Look how long it took them to do toddlers in sims 4, do we really want to wait again.

They always talk about how Sims 4 required an upgrade to their technology base. I just don’t see it. They can’t accomplish anything on this technology.

I would hope the heads at Maxis would immediately shoot down the idea of reusing the Smart Sim engine. It has been the largest road-block for Sims 4.

This is true, I don't see it earthier but I don't see them pulling a rabbit out of there hat if they were to make the sims 5 in the next few years. There is a lot of things I do like about the sims 4. Only thing I wished they did was make the sims 4 more like a game you pay attention too and not a game that plays on its own.

They dont pull rabbits out. But if TS5 is planned to be released in the second part of 2019 like I assume then they have worked on it for years - just like they worked on TS3 in all the Sims 2 years and on TS4 in all the Sims 3 years.

EA has always clearly wanted the next big Sims game to become as different from all the previous Sims games as possible and sure not to be just a slightly improved version of the previous game! So we shouldn’t expect TS5 to be just an improved version of TS4 either - but a very different game! This of course doesn’t necessarily mean that TS5 will be better. But they likely started to experiment with ways to make TS5 different 3-4 years ago because otherwise they wouldn’t have been able to find a way to do it. But already now I am sure that all the main new things are finished such that they are ready to announce TS5 in May, June or July 2018 and then release it in most likely August, September, October or November 2019. (This only assumes that they all the time have planned to release TS5 five years after TS4 just like they did with TS3 and TS4.)

So if I am right then TS5 once more will become a new and very different game in ways that will surprise us all. I don’t believe that it will be similar to TS3 or TS4 at all. But likely have new things that will surprise us and which we again will have difficulties about deciding if we like or don’t. But they will almost certainly again make the new game this way to make sure that as many as possible will buy it and not just think that they “have the game already” because they bought TS4 and all its packs.