When Do You Think Sims 4 Will End?

I was going to vote 2020 but idk...I feel like there's room for more expansion packs (if they stick to the yearly schedule). This is just a random guess, but I personally hope Sims 4 will carry past 2020

I think 2020. That leaves 2-3 more major EPs (one per year) plus whatever GPs and SPs they come up with. I don't think many of our computers could support more packs than that anyway.

EDIT: Woops, wrong thread.

EA has always released a new basegame after at most 5 years and announced each new basegame about 15 months before its release because then the new basegame has been so close to be finished that it really won’t change much anymore. The reason for the release of a new basegame after 5 years clearly always has been that EA didn’t believe that new packs for a more than 5 years old basegame would be high enough and I don’t see why this should have changed. Therefore I expect the next basegame to be announced in very few months such that it can be released most likely in the middle of 2019.

But who knows? EA can of course surprise us all by stopping the series or just release SPs for 10 more years. I just don’t see a reason for EA to do that at all. We will know much more in just a few months though - one way or the other ;)

"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've never heard a Sims 3 player say the game ended too soon. They have wished more bugs were fixed before it was dropped. ;)

I said 2020 for Sims 4 more in hope than expectancy. My fear is it goes longer. I still haven't gotten attached to Sims 4, although I keep trying. Of course, if I ever do get really hooked by Sims 4, that is a guarantee EA will stop production. :D :D

-nevermind misread somthing

"@JoAnne65;c-16293385" 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.

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.

2024 makes the most sense.

They are launching The Sims Mobile in 2018 and they specifically said it would "be available alongside The Sims 4" and seems to be built so it can new content from TS4 in a transaction format.

Why launch a huge mobile game, and then end TS4 a year later and move onto TS5. That would make The Sims Mobile dead after a year basically.

"@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.