When Do You Think Sims 4 Will End?

@elelunicy wait what? she left? She is still credited as Executive Producer on her twitter.

"logion;c-17879532" wrote:
wait what? she left? She is still credited as Executive Producer on her twitter.

She could still be an Executive Producer, just no longer an Executive Producer of TS4.

Interestingly enough, SimGuruGMJoe also left Maxis two weeks ago to be Vice President at EA Vancouver. There is now a new General Manager of Maxis.

https://i.imgur.com/fcsyCyG.png

This means right now the top 3 highest ranked producers of TS4, VP Executive Producer Catharina Lavers Mallet, Executive Producer Phill Ring, and Senior Producer Isabelle Henriques are all new to the game.

There has been an article on Catharina Lavers Mallet joining Maxis. Did everyone in the Sims community not notice that?

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-04-23-catharina-lavers-mallet-takes-over-as-maxis-boss

Interesting quote from Samantha Ryan, SVP of EA:

Maxis has been quiet in terms of new launches since it released The Sims 4 in 2014, but has continually supported the game over time following a launch where some fans were disappointed with the number of features. Since then, the game has grown rapidly, with more than 30 million players worldwide.

"It seems so long ago -- over seven years -- since Sims 4 launched," Ryan adds. "We learned a lot. We doubled down since then and the team has done an amazing job of adding to the depth and breadth of the game. Folks in the industry used to talk about having successful games that could live for five years. Now we talk about them lasting ten years, 15 years, or more. There's been a shift across the entire games industry to support and nurture our communities long-term, and we're committed to doing just that with The Sims 4.

Imagine 15 years of TS4 :D

"elelunicy;c-17879599" wrote:
There has been an article on Catharina Lavers Mallet joining Maxis. Did everyone in the Sims community not notice that?

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-04-23-catharina-lavers-mallet-takes-over-as-maxis-boss

Interesting quote from Samantha Ryan, SVP of EA:

Maxis has been quiet in terms of new launches since it released The Sims 4 in 2014, but has continually supported the game over time following a launch where some fans were disappointed with the number of features. Since then, the game has grown rapidly, with more than 30 million players worldwide.

"It seems so long ago -- over seven years -- since Sims 4 launched," Ryan adds. "We learned a lot. We doubled down since then and the team has done an amazing job of adding to the depth and breadth of the game. Folks in the industry used to talk about having successful games that could live for five years. Now we talk about them lasting ten years, 15 years, or more. There's been a shift across the entire games industry to support and nurture our communities long-term, and we're committed to doing just that with The Sims 4.

Imagine 15 years of TS4 :D

I don't think I have heard any other game developer talking about games lasting for 10-15 years. That would be the worst if that's their plans for the sims4.

"LeGardePourpre;c-17879564" wrote:
"Their team is growing!"

According to SimGuruDuke he led a team of 200+ for TS4. And the team is still growing. That's why I cannot take the speculation that they're going back to one EP per year seriously. It would be a monumental failure of Maxis' leadership to only produce one EP this year with a larger team than ever.

https://i.imgur.com/FACwIab.png

I'm still sticking with 2022, but wish it was 2021 so I could mod it and not be bothered with constant patches.

Seeing latest interviews I'll give them 10 years. Afterwards I'm not sure it'll be rational as technologies are developing so fast it'll be completely outdated by that time.

Given all the details about 5 coming out, I'm thinking it'll be announced next year. They're hiring someone to make a prototype, and that's what they showed when they announced 4 so whenever that's ready they'll announce. They've been hiring people for it since 2018 so it seems to be pretty deep in development at this stage, I'm thinking they'll announce it at either EA play or Gamescon next year.

In 10 or 15 years so 2029 if we use the logic of the new GM