When Do You Think Sims 4 Will End?

"drake_mccarty;c-16295963" wrote:

"JoAnne65;c-16295125" wrote:

"TheGoodOldGamer;c-16294989" wrote:
Saw this on Twitter this morning:

https://twitter.com/EA/status/958761839206133760

What is FY 18Q3..? (I'm not surprised by the way, Rodiek already stated Sims 4 had a rocky start)

p.s.: Sorry, happens to me often, staring at something in complete confusion, then think 'heck, I'm gonna ask' and as soon as I have, bingo, I get it: federal year 2018 quarter 3. Not that I totally understand now, cause that means from July 1, 2018 to September 30, 2018. That's like... in the future...?

FY2018 started in April of 2017, and will end March of this year.

With the rerelease of the base game on PS4 and XB1 it’s not surprising that there’s a jump in players. There’s no way to cross reference PC ownership but there’s probably a lot of overlap, but that’s really going beyond the message EA was trying to convey in it’s report.

Eh, the game grew 2 thirds in 2016. It seems to be doing better the longer it's been out.

"jackjack_k;c-16303573" wrote:

"drake_mccarty;c-16295963" wrote:

"JoAnne65;c-16295125" wrote:

"TheGoodOldGamer;c-16294989" wrote:
Saw this on Twitter this morning:

https://twitter.com/EA/status/958761839206133760

What is FY 18Q3..? (I'm not surprised by the way, Rodiek already stated Sims 4 had a rocky start)

p.s.: Sorry, happens to me often, staring at something in complete confusion, then think 'heck, I'm gonna ask' and as soon as I have, bingo, I get it: federal year 2018 quarter 3. Not that I totally understand now, cause that means from July 1, 2018 to September 30, 2018. That's like... in the future...?

FY2018 started in April of 2017, and will end March of this year.

With the rerelease of the base game on PS4 and XB1 it’s not surprising that there’s a jump in players. There’s no way to cross reference PC ownership but there’s probably a lot of overlap, but that’s really going beyond the message EA was trying to convey in it’s report.

Eh, the game grew 2 thirds in 2016. It seems to be doing better the longer it's been out.

Yes it is. EA is quite thrilled with the Sims 4. It used to get almost no mention during earning calls and the past year and a quarter - each quarter the game just keeps going up in the player base and EA is literally beaming and always mentions our Sims 4.

Oh sorry did it say when do you ''think''? I guess I thought it said when do you ''hope''...

"MrJessXD;c-16287294" wrote:
This is first time I've actually invested money into the series and bought all the packs. I don't want them to move onto the next to have to start all over again.

Edit to add:
There's still so many more previous packs and new ideas to be included. Finishing it anytime soon would make it feel incomplete. Personally I think it's got plenty of life and opportunities left in it.

With the Sims 4, you basically ARE starting over again from ALL the half baked stuff packs! at this rate there'll probably be like 20 more. That's 200 dollars. For half baked, boring gameplay. Personally I reckon it would be better for all of humanity if we forgot this thing and hope another company will take over and make TS5. A good , company.

-Sorry for double posting. If only we could delete comments to avoid it heavens knows why we aren't allowed.

"AuzzPanda;c-16303633" wrote:

"MrJessXD;c-16287294" wrote:
This is first time I've actually invested money into the series and bought all the packs. I don't want them to move onto the next to have to start all over again.

Edit to add:
There's still so many more previous packs and new ideas to be included. Finishing it anytime soon would make it feel incomplete. Personally I think it's got plenty of life and opportunities left in it.

With the Sims 4, you basically ARE starting over again from ALL the half baked stuff packs! at this rate there'll probably be like 20 more. That's 200 dollars. For half baked, boring gameplay. Personally I reckon it would be better for all of humanity if we forgot this thing and hope another company will take over and make TS5. A good , company.

-Sorry for double posting. If only we could delete comments to avoid it heavens knows why we aren't allowed.

How much did Sims 3 players spend on store stuff? I look at the current SP as a combination of the Sims 3 SPs plus the premium store content, alf for $10. If you don't like the content in the SP, you don't have to buy it just like you didn't have to get any of the items from the Store. I've actually found value in the SPs I've purchased though.

"stilljustme2;c-16303825" wrote:

"AuzzPanda;c-16303633" wrote:

"MrJessXD;c-16287294" wrote:
This is first time I've actually invested money into the series and bought all the packs. I don't want them to move onto the next to have to start all over again.

Edit to add:
There's still so many more previous packs and new ideas to be included. Finishing it anytime soon would make it feel incomplete. Personally I think it's got plenty of life and opportunities left in it.

With the Sims 4, you basically ARE starting over again from ALL the half baked stuff packs! at this rate there'll probably be like 20 more. That's 200 dollars. For half baked, boring gameplay. Personally I reckon it would be better for all of humanity if we forgot this thing and hope another company will take over and make TS5. A good , company.

-Sorry for double posting. If only we could delete comments to avoid it heavens knows why we aren't allowed.

How much did Sims 3 players spend on store stuff? I look at the current SP as a combination of the Sims 3 SPs plus the premium store content, alf for $10. If you don't like the content in the SP, you don't have to buy it just like you didn't have to get any of the items from the Store. I've actually found value in the SPs I've purchased though.

Store stuff was very expensive (especially for us Europeans, no free points for us for a long time, we only could benefit from that towards the end). Store stuff was also in no way necessary to make the game enjoyable. Neither were the SP’s. When you just have the EP’s, you have a complete and enjoyable (if you’re a fan obviously) game. If you want some wallpaper (what the Store and the SP’s provide) you can also get that by adding CC. And there’s the difference. When you’re a Sims 4 fan you really have to have it all to stay occupied.

"Writin_Reg;c-16303593" wrote:

"jackjack_k;c-16303573" wrote:

"drake_mccarty;c-16295963" wrote:

"JoAnne65;c-16295125" wrote:

"TheGoodOldGamer;c-16294989" wrote:
Saw this on Twitter this morning:

https://twitter.com/EA/status/958761839206133760

What is FY 18Q3..? (I'm not surprised by the way, Rodiek already stated Sims 4 had a rocky start)

p.s.: Sorry, happens to me often, staring at something in complete confusion, then think 'heck, I'm gonna ask' and as soon as I have, bingo, I get it: federal year 2018 quarter 3. Not that I totally understand now, cause that means from July 1, 2018 to September 30, 2018. That's like... in the future...?

FY2018 started in April of 2017, and will end March of this year.

With the rerelease of the base game on PS4 and XB1 it’s not surprising that there’s a jump in players. There’s no way to cross reference PC ownership but there’s probably a lot of overlap, but that’s really going beyond the message EA was trying to convey in it’s report.

Eh, the game grew 2 thirds in 2016. It seems to be doing better the longer it's been out.

Yes it is. EA is quite thrilled with the Sims 4. It used to get almost no mention during earning calls and the past year and a quarter - each quarter the game just keeps going up in the player base and EA is literally beaming and always mentions our Sims 4.

Especially in Q3 FY18. But the main reason was still the release of TS4 for consoles and the extremely fast release of packs for the console game too. This fast release indicates to me that EA just wants the console game to catch up as much as possible before TS5 most likely will be announced anyway. Transferring the PC game to consoles seems to be cheap for EA when the new technic is used. So I find it understandable that EA wants as many packs as possible released and they seem to sell quite well and likely mainly to simmers who have a top console but maybe not a very good gaming computer because they otherwise mainly play games for consoles.

I don’t believe at all that they planned a certain number of EPs, GPs or SPs because they sure didn’t for the earlier games which all seem to have got more EPs than they planned. TS4 was apparently planned to just have 1 EP, 1 GP and about 4 SPs each year. But they then apparently increased the number of GPs to 2 GPs each year and the reason must have been higher sales numbers for especially GPs than they had expected (or feared).

So I still think that they only planned how many years TS4 should be the main game and when TS5 should be released (which most likely was decided to be after 5 years like it was decided for both TS2, TS3 and TS4).

2020 would be the wisest move.

Chances are the final TS4 EP will be 2019 but there might be some updates and minor content released in the build up of something new as well as support for the game in patches as seems to be the case in the past.

Trying to drag it on after 2020 would be too much as if there is something new I the pipeline then hopefully by 2020 it would be finished and good to go :smile:

So many years because it's taking ages for core packs to pop up