Why does everybody hate the idea of multiplayer in TS5?

Sitting here thinking about it initially I was like: Aww but multiplayer would be fun! But then I thought about it... sometimes there are creeps and trolls and just noooo. Plus the thought of any of the romance interactions with people I don't know makes me cringe. I wouldn't mind playing with a few people I know. Like how I play Minecraft on a private server with my best friend and her siblings and parents. Now that's cool because we all know each other and what we expect of each other. Something like that I'd like. I'd also like to be able to play solo too.

The same reason I was advised by other gamer friends to never play ARK. Other people don't respect what your play style is, or the work you've put into making your game yours. They'll destroy it. It's like a kid pulling the wings off a butterfly. He doesn't understand the pain and hurt he inflicts, and finds it amusing. So if TS5 turns out to be multiplayer, then its the biggest no I'll ever give. I want to play my game my way without being terrorised by other players.

"Darkshadow608;c-17683201" wrote:
The same reason I was advised by other gamer friends to never play ARK. Other people don't respect what your play style is, or the work you've put into making your game yours. They'll destroy it. It's like a kid pulling the wings off a butterfly. He doesn't understand the pain and hurt he inflicts, and finds it amusing. So if TS5 turns out to be multiplayer, then its the biggest no I'll ever give. I want to play my game my way without being terrorised by other players.

I can imagine how many who get so upset if someone alters one of their builds and puts it on the gallery would be so upset to see another player come into the game and change their build and delete 90% of the clutter they had in a house. Changed a wall placement, changed the floor tile, the carpets, and wall coverings. Or made a Sim that looks like their Sim and say it's their Sim, but in reality it's a Maxis Sim because they all look just like any premade in the game. :o

I honestly can't think of anything I would like less than for the Sims 5 than for it to become a MMO, co-op, or pvp style multiplayer game, or even online virtual environment like Second Life.

The sims as a life simulation game is pretty unique in a world where multiplayer online game seem to be taking over.

I play my Sims games as life stories, with original characters I have created in different life contexts, with specific outcomes that I have predetermined. Other people would inevitably prevent that kind of gameplay.

I have played many different types of games over the years and I'm always drawn to the story rich, immersive style gameplay. The famous games in those genres that have recently had side ventures into the multiplayer style of gameplay (e.g. Fallout 76) have all been met with severe criticism and poor reviews from the fans and the reason for that is simple. Not everyone wants to play the same way!

The very fact that there has already been an online version of the Sims that essentially 'tanked' suggests strongly that the majority of Simmers, prefer an individualistic single player style of game play. So please, EA just leave the Sims franchise alone!

If you want real life social interaction in your gameplay, then play something else and then you can deal with the inevitable draw backs, like trolling and griefers, watered down world environments, simplistic gameplay, micro transactions, creeps and perverts etc. and leave the rest of us to play the way we want.

Sorry if that sounds harsh, but I feel strongly about this!

"Simtown15;c-17681716" wrote:
I’m mostly concerned about two things:

1. The trolls- there are bound to be some people who try to troll other players by killing off their sims or ruining storytelling. Imagine you’re just trying to tell a story and then some random 12 year-old starts a fire in the background!
2. The perverts- The reason that I don’t play multiplayer life sims, such as Second Life and IMVU, is because of the perverts. Either the game would have to be rated M or you would inevitably have creepy old dudes creating attractive teen sims and using them to flirt with teenage girls.

Or teenage boys, for that matter. (I'm of the opinion that whatever goes on between consenting adults is NOMB, but the key words are "consenting" and "adults".)

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For me, multiplayer online is a "no go." When Sim City 2013 went online, it was awful for me. Lots of people complained about the inefficient servers and things like that. Not for me, the servers worked just fine, because, the vast majority of people live on the other side of the planet! The vast majority of people were asleep when I was awake, the vast majority of people were awake when I was asleep. Sim city 2013, it should have been called sim ghost town where I live. If the sims 5 went online, I would not buy it. My time zone has less than 3 million people in the winter. we lose 700,000 people in our time zone just because of "daylight savings time," in the summer, it is a 5 hour flight at nearly the speed of sound to get to the closest significant population center...three time zones away in the summer...two time zones away in the winter! Where I live it is tough to make a phone call to other places, let alone play multiplayer online games

"randy2355;c-17684870" wrote:
For me, multiplayer online is a "no go." When Sim City 2013 went online, it was awful for me. Lots of people complained about the inefficient servers and things like that. Not for me, the servers worked just fine, because, the vast majority of people live on the other side of the planet! The vast majority of people were asleep when I was awake, the vast majority of people were awake when I was asleep. Sim city 2013, it should have been called sim ghost town where I live. If the sims 5 went online, I would not buy it. My time zone has less than 3 million people in the winter. we lose 700,000 people in our time zone just because of "daylight savings time," in the summer, it is a 5 hour flight at nearly the speed of sound to get to the closest significant population center...three time zones away in the summer...two time zones away in the winter! Where I live it is tough to make a phone call to other places, let alone play multiplayer online games

Your post sounds like a tricky math problem. :lol:

"crocobaura;c-17684894" wrote:

"randy2355;c-17684870" wrote:
For me, multiplayer online is a "no go." When Sim City 2013 went online, it was awful for me. Lots of people complained about the inefficient servers and things like that. Not for me, the servers worked just fine, because, the vast majority of people live on the other side of the planet! The vast majority of people were asleep when I was awake, the vast majority of people were awake when I was asleep. Sim city 2013, it should have been called sim ghost town where I live. If the sims 5 went online, I would not buy it. My time zone has less than 3 million people in the winter. we lose 700,000 people in our time zone just because of "daylight savings time," in the summer, it is a 5 hour flight at nearly the speed of sound to get to the closest significant population center...three time zones away in the summer...two time zones away in the winter! Where I live it is tough to make a phone call to other places, let alone play multiplayer online games

Your post sounds like a tricky math problem. :lol:

more like a tricky geography problem...however, geography and math do kinda hold hands.

because my Sims are my vision and ideal of the world I have ZERO interest in having someone else play and mess with that vision