How do you feel about a potential Sims 5 announcement?

A clean sheet design is truly what the franchise needs. Should've been done when SimCity (5) tanked instead of simply retooling it to remove those multiplayer elements.

However, I'm worried about what features it will have. There's a lot of stuff I want, but a lot I don't (read, multiplayer and live service).

TS4 isn't finished yet (still lacking a TON of content from other games 8 years in), and it will take at least that time for TS5 to reach where we are now with TS4.

I think I'm ready for a new base game - but I'm nervous that TS5 will be The Sims Olympus 2.0 instead of a true sequel.

Shrug. I didn't know which one to pick since none of them really felt right.

It's not that I'm happy with TS4 and don't want it to end, it's more that I'm afraid of what TS5 will be and that they'll leave TS4 in it's current state. The same way they just basically turned the lights off on TS3 and walked away from the mess.

As long as awesome people keep making mods to address the issues, I'm in no big hurry for the next shiny thing. Heck, I still have my iPhone X! That's how much I don't care about the newest/latest.

I would like some new bug-free content for TS4 and some refreshes because it's feeling old and stale.

I don't want TS4 to end but I'm still excited about Sims 5. I just hope they don't announce it without a Trailer. I think TS5 will happen in 2024 so I'm concerned that we won't get everything that is missing from TS4.

A list of things I want to see before TS4 ends.

Pool Slides and Interactive Pool Waterfalls.

Resorts

A Romance Expansion

An Attraction System

More Themepark Rides that aren't rabbitholrs

I am interested to find out more about a possible sims 5. However I spent a lot of time (and money) on the sims 4 so I am not ready to give up on the sims 4 yet.

At the same time I am worried about the sims 5. The sims 4 has lately taken a very distinct direction towards giving teens and people in their twenties a platform to create simselfs in a game which is heavily geared towards realism. I hope sims 5 will still be a sandbox to play stories with made up characters, preferably with a supernatural element. I hope the recent scenario update is not a test for the sims 5.

I have the fear sims 5 might be a subscription game. I play since the sims 1 and stuck with the franchise and countless DLC, but I won't give them my credit card number for a subscription. I also prefer single games over multiplayer and hope to still be able to play offline.

On top of that, I hope the base game is complete, not lacking basic features we had since sims 1. And of course my laptop needs to be able to run it. A desktop is just not possible due to personal reasons.

But let's first find out (soon?) what Sims 5 will actually be like.

at this point in time i would say now is the time to post what we relly went to see in sims5 as players of the sims the errors and mistake of the sims4 must not be repeated, *Just my toughs as a player of the sims

Unless it's revealed to be: The Sims: Forgotten Realms and with some changes (townie generator can be turned off, more grim day to day reality, has to work harder in your profession and so on), I will probably just pass on this game, at least until a few years has passed and it actually is good.

I'm not risking getting Sims 4 1/2 with some updated graphics, a smoother engine and having to pay for the same packs again with different names.

I'm worried that the game will not live up to expectations. Multiplayer is not interesting to me, and after the launch of the sims 4, they really need to step up their game. Hopefully whatever big new feature they implement won't be a disappointment (like emotions in the sims 4).

In my opinion they should make the sims 5 a combination of sims 2 gameplay, sims 3 open worlds, and sims 4 CAS & build/buy (but with the Cast tools from the sims 3). Furthermore, they could look at paralives as well as farm simulator games for more ideas.
Paralives has some cool features such as reordering the action cue, resizing objects, heterochromia, placing tatooes anywhere etc. Furthermore the sims should look at games like runefactory 4 and my time at sandrock which do a great job of making the town come to life with special holidays, festivals, competitions, etc.

Technology has advanced a lot since the sims 3, and if EA puts the work into it, the sims 5 could have a really fun open world (or at least open neighborhood) where not only do sims feel alive, but the town does with store sales, holidays, festivals, etc.

I only started playing TS4 in 2020. There is still lots more in TS4 I haven't explored yet and want to at some point. I'd rather enjoy the fleshed-out game I've already paid for that has lots of depth and content and some bugs and new features that need to be tuned, then jump over to a bare-bones new game that will surely also have some bugs and new features that need to be tuned.

I would say "It's about time" but I voted "I'm interested but I'm worried it will disappoint me" because I want to be clear that as much as I really want a new Sims game, I'm not optimistic. I didn't like the Sims 4's business model as it is, and the industry has come up with 100 worse things since it came out (more than one of which are borderline ubiquitous now).

There's so much potential in a Sims 5, and I think a lot of it really is likely to happen. Unfortunately, it only takes one really bad thing to ruin the game no matter how good the rest of it is. I guess the most interesting thing about an announcement is that the wait to know whether or not I should actually care may not be much longer. They could hold the bad parts for the last minute, but plenty of games are announcing the terrible ideas right off the bat these days.