How Many Plan on Buying Paralives vs TS5?

I wouldn't really call it "jumping ship," but I like the look of Paralives right now. If I still do at launch, I will pick it up. On the other hand, if the Sims 5 is the Sims 5 subscription or the Sims 5 MMO or the Sims 5 slot machine, then I will not pick it up. Certainly no good faith preordering after 4's launch.

If it is appealing, I will grab it. If it is not, I will ignore it.

I will admit I haven't followed the Paralives' team as much as others. I could have gotten some ideas in there I guess if I had. lol I'm not sure I like the art style at all, the pictures on Steam of the houses etc. remind me of TS1 and I might need a more real looking game (or at least as much as TS2-TS4) real looking (3D) textured objects, homes, environment, Sims etc. At least as real looking as the past three Maxis games rather than returning back to a time of how those homes in Paralives remind me of TS1.

But Maxis seems to be on track to build a AAA game that is possibly not at all my cup of tea (at least I did buy a lot of TS4). If Maxis does do that to the Simming community I may have no other choice but to go with Paralives, because I do really want a new 'Sim' game and the new has worn off of TS4 for me a long time ago and time for a new game. It offers so many things in it that I wanted in TS4, the fourth iteration of The Sims, but doesn't have or wait years to see...so yeah, I'm thinking more and more about that little Indie game more and more. If it was soon I know I would go ahead and try Paralives and possibly buy it if it was released within the next few months.

I'm going to buy Paralives and leave Sims forever IF it's as good as I'm hoping.

So glad there's competition out there! It might make EA think about how they go about creating the next generation of sims.

It will definitely be cheaper when out, so regardless, I will buy it as soon as it hits Early Access. I'm trying to cut back on my negativity, but I still think TS5, given what EA perceives as the current market trends in the industry, will be a dumpster fire.

I very rarely make a decision whether or not to buy something that I might be interested in before it's released. So while I do have some amount of interest, I'm fine with a wait-and-see plan. As for ditching other games in favor of a new one, that's also a wait-and-see thing. I will say, however, that if TS5 does indeed end up heavily featuring online play, I'll be skipping that one.

If Paralives looks interesting enough to me by the time it's released I'll get it no problem.
If and when Sims 5 comes out and it looks interesting to me I'll be getting it no problem.
If I end up exploring 3 or 4 different simulators at the same time that's no problem either.

If nothing is being released...I just play with what I have. No Problem.

i will buy both if the sims5 is an offline game other wise will go to paralive and stick with sims4

I don't have any faith in Paralives actually becoming a functional game. I don't want to be a debbie downer, but I have been an early-access supporter to many different simulation games, which have all been "released" as a buggy-high performance-CPU-required mess barely out of Beta, and left to modders to fix, if they ever will, while the devs go on to greener pastures and new projects which will all ultimately have the same fate.

(I.E Stonehearth, I see a lot of red flags with Paralives dev posts that I saw with Stonehearth dev posts that I didn't regonize then)

Mostly it's the "You can do everything in this game". A lot of inexperienced indie devs fall into this trap, they are so concerned about every little detail and wanting to put out the best possible product, which is not a bad thing at all, but then they fail to account performance, until they're so far into developement that fixing the performance issues would be near impossible. At that point there's only two viable fixes, rewrite the entire thing (one survival game I managed to forget, did this with good results) or keep building onto something you know you can't fix because rewriting would take too much resources. Mostly what they go for is the latter.

So the way Paralives devs keep promising the world, is a huuuge red flag to me. But if they release the game and it will be good, I will buy it. Right now I remain skeptical.


Also I won't buy TS5 if seasons & pets are not already integrated into the base game. I have paid for those expansions four times now. Time for something as integral to life as animals & weather not treated as extra.

However I'm 99% sure this won't happen, because this is EA we're talking about, so I'll just keep playing TS3/TS4 forever, I guess.

I don't plan on buying Paralives since it doesn't really interest me; I will probably stick with older Sims games from TS4 downwards. IF TS5 is an offline game I may consider it, but there's a 99.9% chance I won't buy it if it becomes an MMO.

I am in to gameplay and it seem to be a very weak part of Paralives. I have created a lot of precious Sims in Sims 4, and if the basegame for Sims 5 looks like Sims 4 it will take a long time to be interesting.