How Many Plan on Buying Paralives vs TS5?

I will probably buy both to try them out. It kind of depends on which I'll stick with. Paralives hasn't communicated anything about a needs based system and hasn't shown any actual gameplay yet, so I don't have too many opinions on it yet. That said, the fact that it's competing against the Sims intrigues me. TS5 hopefully still has an offline option to play the way I do now, otherwise, I'm not sure I'll play for very long. At this point in time, the release of either game is so far off that I don't even think about it.

"ClaimingTheFifth;c-17870805" wrote:
Not into online multi-player. Period. What worries me - always in the back of my mind - we don't have disks anymore...we can only continue with S3 and S4 as long as Origin feeds the game...or not. Remember they dumped S2.... Does an external drive backup include the main game files that currently are fed through Origin?

Perhaps only if you created an entire image of your pc and not just backups of particular things but chose Image.

Paralives. I hear Sims 5 is supposed to be multiplayer and I'm not really interested in that

I am actually not sure about either one. The Sims 4 is really boring me, maybe because I don't know what I am doing, or that I don't get many comments. I am afraid to put up CC or the poses they have. I feel it is sort of unfair to see all this good stuff others do and I have this mediocre stuff, without the CC and poses. In the Sims 4 we get them to eat, or bathroom or sleep and it seems you do it and look at what they need and they eat in my game and it seems they haven't eaten anything so I send them back again. I think you have to play things or a trial period to see if you would really want either one, but I don't think or believe that would be an option for either one of them?

I have no space left on my laptop (only 20GB) so I am in no hurry to buy soon especially since I don't uninstall games (my Mass Effect and Assassin's Creed are still installed. :D I treat them as collection until I can afford a external DVD and put them into a box to collect) and I have a lot of projects too from school to do. Maybe when I can afford a Hard Drive external or a DVD Drive then I could think about it

I'm not interested in Paralives at all. I think I'm alone in this, but I really dislike the graphics and I'm not a builder so the fancy wall tools don't do it for me. But I'm equally disinterested in any sort of online play, so I will not be getting TS5 either, assuming my suspicions about what it will be are true. I just hope modders continue to work an TS4 for a while.

I'm gonna wait to see if Paralives is good. I won't get Sims 5 because it will be multiplayer.

I personally wish that Paralives would release the game on Steam and in Stores. That will definitely increase the availability of the game.
I hold physical games at higher priority than sole digital copies, and I do miss the good old days when The Sims 2 was just self-contained in a box with a CD and a game manual. Nowadays, EA does not do that anymore. Having Origin is bad enough. I don't want to keep receiving updates from Steam. I once downloaded Steam to try out a game for free, but the game was too massive in file size to be downloaded so I just quit. I also uninstalled Steam from my computer because Steam was too frequently updated.
If Paralives is also released on a disc, then I might consider it. Of course, the Paralives team is rather small and limited in funds, so they will probably skip that altogether.

Not sure that I will want to play either one of them.

Sims 5 is looking more and more like it will be mainly online multiplayer which I have no interest whatsoever in playing.

Paralives... I don't know. There is something about the art style that is just very off-putting to me. Not sure why. So it would depend completely on what sort of game it really turns out to be (not what they say they are hoping/planning to do, but what end product actually gets released).

I genuinely like Sims 4 (though I do use mods) and honestly, I'll be happy just continuing to play as I have been playing and not buying any new game at all. So as long as my operating system is able to run Sims 4, I'm very likely to just stick with that.

Posting the contents of what I just said on the wrong thread. My Bad. Here is what I meant to say on this thread.


Hope no one derails this poll thread by going off topic, please. While we imagine what might be for both games we do have some heavy clues of what is probably true.

What do we actually know?

1.We do know they plan on some type of competition system for 'TS5' vs No competition system for PL.

2.We do know they said they are working hard to bring collaborative projects or system to TS5 vs Single player for PL.

3.We do know they hired someone to head up the Live service for TS5 vs no monthly etc. live service for PL.

4.We do know they have spoke about Story driven gameplay in TS5 (future Sim games) vs Open-ended gameplay for PL.

5. We do know they have stated they want to bring a Marketplace to TS5 vs no marketplace for PL but player friendly mod and cc support for PL but no support for scripted mods at this time or planned. We don't know if TS5 will support cc, But EA is working hard to bring a marketplace experience to the next Sim game. AKA players build something and a charge for such content.

6. We do know both games are using the Unreal engine xxxxxxx to build their games.

So, I think it's becoming more clear which way players of the older games will fall on which side of the coin. They may not pick up PL but may try it, and it depends on whether someone wants to deal with Steam or uses Steam or even likes Steam, any game has to overcome the feelings of players about a downloader, too, if they want to be successful. Millions use Steam, many won't.

Some of the lack of interest in TS4 is because of Origin not just a lack of willingness to try TS4 but because it's tied to an infamous downloader with many problems. Players of older games really dislike Origin. So, either game is going to have to take into account what platform they choose to use for a core fanbase to be satisfied with the way a game is delivered. Somebody really has to like TS4 to deal with Origin in so many cases and not mind interruptions to gameplay and or updates and other things such as errors or forced updates etc. All that has to be considered for Origin and or Steam.

What we don't actually know about TS5 is if it's a pc game or if it's being built for console from the get go. But we do know PL is going to be a pc game.

ETA: For footnotes about any of what I listed as 'fact' is contained in many articles over on TheSimsCommunity site and posted here in various threads or posts.