"Horrorgirl6;d-1008951" wrote:
I felt like looking at comments .People are misunderstanding the difference from a mmo and standard multiplayer.
An mmo is an online game.Play in public or sometimes.Like Roblox, Second Life, or Fortnight.Sometime they do have a private server usually an online one that you pay extra.This is not what Ea is doing.
Ea team confirm on the behind the sims.That multiplayer is not mmo.That this will just be you friends in your game.
This sounds like it being more of a traditional multiplayer mode.A traditional multiplayer is usually when you invite someone to play the same game as you.This achieve in many ways fightening games.You usually choose a playable character.The other you starting a new game.Like in srardew valley where they add additional code to the save let others to come in. With you adding the friend and you both being online.
Basically we're not getting a public server.Were getting an extra mode.Where you can invite your friends over in your own private game.
What you are describing is co-op. MMOs are Multiplayer games where the game is played on the company's server with hundreds or thousands at the same time. Did you play TS3's Simport? That's sort of 'inviting a friend to play' as the Sim arrived in your game and you couldn't save, quit and or not show up at their performance. It was optional but still 'online' and very limiting for the player who wanted to quit, save, and or not show up at the other player's performance.
Co-op has been a part of The Sims for years with console games, but I'm not sure many will play it (pc) other than a younger generation or those who have been asking for this in TS4. Simport was not fun. It crashed and burned.
We have no idea what TS5 will do, or how the online collaborations will work or if it's just a group of people building something and or working on custom content together and or actually in a server world or whatever. But the point has been made thousands of times, any money going to that sort of play absolutely divides attention, focus and money for the single player side of any game.
This is my opinion, (not reality but opinion).
There are four types of players in The Sims (formats) those who loved TS1 and TS2 who didn't even move over to TS3 or TS4. Those people are aging (as am I) and will not play any mmo or group thing.
There are the TS2 players who went to TS4 and love TS4 and will never stop playing TS4 and will never move over to TS5. They hated TS3 and will never give up TS4.
There are those who love TS3 and hated Simport and will never give up TS3 and will never even try TS5, they wouldn't even give TS4 a chance.
New players who love TS4 will never move over to TS5, either. They love it so much they want it to get new content for the next twenty years.
Then there is a new generation of players who know nothing about the forumla of The Sims who will try TS5. There is where Maxis is going. All the others have too much baggage to try to please. So, don't worry about what TS5 will be, because people are dug in within those four groups and very unlikely to try TS5 at all. But of course influencers will try and buy TS5 because they have to remain relevant.
This is opinion, also there are floaters who try all the games because we loved the Franchise, but eventually go back to the games we prefer. There is always the exception.
