I WILL NOT PURCHASE SIMS 5 IF…

"Providentia;c-18196054" wrote:
There is an option in sims 4 for unplayed households to age up, without lifespan affecting played households. I would not buy if all the sims have to age up or not. I want more life stages including a newborn, baby, toddler, small child, old child, teenager, young adult, adult, old adult (50-65), and elder. If there aren't at least a couple of extra life stages from sims 4 then I will be disappointed. I agree with @DeeSimsGirl and am not paying for extra life stages. I want sims to be more diverse. I hope the sims 5 will have disabilities, mental illness, and even some temporary health issues like colds, broken bones, and burnout. I know it would be difficult to include all those, but I won't buy unless at least one of those is included.

I also will not buy unless there is at least one occult @greydonn. I really like sims 4 vampires because of how their powers affect interactions with other sims. I have never tried occults from other sims games, but I am interested in better faeries and aliens. I really enjoyed how in Werewolves, there were secret lots that only occult sims could access. I will not buy Sims 5 if there are no hidden lots.

I am willing to try multiplayer as long as there are little to no microtransactions and multiplayer is separate from the single-player experience. On the topic of packs/kits, the model of sims 4 with more than 60 packs!!!!! is completely UNACCEPTABLE. The DLC needs to be quite large and targeted. For example, an occult pack should include three or more occult types and the world and build mode items. Whereas a decorator pack could include hundreds of build mode items and new types of items like washing machines. I understand that this would come with a higher price per pack. Simmers have floated the idea that Sims 5 might be a subscription service rather than a purchase-and-keep endeavor. I will not buy if there is a subscription. I also will not buy if there is not a demo version that I get to play for 2 days or so. This is because of how buggy Sims has become.

I want the world to be fully editable. I will NOT buy if I can only edit my house and not the streets or parks and sidewalks. I really hope that I can pick out the sidewalk colors and what trees are in my community yards. Even if I can't directly place landscaping into my sidewalks, I would appreciate being able to say that I want oaks instead of spruces and that would auto-generate.

Yes I want every Maxis-made world to be made with the same World Creator that we have. So technically we could remake a Maxis world from the ground up. Any new world objects and rabbit holes added in a DLC would be added for us to utilize for our own creations. That's how editable I want worlds to be in my preference.

It has way more than Sims 3 & Sims 4 ever had at the beginning & if it's way cooler than Disney Dreamlight Valley. Otherwise, no thank you.

I will be purchasing Sims 5. But rather or not I purchase expansions or other packs beyond that will depend on how well the base game plays.

i will buy sims5 and all packs but before going on the preorder hype will require more info

> @Dkaffe said:
> Considering that developement is in these early stages, I think it would be wild to assume too much right away.

I mean people have been assuming things about the sims 5 since the sims 4 base game dropped 8 years ago.

I won't buy Sims 5 if it's too expensive, or at this point the increasingly likely case that I won't have the hardware to run it. I couldn't run Sims 3 on my old computer (and now I have no interest in it), and everything these days seems to want newer hardware that I can't afford.

I also definitely won't buy it if the single player mode is buggy and boring. If it's like various mobile games where you CAN play alone but it takes so long to actually get anything done if you're playing alone that there's no point to it? Will not buy. I don't want to play multiplayer but I won't play a game that NEEDS other people even if it's technically able to be played as single player.

Also won't buy if the sims are ugly as heck. That's the reason I have no interest in Sims 3 even though my computer can run it now.

I want the option to be online or not I also want the option for it to be multiplayer or not like I have a world that to myself and also have a save game a Multiplayer world for friends and other simmers.

Online only killed Darkspore, a game I loved.

You can guess my feelings about that requirement and how it will be a death knell for the Sims 5 in the distant future. If the Sims 5 has online only, I will not purchase the game.

I wouldn't purchase it if I was forced to play the game with others. I'm only interested in a single player experience.

I'd probably not buy it if it doesn't have open world/ story progression.

however...

"Ilikebuilding;c-18185073" wrote:
I doubt it will be VR. VR kit is expensive, so will cut a lot of potential buyers off.

"ChadSims2;c-18185170" wrote:

"SERVERFRA;c-18185069" wrote:
Personally, Sims 5 will probably a VR, Multiplayer nothing game. :s No thank you very much.
My next new game is going to be Disney Dreamlight Valley on PC. :p

No chance that Sims 5 is VR the Sims team knows its fan base and sadly most seem to be on low end pcs or even worse laptops, Sims will never be VR. Now online I'm sure they will toss that in and destroy the game.

I want to play sims 5 in VR, most simmers on here don't care for VR, but doesn't mean that everyone doesn't want VR. If VR gets added; it will be for the VR community and there is plenty of VR fans now days, VR has gotten popular so yea. Would be nice to have some VR simmers playing it.

I think Maxis should apply VR for the VR community at least.

Also Sims 4 has a VR mod, it maybe clunky but it is not perfect and is a mod after all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC9YnVsHq8c&t=15s&ab_channel=Disco-VR

and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyfC5JqTDzk&ab_channel=SmashedReality

It's a start, kinda wished Maxis tried VR anyways. :(

OH! I forgot to mention, I also won't buy it if it goes cloud.

I will not buy if it turns out to be TS4.2!

If it doesn't have actual open neighborhoods.... COUNT ME OUT! I don't mean this lie they said about TS4 because when people think of "open world" they think of being able to freely move around the entire world, which includes every single lot/venue, without a loading screen. TS4 said no open worlds, we'd have open neighborhoods. That was a big, fat lie! We have open areas you can walk around between lots (with hardly anything at all to do in those spaces and no ability to add things to do in those spaces) but if we want to visit the swimming pool across the street from our house or go to our neighbor's house for coffee (which is literally 5 tiles away from yours) .... BLAM! Loading screen!

If there is not some ability, from the beginning to remove/edit/add things to a world .... COUNT ME OUT!! I have dealt with the restrictions and daily frustration of TS4 for wayyyyyy too long to shell out more even more money to once again still be frustrated (There are things I hate in the worlds, such as a tree blocking my view on certain lots, the ugly dinosaur in Oasis Springs, the plethora of fake houses and buildings requiring me to adjust MY IDEAS for a world to cohesively fit THEIR IDEAS of what MY WORLD should look like, the huge amounts of empty, useless real estate space in worlds that could have clearly had more usable/buildable lots!)

If all worlds that have oceans/bodies of water aren't swimmable from the beginniing ..... COUNT ME OUT! Been there, done that. Every time I play in Brindleton Bay and Windenburg my rage raises at not being able to actually swim in the water. It's useless to me and makes me just never want to play in those worlds so I don't have to see the fake beaches.

If the sims personalities are not actually unique.... COUNT ME OUT!! I do not want to have to search out mods just to make the personalities of my sims actually to be different.

If they continue to take short-cuts on animations and keep reusing the same ones over and over. COUNT ME OUT!!

If they continue the trend of the "rabbit hole" activities rather than actual functioning objects .... COUNT ME OUT! Such as rather than actually shopping in Tartosa, they basically gave us a dresser item shaped like a building and called it window shopping! WHAT??! Or the fake rabbit hole "amusement park rides" in Copperdale. That's like something a CC creator would do, which is perfectly fine, I understand their limitations on coding, routing, animations, etc..... but for a AAA game company ... that screams L.A.Z.Y. to me!

If they continue the trend of "telling us" what is going on instead of "showing us" what is happening ... COUNT ME OUT! (which a lot of times is FAKE and has absolutely nothing to do with the current sitation, such as the pop-up notifications in HSY that tell about classmates doing this or that, and yet they are actually just sitting at a desk and none of those things happened)

If we can't customize, save and/or "favorite" certain looks in CAS to re-use on a different sim later on .... COUNT ME OUT! I love the creativity of some simmers (thinking of @Netzspannung amazing outfits, which I love) and would use all the time, but I don't want to have to hunt for all of the pieces. We need a better filtering system and would love a search by name function for CAS as well.

If cell phone usage is not optional .... COUNT ME OUT!!! I don't always play in a "modern world", sometimes I play in a save that is set years in the past when there were no such things as a cell phone. There should be functioning phones (phone booths in the world and community venues and landlines available for residential lots) that have the same options as the cell phone for traveling/hiring NPCs, etc that a sim can use instead. Information should also be available in a newspaper, like old times, where sims can learn about anything that way as well. GIve us options! Maybe we want to get away from the modern world!

I could go on and on .... but these are some of my most major "Must Haves" for me to purchase. I just can't do a TS4 again, why would I spend money for the exact same gameplay with a new name and better graphics.