I WILL NOT PURCHASE SIMS 5 IF…

If I can't play the full game alone on my save. I really don't want the multiplayer. I can accept it if it's only a feature and I'm not obliged to be a part of it.

I won't buy it also if It's like all the other opus and we start again with an empty game. I think after 4 opus I'm over it to again wait years to have seasons, to have animals or basics things. I would like a complete base game so extension will be focus on things really important.

But honestly I'm very worried with the multiplayer system that could ruin our game. What we love with Sims is to be able to control our save, have our own story... I'm not sure about sharing this experience with people I don't even know.

I won't buy the Sims 5, period. I like the Sims 4 a lot and I don't want to move on from it. The only way I can see myself buying the Sims 5 is years after its release.

I won't even consider TS5 if TS4 still feels incomplete or bugged to me. I don't want to start all over again with a new game if the previous leaves me dissatisfied. I also have no interest in online multiplayer or subscription games. A reboot of TS2 would be more to my liking.

I wouldn't mind multiplayer optional but if its forced multiplayer I am also out, but if they do online multiplayer route I hope they have the foresight to make some kind of adult filter, assuming they're going to have same age rating as now so minors don't accidentally get exposed to adult content.

I don't want Sims 5 if it's multiplayer. :s

I still have plenty to do in Sims 4. I am a little interested in Disney Dreamlight except I don't want to be obsessed (because I know me) over a new game. So I'll stay where I'm at.....for now.

Its VR or online. I don't own a VR set and don't think I'll be purchasing one just for the Sims, and I'm not interested in playing a dating sim. I don't think the team intends it to be a dating sim, but by the nature of what the sims is, a life simulator, that's what it would become in the event that you want your family sims to have families. They'd have to happen through dating and marrying sims made and played by other people. I'm too flippin' old to be worrying about my real life relationships and the online ones too!

If sims 5 gameplay is going to be as forced directed and player control rooted as sims 4 is or have as bland and super artificial expanded gameplay as sims 4 currently have. By example neighborhood stories were supposed to give evolving neighbors and neighborhood, but all it run 100% through player decisions in the most annoying and frustrating ways possible, so either you have option to disable it which doesn't work completely or be forced to either ignore phone calls or go through the tedious and repetitive same options again and again on daily basis. Add to that the mechanic choices is extremely poor implemented and feel artificially fake, sims would ask you advice on things that make zero sense for them to ask, like for instance sim with hates children would ask you to decide for them if they should have more kids. The addition of fears and wants felt like a horrid step back from whims, also they made it so its impossible to disable far as I can tell. The options again feel rushed and incoherent take my werewolf sim as example, he would get want to get engaged with his fated mate, next time option reset he got want to wish to break up with fated male all this within 2-3 days, he had no erratic personality or mean personality or anything to suggest this option would feel natural. I feel every time we ask for more depths or gameplay its a step backwards, if sims 5 is going to be like that I am out.

If most of the surrounding world is set dressing like in TS4 then I will have zero interest in it. I'm so tired of seeing cute "shops" that are just empty shells and not interactable. I want my sim to be able to DO things. I want to be able to interact with the world around my sim!

I have been playing since sims 2 and sims 4 still seems incomplete and missing so much. I have only recently returned to playing after a few month’s off and online play through the EA app has already meant I couldn’t load sims 4 twice this week, so I will not be moving onto sims 5 if it is online.

If we are limited to swatches for colour choices and the colour wheel doesn’t return, I’m out.

If we don’t have open neighbourhoods, I’m out.

If the base game doesn’t have all life stages, I’m out.

If babies are objects, I’m out.

If the neighbourhood graphics aren’t improved, I’m out (2D trees that rotate to give the impression of 3D? Please don’t insult me again)

If the team focuses on trying to distract us with new contact instead of fixing bugs, I’m out. The gardening bugs alone are a big turn-off for me at this stage.

If there are moods, I’m out, nothing frustrates me more than a sim getting a routing failure because the queued action required a particular mood and it changed before they got there because of some arbitrary event I had no control over.

If my sims can’t go on a date without every sim in the vicinity wanting to chat and making it “awkward”, I’m out.

If mischief can’t be turned off, I’m out. As an introverted autistic girl who has suffered from bullying, mischief makes me VERY uncomfortable.

I could go on, but these are the deal-breakers.

• Subscription based
  
• Nickle and dimeing EVERYTHING as if it were an actual free to play game
  
• Multiplayer only OR the game is nearly forcing you to go multiplayer if you want to do anything
  

Consider me out if those things happen. TS4 is where I will happily stay.