JOB POSTING: Multiplayer Gameplay Software Engineer

Well, it looks as if EA has no intention of giving up on its dream of spreading The Sims franchise across every platform out there in spite of its lack of success with this in the past. Could this be for a mobile or console version of Sims5 that will be released at the same time as the PC/Mac versions? Or Sims5 will have the option of being played with other players? Either way it is a bold move on EA's part when so many people have expressed their displeasure with the idea of Sims5 being a multi-player game. Personally, I am not in favor of this approach, but everyone has their own opinions and desires on what they want to see in Sims5. And is one more reason why I won't be staying with the franchise once Sims4 is shelved. Rather than ensuring the release of a robust and fully featured base game, EA is looking at a way to bring in even more unsuspecting new customers. In my opinion, this is a bit like putting the cart before the horse that all but guarantees yet another bare bones base game that will take years to flesh out and hundreds of dollars being spent on DLC that may or may not be better than what we have seen in Sims4. And I am not on board with that plan. When we have broken features that go all the way back to the beginning of Sims4 that have never been fixed, it says a lot about where EA's priorities are, and those priorities are clearly not in the players' corner.

It's a good thing that Paralives and Life By You are coming...I'm just fed up with EA not listening to us when we tell them what we want. Ever since I saw the videos of Life By You,I've pretty much lost interest in Sims 4.

What's so bad about this? We know the new game is going to be multiplayer mode ?There nothing bad about this?

We all knew multiplayer was coming it just gets no better when you hear it again. No matter what Sims 5 will be the first time I don't get base game on release between Sims 4 limitations because it started as multiplayer and getting a repeat with it actually implemented trust is at an all time low for me and I'm sure many others.

Early Sims 4 was online will we get "smarter" Sims again who are only able to stand around and chat because once again the game was designed to be online. They spoke on Rene publicly then went back into dead silence mode again so no one knows how much online is going to limit us we're worried and rightfully so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2IPZDJ-pt0

Perhaps the new multiplayer engineer can bring the EA App online and make it recognize European Credit cards :).

But I thought it was confirmed it's going to be multi-player in the way that you can invite a friend into your game?
Not like roblox style multi-player?

Would be interesting to know what improvements to player experience would multi-player gameplay bring. Maybe they have totally given up on creating smart sims and are now trying to get people to role-play as avatars instead.

"crocobaura;c-18268276" wrote:
Would be interesting to know what improvements to player experience would multi-player gameplay bring. Maybe they have totally given up on creating smart sims and are now trying to get people to role-play as avatars instead.

Maybe, but wouldn't that just be a PG version of Second Life then?

This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. We've known for a while now that TS5 will have multiplayer, and that nobody HAS to play with anyone else if they don't choose to do so. Nothing will change for single player simmers, they just add the possibility to play with friends/family for those who want it. Can't see myself playing Sims with others, but plenty of people do.

When they said single player did they confirm offline? When they said Cloud save, did they say also pc saves would be possible? I don't recall they confirmed offline nor pc saves in the earlier info about Rene Project. I'm not sure why anyone is surprised they need someone to facilitate the multiplayer side of Rene. But I believe a divided house can't stand, one side of the game will get more attention and budget than the other side, so, I know any multiplayer feature will certainly take away from any budget for the single player side of a game. Considering how much people feel about the lack of 'gameplay' in TS4 I'm not sure Maxis can pull off a multiplayer/single player game if that is where they are headed.