Project Rene?🤔
This might be an unpopular opinion, but 'Project Rene' should just be an update to the sims 4🤷🏻♀️ With Project Rene, it feels like EA is just piggybacking off Paralives, which is why I think they ...
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"Ray_Trace;c-18193987" wrote:
I don't think EA even views Paralives as a serious competition at all, and I don't think even seriously considered it when they released footage for Project Rene. It's not really in the public mind, while the Sims still practically prints money (evident by EA still supporting an 8 year old game when it could have pulled the plug on it if it didn't sell well).
I'm not sure this take is supported by what I see.
We know the Sims developers are curious and watchful of Paralives at the very least. Some follow the Paralives devs and account on Twitter and are aware of the brainstorming discord. Also, the amount of Patreon money a no-name Canadian dev has raised monthly is incredibly impressive. This is almost exclusively from people who are Simmers/ex-Simmers...the discord is full of them.
Second, the decision to release a working prototype (not even alpha) is extremely unusual for EA. I can't stress that enough. You have to ask yourself why this happened.
Think about all of the public feedback surveys that the Sims team has sent out. I wonder about a lukewarm or perhaps negative sentiment, particularly during key moments like the My Wedding Stories fiasco.
Unfairly, Paralives is being seen as the "answer to everything wrong or dissatisfying about the Sims 4" because it is the closest thing Simmers have to a potential substitute. Perhaps the Sims team felt it was appropriate at this time to boost morale within the Sims franchise.
