SIMS 5 - for Real ???

"SoyokoAnis;c-17670335" wrote:
> @LeCastel wrote:
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> Without a doubt.
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> Electronic Arts Q3 2020 Earnings Call (this doesn't confirm 5, but might show some light on what to expect):
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> And we're also seeing that the competition nature of The Sims is also rising up. And we're seeing people compare and contrast, not competition in the traditional sports sense, but how they create and what they create and how they use their imaginations and what they're able to build inside of their Sims universes. And so as Maxis continues to think about The Sims for a new generation across platforms in a cloud-enabled world, you should imagine that while we will always stay true to our inspiration, escape, creation, self improvement, motivations, that this notion of social interaction and competition, like the kind of things that were actually present in The Sims FreePlay -- sorry, in The Sims Online many, many years ago, that they will start to become part of the ongoing Sims experience in the years to come. We're very excited. This is a game that, it really doesn't have any competition in its category for delivering and fulfilling these motivations for players and we think it's a tremendous growth opportunity for us for many, many years to come.


That is very exciting to think about.

They thought that they held the community over a barrel. They had us and we had nowhere else to go, so we'd take whatever they gave us and we'd like it or lump it.

Thankfully, the bolded print is no longer true. We've got options. EA/Maxis had better recognize or die entirely, as the SimCity franchise did.