Sims 5 is Internet-Only, Cloud-Based Subscription Game?

looks like sims4 will be the last sims game for me. Hello paralives. bye sims you had me from sims1 this a killer for me.

NO! Non, Nein, Nyet, Lo, Ou, Ouk, Ouchi, No bloody way! Anything cloud based is out there for all who have the skills to hack and mess with as well as see. My current employer's financial software is cloud based and is a nightmare to use, is prone to freezing, is frustratingly slow when not frozen, and has the nasty habit of crashing at the most inconvenient time possible. It is taken down regularly for server maintenance. And that's without the Orwellian 1984 feeling I got from the OP's post.

Only thing good I see is about subscription nothing unless its a subscription where you can buy from the Sims Store like a TS3 store and the subscription is similar to a gift card except you can purchase an amount from 10+ simuleons to be used in the store and but $5CAD equals to 550+ simuleons otherwise forget it
The only game I play that has a subscription is World of Warcraft where you don't need a subscription to play a character below level 20. Been playing that game since its early days when you could purchase the game disks at your local store and plan on keeping it that way as don't have much money to spend on entertainment every month

Definitely not.

I'm burned out of dealing with subscriptions for anything.

I did the math and looked at what I had for streaming services. For a LOT less than the $350 or so a year I spend on them, I can just buy the DVDs and a new Blu-Ray player (I have a DVD player, but most things seem to be Blu-Ray these days). Plus, a lot of these services have jumped anywhere from $2-5 a month in the past year, with Netflix being the biggest offender.

Plus, a lot of shows have shifted between streaming services. First of all, it was my shows moving from Netflix and Hulu to newer network-owned streaming services like Disney+, Paramount, and HBO Max. Now, it seems the "in" thing is moving shows to YouTube (older seasons of Power Rangers; which moved from Netflix a year or two ago) or free ad-supported platforms (recently canceled my HBO Max subscription as they planned to do the same with Westworld). Both "free" platforms are horribly ad-ridden, and the ads are annoying and intrusive.

With DVD/Blu-Rays, I can avoid the "musical chairs" my shows have been playing lately, and I don't even need internet, which is a plus to my "man cave" in an outbuilding/former above-garage apartment.

I had an XBOX subscription shortly to try a couple of games I wasn't exactly keen on spending $60 each for, but I canceled it after I did so, pretty much before the trial ended. It is cheaper for me to just wait for a sale than continue spending ten bucks a month for two games. "

Used to be, one could use Flickr pretty much unencumbered for free; then Yahoo spun them off to be sold to SmugMug; and I ended up having to pay $8 for PRO to get much use out of it Then, after getting sucked into a subscription, they changed it back to where it was by changing all "public" photos to not count towards storage limits. And it went up to $10 a month, for something I don't use much. Thinking about going back to free.

That's one way of limiting their customers & slowly losing business.

Exactly. Sims 4 releases a new patch, then a few days later a new expansion pack. Both times the servers at EA couldn't keep up. Players got mad that they couldn't get in to download it. Now, imagine an engine where just to play you need to go online. EA's servers would go up in smoke. There would be times of the day when your hope of playing would be nil to nothing. I certainly wouldn't buy into a system like that.

What does give me some hope is that they've said it won't be MMO and that multi-player will be optional. This means that, maybe, it won't be as we fear. However, we will all need to wait and see. The good news: EA is not the only fish in the sea anymore. At least two other similar games have been announced as being in development. So if EA doesn't give us what we want anymore, Bye Bye.

SUBSCRIPTION??? Idk how, but I feel like all of this is Netflix's fault. The root of all of these related problems can be traced back to Netflix and I will forever rue the day that company came into existence.

Anyway. I would never ever buy the Sims 5 if it was a subscription. Trust.

Subs existed before Netflix, I paid Everquest and WoW before then lol. But Sims isn't MMO friendly, and should never go cloud, unless EA likes all the lawsuits. Second Life is a warning to all, and that's more social network than game - but boy, oh boy, the drama.

I played The Sims Online (EA Play) when it first came online. It came with a monthly fee and you could pay for multiple accounts (I think 3 was the max allowed). That was fun but it became riddled with problems that forced EA to shut it down so Sims 5/Project Rene would not be the first game I played online if that were the case.

They can have it. :s
I'll stick to my beloved Sims 4, thank you very much. :p