"Coconut27;c-18329300" wrote:
Wow! I never saw like actual video footage with the Project Olympus UI and stuff, I had only seen photos. Never knew about this supposed film till just now :D My only thoughts really are that from time to time I think about what would've happened if EA kept The Sims 4 as an online game as they originally intended. I for one, know I wouldn't have played it, but idk about others.
Would it also fail like Sims City 2013? Even though I love that game, the launch was terrible with the server issues and then like a year(?) later it was completely abandoned.
I think it makes me wonder if them scrapping the online game and making a new one, even rushed with leftover remnants of project Olympus, was their best outcome. Who knows what would've happened to The Sims franchise if they had stuck with an online game instead. It could have possibly ruined The Sims for eternity lol. So while I have my disappointments with the lack of depth/gameplay in TS4, It does make me stop to appreciate that this could have possibly been the best outcome given the situation. If any of that makes sense haha.
I only found out about the cancelled film maybe a year ago, so I was quite surprised when I did. I have a feeling that given the time (2007) it was announced, it was most likely going to be a retelling of the events that happened in The Sims 2, especially when it comes to Bella Goth's disappearance.
As for Project Olympus, the main theory on why it was reworked into The Sims 4 that we know today is because of the fail of SimCity (2013). Not wanting to repeat the same mistake with SimCity (2013), Maxis decided to rework Olympus real late in its development (a year before its release), resulting in it becoming The Sims 4. Why else would you think that The Sims 4 was missing so many important and iconic features when it was released back in 2014. I think that if The Sims 4 was released as Olympus, it was most likely going to fail just like SimCity (2013) before it. Project Rene is going to have multiplayer too, but it's going to be similar to the multiplayer in Animal Crossing and not the virtual world approach that Olympus had. ?
