The timing of this makes me feel a joke I made about them only doing Sims 5 because Paradox was making a competitor might have actually been true. 🤣
Wasn’t the Paradox one canceled too?
Yes, that’s what they’re saying.
Yeah; that’s why they cancelled this one. Don’t need it anymore lol
The Sims 4 is not quite a fan favorite. It is disappointing that they may be working on it for another 5-10 years
There’s no way what they had in store for Sims 5 would have pleased the fans disappointed by Sims 4.
Sims 4 was already a last minute attempt to correct course of something those fans never asked for. An always online multiplayer skinner box, probably barely simulating anything at all. They only shifted when the terrible SimCity 2013 crashed and burned.
It was too little, too late, Sims 4 at release ended up the most incomplete release a Sims game ever had and even after many updates is still the most boring experience you could have with the series. Even the bugs are not the entertaining kind.
Guaranteed, Sims 5 was going to try more of what Sims 4 was supposed to be.
I really doubt Sims 5 would have been what Sims 4 tried. I’m reasonably confident it would have been a single player first game, and with that in mind would bring back the open world and that stuff. Would it have been good? Who knows. I doubt it’d be the dumb lobby thing that The Sims 4 was.
I’m still on the Sims 3 because you can get it origin free still, but I feel like the Sims treadmill is just buying mostly the same game over and over. There’s a lot of franchises like that, but I feel like it’s a lot harder for a game like the Sims with the demographics it serves to keep creating reasons to upgrade.
Sims 3 is better than sims 4 but sims 4 runs better on shittier hardware. Sims 4 doesn’t have an open world to the degree sims 3 does so it doesn’t have to process every sim walking around in the entire world and their unoptimized pathfinding at all times.
Perhaps now in the age of higher single core cpu clock speeds, maybe it’s not as bad.
Edit: a word
I thought the entire Sims system was releasing a new game and then dropping the same 50 DLC until the next one was ready to repeat the cycle. I guess they’ll just milk Sims 4 forever?
they’re probably still making ‘enough’ money off the addons and dlc for the current one (which itself is now free-to-play), that they don’t have to remake it again to resell remade addons and extras again…yet.
Wonder how this will affect Paralives. Less competition with this and Life By You gone, but possibly bigger expectations from disappointed fans?
I don’t think Paralives will even come close to the same scope of the Sims franchise and people looking for an alternative will find something much simpler, which is probably not what they were looking for since a lot of people were already disappointed by the Sims 4 and how dumbed down it was.
If they built a rich simulation, that could make it appear larger without the extra manpower behind it. It’ll be interesting to see no matter what, assuming it also doesn’t get canceled.
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The OG Sims was the only game in the franchise with soul
Someone could totally just take the early build that leaked and finish it. Shouldn’t be much to it, right?
Barely a framework for selling DLC, one would imagine
Why not make The Sim remastered ?
