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[Prediction Time] How many EPs will TS4 have at the end of its life span?
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Vote here: http://www.strawpoll.me/13145090
As we all know, TS1 has 7 EPs, TS2 has 8 EPs, and TS3 has 11 EPs. How many EPs do you think TS4 will have by the end of its life span?
The lowest voting option is 4 EPs because we have indirect confirmation that at least one EP is in the works (due to Gurus who say they work on EPs after the release of City Living).
I'll post a new thread here when we have the confirmation of TS4's final EP with a link to this thread to see who got it right
As we all know, TS1 has 7 EPs, TS2 has 8 EPs, and TS3 has 11 EPs. How many EPs do you think TS4 will have by the end of its life span?
The lowest voting option is 4 EPs because we have indirect confirmation that at least one EP is in the works (due to Gurus who say they work on EPs after the release of City Living).
I'll post a new thread here when we have the confirmation of TS4's final EP with a link to this thread to see who got it right
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Currently, we're at the 2 year and 9 month mark in Sims 4's development. If you go back and look at what Sims 3 accomplished in this time, it had 6 expansions and 5 Stuff Packs. By the end of development, Sims 3 had 11 Expansions and 9 Stuff Packs. At this exact moment in development time, Sims 3 had more-or-less released exactly half of it's content.
If you assume the same for Sims 4, then you can assume we'd get 6 EPs, 10 GPs, and 22 SPs.
As expected by whom?
In TS1 days simmers dreamt about TS1 getting new EPs for at least 10 yrs - and many were quite angry when TS2 was announced.
Then dreaming simmers thought that TS2 was the final version of the game and therefore would get new EPs for at least 10 yrs. So they were very disappointed when TS3 was announced.
Then the same story was repeated about TS3 and once again we saw the same big disappointment when TS4 was announced. Now the dreaming simmers want TS4 to get expansions until 2025 and TS5 not to be released before that. So the same story just continue and usually is repeated every 5 yrs
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It was maybe over a year ago that they said "Sims 4 won't neccesarily have the same lifespan of the others, we'll make packs as long as it makes sense to do so." Back then, the thing was they probably had no concrete plans about how long production should continue.
By the time Pets releases...? That'll be 3 years and 2 months into development. I would expect they would have some idea of if they'll be continuing this project beyond 2019 or not by then. If they do plan for production to go on longer? They'd likely tell us, because it's beneficial to do so. It encourages unsatisfied buyers to stick around and be patient and eventually Sims 4 will get all they want. If they keep their mouths shut...? Yeah, we're probably getting the same ~4 year routine.
My stance is that until we're provided with a reason why Sims 4 would be beneficial to cling onto longer, they probably won't cling onto it longer.
Sims 4 won't last forever, no matter what they alluded to a few years ago. I give it 2-3 years tops and then I see EA moving on with another Sims title. Hopefully they learned some valuable lessons with S4 and make the next one a little less reductive and limiting.
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1. There's no evidence that suggests that sims 5 is in the works or that there's even going to be a sims 5. Less so that it's coming out in 2019. Saying that "everyone expects it to come out in 2019" is simply wrong.
2. Sims 4 is very different from Sims 2 and 3 in its format. Sims 4 is a live service. We get patches every month. So if the games functionality/tools/engine needs to be updated, they can update it fairly easily. It was not the case with Sims 2 and 3. Sims 3 was patched... what? Once or twice a year? This change of format from sims 3 to sims 4 implies that this iteration is meant to be on the market longer than its predecessors.
'is a live service'...Nah, it is a repair service. Adding and fixing the stuff that we deserved from the beginning.
WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?
No and there was no evidence that the Sims 4 was in the works until it was announced in May 2013. Nevertheless it was released a year later in September 2014. Similar things could be said about the earlier big Sims games and nobody knew that the Sims Mobile was in the works until it suddenly was released in Brazil. I therefore also don't expect any information about the Sims 5 to be in the works until it will be announced which most likely will happen in the middle of or late in 2018. The patches are now released more offen because the game is connected to Origin and because EA was inspired by the mobile games which often get updates about once a month. But this doesn't make TS4 into a mobile MMO game or some different type of Sims game because it is still just an offline singleplayer game that gets a huge number of paid expansions to increase EA's profit. I don't expect this to change for TS5 either (even though I can't guess what EA plans to be the new big thing in TS5 - we will just have to wait to see).
Yes there was. An EA employee tweeted about starting working on TS4 in April, 2010. The info was widely publicized in the community.
http://beyondsims.com/14622/sims-4-in-production-and-a-note-to-those-in-the-community/
It was fairly obvious for anyone looking at their job openings. They were hiring for an unnannounced mobile game of the Sims franchise for a long time.
That sounds about right.
The tweet explicitly said "Sims 4"
Lol. Sims medieval was not made in 1 year. It takes a bit longer than that to make a game from scratch. And the tweet said "starting to work", which means the development just started at that time.
Read it again. My link included the screenshot of the tweet, and it explicitly says "Sims 4"