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If something new is shown at EA Play regarding The Sims Franchise, what do you think it will be?
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If something new is shown at EA Play regarding The Sims Franchise, what will it be?
Seasons or The Sims 5? I would like either, though The Sims 5 with a release date of 2020 or 2021 would be good.
Seasons or The Sims 5? I would like either, though The Sims 5 with a release date of 2020 or 2021 would be good.
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http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/924539/features-that-needs-depth-and-ways-to-improve
Hmm, maybe best to wait until 2019 then.
Many simmers just don’t believe that because they think that TS4 still is missing all the “usual” EPs now that EA has replaced them with GPs and SPs instead. Beside that those simmers haven’t yet understood that it never was EA’s intention to just let TS4 become a new version of TS2 or TS3! Instead it always has been EA’s plan to let TS4 become a new and very different Sims game.
So EA planned to let TS4 even become a Sims game without toddlers and also without all the “traditional” EPs. It should be a new game and simmers who preferred the old style were expected to just still play TS3.
Later EA decided to release toddlers anyway though because the sales numbers for TS4 had been disappointing. So has EA also changed the plan about not releasing EPs like Seasons or University? I don’t know. But EA still mainly wants to release SPs and GPs because their low prices make them sell better and because they are much cheaper for EA to make. Also I am quite sure that EA wants the GPs to have mainly new content instead of becoming reduced versions of traditional EPs. But anyway all the traditional reasons why EA wants a new basegame to be released every 5 years are still clearly valid (mainly an old basegame not appealing to new simmers, new packs for an old basegame selling less and less and EA being unable to discount old packs without hurting the sales numbers for new packs). So unless EA really wants to stop the whole series soon I can’t see why EA shouldn’t announce TS5 in the middle of 2018 and release it about 15 months later as usual?
They’ve never announced an EP at EAPlay before, and you’d think Cats & Dogs would have been the first, if they were to ever do so.
No I don’t think it will be a pack announcement, it’s either a teaser for TS5, or nothing. No EP is big enough or important enough to break the trend of ‘no announcement at EAPlay.’
The topic says if there is something new is shown, so It is just my wishful thinking
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/924539/features-that-needs-depth-and-ways-to-improve
Well Parenthood came out May of last year, around 4 months after Vampires, so I could see another GP releasing 4-5 months after JA, perfect timing for the Summer content drought!
So instead EA always pushes new games out as fast as possible. Studios get closed when they don’t earn enough money anymore and top executives get fired if they can’t tell about a lot of new game releases. That is just the kind of company EA is.
So assuming that EA now just will cash in on TS4 by releasing SPs for several additional years in spite of the sales numbers going down is contradictory to EA’s whole way of doing things. EA’s top can’t impress the stock holders just by telling them that even though TS4 isn’t the best selling Sims game ever they will just let the developers make more and more SPs until they don’t sell at all anymore. They need instead to talk about a new fantastic Sims basegame to be released soon and with a good chance of getting even better sales numbers for both the basegame and the packs than ever before.
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Is it a new Makin’ Magic EP like the one in TS1?
Is it the private school and the neighborhood stories from TS2?
Is it the open world and the Into the Future EP from TS3?
The problem here is that I am quite sure that EA considered the game to be “finished” already with the basegame and that for EA everything else since the basegame release are just “extras” which are released while we wait for the next big Sims game to be released. So EA will probably as usual just go on releasing extra content for TS4 until a couple of months before TS5 is released and also make an extra pack above that if TS5’s release for some reason should have to be postponed.
Maybe they will announce an ep, it could mean two eps this year which I would love to see happen.
My dream situation is an early ep this year, I suspect it has to do with their mobile game though.
If its ts5 I'm neutral.
Maybe they could give a sneak peak at The Sims 5. (which would be kind of a dumb marketing move tho)
Eg. they had a hands on for Cool Kitchen, Backyard and Toddler stuff, even though they weren't out till July or later.
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