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This. A multiplayer Sims game would be a PG version of Second Life. The thing is that the only reason why SL can keep itself afloat is because of the adult content (virtual sex, prostitution, selling realistic looking genitalia for avatars etc). They got rid Teen Second Life years ago because it just wasn‘t profitable as they were barred from the content mentioned above.
Trying to put that in the game itself would kill any desire for me to ever play it again stone dead.
Shake dreams from your hair
My pretty child, my sweet one.
Choose the day and choose the sign of your day
The day's divinity....
The Ghost Song - Jim Morrison
Co-op is fine, as long as it's thoroughly optional. Sometimes games have co-ops modes, where friends can play together, that kind of thing, but it's not at all required to play the game.
MMO means designing it as an online game from the start and and designing everything around multiplayer interaction. I don't think that fits with the sims. One of the big things people do is tell stories, which you can't really do if pinecone_lulz95 is jumping around and spamming emotes in your face.
I love playing The Sims because it's NOT multiplayer. My experiences with multiplayer games have mostly been terrible, and I hate how EA does force it down my throat. If I want that PS4 platinum trophy for the latest Need For Speed game, I have no choice but to participate in online races.
If TS5 is multiplayer, I'm outta here.
I don't know about that. I'm sure there are some mods out there that will allow for all that and more in this game too. The only thing is that we don't have to see it to know that's what they have created or what others have downloaded as custom content. I am finding too that more and more Second Life is making all the adult content far more mainstream. I can handle a bit of it, but it's just becoming too prevalent that I don't know how much longer I will log in there. I am not looking to hook up and make it a virtual "dating" site. I log in there now only because I work for an inworld magazine and have an obligation to it.
This is how I feel too. I simply do not like multiplayer games overall, and I certainly do not want it in a game I like.
> Simporting just sends the player's sim to another player's game just to perform. The owner of that sim can't see what is going on in the hosting world unless that person takes pictures of the performing sim and shares those pictures with the creator of the sim providing that the sim shows up for their scheduled performance. I have accepted other players sims into my game for their performances only to not be able to see them even though the player still gets their credit for it in their game. But the problem with this was that EA had created extra content such as clothing and props for the game that can only be unlocked when the people who use Simporting reaches different milestones in the game. But luckily enough someone had created a mod that allows some of the TS3 players who don't/didn't want to use simporting as some players play offline to reduce lagging in their game.
> https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Simport
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> This video here can show you what simporting is.
> https://youtu.be/T_eE9PzsAcA
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> Absolutely not for me. I'm fine with just downloading other players created Sims into my game when I chose to do so which isn't that often and then taking pictures of them when I see them around town and when my SS interacts with them. Even though I do have The Sims 4 Base Game, I still play TS3 a lot, so therefore I have downloaded some of my simming friends simselves into my game just to see what adventures that they get into in my game.
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> I already play an MMO game which is World of Warcraft, so I pay a monthly subscription for that game as that money goes towards daily server maintenance as well as other things. There are times when the server that I play in can be very full which in turn keeps any players out until other players log out which can be quite annoying. I doesn't happen that much but when it does, it only last for a few minutes before the game logs me in. So now just think about this happening in an MMO version of the sims game and how people would feel if they're not able to get into the game. Heck when Sim City came out in 2013, this is what happened because so many people wanted to play but couldn't. It took EA a year to add the single-player mode for those who didn't want to go online but sadly EA hasn't created more for Sim City.
> https://www.polygon.com/2016/5/20/11722342/simcity-launch-ea-maxis-ocean-quigley
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> Since I do play an MMO game, I do see that these types of games do attract some people that are creeps and the such as well as foul-mouth players as well as rude players also. And when I mean rude, they can get quite rude when another player ask a question something about the game such as "Where is the portal to the Undercity?" and such things like this and when other players respond to the question, it's not to tell them where the portal is, it's to tell them to go and do a Google search on it which to me is just plain rude because things in the game have changed over the years so when googling something, it brings up older locations and such. So to me, it's easier to be a nice person and tell the player where things are instead of being rude and telling them to look it up themselves.
I could not agree more. I also play World of Warcraft. It's a great game. The only downside are some of the idiots who play it. You can filter profanity out of chat logs, but not words like "tard". I hate mean people. They ruin the fun of a game I am paying a monthly fee for. One game I've also played that is fun is Red Dead Redemption. When you log on to that game you have the option to play alone in your game, or select the MMO option. Not sure if EA can do this, but having the option would be really nice. I always played Red Dead alone because I wasn't great at it. So, to summarize, I think turning Sims into an MMO should be left up to the player. I would want the option to select how I choose to play the game.
If TS4 is multiplayer I'll jump ship completely and wait for Paralives, which is confirmed to be single player.