Since it's still close enough to a new year, I will make a prediction like a physic psychic (lol) Yes, you get an EP this year, but it will be earlier than the normal fall releases so far, because I predict it's the last one and this game ends this fall. That is my prediction, now, let's wait to see if my crystal ball is wonked or shining clearly.
Why would they end now? You forget they just started up consoles that use our pc versions and adapt to console versions using only the newest consoles that some players may have bought just to play this game - add to that the mobile Sims 4 is not even released yet to the general public and still in test stage - which also uses our pc games to make packs for - oh and I also heard it is being groomed to work with mobile devices and phones not even released yet. Keep in mind - they (EA), had said over a year and a half ago there would be no console or mobile version - we had heard it was due to poorish sales of Sims 4 - and then all of a sudden sells started picking up. Not only picked up but went through the roof - even before toddlers and Vamps came out. Never mind sells amped when toddlers and Vamps came out.
I follow the stock market as my family invest in a lot of Technology stocks including EA - and saw it happening, never mind EA deciding to invest in not one but two new studios - one to do with the newest coming consoles and the other that covered the newest coming mobile devices - with The Sims 4 as one of the main focuses for both these devices and these studios. Not only working with them or making them just partners, but building them new studios, hiring them even more personnel as well as hiring key - highly experienced well known people in our Maxis offices in both Mobile and console for Sims 4. The investment was huge - the personnel hired for the big. big bucks - and you really think this is the last year for Sims 4? Really?
Believe me EA is not making this huge investment - and I do mean huge - just to end a game they are still building up for what looks like the long haul. Every interview the CEO tells a majorly different story, never mind the big investors approve of these moves to expand the game - not end it. Do you think for a minute these top investors (keep in mind these investors are huge names - the biggest in the stock market) would even allow all this money to go down the drain and this game suddenly stop? If you believe that - you know nothing about investors and the stock market. The way it works is if the stock investors are happy - the company is happy - and that is number 1. No matter what all the former games did it becomes a big rule changer when the biggest names in Wall Street are investing in your company and approve of the moves your company is doing.
The more devices they connect to - the more customers that game gets. More customers, more sells. The happier the investor.
Do you really think they could just cut off the main game that all the devices depend on to further their games - especially one that just started in November and the other not even released yet? I don't. Every thing to me points in the direction about longer shelf life Andrew has talked about for the past year. All this tells me it is not over by a long shot now that other devices depend on our pc game to make their games. Keep in mind in the past Sims games mobile and console started shortly after the pc game came out. Also EA just partnered with those companies - not invested in them and definitely did not buy them out and build them new studios - never mind implant people at Maxis for those studios like they are doing now.
Both studios use new methods for turning the pc version of the game into mobile and console versions - seems to me EA bought them to own these new ways. Unlike previous mobile and console that had teams making their games which was often very different than the pc version - which did not always make players very happy - as they wanted what we have. Now they have it. Our versions are necessary this go round for their versions to be made. EA invested big time this go round inadvertently making our game more necessary than ever. Logically I cannot for a minute see why or even how they would even consider this year being the end of Sims 4 when it has just started and about to start for other devices that need us unlike any other Sims game previously. Logic tells me that will not happen. It is illogical if it did happen.
Why would they end it now? They aren't are they? I said my crystal ball is fuzzy, but I predict it does end in 2018 and may even get lucky for one more pack early in 2019, but c'mon, it's not TS3, they have to pull the plug sooner or later. And why not this year? If they release an Adventure pack (vacation) and a weather pack no sense in trying to add cars, or colleges, college can be handled over a pc in the home these days, and I think they would go that direction since they like to over use the pc for everything in TS4.
Console version will probably be more profitable than TS4 PC version, it's what I see, I said let's wait and see. New stuff on the horizon, and not all about TS4.
You're right, its not TS3 so people like you should quit pretending its going to follow even close to the same time line they already said its going to be a "living game" and as such last longer than previous ones. They are going to milk it for as long as humanly possible and you'll probably still be saying "this is the last year" three years from now. People dont seem to actually listen when companies tell you their plans. They just hear what they want to hear and get angry or disappointed when their fantasy world isnt reality
Really I'm not ready for TS4 to end. It has some of the prettiest and bestlooking sims then any other iteration had. TS3 sims in my opinion were ugly.
Since it's still close enough to a new year, I will make a prediction like a physic psychic (lol) Yes, you get an EP this year, but it will be earlier than the normal fall releases so far, because I predict it's the last one and this game ends this fall. That is my prediction, now, let's wait to see if my crystal ball is wonked or shining clearly.
Why would they end now? You forget they just started up consoles that use our pc versions and adapt to console versions using only the newest consoles that some players may have bought just to play this game - add to that the mobile Sims 4 is not even released yet to the general public and still in test stage - which also uses our pc games to make packs for - oh and I also heard it is being groomed to work with mobile devices and phones not even released yet. Keep in mind - they (EA), had said over a year and a half ago there would be no console or mobile version - we had heard it was due to poorish sales of Sims 4 - and then all of a sudden sells started picking up. Not only picked up but went through the roof - even before toddlers and Vamps came out. Never mind sells amped when toddlers and Vamps came out.
I follow the stock market as my family invest in a lot of Technology stocks including EA - and saw it happening, never mind EA deciding to invest in not one but two new studios - one to do with the newest coming consoles and the other that covered the newest coming mobile devices - with The Sims 4 as one of the main focuses for both these devices and these studios. Not only working with them or making them just partners, but building them new studios, hiring them even more personnel as well as hiring key - highly experienced well known people in our Maxis offices in both Mobile and console for Sims 4. The investment was huge - the personnel hired for the big. big bucks - and you really think this is the last year for Sims 4? Really?
Believe me EA is not making this huge investment - and I do mean huge - just to end a game they are still building up for what looks like the long haul. Every interview the CEO tells a majorly different story, never mind the big investors approve of these moves to expand the game - not end it. Do you think for a minute these top investors (keep in mind these investors are huge names - the biggest in the stock market) would even allow all this money to go down the drain and this game suddenly stop? If you believe that - you know nothing about investors and the stock market. The way it works is if the stock investors are happy - the company is happy - and that is number 1. No matter what all the former games did it becomes a big rule changer when the biggest names in Wall Street are investing in your company and approve of the moves your company is doing.
The more devices they connect to - the more customers that game gets. More customers, more sells. The happier the investor.
Do you really think they could just cut off the main game that all the devices depend on to further their games - especially one that just started in November and the other not even released yet? I don't. Every thing to me points in the direction about longer shelf life Andrew has talked about for the past year. All this tells me it is not over by a long shot now that other devices depend on our pc game to make their games. Keep in mind in the past Sims games mobile and console started shortly after the pc game came out. Also EA just partnered with those companies - not invested in them and definitely did not buy them out and build them new studios - never mind implant people at Maxis for those studios like they are doing now.
Both studios use new methods for turning the pc version of the game into mobile and console versions - seems to me EA bought them to own these new ways. Unlike previous mobile and console that had teams making their games which was often very different than the pc version - which did not always make players very happy - as they wanted what we have. Now they have it. Our versions are necessary this go round for their versions to be made. EA invested big time this go round inadvertently making our game more necessary than ever. Logically I cannot for a minute see why or even how they would even consider this year being the end of Sims 4 when it has just started and about to start for other devices that need us unlike any other Sims game previously. Logic tells me that will not happen. It is illogical if it did happen.
Why would they end it now? They aren't are they? I said my crystal ball is fuzzy, but I predict it does end in 2018 and may even get lucky for one more pack early in 2019, but c'mon, it's not TS3, they have to pull the plug sooner or later. And why not this year? If they release an Adventure pack (vacation) and a weather pack no sense in trying to add cars, or colleges, college can be handled over a pc in the home these days, and I think they would go that direction since they like to over use the pc for everything in TS4.
Console version will probably be more profitable than TS4 PC version, it's what I see, I said let's wait and see. New stuff on the horizon, and not all about TS4.
You're right, its not TS3 so people like you should quit pretending its going to follow even close to the same time line they already said its going to be a "living game" and as such last longer than previous ones. They are going to milk it for as long as humanly possible and you'll probably still be saying "this is the last year" three years from now. People dont seem to actually listen when companies tell you their plans. They just hear what they want to hear and get angry or disappointed when their fantasy world isnt reality
Really I'm not ready for TS4 to end. It has some of the prettiest and bestlooking sims then any other iteration had. TS3 sims in my opinion were ugly.
I completely agree about the art style. I also like the Sims 4 art style, but there is simply no denying (for me at least) that the quality and depth of the stuff they do release is severely lacking.
Games can be pretty to look at, but when gameplay and depth are severely missing, it's pretty much done deal.
This game could have been so much better if they only took the time and revamped a lot of the systems they introduced in Sims 4. I am not a fan of the bipolar emotion system. I would much rather have a wants/fears system like we had in Sims 2.
Sims have absolutely no personality. Traits are just an illusion. The illusion of giving your Sim a 'personality'. They do not affect gameplay apart from them experiencing some sort of emotion more often than other Sims without certain traits.
Multitasking; when good on paper, It still has its flaws. Why can Sims still not talk while fishing? Why can't sims communicate while bowling? I thought multi tasking was supposed to make this easier, not just completely get rid of that with some (social) activities.
Open world missing; Well, this is also a personal opinion, but I hate it. I feel extremely caged in TS4. I barely go off my home lot to do other stuff because of loading, loading, loading. To me it breaks the immersion of the game.
I would have been fine if they opened up the neighbourhoods, so we were able to visit lots near our lot without any loadingscreen or whatsoever. That would have been the perfect compromise to me: A closed world, but with open hoods.
But let's face the facts: It is too late for fundamental changes to the game. This game is what we get and what we're stuck with until TS5 maybe comes around and if they actually put enough time and effort and thought in that one.
Good points. I do not normally get involved in speculation and rumour' threads these days and only seldom lurk but what you have been saying is what others have said for the past few years now. Time is ticking on and TS4 will have to end at some point and when it does so it will still be 'incomplete'
No one knows what is coming yet but the chance of everything being added in over the next few years is not that high
Since it's still close enough to a new year, I will make a prediction like a physic psychic (lol) Yes, you get an EP this year, but it will be earlier than the normal fall releases so far, because I predict it's the last one and this game ends this fall. That is my prediction, now, let's wait to see if my crystal ball is wonked or shining clearly.
Why would they end now? You forget they just started up consoles that use our pc versions and adapt to console versions using only the newest consoles that some players may have bought just to play this game - add to that the mobile Sims 4 is not even released yet to the general public and still in test stage - which also uses our pc games to make packs for - oh and I also heard it is being groomed to work with mobile devices and phones not even released yet. Keep in mind - they (EA), had said over a year and a half ago there would be no console or mobile version - we had heard it was due to poorish sales of Sims 4 - and then all of a sudden sells started picking up. Not only picked up but went through the roof - even before toddlers and Vamps came out. Never mind sells amped when toddlers and Vamps came out.
I follow the stock market as my family invest in a lot of Technology stocks including EA - and saw it happening, never mind EA deciding to invest in not one but two new studios - one to do with the newest coming consoles and the other that covered the newest coming mobile devices - with The Sims 4 as one of the main focuses for both these devices and these studios. Not only working with them or making them just partners, but building them new studios, hiring them even more personnel as well as hiring key - highly experienced well known people in our Maxis offices in both Mobile and console for Sims 4. The investment was huge - the personnel hired for the big. big bucks - and you really think this is the last year for Sims 4? Really?
Believe me EA is not making this huge investment - and I do mean huge - just to end a game they are still building up for what looks like the long haul. Every interview the CEO tells a majorly different story, never mind the big investors approve of these moves to expand the game - not end it. Do you think for a minute these top investors (keep in mind these investors are huge names - the biggest in the stock market) would even allow all this money to go down the drain and this game suddenly stop? If you believe that - you know nothing about investors and the stock market. The way it works is if the stock investors are happy - the company is happy - and that is number 1. No matter what all the former games did it becomes a big rule changer when the biggest names in Wall Street are investing in your company and approve of the moves your company is doing.
The more devices they connect to - the more customers that game gets. More customers, more sells. The happier the investor.
Do you really think they could just cut off the main game that all the devices depend on to further their games - especially one that just started in November and the other not even released yet? I don't. Every thing to me points in the direction about longer shelf life Andrew has talked about for the past year. All this tells me it is not over by a long shot now that other devices depend on our pc game to make their games. Keep in mind in the past Sims games mobile and console started shortly after the pc game came out. Also EA just partnered with those companies - not invested in them and definitely did not buy them out and build them new studios - never mind implant people at Maxis for those studios like they are doing now.
Both studios use new methods for turning the pc version of the game into mobile and console versions - seems to me EA bought them to own these new ways. Unlike previous mobile and console that had teams making their games which was often very different than the pc version - which did not always make players very happy - as they wanted what we have. Now they have it. Our versions are necessary this go round for their versions to be made. EA invested big time this go round inadvertently making our game more necessary than ever. Logically I cannot for a minute see why or even how they would even consider this year being the end of Sims 4 when it has just started and about to start for other devices that need us unlike any other Sims game previously. Logic tells me that will not happen. It is illogical if it did happen.
Why would they end it now? They aren't are they? I said my crystal ball is fuzzy, but I predict it does end in 2018 and may even get lucky for one more pack early in 2019, but c'mon, it's not TS3, they have to pull the plug sooner or later. And why not this year? If they release an Adventure pack (vacation) and a weather pack no sense in trying to add cars, or colleges, college can be handled over a pc in the home these days, and I think they would go that direction since they like to over use the pc for everything in TS4.
Console version will probably be more profitable than TS4 PC version, it's what I see, I said let's wait and see. New stuff on the horizon, and not all about TS4.
You're right, its not TS3 so people like you should quit pretending its going to follow even close to the same time line they already said its going to be a "living game" and as such last longer than previous ones. They are going to milk it for as long as humanly possible and you'll probably still be saying "this is the last year" three years from now. People dont seem to actually listen when companies tell you their plans. They just hear what they want to hear and get angry or disappointed when their fantasy world isnt reality
Really I'm not ready for TS4 to end. It has some of the prettiest and bestlooking sims then any other iteration had. TS3 sims in my opinion were ugly.
Ugly TS3 Sims? Not seen any myself. I did try to make an ugly Sim once but even I failed doing that!
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Good points. I do not normally get involved in speculation and rumour' threads these days and only seldom lurk but what you have been saying is what others have said for the past few years now. Time is ticking on and TS4 will have to end at some point and when it does so it will still be 'incomplete'
No one knows what is coming yet but the chance of everything being added in over the next few years is not that high
Ugly TS3 Sims? Not seen any myself. I did try to make an ugly Sim once but even I failed doing that!