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2020 should be the perfect year for TS5 because...
king_of_simcity7
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It would have been 20 years since the original was released
30 years since the first Sim City
15 years since TS2 University & Hot Date
10 years since TS3 Ambitions and Late Night,
25 years since Sim Town
and obviously 5 years since what ever TS4 got in 2015
Lets keep the first year or the decade date important in The Sims!
I mean imagine how cool an awesome TS5 would be to have out celebrating 20 years of The Sims!
30 years since the first Sim City
15 years since TS2 University & Hot Date
10 years since TS3 Ambitions and Late Night,
25 years since Sim Town
and obviously 5 years since what ever TS4 got in 2015
Lets keep the first year or the decade date important in The Sims!
I mean imagine how cool an awesome TS5 would be to have out celebrating 20 years of The Sims!
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My mistake it is older tan I thought
Grant says 3 more years of Content For The Sims 4. Sims 5 won't happen in 2020.
3 more years of disappointment then
Wonderful!
What makes you think Sims 5 would be better?
For all we know, we might be begging for the Sims to be able to die, or for a build mode, or Open World again, for the Cooking Skill, Books, or the Ability to make ugly Sims.
Just wanting Sims 5 assuming they will include everything TS4 doesn't have while keeping everything it does have/does a good or at least decent job at, that is just foolish and naive. If you don't like Sims 4, don't play it, leave it alone and go back to 3 or 2.
I assume they know exactly what the fans are unhappy about. Perhaps better than they themselves.
A different studio would actually learn from that and try to do better next time. But EA and Activision... Well... Expect things to get worse, not better, be happy for what you have, and be ready for microtransactions and full price mini DLCs. Complaining makes them think how to hide the issues or distract from them with as little effort as possible, not actually solving it.
There are companies that actually care for their Players and genuinely try to be transparent, improve their games and make the players happy. Not always successful, but at least they try, and you can see that they try.
Race Against the Clock: Can your elder sim turn back the clock before their time runs out?
At least 3 more years. IIRC, what he said was that that's what's currently planned. That could be a rolling 3-year plan that keeps being renewed and extended as each pack gets to another stage.
I mean, I get that there are people who don't like Sims 4. But I really think that with the structure of Sims 4, with ongoing engineering work on it, and with what we've been told, there's no hint of an end being approached. We could be in an era of Sims that simply isn't following the model we had before now. Honestly, if I didn't like Sims 4 and wasn't happy with my older Sims games and hearing what I'm hearing? I don't think I'd be putting much mental and emotional effort into Sims at all now, including anticipating a new version. I'd just be turning elsewhere for my entertainment. But that's obviously about me not other people. To each their own. I just think that any speculation about a Sims 5 within not just 3 years but even 5 is probably way off base.
Best for whom?? For all the people happily buying new Sims 4 packs? The game is doing well. Packs and upgrades this year have been received enthusiastically. Maybe it's not Maxis that needs to shift focus to move forward.
But did Maxis need to move forward from TS3 or even TS2 and the original?
I can't speak for TS2 -- I wasn't paying much attention to forums etc. during that -- but it's pretty well known that TS3 was hitting technical barriers for a lot of players near the end (myself included). Those barriers could have meant that the remaining players wouldn't be enough to support development longer. Perhaps that was foreseen early on. TS4 seems to have been designed to balance what's loaded quite differently, and we've seen few players who meet specs unable to play; by contrast, I met recommended specs (not minimum) for TS3 and it killed off a computer part on a desktop.
Probably killed off your videocard(?) cause there was no Vsync Option on the Sims 3 and a lot of cards fried because of the high framerates.
TS4 is selling great and not only on Pc but on The Consoles as well. In fact SimGuruLegacy and Duke says any pack that releases to PC is going to hit the Consoles. With the Sims 4 doing well on both Console and PC this may be the reason they want to go another 3 years.
Also the Sims 4 is Live Service and for the most part we get monthly updates and new content added to the base game. Live Service is another reason they can go 3 more years or more on TS4.
They seem happy to buy more and more but if you look around and really look around they don't seem all that happy once they play a pack. I think the forums show the truth about the packs where as there is more happy and hype on Youtube and Twitter, but the forums sort of reflect the true feelings of what people think after they play one. There are hundreds of complaints about this last pack. There are hundreds of complaints about bugs in the game, three more years+ of that, isn't going to help this game or it's reputation. They keep buying hoping the next new thing will cure it all, but it won't.
For Get Famous would that be 100 different people with 100 different complaints or 100 people with the same 4 or 5 complaints? Because we want to make sure all issues are being reported.
I can name a dozen problems or bugs with that pack off the top of my head, then let's pile on all the bugs or badly designed objects for the last four years. It's growning by the seconds. I agree not many people actually go over to the Answer site to report bugs, but they have complained here. If five people have the same problem then of course it's a real problem. But if ten others have a different problem it may be the one that gets looked at and the five other people's bugs never get fixed. I can name ten bugs right now that have been around for years. But it seems no one ever reported them or they fell to the wayside, or just over looked, especially if you keep adding more and more with every pack. Not all people see all bugs because they may never even play a part of the game, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be fixed. It's four years later, I know I keep saying that, but what I see is a half finished game, needing more content to fill it up to the par of older games, and fifty different bugs that never get solved. Or more.
So 100 Get Famous bugs have now turned into a dozen. Gotcha.
Vlad The Dad: A 100 Baby Challenge, Vlad as ‘matriarch’ *COMPLETE*
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What worries me is that after four years the game is still unfinished. Not because it hasn't received all the intended EPs yet but because there are still features that appeared in the base game of TS1 that have not yet been included. Cars for instance, still not here. Not even as a car pool. Is there any word on cars? Any reason why they have not been added yet? My guess is they are not possible or would have no purpose so they continue to be omitted.
That to me is unfinished