Recently I read somewhere that it is officially acknowledged that sims 4 exists in a parallel universe. However I didnt find any more information on this subject and to be honest, I didnt even know that there is such as thing as a The Sims timeline! Anyway, I didnt find any official source that state such a thing.
Therefore, can you post an official link (from EA, for example) that states that the Sims 4 takes place in an alternate universe?
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Basically, them saying The Sims 4 is not in alignment to any the past iterations. Whatever lore, or events, that occurred to a certain pre-made family in the past game doesn't apply to that family, in the sims 4. The Sims 4 is for you to decide where you want the story to pick up from, or even if that's the story you want to tell at all. Tell a new story if you want.
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@MasonGamer That's disappointing because I have been playing one family lineage since the sims 3 and I wanted to continue the story of this family in sims 4 but now lore-wise that's not possible cuz the family in sims 3 belong to the original universe so they are not supposed to be in the alternate universe of sims 4.
It's totally possible! You can still bring over that family if you so desire, and should you choose to pick up the story where you left off. heck you could even Start from the very beginning of their family history, and rewrite history. What is, and is not possible, it all depends on the player how they want to go play it out. The Sims 4 is more like an Omniverse, It exists in all times, a sim's past, present, and future, it could even exist simultaneously.
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Like seriously they just got lazy. Incredibly lazy. They took some households that were popular, recreated their likeness in Sims 4, and tossed them in. That’s it. It would have taken maybe 20 minutes to research the backstories Maxis created themselves for these characters, but that was too much work so an “alternate universe” is what they went with that allowed them to shatter the established timeline for absolutely no reason. I guess there was a reason, mismanagement, but they don’t like to call it that. They call it, doing things differently.
Then how do you explain to fans that Bella Goth is the same age as Nancy Landgraab, who was a child in Sims 3? Or that Holly Alto changed from a white woman to a black woman? Or that N-ighat Caliente was replaced with Katrina Caliente in Sims 4?
There's nothing to explain to fans, as nothing is stopping you from editing or re-creating the characters to fit whatever timeline you want. TS3 was a prequel to TS2, TS4 is just it's own thing.
Also, I feel like their stories help to clarify why a neighborhood/world is the way it is. Those stories give a place like "Pleasantview" a rich past.
I don‘t wanna have to edit the Sims every time I start a new save
The fact that Sims 1, Sims 2 and Sims 3 all have a timeline that matches up, while Sims 4 doesn‘t just shows how it‘s a rushed game. They needed to quickly turn that multiplayer mess called Olympus into money, without paying attention to details.
My post summed it up. They don’t care about the series timeline and disregarded the backstories for each character when choosing which popular ones to toss into the game. It’s easy for them to name after a popular character but that’s about as much depth as the idea gets. They forget Sims Wiki exists, or just didn’t care to put in the work of googling and reading.