When I think of multiplayer and sims, I think of Second Life so I hope TS5 won't be multiplayer.
I'm hoping TS5 will go back to focusing on the sims themselves. I think TS4 does a good job of trying to combine elements of both TS3 (decent looking world, content and collectible rich, extensive world/object gameplay) and TS2 (decent looking sims), but I hope TS5 will draw in more of the sims quirkiness and interactions from TS1 and TS2. I also hope that TS5 will give us back the TS2 hood creation capabilities (or at least provide blank slate options for us, so that players who prefer the new prefab hoods can continue to enjoy them)
I also hope they give sims 4 a couple more years for more content and game play before they start up TS5. I don't want to start over with a shell of a base game.
Meh I prefer offline but if its online I won't be too bothered!
Geh... I didn't think about that! If it's all online and we don't have California data privacy laws passed at the federal level, I'll definitely be bothered An offline mode is a must for me to buy the next iteration.
I was thinking about how The Sims 5 can combine both social interactions and the online world together. Since EA isn't going to do an MMO like The Sims Online, they could make the game like IMVU, 3D with profiles, rooms, and other stuff. Just a suggestion.
IMVU and Second Life are not GAMES. They are virtual chat rooms that you create an avatar to represent you or the persona you want to portray.
How would you have kids or toddlers or babies? IMVU and Second Life have no AI, anything that happens is controlled by a player on the other end of that avatar.
I personally would NEVER "buy" a game that was nothing more than a chat room with an avatar representing me. Where is the gameplay in that?
I used to log into Second Life for over 9 years, I can assure you it is NOT a life simulator nor is it a game. People do roleplay families but in order to do that, a RL person has to use a child or toddler avatar and pretend they are a toddler or child, and when those people in those child or toddler avatars go "out of character" and get flirty with another avatar or say suggestive or nasty things in chat, it is just sickening, creepy, and disgusting.
Second Life has escorts and people pay game money (which is bought with RL money) to watch these escort avatars strip or do sexual things with that person's avatar.
There is not point to it other than to socialize. That is not The Sims!
Second Life has escorts and people pay game money (which is bought with RL money) to watch these escort avatars strip or do sexual things with that person's avatar.
There is not point to it other than to socialize. That is not The Sims!
That happened in The Sims Online too. I REALLY don't want online gaming for TS5.
I was thinking about how The Sims 5 can combine both social interactions and the online world together. Since EA isn't going to do an MMO like The Sims Online, they could make the game like IMVU, 3D with profiles, rooms, and other stuff. Just a suggestion.
Noooooo IMVU was my first exposure to the "unsafe" parts of the internet as a teen. I learned quickly not everyone was there to play the games, dress their avatar, and decorate a room. I personally wouldn't buy Sims 5 if it had any type of online features outside of the gallery. I do not play the Sims to interact with other real people. My sisters also play the Sims and I never had the urge to play on their file or interact with their sims in game, heck once my sister's sim ended up in my world and I deleted it. We can not forget the safety concerns, I started playing Sims at 13, my siblings younger. How many parents would buy the game not realizing there is an online feature? How many kids would be roped into "woohooing" with complete strangers? This is my major worry, but then we have the issues that come with others being able to enter your world and change up things that you put your time and energy into. I'd hate to log off then log back in to my town in ruins because some troll took it upon their selves to destroy everything I built.
Why not just play IMVU, then? Sorry to rain on your parade, OP, but that's a terrible idea. I play Sims to control other little people ad live vicariously through them. If I wanted a social game I'd play the various other social games we already have. If you haven't heard of the Sims online... well, there's a reason.
Sims should continue to be single player. But if they wanted to have an online world you could enter with other players, that could be interesting. But then you get into having to create instances, and shard maintenance. And that would just be a mess imo.
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I'm hoping TS5 will go back to focusing on the sims themselves. I think TS4 does a good job of trying to combine elements of both TS3 (decent looking world, content and collectible rich, extensive world/object gameplay) and TS2 (decent looking sims), but I hope TS5 will draw in more of the sims quirkiness and interactions from TS1 and TS2. I also hope that TS5 will give us back the TS2 hood creation capabilities (or at least provide blank slate options for us, so that players who prefer the new prefab hoods can continue to enjoy them)
I also hope they give sims 4 a couple more years for more content and game play before they start up TS5. I don't want to start over with a shell of a base game.
Geh... I didn't think about that! If it's all online and we don't have California data privacy laws passed at the federal level, I'll definitely be bothered
IMVU and Second Life are not GAMES. They are virtual chat rooms that you create an avatar to represent you or the persona you want to portray.
How would you have kids or toddlers or babies? IMVU and Second Life have no AI, anything that happens is controlled by a player on the other end of that avatar.
I personally would NEVER "buy" a game that was nothing more than a chat room with an avatar representing me. Where is the gameplay in that?
I used to log into Second Life for over 9 years, I can assure you it is NOT a life simulator nor is it a game. People do roleplay families but in order to do that, a RL person has to use a child or toddler avatar and pretend they are a toddler or child, and when those people in those child or toddler avatars go "out of character" and get flirty with another avatar or say suggestive or nasty things in chat, it is just sickening, creepy, and disgusting.
Second Life has escorts and people pay game money (which is bought with RL money) to watch these escort avatars strip or do sexual things with that person's avatar.
There is not point to it other than to socialize. That is not The Sims!
That happened in The Sims Online too. I REALLY don't want online gaming for TS5.
Noooooo IMVU was my first exposure to the "unsafe" parts of the internet as a teen. I learned quickly not everyone was there to play the games, dress their avatar, and decorate a room. I personally wouldn't buy Sims 5 if it had any type of online features outside of the gallery. I do not play the Sims to interact with other real people. My sisters also play the Sims and I never had the urge to play on their file or interact with their sims in game, heck once my sister's sim ended up in my world and I deleted it. We can not forget the safety concerns, I started playing Sims at 13, my siblings younger. How many parents would buy the game not realizing there is an online feature? How many kids would be roped into "woohooing" with complete strangers? This is my major worry, but then we have the issues that come with others being able to enter your world and change up things that you put your time and energy into. I'd hate to log off then log back in to my town in ruins because some troll took it upon their selves to destroy everything I built.