I made this essay earlier this week, and intended to turn it into a video essay in preparation for EA Play Live. Since they confirmed no new Sims content will be announced then, I decided to scrap the idea.
Obviously, my theory that they are announcing the game at EA Play Live is now rendered moot, but my evidence still stands to show the game is being worked on right now.
I just finished converting it into more of an academic essay with some visual receipts included in an Appendix, so if you want to see why I believe the Sims 5 is currently in development, here's a good 3,500 words of me explaining why.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P-JDZhVXSkZnp6BpWMh0lxUl8hCgRhVygrKM8V-dI-w/edit?usp=sharing
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I love your essay. Whether it will be true or not, I like how you form your sentences well (Coming from a non-english first language person hehe) and how use past events into forming the theory.
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/924539/features-that-needs-depth-and-ways-to-improve
Of course, that just makes the strong implication that the Sims 5 means to make good on that initial plan extremely disappointing (I mean, not having the direction change partway through has a chance to lead to a more solid product, but it also means it'll have been two games since we had a main Sims game that was built to be singleplayer from the beginning). When the Sims Online was new, I thought the concept was extremely fascinating. To some extent, I still do, but the drawbacks to such an experience far outweigh any enjoyment I get from them anymore. A mandatory multiplayer Sims experience will certainly have some really unique aspects to it, but it's also an entirely different animal.
Your timeline makes a lot of sense, and you may not even be entirely wrong about the announcement. For obvious reasons a lot of things have been disrupted this year, and this isn't the only place I've seen "for sure" announcements not end up happening after all.
What if it was sims 3 remastered 😮😮😮
Just a few months now. I hope when Jan. rolls around we see TS5 hints from Maxis or EA, like we saw with the TS4 eye thing. Even better if it was released in Feb. lol. Wishful thinking, since I have no idea if it's a multiplayer or an actual life simulator for the single players.