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Sims 4 being rebranded as "The Sims Life"?
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On the official EA website there is now a new unlisted page titled "The Sims Life"
https://www.ea.com/en-gb/games/the-sims/live-the-sims-life
The page url is listed as a game in the sims franchise, and is seemingly talking about 4 as it links to 4 at the bottom of the page. However, the weird thing is that they never call the game the Sims 4 once, it's only referred to as "The Sims Life". Through the whole page they only use the term the sims life, there's references to living the sims life throughout with the slogan "How will you live the sims life?". There's no mention of the sims 4 anywhere and it constantly references living the sims life as if that's the title of the game.
Then with this page there is 4 unlisted commercials, presumably also for the Sims 4, however again there's no mention of the Sims 4. Usually with commercials for the game the title would be "The Sims 4: -insert text-", however for these commercials the title on all of them is "The Sims Life: -insert text-"
There is absolutely no mention of 4 in any of these trailers, instead at the end of the trailers they call it the Sims life. Could The Sims 4 be rebranding?
The first of these trailers also came out on the 26th of November. Just one day before these came out SimGuruGraham talked about the future of the game and the article calls it "Less The Sims 5, more The Sims 4.5 ", they also said in this article "there needs to be more life in the life sim"...
https://www.ea.com/en-gb/games/the-sims/live-the-sims-life
The page url is listed as a game in the sims franchise, and is seemingly talking about 4 as it links to 4 at the bottom of the page. However, the weird thing is that they never call the game the Sims 4 once, it's only referred to as "The Sims Life". Through the whole page they only use the term the sims life, there's references to living the sims life throughout with the slogan "How will you live the sims life?". There's no mention of the sims 4 anywhere and it constantly references living the sims life as if that's the title of the game.
Then with this page there is 4 unlisted commercials, presumably also for the Sims 4, however again there's no mention of the Sims 4. Usually with commercials for the game the title would be "The Sims 4: -insert text-", however for these commercials the title on all of them is "The Sims Life: -insert text-"
There is absolutely no mention of 4 in any of these trailers, instead at the end of the trailers they call it the Sims life. Could The Sims 4 be rebranding?
The first of these trailers also came out on the 26th of November. Just one day before these came out SimGuruGraham talked about the future of the game and the article calls it "Less The Sims 5, more The Sims 4.5 ", they also said in this article "there needs to be more life in the life sim"...
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we also don't have spinoff for ts4 era yet unless we count mobile soooo....
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and when you click on the platform it still goes to sims 4, so it's either sims 4 rebranding or a sims 4 add on/spin off
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Possibly, but the only game that's linked to the videos and this article is Sims 4, on the "How would you like to play" at the bottom of the page it only gives the option of pc or console. Even more confusing is that it says it as if it's dlc.
Me too! It's literally the only thing that made me think 'oohh! Yeah, I want that! The Sims needs more of that.'
The have to do that in the disclaimer to keep the legal departments happy. SimsVIP even has an article confirming it is just a marketing campaign for the franchise as a whole.
If the base game was more solid i wouldnt mind if they kept adding dlc forever but its not like that for me.
Personality,depth,humor,consequences,lore,customization.
the franchise as a whole? i mean maybe, but it says that requires sims 4 which would be ts4 marketing and if it's a campaign to promote the sims 4 isn't a bit obvious to say that requires the sims 4 to play? lmao but whatever the law says. also ts4 mermaids are from island living meaning it would require sims 4 and also island living, same with the cats ad
To answer the OP from my understanding I think it's a rebranding. They didn't call it the sims 4.5 for nothing. Sure they list all their games because they would be happy if someone brought something regardless of which part. But the sims 4.5 is the main attraction because it's still going. And they said there is much planned for it.
I think the page is advertising the Sims franchise as a whole. The disclaimer doesn't relate to the video ads specifically. The videos all say something like "not all images appear in game."
This disclaimer is more likely about the text "How would you like to play?" and the links in that section to places where the Sims 4 can be purchased. I think it's just a standard legal disclaimer and just copied/pasted from their expansion/game/stuff pack pages, which is why it doesn't seem to make sense.
See - here is the exact same text and links and disclaimer on
yeah it's probably just marketing for ts4. but ea should stop doing these useless ads & instead give that budget to devs.
I know they're Sims 4 packs. My point is that they used a template/just copied and pasted that section over into this new page, changed the links, and left the disclaimer the same. They forgot to make the disclaimer make sense when the link is to the base game and not an expansion/game/stuff pack. That's all.
I think these ads may work too. They target a new audience that might be curious about the game.