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If the sims 5 is free, the sims 4 content continuing?
Bren91
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I believe since the sims 5 is going to be free to play, I believe their will still be the sims 4 content rolling out for like a year after the sims 5 release, or at least 6 months after the sims 5 releases. Why do I speculate this? Because if the sims 5 is free to play at the beginning, the sims 5 is probably not going to be rolling out expansions real soon after, I think the sims 4 will still be giving content until the sims 5 has a descent amount of content to sell, I also believe the sims 5 creators will release it a bit early now to see how it compares to the sims 4 and what players have to say about the difference between the two and what players really love and what they dislike about the sims 5 compared to 4. I think it would be a smart idea business wise because then while deciding what kind of paid content to make for the sims 5, their still making money with the sims 4 and comparing the two to decide what paid content they should create for the sims 5 to make it better. Just a speculation. What do you guys think?
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The sims 5 will likely be filled with microtransactions from day one but we will see. At some point in the future we will all have to decide if we want to move on to sims 5, keep playing 4 even if no new content comes out, or move on to a competitor.
Sims 4 maybe an exceptional case - no Sims series could last for nearly 9 years after their first releasing.
It was the same way for Sims 1-3. I doubt they will change things up now.
My advice to anyone, is to wait before adding new content to the game. Wait for the first glitch reports, because if it is the last expansion, you may have to live with those glitches for the next 10+ years.
Sims 4 base game is free to play.
What is coming will not be EA's fault. The more that I think about this, the more I am convinced. I expect to buy whatever is available for Sims 5, because I expect Microsoft to break Sims 3 and 4. For awhile, I looked into my options to try and set up an offline Sims 3 computer, but I will only need to miscalculate one tiny detail and my whole house of cards will crash. I am not smart enough to outsmart Microsoft. I am just going to enjoy today. I am just going to play my game for as long as I can before it gets taken away from me.
Yes, we are probably not going to like what is coming, but I think EA will be our ally more than our enemy.
Therefore, I guess Sims 4 content will continue to release even if Sims 5 is free
The previous parts haven't been dropped, but finished
I'm so glad they put horses in 4 while I can still play.
Depending on what they are aiming for I think everyone at Maxis needs to shift to Rene when they have decided on everything that they need to make so they can go into full production. There were familiar simgurus working on rene in the sims summit video so I don't think it's unlikely that they will shift more and more people who have worked on the sims4 over to rene.
So they might still make content for the sims4 after rene is released, but I'm not sure that is something that Maxis would like to do because they have all shifted over? and maybe people would not want that either because the content will be made by different teams who might not make content that people want.
I think simguruAzure said that they had many ideas yet on what they wanted to make for the sims4 a couple of years back and what they said had come true, they talked about generations for example, but she was shown working on Rene in the recent sims summit as a producer. So I think it will be very much up to Maxis if they feel that they can handle making content for both games.