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You are not remembering his tweets correctly and we can’t discuss this further without finding those tweets to see their exact wording. But he had to repeat many times that TS4 isn’t over and that he still plans to make a lot of more packs for TS4. In the end he even did something as unusual as to talk about packs “for…
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I bought those mobile games out of curiosity because I actually loved both the Sims 3 World Adventures and the Sims Medieval in the PC versions. So I also tried several times to get into the mobile versions of those games (and also the Sims 3 for iOS). But I never managed to. All those games were boring in the mobile…
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So you too think that EA just makes decisions at random and plans to just throw hundreds of millions of dollars away by switching it’s very profitable PC Sims games out with the much less profitable mobile Sims games ;) :D EA has made many mobile Sims games earlier and also some Sims games for consoles. But before the Sims…
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No. He didn’t post any inside information from the game which we didn’t know already. But his lack of inside information from both the work in the Sims studio and his confusion about EA’s future plans revealed that he never worked in the current Sims studio as a developer (at least not under the Sims 4). If you really want…
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I agree that EA usually has just made spin-off games that replace EPs and Medieval was just one of them. But spin-off games are always kept small because EA wants us to return to the main game as fast as possible. But the online game is different because online multiplayer games (that act as live services and have…
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There are several things to notice: 1. He didn’t ever tell anything about the development teams or critizised how they worked or were made. 2. He didn’t describe or critizise in any way the different stages in the game’s development. 3. He wrote that EA is stopping with PC games to concentrate on only mobile games even…
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The Reddit message was obviously from a simmer and not from a former guru! That was easy to see by the way it was written. So I doubt that this false message really created much panic. Also it would have been much easier for Grant and the gurus to just state that the reddit message was false instead of writing a huge…
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He and the other gurus went on twitter just to tell us that TS4 isn’t over. So the tweets began after that. Also the reason why people kept asking about TS4 being over was because they expected TS5 soon to be announced and therefore doubted that TS4 really would get many more packs. So the obvious thing to do to convince…
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That is how it usually works. But it was so extremely important for Grant to tell us that TS4 isn’t over that he even said that he expected to make packs to TS4 for years. This just made someone question him if those packs would be for TS5? But he only said ”No, they are for TS4.” So Grant broke the normal rules and talked…
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Another question: Why did EA make the Sims Mobile when EA already had the Sims Freeplay? We can only guess about that for now. But I actually suspect the Sims Mobile to be intended as a free online multiplayer that hopefully can recruit new simmers who then later can switch naturally to TS5. Things that maybe points in…
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Don’t lie! Grant has instead been very careful not to say anything about TS5 at all! The only time he ever has mentioned TS5 was when somebody asked him if the EPs he plans making are for TS5? Then he answered “No, they are for TS4.” But once more he just omitted the natural continuation which of course would have been…
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EA tried rain and weather in the Sims 2 basegame. But it didn’t work out. The game became unstable and it was raining inside the houses. So EA just gave up and decided never to include weather in the Sims games, right? We all know that this wasn’t what happened. EA planned multiplayer for TS4 and for SimCity 2013. But when…
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@catloverplayer The Sims Freeplay and the Sims Mobile didn’t fail! Actually they were the first mobile Sims games that didn’t fail like the mobile versions of TS2, TS3 and the Sims Medieval all did - and exactly because TSF and TSM were online multiplayer games! ;) I don’t know if TS5 will fail or not because we don’t know…
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You miss my point which is that EA’s top actually follow the development for all kinds of gaming much more close than we do and they also have access to much more statistics about it than we do. It is their job to evaluate such things all the time and to adjust EA’s plans when things changes! So no. There is no chance that…
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Because some TS4 simmers just wants TS4 to get at least 200 more packs? ;) :D
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I googled “PC gaming is dying”. But this only gave me some forums where gamers were worried about the future development of their favorite PC game and some discussion about the prices of gaming video cards which some PC gamers seem to think now are too high for them. So instead I googled “the future of PC gaming” which…
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Last year EA announced Cats&Dogs at Gamescom. But if they announce something big about Sims there this year then it likely will be TS5. I would expect TS5 to be announced earlier though.
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You are underestimating hugely how serious and well educated the managers in EA’s top are! Just read some of the background for EA’s current CEO on https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/ea-picks-ea-sports-vp-as-new-ceo/ They are not amateurs but highly skilled businessmen who never would have got their current jobs if they…
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You should read what I have written. Otherwise you might miss an option like “No, they will announce Battlefield 5 instead!” or something like that ;) TS5 is another game and not a pack for TS4 - just like Battlefield 5 isn’t a pack for TS4 either :)
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No, that is your wishful interpretation of what he said. I know that I can’t convince TS4 lovers who never want TS5 to ever be released :) I have read it all. But you again just ignore the fact that he went on twitter before Seasons even had been announced just like the other gurus and only to tell us that “TS4 is far from…
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I know all this. TS4 will continue. But why did he go to twitter in the first place just for some mysterious reason use a lot of time just to tell us that TS4 isn’t over when nobody expected it to be? And why did he avoid to tell us that TS4 will be EAs main Sims game for a couple of years more because TS5 is at least that…
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I have explained this several times. But my points mainly are: 1. EA needs to release a new Sims game every 5 years or EA will lose a whole generation of new young simmers (maybe about 11 to 15 years old) who want to start playing (and now likely already have tried the Sims Mobile). The reason is that they need their…
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I can’t guess that because things are not normal just now. I think that Seasons was made ready to be released before the GP because EA is preparing an announcement about TS5 being released next year and it was important for EA to tell people that TS4 still will get packs for years. But does that mean that the next GP also…
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And I voted “Nope, too soon”. But maybe I should have chosen the option “Nope, but they will announce a GP instead”. I just voted before I saw the second option. But I actually still don’t know which of those two options that I would have chosen anyway :)
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I voted a bit too fast because EA very likely will release a GP (and an SP) later this year. I don’t know though if the GP will be announced at Gamescom or not.
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Look at https://www.statista.com/statistics/292516/pc-online-game-market-value-worldwide/ The market for PC games is still growing and especially for online PC games! There is no way that EA will leave that very profitable market to just other game companies! ;) Don’t be confused just because the market for mobile games is…
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The general problem is that EA can’t increase the price for the EP even if EA puts twice as much content into it as their was in the Sims 3 version of Seasons. Therefore EA has to choose between: 1. Make Seasons for the Sims 4 very close to be a copy of Seasons for the Sims 3. 2. Replace some of the content in Seasons for…
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I suspected that. But deep snow is way too expensive for EA to make unless it can be sold for real money. Otherwise EA would have included it in the Seasons EP which they also considered. But they assessed that it would be a huge work which they therefore chose to do on other things instead.
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The markets for PC games and for mobile games are very different and there are no chance that EA will release a free online Sims game for PCs too within the next few years! The reasons are: 1. The big PC versions of the Sims games give EA many times higher profit than the mobile Sims games do. This is the reason why EA…
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