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Multiplayer SIMS 5 : yes or no?
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I think if it happened it should be a bit like a Minecraft server (I know it sounds stupid). You create a (Sims) world but you have to invite people to play with them because nobody is waiting for griefers and trolls you don't know. A Minecraft style world would also mean that you van only join if the "host" is online.
How I think it would be fun to play:
You can control multiple people in one household or you can control 2 or more housholds at the same time with your friends.
I would play it with Friends if it was like this but I don't know if these requirements are even possible. Welp, I can always dream.
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They need to keep it the kind of game it has always been, and go back more towards their roots. A sandbox, dollhouse.
If people want a multiplayer game, they can buy a multiplayer game. There are plenty. Why try to turn a game that has never been like that, into that? This franchise hasn't lasted 20 years because it was like other games.
Yes that's exactly what I'm thinking! Definitely something like Minecraft, close friends by invite only, no more than 2-4 players. This needs to happen!
But in all honestly, if it can be implemented in an optional way much in the same way as vacation worlds are in TS4; while still having a mostly offline game, it might be a neat feature.
Online bullies, nasty people... no thanks..
Obviously it would be a separate feature but it would be awesome if you could build a town and then host it and let a friend join with their sim and play together. They could pick a separate house in the neighborhood to live in and you could play together, have your sims interact and such.
It should be similar to "Farm Together", so you could set up a town, and then that becomes a closed world for you to invite a friend online and it would remain separate from your singleplayer game.
Then you could load up the world when you and your friend are online and want to play, then when one of you needs to leave you both exit the world and it remains paused until you enter it again.
"MySims" did a similar thing where you could visit the world of a friend from your friend list and check out their houses and layout.
And again, there is already sims social and if it was gonna be something like that, it really is not the gameplay experience majority of the people has been asking for. I'm hoping that EA & Maxis put together all the best parts of the existing games and bring new features with the sims 5.
Sims 5 should bring back:
burglars, cars, bodyshop, semi-open world, cutscenes, social bunny, aspiration rewards (like ts2 ones & ts3 ones), wants & fears, likes & dislikes, hobbies, interests, memories (ts2 style for sure), fan fav. features like occults (and maybe add new ones like demons, angels)
...should include:
SEASONS (sick of static base game weather), laundry, all terrain tools/pools etc, all appropriate age groups, LAUNDRY, GALLERY (like ts4 gallery), MORE TRAITS AND PERSONALITY TYPES, MORE BEARDS and bodyhair etc...
...should introduce (with expansions):
faith (like sims medieval jacoban/peteran faith), new occults (like demons!), more immersive RPG options and such...
"but I learned that The Sims 4 is a resource hog for our computers" What kind of potato ... are people mashing their potatoes before attempting to run apps? My machine runs real games well, thank you, and I can update its components later. Many people and simmers have decent computers, we're not all like the segment (however large or small) of the Sims 4 base that goes without. Basically everyone eventually gets a new computer, too.
"a Sims 5 could probably not have an open world with the machines we have now and keep the same quality" That's so not true, and many Simmers demand higher quality.
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The poll answers are not quite right for me so I don't know if I'll vote.
Details: I give a HUGE no to a base game being online. I need mods, control and an offline option, thank you. Something added later that is an optional busy downtown to visit? Maybe, but that depends on its specifics. As for "doom?" Maybe, maybe not. Sims 6?! lol
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I'm still "loyal" to the franchise playing and sharing The Sims 3 and retain a fondness for Sims 2 (which I'll probably play again but for now I'm consumed by TS3). I'm no less "loyal," not that loyalty really matters in this case.
I won't let go either, I'll start publicly pining for The Sims 6!!! I'll keep playing TS3 too; mostly happily but I'll keep longing for 64 bits. Those extra important bits won't keep me from buying new Sims games, in fact I'll be so grateful to Maxis, I might give MORE money to EA (for Sims 5). Which ever way things go, I won't let go, however frustrated this or that makes me.
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Are "yes" and "no" too short?
The way the poll is structured, it could make "maybe" seem more popular than it is. I also don't see much of a difference between the two "yes" options.
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I think it could show the other content, with BUY THIS DLC ads hovering above. If it's not intrusive, I might not mind that idea, but I'm guessing many would.
Again, that would work better if we visit an online city, not as well if it's integrated into our overall towns. I picture micro-transactions with Sims (and us) shopping for Sim things in the online city, maybe even approved custom items could be downloadable, maybe those ones for free. Like the ts3 store (and exchange) in spectacular (or annoying) 3D and whatnot.
Most people would probably hate it but I might consider it.
It'd be annoying to require some vanilla Sims, etc., just to go there though, that might be my deal-breaker. It would at least mean that wouldn't be my main game. I want to mostly play something that's modded to the hilt, then playing vanilla might be annoying if I think the game "needs" a lot of tweaking. I'd be curious to try, but I think if it were required for the base game I'd hate it.
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