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What do you want
doogerie
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I was just wondering what people want In The future of the Sims going ford.
What do you want 257 votes
I don’t want the sims 4 to ever end.
13%
35 votes
Sims 2 recode with new graphics better optimisation Sims4 AI that kid of thing
22%
58 votes
Sims4 recode see above
6%
16 votes
5 more years I am not ready for this to end yet.
29%
75 votes
Sims5 we need a shiny new game with new graphics and new gameplay
21%
56 votes
Just let the game die already
2%
7 votes
A few of the worlds from the Sims 3 put in to the Sims 4 desperate the game limits
2%
6 votes
Just let the series die already.
1%
4 votes
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The community has given thousands and thousands of feedback, if there are problems, and there are, they know exactly what to do.
I'm also not interested in buying Pets, Seasons, University, Vampires, Magic and Celebrities AGAIN. I'm sick of the constant repeats. We're at the point where SOME of this content should be in the base game already. Pets and weather, if not a seasonal cycle, at the very least.
TS4 isn't a perfect game by any means, but it's better than TS5 will be at launch. It's also still incredibly profitable; why launch a new game when console's been out for maybe a year or so, and people are still buying it on PC?
Having just gotten into TS2, he Sims themselves and their detailed animations are really what makes that game for me. TS3 has open worlds, the cars from TS2, and large worlds (and no short supply of decent lots). TS4 has a CAS that is a bit easier to learn, and Build/Buy is easier to use, and is lacking a ton of stuff. In both TS2 and TS3, one can make worlds from scratch. TS4, you're stuck with the pitiful worlds the game has. Worlds are tiny, Sims are stupid, and they teleport everywhere. It's missing most of the base game features of prior games. Some of it (restaurants, Repo Men) have been bundled with packs, yet the majority of it (esp police and fire NPCs) are still missing. And, there's really no "town" area. What restaurants and stores exist in my game were built by me thanks to Get to Work and Dine Out. I've never gotten just why bars and nightclubs are a base game thing in TS4, but many community staples are not (and besides, I live in a town where there are ordinances banning nightclubs and bars; but restaurants can serve alcohol).
If Maxis is unable or simply unwilling to do this, then honestly, I'd rather change my response to "Just let the series die after TS4." I'm definitely not willing to pay for another whole game and set of packs that can't manage to even do half the things that were possible in the older installments.
And above all: Take TIME. Even if it takes years to develop an amazing base game, go for it.
''A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.''
I am very happy with the game and imo it could go on forever
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I game that is never released is useless as it'll never earn any money back.
That has nothing to do with the quote. A delayed game does not mean it will never release. It only means that it will release in a better state than a rushed game. (Sims 4, hello).
I'm actually putting more hope in Paralives and Paradox at this point.
So, I didn't find what I want on your list, so I'll just say it.
I want to let TS4 go. I mean, I can enjoy it for what it is, but it's not very good. Buggy. Key aspects of the game are frustrating -- like having an AMAZING clothing option system with different categories and a number of outfits to set per category! Yet, still, our poor sims change out of their carefully picked clothing in favor of horrific uh, "fashions" chosen by the game? What? Ok, so you created something great -- why couldn't there have been a category for work? Or for dates? I thought that was what "everyday," "formal," and "party" were for.
Anyway, that was just one example of my own frustrations. TS4 has a LOT of potential, but too much is thrown away by poor development choices imo. What's being done now to help basic gameplay? Or simply enhance what's there? I'd much rather more intelligent and unique sims than what we have in TS4. But I think, in that way, TS2 spoiled me (likes/dislikes, wants/fears, astrological sign/attraction, etc.). In TS4 it's just moodlets and a handful of traits that don't do too much.
But enough of my griping -- I don't mean to be so negative; there are aspects of the game I do enjoy or I'd have disappeared long ago.
So, what do I want to see?
Just do the franchise right. Go back to what made it great. Good game play, charming and lifelike (unique) sims, well-done AI -- those things are always relevant. Does EA really need to worry about alienating the younger crowd that they seem to target by looking back? I don't think so.
I've said it before, and my thoughts haven't changed: if they won't update/upgrade TS4, let it go already. BUT TS5 better start with the right game engine (not this cellphone app/online limitation-plum). There are plenty of cellphone games and simple games out there. I want what the sims started out as - a life simulation!
And now my bottom line on TS5 is this: if the game at release does not have seasons, toddlers (all the life stages just to be clear), a fully-fleshed out education system (you know, high school and college), pets, everyday basic career options, etc., then it will be the first in the franchise I will not buy.
Imagine if they'd take their time to give us a real base game. Back in the day, paying for a "Seasons" expansion meant giving your sims something new. But now, since TS2, we've had two reiterations where it's "rinse and repeat." Seasons should be part of the base game by now, freeing up expansion packs/DLC for actually new experiences. Even EA admits this approach by acknowledging how, "now that the expected packs are out of the way..."
I'm sorry, but if they're what you know your players expect, why not release your base game with everything that is expected? Not so difficult by now, right? If it is, I'm sorry, but they need to change jobs. Seriously. Look at the other games out there. Now tell me what the excuse is.
All of those "expected" packs serve one purpose -- generating money.
And there's just no way I'm doing it again.
It's also been said there will be a single player version.
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Buuuut I doubt Sims 4 will ever reach the same standards as previous interations' base games, so I'm also up for giving them 3-5 years to give us some more half-hearted versions of my favorite packs before dying quietly.
The Sims 4 hasn't introduced a new musical instrument since 2017
I will probably never going to buy Sims 5 (if there will ever be Sims 5), especially if it requires a monster computer to play it. I will continue playing Sims 4 as long as it's possible.
The question is how much effort and focus are they going to put into the single player side? Because if they have both single and multiplayer, their resources will be stretched and you know how cheap EA is with funding. Also add the fact that they want to put more emphasis on the multiplayer side.
I'm just really tired of them not listening to us. So at this point, I really don't care.
However, I'm not entirely trusting that S5 will be the game we want - multiplayer will place limitations on the game, even in single-player mode. If it's in the 'cloud', single player or not we will have frustrations at times when either our local connection or their servers are down. It's not unusual now to have problems with Origin when everyone in the world is logging it to play EA games, and most of it is coming from people who play multiplayer games. They'll need to beef up their infrastructure if they want everyone playing in the cloud. I'm also not keen on anything that would require monthly payments to 'rent' my game.
I didn't play S4 for three years because they left out toddlers. I won't be jumping on the S5 bandwagon until I'm sure it isn't only a YA party-party game and that single-player play isn't too limited by the multiplayer option.