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2023 is the last year thats sims is the only life simulation
Horrorgirl6
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Due to fact aleast plan several life sims games will be released next year.Lifr by you,vivaland,and now Inzoi.It occurs to me this will be last year that sims will be the only life simulation game.
It's not sad and more completion the better.Its just a thought and we have give them credit the sims are the one who created this genra
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It's not sad and more completion the better.Its just a thought and we have give them credit the sims are the one who created this genra
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Haven't seen enough of PR to be thrilled. My excitement has waned.
Here's hoping,I don't blame the sims team for most pf the sims woes.I think if they have a better budget. We would have a better game.
This what I hope too.
It will be interesting to see the sims community playing different games and I'm hoping we will see some new and fun videos from content creators as well.
But it feels like EA/Maxis have always done their own thing when it comes to this franchise but now we will have games that will actually compete with it. No games have really scratched that "sims" itch, but these new games might just do that.
Competition is always a great thing for the market, because when monopolies are broken up, the companies need to think creatively about how to keep attracting more buyers. It's happened before and I am so excited for it to happen again. Doubtless EA will rethink its strategy going forward, and may change their selling tactics closer to Project Rene's release date. So we'll all have to wait with the popcorn to watch the show.
I hope the You-Tubers aren't pressured to sign up with one company or another and then threatened to not say anything positive about their competitors, or else... That sort of thing can happen, but I hope it doesn't. I know the Sims already has their network set up, but I've seen a few of them actually post videos reacting to Life By You, and it's not what I would expect if EA had already issued such a threat. Hopefully any You-Tubers can be boosted by a confidence to say "NO," to anyone who does try this. They are providing, most of the time free advertisement, for the companies. The promise of free games and packs may be hard to say no to, but together, I hope they can be strong.
There are only so many players interested in Life Simulations (and that are not that many if you compare to other genres. For example, the subcribers of the official youtube channels: The Sims 1.83 million subscribers <-> EA Sports 5.05 million subscribers.)
And there is only so much money these players can spend on life simulations.
So imo everyone will have less. Maybe a few new players show interest. But there won't be that many either. Not enough to make them all rich.
I fear the Sims will have less money to make good content too. And I don't think EA will shove much money to The Sims to save them.
And I often feel they are not really interested to create good content for us. I feel they milk us.
Like all the supernaturals and pets in Sims 3 were in one pack. Not in the Sims 4.
Apartments in City Living and in For Rent -.-
For each little bit we have to pay (a lot).
Why are the expansions so expensive? (40β¬/$) When it is possible to create amazing new games with a completely new gigantic (open) worlds and amazing gameplay like Hogwarts Legacy or Baldur's Gate 3 for 60β¬/$?
What I wonder about:
After 23 years The Sims being (almost) the only (sucessful) life simulation.
Why do they all start now to develop competitors? Why not earlier?
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So I hope, the competition forces EA to stick with the Sims and offer good expansions in the future.
It could be because we didn't really have the technology but I also think that games similar to the sims or games that offer these kind of experiences have become more popular.
5-10 years ago you couldn't really justify making a game with life simulator features or customization, house-building or creating relationships because there was not a lot of successful games that did that. But since then there have been more people interested in these kind of features with successful games like Stardew Valley, Animal Crossing, Valheim, Minecraft, Roblox etc. And even different types of games like action-adventure games likes to include the ability for you to customize your home with different furniture and things like that.
Also gaming environment is more common than it was 10-15 years ago.Games are not as niche they were.
Given who's working on it I am most interested in LBY, closely followed by PL and Inzoi. I just really hope one of them's gonna give us the sims game we actually want. Because so far my faith in TS5 isn't very high.
This!!
Competition ist good for those players wanting to move on to another LifeSim. I'd personally rather see the Sims franchise thrive again.