If EA has followed their usual plan about releasing a new basegame every 5 years and announcing each new basegame about 15 months before their release then of course it will be TS5!
Many simmers just don’t believe that because they think that TS4 still is missing all the “usual” EPs now that EA has replaced them with GPs and SPs instead. Beside that those simmers haven’t yet understood that it never was EA’s intention to just let TS4 become a new version of TS2 or TS3! Instead it always has been EA’s plan to let TS4 become a new and very different Sims game.
So EA planned to let TS4 even become a Sims game without toddlers and also without all the “traditional” EPs. It should be a new game and simmers who preferred the old style were expected to just still play TS3.
Later EA decided to release toddlers anyway though because the sales numbers for TS4 had been disappointing. So has EA also changed the plan about not releasing EPs like Seasons or University? I don’t know. But EA still mainly wants to release SPs and GPs because their low prices make them sell better and because they are much cheaper for EA to make. Also I am quite sure that EA wants the GPs to have mainly new content instead of becoming reduced versions of traditional EPs. But anyway all the traditional reasons why EA wants a new basegame to be released every 5 years are still clearly valid (mainly an old basegame not appealing to new simmers, new packs for an old basegame selling less and less and EA being unable to discount old packs without hurting the sales numbers for new packs). So unless EA really wants to stop the whole series soon I can’t see why EA shouldn’t announce TS5 in the middle of 2018 and release it about 15 months later as usual?
The next Expansion Pack. I doubt it woll be The Sims 5, do it amd backlash will start to rise again.
They’ve never announced an EP at EAPlay before, and you’d think Cats & Dogs would have been the first, if they were to ever do so.
No I don’t think it will be a pack announcement, it’s either a teaser for TS5, or nothing. No EP is big enough or important enough to break the trend of ‘no announcement at EAPlay.’
Something for Sims 4, I highly doubt we’ll see a Sims 5 any time soon. Creating stuff for Sims 4 is bringing in money now, why would they bother and put their energy into a completely new game?
The next Expansion Pack. I doubt it woll be The Sims 5, do it amd backlash will start to rise again.
They’ve never announced an EP at EAPlay before, and you’d think Cats & Dogs would have been the first, if they were to ever do so.
No I don’t think it will be a pack announcement, it’s either a teaser for TS5, or nothing. No EP is big enough or important enough to break the trend of ‘no announcement at EAPlay.’
The topic says if there is something new is shown, so It is just my wishful thinking Tho, I don't think that they will announce anything. Not even TS5. I don't think they are ready for announcing the next pack yet. They announced Cats and Dogs on August and it was still on development. Tho, I kinda wish they would announce one, even a gamepack lol. I mean a simple gamepack to wait during the dry content month(summer) is enough for me
The next Expansion Pack. I doubt it woll be The Sims 5, do it amd backlash will start to rise again.
They’ve never announced an EP at EAPlay before, and you’d think Cats & Dogs would have been the first, if they were to ever do so.
No I don’t think it will be a pack announcement, it’s either a teaser for TS5, or nothing. No EP is big enough or important enough to break the trend of ‘no announcement at EAPlay.’
The topic says if there is something new is shown, so It is just my wishful thinking Tho, I don't think that they will announce anything. Not even TS5. I don't think they are ready for announcing the next pack yet. They announced Cats and Dogs on August and it was still on development. Tho, I kinda wish they would announce one, even a gamepack lol. I mean a simple gamepack to wait during the dry content month(summer) is enough for me
Well Parenthood came out May of last year, around 4 months after Vampires, so I could see another GP releasing 4-5 months after JA, perfect timing for the Summer content drought!
Something for Sims 4, I highly doubt we’ll see a Sims 5 any time soon. Creating stuff for Sims 4 is bringing in money now, why would they bother and put their energy into a completely new game?
So was creating stuff for TS2 in 2007-2008 and creating stuff for TS3 in 2012-2013. So why did EA then announce TS3 in 2008 and TS4 in 2013 anyway? What has changed?? Doesn’t EA care about sales numbers becoming lower after a few years anymore??
Something for Sims 4, I highly doubt we’ll see a Sims 5 any time soon. Creating stuff for Sims 4 is bringing in money now, why would they bother and put their energy into a completely new game?
So was creating stuff for TS2 in 2007-2008 and creating stuff for TS3 in 2012-2013. So why did EA then announce TS3 in 2008 and TS4 in 2013 anyway? What has changed?? Doesn’t EA care about sales numbers becoming lower after a few years anymore??
I genuinely think things have changed in this respect. Time will tell if I'm right. As you know I hope you are right here and I'll be proved wrong
Something for Sims 4, I highly doubt we’ll see a Sims 5 any time soon. Creating stuff for Sims 4 is bringing in money now, why would they bother and put their energy into a completely new game?
So was creating stuff for TS2 in 2007-2008 and creating stuff for TS3 in 2012-2013. So why did EA then announce TS3 in 2008 and TS4 in 2013 anyway? What has changed?? Doesn’t EA care about sales numbers becoming lower after a few years anymore??
I genuinely think things have changed in this respect. Time will tell if I'm right. As you know I hope you are right here and I'll be proved wrong
So instead EA always pushes new games out as fast as possible. Studios get closed when they don’t earn enough money anymore and top executives get fired if they can’t tell about a lot of new game releases. That is just the kind of company EA is.
So assuming that EA now just will cash in on TS4 by releasing SPs for several additional years in spite of the sales numbers going down is contradictory to EA’s whole way of doing things. EA’s top can’t impress the stock holders just by telling them that even though TS4 isn’t the best selling Sims game ever they will just let the developers make more and more SPs until they don’t sell at all anymore. They need instead to talk about a new fantastic Sims basegame to be released soon and with a good chance of getting even better sales numbers for both the basegame and the packs than ever before.
I doubt it is Sims 5. There was too much backlash about Sims 4 missing features, still is. I will not buy Sims 5, if they don't 'finish' Sims 4 first. I just wouldn't trust them to finish Sims 5 either and then I am left with two games with missing content.
First off I doubt that well see a Sims 5 because for one thing Sims 4 is not really a complete game at least for me I feel like we're at the half way point of this game being finish I still think there's a lot more to this game than just completely stop it right smack in the middle I would start thinking the game would/almost finish once we get a University EP.
Is it a new Makin’ Magic EP like the one in TS1?
Is it the private school and the neighborhood stories from TS2?
Is it the open world and the Into the Future EP from TS3?
The problem here is that I am quite sure that EA considered the game to be “finished” already with the basegame and that for EA everything else since the basegame release are just “extras” which are released while we wait for the next big Sims game to be released. So EA will probably as usual just go on releasing extra content for TS4 until a couple of months before TS5 is released and also make an extra pack above that if TS5’s release for some reason should have to be postponed.
I swear if they've already started developing Sims 5 then I will simply just laugh condescendingly, when the Sims 4 is nowhere near "finished" as is. Sims 4 has so much potential to be a great game and to think they would go ahead and reveal Sims 5 already is an absurd joke that's nowhere near funny. Typical EA mindset though.
I doubt sims 5, I think there was something about sim mobile that was suppose to being coming up soon.
Maybe they will announce an ep, it could mean two eps this year which I would love to see happen.
My dream situation is an early ep this year, I suspect it has to do with their mobile game though.
If its ts5 I'm neutral.
I'm pretty sure they have started making the sims 5. Where they are in development no one knows but them. I highly doubt that the sims 5 is coming this year or next. I would say sims 5 could be released in 2020 but honestly, that's just a guess. I'm still wishing and hoping for stuff in the sims 4.
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I'm hoping for Seasons or, if not, another EP. I know they've never announced an EP in EA Play before, but before they created EA Play, they used to present at E3, and they have announced EPs at E3 before (such as The Sims 3 Pets).
Since EA France said, "What if we talked about the future of your favorite game?", my theory is that they will reveal the remaining packs for the year, or just the Expansion packs like they did towards the end of TS3.
I'm pretty sure they have started making the sims 5. Where they are in development no one knows but them. I highly doubt that the sims 5 is coming this year or next. I would say sims 5 could be released in 2020 but honestly, that's just a guess. I'm still wishing and hoping for stuff in the sims 4.
Maybe they could give a sneak peak at The Sims 5. (which would be kind of a dumb marketing move tho)
Keep in mind, they could release the sims 5 in late 2020 or even sometime in 2021, this gives them time to "finish" TS4 and then they can releas TS5, this also lets them take their time.
The next Expansion Pack. I doubt it woll be The Sims 5, do it amd backlash will start to rise again.
They’ve never announced an EP at EAPlay before, and you’d think Cats & Dogs would have been the first, if they were to ever do so.
No I don’t think it will be a pack announcement, it’s either a teaser for TS5, or nothing. No EP is big enough or important enough to break the trend of ‘no announcement at EAPlay.’
The topic says if there is something new is shown, so It is just my wishful thinking Tho, I don't think that they will announce anything. Not even TS5. I don't think they are ready for announcing the next pack yet. They announced Cats and Dogs on August and it was still on development. Tho, I kinda wish they would announce one, even a gamepack lol. I mean a simple gamepack to wait during the dry content month(summer) is enough for me
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Hmm, maybe best to wait until 2019 then.
Many simmers just don’t believe that because they think that TS4 still is missing all the “usual” EPs now that EA has replaced them with GPs and SPs instead. Beside that those simmers haven’t yet understood that it never was EA’s intention to just let TS4 become a new version of TS2 or TS3! Instead it always has been EA’s plan to let TS4 become a new and very different Sims game.
So EA planned to let TS4 even become a Sims game without toddlers and also without all the “traditional” EPs. It should be a new game and simmers who preferred the old style were expected to just still play TS3.
Later EA decided to release toddlers anyway though because the sales numbers for TS4 had been disappointing. So has EA also changed the plan about not releasing EPs like Seasons or University? I don’t know. But EA still mainly wants to release SPs and GPs because their low prices make them sell better and because they are much cheaper for EA to make. Also I am quite sure that EA wants the GPs to have mainly new content instead of becoming reduced versions of traditional EPs. But anyway all the traditional reasons why EA wants a new basegame to be released every 5 years are still clearly valid (mainly an old basegame not appealing to new simmers, new packs for an old basegame selling less and less and EA being unable to discount old packs without hurting the sales numbers for new packs). So unless EA really wants to stop the whole series soon I can’t see why EA shouldn’t announce TS5 in the middle of 2018 and release it about 15 months later as usual?
They’ve never announced an EP at EAPlay before, and you’d think Cats & Dogs would have been the first, if they were to ever do so.
No I don’t think it will be a pack announcement, it’s either a teaser for TS5, or nothing. No EP is big enough or important enough to break the trend of ‘no announcement at EAPlay.’
The topic says if there is something new is shown, so It is just my wishful thinking Tho, I don't think that they will announce anything. Not even TS5. I don't think they are ready for announcing the next pack yet. They announced Cats and Dogs on August and it was still on development. Tho, I kinda wish they would announce one, even a gamepack lol. I mean a simple gamepack to wait during the dry content month(summer) is enough for me
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/924539/features-that-needs-depth-and-ways-to-improve
Well Parenthood came out May of last year, around 4 months after Vampires, so I could see another GP releasing 4-5 months after JA, perfect timing for the Summer content drought!
So instead EA always pushes new games out as fast as possible. Studios get closed when they don’t earn enough money anymore and top executives get fired if they can’t tell about a lot of new game releases. That is just the kind of company EA is.
So assuming that EA now just will cash in on TS4 by releasing SPs for several additional years in spite of the sales numbers going down is contradictory to EA’s whole way of doing things. EA’s top can’t impress the stock holders just by telling them that even though TS4 isn’t the best selling Sims game ever they will just let the developers make more and more SPs until they don’t sell at all anymore. They need instead to talk about a new fantastic Sims basegame to be released soon and with a good chance of getting even better sales numbers for both the basegame and the packs than ever before.
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Is it a new Makin’ Magic EP like the one in TS1?
Is it the private school and the neighborhood stories from TS2?
Is it the open world and the Into the Future EP from TS3?
The problem here is that I am quite sure that EA considered the game to be “finished” already with the basegame and that for EA everything else since the basegame release are just “extras” which are released while we wait for the next big Sims game to be released. So EA will probably as usual just go on releasing extra content for TS4 until a couple of months before TS5 is released and also make an extra pack above that if TS5’s release for some reason should have to be postponed.
Maybe they will announce an ep, it could mean two eps this year which I would love to see happen.
My dream situation is an early ep this year, I suspect it has to do with their mobile game though.
If its ts5 I'm neutral.
Maybe they could give a sneak peak at The Sims 5. (which would be kind of a dumb marketing move tho)
Eg. they had a hands on for Cool Kitchen, Backyard and Toddler stuff, even though they weren't out till July or later.
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