Over 9 Years Since the Last Sims Game: Analyzing the Longest Wait Ever Between Releases!
Over 9 Years Since the Last Sims Game: Analyzing the Longest Wait Ever Between Releases!
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Eager for a refresh of the EA money printing machine?
Sims4 has more DLC than all the previous ones combined and it’s making them a bloody fortune, there’s no need for Sims5 while Sims4 keeps printing money.
im curious if life by you will cause any changes to EAs approach, im guessing not because its an incumbent game where as Paradox games recently have been cobbled together from false advertising and clown jizz
Still all I play is Sims 2
They should let the franchise die tbh, its just a DLC infested shell of its former self
If you’ve played The Sims you’ll know Sims 4 was released and had a slow go because most Sims 3 players (my wife included!) had tons of money spent on DLC that was basically useless if you switched, and beyond that you were switching to a boring game with no features. EA are greedy executives running the show but they have no reason to make a 5 because it would look even worse to the Community (making us start all over again!?!). That or they’d be forced to make a game with DLC already finished, and that won’t make them money long term. Yes they’re greedy, but also the Community wants added DLC not a new base game. It’s a weird catch 22 that game has been in since 3 became 4.
Funny thing about that wait – Sims 3 wasn’t supposed to end. They had more expansions and DLC in the pipe
Sims 4 was supposed to be Sims Online Again: Electric Boogaloo
The SimCity debacle (alongside multiple ***other*** ‘Always Online’ shenanigans going poof) clapped EA’s cheeks so hard – that they ordered the teams working on Sims 3 and Sims Not Actually 4 to shelve 3 – and pivot to turning Sims Not 4 into Sims 4 xD
Hence the lack of teen bodies – toddlers – pools – massive amount of jank and bugs and so on
Which is a testament to the Sims fanbase – turning a – practically – early access title into the biggest money-spinner the series has ever seen is an impressive action
Even if a, ultimately, somewhat self-defeating one – because the fans of Sims 2 would like EA to put out a Sims 2 rip-off that doesn’t have quite so many loading screens and the Sims 3 fans want another stab at an open world
Meanwhile, with Sims 4, you get ***none of that*** xD
[Hell, I can’t even talk – three of my sisters ***adore*** Sims 4 – I keep buying them DLC and Expansions for it like a moron :P](https://media1.tenor.com/m/Ze9wdLEXSiwAAAAC/problem-i-am-part-of-the-problem.gif)
As for me, though? I’m still playing Sims 3 and waiting for Life By You with baited breath 🙂
I dont like Sims 4 I think Sims series peaked at 3
They’re making so much from DLC that they now give the base game away for free in the hope you get tempted to buy some extra content for it.
Just checked the Steam page and it’s worse than I remembered. Now 79 DLC available for a combined (no sale) price of £1,109.22
Answer: They make more money on DLC now so there’s no point to doing an actual game.
SaaS model.
They are keep releasing paid content for this, so this waiting wont end in the near future
I still revisit The Sims 3 every once in a while. Tried 4, but couldn’t stick with it.
Waiting for competition in this genre. Paradox Tectonic is working on one, “Life by You”, goes into Early Access in 1.5 months.
Another one is “Paralives,” by an otherwise unknown team, no marked date on their Steam page.
Sims used to be really cool. It had a soul and just ah I’m so sad now
I think I read something that said they were planning to make a new game but it be free to play whilst also continuing to release dlc for Sims 4.
Project Rene, Sims 5, has been in playtesting since 2022, you can even sign up for it. It is going to be a free to play game with multiplayer support and a giant open world map. Latest leaked footage shows off how the decorations in the room are a lot more customizable in placements now. They also mention it “supports PC and mobile experiences”.
Another notable quote on the multiplayer experience
>We also had to figure out ways for players to connect without all the social experience features in place, like party voice chat and find-a-friend,” says Stephanie. “We had to make sure players could actually find each other and play together.
https://www.ea.com/en-ca/news/project-rene-playtesting-the-next-generation-of-the-sims
EA makes the same game every year:
“Can you believe EA? They just reskinned last years version!!! WhAt A sCaM!!”
EA doesn’t make the same game every year:
“Can you believe EA? They havent reskinned last years version!!! WhAt A sCaM!!”
The Sims is hands on the only game I will not touch for 2 years… and then download all the old purchased content and binge for 3 weeks straight only to never touch it for another 2 years.
Developing a new game is extremely expensive. Milking a successful one is like printing money.
Time between games has been increasing for a while.
Elder Scrolls 2 came out 2½ years after the original, then it was 5½ years until 3, 4 years until 4, 5½ until 5, 2½ years until the MMO, and 10 years and counting since.
The waits on GTA mainline sequels have been 2 years, 2 years, 1 year, 2 years, 3½ years, 5½ years, and probably 12 years.
There was more time between Mass Effect 3 and Andromeda (5 years) than there was between Mass Effect 1 and Mass Effect 3 (4½ years). And it’s already been 6½ years since Andromeda came out, and we’re still likely years away from that coming out (2026 at the earliest likely).
There’s similarly 5 years between Dragon Age Origins and Dragon Age Inquisition, and it’ll probably be around 10 years between Inquisition and Dreadwolf when that finally comes out.
Even Baldur’s Gate 3 spent over 2½ years just in Early Access about the same amount of time in between the original releases of Baldur’s Gate and the expansion for Baldur’s Gate 2.
They’re too busy trying to figure out how to suck money out of their customers to make a new game. When they finally do release something it’ll be built from the ground up for monetization.
Tussles Sims fans hair and chuckles in Duke Nukem
It’s so bizarre to me that it’s been TWENTY YEARS since The Sims has had co-op. It’s such an obvious pick for a franchise you’d want to play with your friends, where you’re all part of the same household or neighborhood. But after Bustin’ Out they just ditched it and never looked back. Me and my homies used to love playing together 🙁
They announced Sims 5 last year.
I wish the Sims 2 was still available
IOn Know If we ever Gonna Get a Sims 5
What’s the rush to Sims 5? It’ll be bare bones and will take another 5 years to have a decent amount of content costing £100’s.
Why make a new game when you can sell some clothes, angular furniture and some gameplay bits every few months for 20+ dollars? And tons of people are dumb enough to pay for all of it?
Sims 5 will be even worse, bc it’s going free to play and it will drive up the shitty DLC-machine up to 11.
Are people who play that really eager for a sequel to rebuy the thousands of dollars of dlc again?
Is there really anything meaningful a sequel could bring to it? It’s not ever going to have photo realistic visuals, the games meant to have that cartoony kind of gentle vibe to it. So I’m not sure what else a sequel could bring that they couldn’t do with current dlc.
I predict that the next Sims game will be free to play, but loaded up with microtransactions to spend real money on in game clothing, furniture, etc.
I’m not sure youd really want a Sims 5 anyway given what sims 4 was like, the content only gets worse and the price gets higher
All I hope for is the downfall of EA. The greed with The Sims IP has been incredible.
I don’t care about the sims anymore except any time they put out a new DLC, LGR makes a video and does a real nice lineup of some chairs.
Anytime there’s microtransactions in a game it’ll increase the lifetime of the game. Just look at how many generations GTA5 has jumped, it was originally a PS3/Xbox360 release.
It seems that several franchises have been doing just that, create a cash cow and low effort milk for a decade plus. From the 90s till about 2010 there were large generational leaps, for the last 14ish years it’s all just been numbers going up.
Seems like it takes over a decade to release a game now, at least major titles.
RIP Maxis
Sims 4 has $1,234.22 *worth* of DLC…
Sims 1 and 2 was *chef’s kiss*