Hardcore Gamer: Don’t lie to your customers. Don’t treat them like criminals. Don’t poison the game and act like its the finest spices. Don’t pull another SimCity.
Electronic Arts‘ popular free-to-play life-simulation video game franchise “The Sims” is breaking from tradition, with the gaming company confirming Tuesday that there are no plans for a “The Sims 5” game as the successor to the current edition, “The Sims 4.”
Instead, “The Sims 4,” now a 10-year-old title and the longest-running installment in the franchise’s 25-year history, will continue to receive updates and paid expansions, most notably a multiplayer mode and partnering with some “Sims” players who develop their own custom content for the game to sell it through the EA store as “Creator Kits.”
After seeing inzoi I’d delay with some experimental “expansions” like multiplayer too.
On December 7th The Sims 4: For Rent will be available. Nosy neighbors, cranky landlords - what will be coming in this new DLC?
TechRaptor writes "Roughly 30 years ago, SimCity was making waves as a fun new simulation game. Players could build out an entire city and watch it spring to life — or die a horrible, fiery death. Fans had loads of fun with the games until the franchise (and its developer) more or less fell flat by the mid-2010s, but they might not know that Maxis once made business games, too."
Sadly Maxis games changed a lot after what EA did to the studio and Will Wright leaving the studio. I'd welcome more games like this returning, I don't know if they will, but if they do I'm all for it.
"as it turns out the game is quite happy being offline for about 19 minutes before it gripes about not being able to phone home."
So its not even "always" on?
I know people hate hearing it, but someone needs to sue. someone has to step in for the consumer. Keep companies from being allowed to say anything and outright lie, since they can easily keep the fact that something has an online requirement until after its been bought.
Don't BS....you can do it, you just don't want to
You want to see how long you can ride this out and hope to god that people will forget
Please people don't let this happen, don't let them get away with it.
They were even going to do a console version, probably for next gen and now they most likely aren't going to do it anymore