Paradox Interactive's Life By You will have a massive open-world to explore, with some of the most ambitious features of any open-world title to date.
A former Life by You developer claims the game was doing "extremely well" before cancellation, and that he and his team weren't told why it was canceled.
No doubt, considering the thousands of dollars a single person can spend just on DLC for Sims 4. They don't want that cash cow being threatened. I used to be a huge Sims fan, now I'm just disgusted by what it's become.
From what I heard from a friend in the industry and apparently this is pretty well known to a lot of groups, they relied really heavily on AI in the game. The AI basically broke which would have caused the devs thousands of hours of work to rework a lot of things from scratch.
Theres also people saying the higher ups didn't want AI being used, and when they found out they went ballistic. But thats more of a conspiracy theory/rumor more than anything else Im told.
Real shame either way, showed a lot of promise. Regardless, Dev's got screwed hard :(
Well, paralives is still in development by an independent individual and it's looking pretty well so we'll still have a Sims competitor.
"The Stockholm-based (Sweden) indie games publisher and game developer Paradox Interactive today announced that their highly-anticipated Life Sim game, "Life by You", is now coming to PC (through Steam and EGS) via Early Access on June 4th, 2024." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
Today Paradox Tectonic announced a second delay for the early access release on Steam of its upcoming life simulator Life by You.
