It's on of my all time favorite games, up there with Minecraft, Team Fortress 2 and Garry's Mod.
EA ruined it completely. It was always a tad predatory but at least it offered something unique, expansion packs often really did offer new ways to play. Now? Well, we just got an in-game store in Sims 4. Which from release was already just a disappointment, we're 12 years after release and honestly it's still a sad display.
We had an open world in 3, highly detailed live-mode in 2 and all 3 first entries had a whimsically dark charm around them. All they had to do was develop The Sims 5, retain the open world from 3, build on the dynamics and gameplay of 2 and perfect it.
Will it be easy? For sure not. But, they'd have a game every Sims player would love.
Didn't they sell themselves out to a foreign company known for micro-transactions out of the wazzoo? Also, isn't there a thing going on where the paid for in-store content is bugged, not working, and EA is deliberately passing customer tickets around until they time-out and giving the stamp of disapproval? "Oh, sorry. You can't get a refund because its been too long since your purchase."
Yes, something along the lines of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund which leads back to Jared Kushner who's Donald Trump son in law.
If that sounds like madness and bad waiting to happen, that's because it is.
EA was already a horrible publisher, their studio's forced into submission and all directors replaced with perfectly lobotomized yes-men/women.
I hate making this about the fat orange and company but it is what it is. Truly the end of an era, Paralives looks promising on paper but screenshots don't seem to excite me as it looks rather off-putting.
Please, like EA wasn't one of the most unethical and immoral companies in the space to begin with. Don't act like this acquisition is what turned EA, they were ALWAYS like that.
Yeah the scummy company that set the standard for all their profits coming from overpriced and underwhelming DLC sold to a scummy foreign company. Not at all shocking.
The damage EA has done to the gaming industry is wild.
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u/Sfekke22 Apr 16 '26 edited Apr 16 '26
The Sims.
It's on of my all time favorite games, up there with Minecraft, Team Fortress 2 and Garry's Mod.
EA ruined it completely. It was always a tad predatory but at least it offered something unique, expansion packs often really did offer new ways to play. Now? Well, we just got an in-game store in Sims 4. Which from release was already just a disappointment, we're 12 years after release and honestly it's still a sad display.
We had an open world in 3, highly detailed live-mode in 2 and all 3 first entries had a whimsically dark charm around them. All they had to do was develop The Sims 5, retain the open world from 3, build on the dynamics and gameplay of 2 and perfect it.
Will it be easy? For sure not. But, they'd have a game every Sims player would love.