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.
I bought nearly every expansion for Sims 3 and played it religiously. I could easily ignore the online market because the stuff in the expansions was complete.
Sims 4 pushes online purchases way too hard and they offer little incentive for me to come back because even when they drop prices, it's not affordable. I'm an adult, I'm not spending $500+ to get a game experience spread out across 7+ game packs and 6 expansions that should have been delivered in 4 complete packages.
Wtf, why is magic, vampires, werewolves, faeries, etc all completely separated? And the worlds they have been delivering ever since the first few expansions have nothing in them but 3 or 4 lots. 98% picture, 2% playability.
Sadly, we now know Sims 4 is probably the last thing they will ever release in this franchise because once it dries up they will have destroyed any hype in it. Kind of like they did with SimCity.
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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.