How many of you will try out TS5?
 

While I personally won't be moving from, let alone, purchase TS5, I can't help but wonder if there are still people who do. So here I'm asking it...

Are there any simmers that genuinely have high hopes, optimist and love for TS5/Project Renee (authentically asking, because we are all different and may see things I don't see)? And will you be playing it alongside TS4, or moving entirely from TS4 to it completely (like we used to do with TS1-TS2/TS2-TS3/TS3-TS4)? Share your thoughts and plans

It would have to look pretty damn amazing and to be made first and foremost to be played alone and in offline for me to consider hopping onto it. So far it doesn't look like it'll be either of those things so I'll be sticking with Sims 2 and 4. I've actually been having some fun with the latter lately, not because the game is good and deep but because I've been good at coming up with my own challenges in it :'D

Nah. I'm going to continue to hang with the puddings for as long as I have a interest in keeping them around. No EA App, no microtrasactions of any kind, blah, blah, blah. If TS4 were TS3, I would have stopped buying with TS2.

EA/Maxis don't owe me anything, but the crapping on TS3 got tiring within the first year of when TS4 was released. They're just now admitting that their game is screwed up. People will happily gaslight me for free, I don't have to shell out over $1,500.00 for that kind treatment. It will be interesting to see if Maxis repeats history and tosses TS4 under the bus at some point...

They'll have to go down and get it from under the burning dumpster that's under the burning train wreck, before throwing it under the bus. No doubt they'll set the bus on fire too, once they do.

Reminds me of my childhood in Belfast.

But that won't be for many years yet. As Project Rene is to work alongside, in tandem, with the life-everlasting TS4. But once they have the official replacement for TS4 ready to go, then just name the bus it'll be flung under. There will be one.

And as for the OP question. Like so many I probably wont touch Renee on release. The horror of free to play but costing an arm and a leg for everything else, online play just scares the crap out of me and my wallet.

I don't think so. I don't play TS4 and I've lost any and all faith in EA/Maxis years ago. Will stick with TS2 and TS3 for the forseeable future, as none of the sims competitors interest me all that much either. It's a shame really, I wouldn't mind having a new sims game to look forward to.

Contrary to many (most?) I actually wish there'd be something simpler in this genre to play. As much as I love and adore 2 & 3 sometimes I just don't have the energy to play anything that gets that bloated and needs to be maintained and fiddled with quite so much. At times there's just too many fires to put out. I'll never get bored of them though, which is pretty unique. Can't say that for any other game I've ever played.

Ooof!

Of course they will.

Yesterday the EA app went down. Couldn't play the game I have paid money for. Unbelievable.

It took me to November '22 before I finally tried Sims 4. Which is finally playable after numerous updates and the use of mods. I have no high hopes for 5.
5 is probably still years of, while they continue to milk Sims 4.

I'm sorry. It seems like a lot of people are having issues with the EA App.

It's interesting how Andrew Wilson continues to make millions for maintaining broken stuff...

EA CEO Andrew Wilson earned $25.6 million in FY2024

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/ea-ce...llion-in-fy2024

I find it a crime how all the other, better, Sims games lasted 4-5 years each, but the garbage that is Sims 4 has dragged on and has been milked for ten years this coming September. I was genuinely excited for the game to come out, and even paid the initial $60 some weeks or months after its release. But it's so, so disappointing. It killed my optimism of the game, and I'm very weary of Sims 5. I may watch some (non Simfluencers) gameplay of it if it comes out before I make my decision, though.

Unless somehow Will Wright comes back, or anyone who actually cares about the Sims and its longtime fans, I don't have high hopes for 5. But I do think it's possible the smug Gurus will throw Sims 4 under the bus and then gaslight people by saying "Oh, no, Sims 4 was terrible, none of us were happy with it" or some nonsense like that.

I do want to be optimistic for the competitors like Paralives and Life by You, but from what I've seen of previews and gameplay, they both look super underwhelming (?) compared to the Sims. :/

Until then, I'm sticking with Sims 1-3 and Freeplay.

Yes, well.... Life By You now looks infinitely underwhelming!

It has been axed for corporate reasons it would appear. I too would love for the days where game developers cared but these are getting hard to find... but, there are some out there!

Hell no. I didn't get TS4, I see no reason to give EA my money. That stopped in 2014. 2013? When the last expansion for TS3 came out.

Does TS1 run well on W10/11? I sold all my discs to be able to afford TS2 once upon a time so haven't played for many years, but at some point I'd love to revisit the original.

Aw, you're kidding! Just when it was "due to release" soon or something like that. :/



I have the game on discs that I got from Goodwill about 10 years ago, and I couldn't install it on windows 10 because while my discs were in good contiditon, it didn't want to install because of "missing discs" (???), so I had to give in and look for the ultimate collection digitally (apparently it's abandonware so you can download it for free). You may have to search YouTube for videos on a "Sims 1 Windows 10 Patch," that seems to have worked for my gaming laptop.

I play TS1 on my old windows 7 laptop I changed to windows XP, and haven't had any problems there. (sorry for the long response to a simple question lol)

TS5? TS5? You mean there's such an animal as TS5, and it's coming soon to a town near you?
The end of the world is closer than I thought.

I mean it's going to be free, so why wouldn't I try it? I doubt it has the open world I want, but that won't stop me from trying it out If I had to pay $59.99 for it, it would be probably no unless it got some grand reviews. Even then probably no because many of you love TS4 and I think it's meh.

Nah, I appreciate the thorough answer, thank you!

Well, guess I don't really have to regret selling those discs anymore then. Didn't even think about it possibly being abandonware now, but makes sense. Will probably have to wait until I get a used laptop though but one more reason to keep an eye out for one, for sure. I've been wanting one with XP for a while now.

Just for information, I'm running Sims 1 on Win 10 from the disc install.

You do need a nocd, and I have a widescreen patcher as well as a utility to make it run in a borderless window.
https://www.reddit.com/r/sims1/comm..._on_windows_10/
https://modthesims.info/showthread....203#post5956203

Absolutely not. I hear it's going to be a multi online player which is odd. I don't want to create an avatar to go out and talk to my friends. I'll just go out and talk to my friends. It's absurd.

Sidenote: For everyone who, like me, criticize this game (and future games) and company like I did, there are a hundred others who will purchase and download it as soon as it becomes available. I don't think we're the group you should actually ask this question.

But... but.... there are DOZENS of us!!! Dozens I tell you!


Great observation though. If you are unlucky enough to troll the EA Chat & Answers forums you will cringe at the number of people who complain about faults in their game but WILL NOT use a mod, scary. I can see TS5 catering to these people who will also lap up overpriced content

Oh really? Interesting! Worth a shot to try then. Thanks for sharing!

Of course they will. It would be silly for anybody to think that everybody will thumb their nose at something that is "free". The "free" part is EA's hook to get people into the game. Just like when TS4 base game went free. There was a ton of people talking about how the whole game with the million DLC at the time was also going to be free, then got mad when that didn't happen. I don't understand how people get to free base game to the entire game is free, but I've learned to live with it. It doesn't make sense, it will never make sense; I may as well be entertained by it. I'm expecting the same exact thing to happen with Project Nay-Nay.

It has been awhile since I did some math for Sims Mobile. Maxis is no longer making new content for it, but I needed a refresher to show just how stupidly expensive the Sims Mobile version of the game really is. Sims Mobile does things what are called campaigns. It is similar to the road maps for TS4, they just call them campaigns instead. Anywho, here's a recent list I found. I'd screenshot it, but it's a long list.

https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-D...13631410#M28550

For a mobile game that only sells less than a handful of items per 'pack', if a person were to buy everything on the list, they'd be out $166.81. Meanwhile people will get their rants on that they're being ripped off when they see numbers like these:



https://www.businessofapps.com/data...-games-revenue/

People can't think of a cheaper way to keep themselves entertained while sitting on the toilet? Just sayin'.

If people think this monetization model ( or something similar) won't be coming to Project Nay-Nay, lots of people are going to be disappointed.

I do feel like there are less and less people in community who even have any optimism for the game. I suspect on the official forums (that is, if there such a platform over to new site) even there people expressing realistic feelings towards online service / free-to-play / multiplayer the game is turning in their disfavor, all while being label haters by the sim4bussies. The delulu simmers are in much smaller and smaller numbers as time goes by. EA is failing to please and sustain their audience’s interest.

Say what? They did that twenty years ago. It was called The Sims Online and it was generally considered a failure.

I'll probably give it a go, although I am not expecting much. So long as it's free, that is. I mean, I'm always curious about Sims titles, even though there have been many that have disappointed me. I still remember the sense of wonder that came with Sims 1 and I think that just hasn't ever burned out for me.

They keep trying. They never stopped trying to make a successful version of The Sims Online. It's like how they put all their chickens on the Urbz being a hit... So much so that they literally rushed out two entire console games (that turned out to be better) to keep up the hype through the delays... From the very start EA's influence and expectations from this series have been nonsensical.

It's free so why wouldn't I try it? I'm not expecting to like it, but who knows?

Once I can, I'll sail the seven seas to get it. Yo ho.

Maybe in TS5, sims will be cleaning dishes in the toilet bowl while angry poo is not flushed, dare you encounter such bug if all vacabt faucets get broken. Or maybe with the swimming pool (less disgusting possibilityh, once theiy’re patched in ofc (sacrifised made so Sims can get mad while cooking as a revolutionary feature)

Smarter Sims and Intuitive Physics be the motto.

If this free-to-play thing is real (I haven't been keeping up with the news much), I'll be skipping it. I don't like the ftp model and I simply won't support it. I'd rather spend money and get a full pack than spend money on an individual item.


Wright doesn't care about the sims anymore, he hasn't cared about the series since the University EP for TS2, which was the last time iirc that he was directly involved in development for the series. Have you ever noticed that when you watch interviews and such with Wright and The Sims comes up he talks about it more in a philosophical view? That's because Wright isn't a gamer, nor a simmer. He simply uses video games to test out ideas he has. Some of his ideas (SimCity, The Sims) turned out the commercial successes, while other ideas (Spore) were commercial failures.

Most (all?) the OG game designers and musicians that worked together to make Wright's ideas a reality have either left or been sacked long ago. They aren't going to come back to a company that more-or-less gave them the middle finger in the end, at least not the smart ones.

I'll wait for the reviews, especially LGR's, but I will try it. I didn't start playing Sims 4 until 2018, I think, because it was originally so ridiculously limited I've been playing Maxis games almost my entire life (since SimCity 2000), so even knowing Maxis is no longer Maxis I can't help but give them a shot.

For a 2014 game, there should been no reason for such limitations. Somebody on instagram, under LoveStruck trailer video, they defended Maxis insinting on some economic/pandemic/crisis bullshit why Sims Team couldn’t deliver what we asked. I get where the person with empathy is coming from, but if we gonna appease (appeal?) to feeling pity and just accept that “making games ain’t easy / super hard, so we’ll eat it up like burned/unseasoned staks” we may as well stick to mediocore DLC and not switch to orher game, even if competition like Paralives/Inzoi manage to prove us that said bullshit is leading us nowhere.

Making video games is insanely difficult, but watching multi billion dollar companies cry poor is laughable. We watch them try to sell as little content for as much as possible with 4, so I expect nothing less from 5.

The said person said we shouldnt expect Love Strucks features be patched in because somewhat it cuts down developers salary “the team deserves to be paid” and the person is happy that their RL hairstyle was implemented.


With the voices of said fans, its no wonder why partly the franchise is doomed, lol.

If that's the excuse, I've got a newsflash for that person. Covid hasn't / isn't going away. This is coming from a person that has Covid at the moment because somebody brought the creeping crud home. Where did the crap come from? Can't walk into any store without somebody hacking up a lung all over themselves, everybody (and everything) around them. Not talking about children here; these are adults acting this way.

The pandemic didn't keep Andrew Wilson from getting a million-plus dollar bonuses. The pandemic didn't force Maxis to make decision that suddenly game packs are expansion packs and so on.

There will always be people that will defend Maxis / EA no matter what they do. If they want to die on that hill, they're allowed to do that. However, all a person has to do is look at the state of TS4 to see how well all the empathy worked out. If the My Wedding Stories live stream didn't clue people in on how little care is going into this game, I don't know what will.

Even before pandemic, not was much dfferent. The base game was bare, and we were given party items and lousy single new world to walk in for a gamepack. If somebody wants to feel pity for a game that encourafes players to shell out 1000$ for an ALMOST complete experience, than so be it. But they better be not demanding and crying Maxis to fix the game (when a patch makes it no longer run), behind two-faced comment.

ETA: I believe I once pointed out, how they no longer hides flaws in their screenshots (I think it was a room/kitchen on top of my memory) and even trailers now (https://youtu.be/asWeQBA_2Qs?si=3wHNc7eWnS7JiRND Snatch found a glitch with curve pools). I do get the game is broken and this stuff is common in TS4, but its funny how whoever checks these media files don’t even quality-check their screenshots/videos of bugs occuring, lol. Way to go Maxis! Shows how many fucks are give.

Nope, I am not interested in anything else Sims related that EA has it's dirty hands in. They have ruined city building and the joy of The Sims in general. If I get that ich to play, I can load up sims 3 or 2. I have my Sims 3 on steam, so I don't even have to deal with the launcher anymore.

The fact that the Sims 4 with all it's expansions, stuff, and game packs is over 1k to purchase is disgusting.

There are more promising sims like games in the future coming to us. I'll wait. In the meantime, I've expanded my game playing options by exploring different types of games out there that are nothing like the sims. It's a good time to be into the gaming right now.

If it's going to be an online game, absolutely not. The Sims 4 already tests my patience enough with its atrocious monetisation methods, there are like 4 different styles of ads IN GAME, but at least it's an offline moddable game. Thankfully other games are plotting to take the life sim throne from EA 😍
I will be sticking with The Sims 2 (and 4 I guess) for now.

If it will be free I will certainly try it. Whether I will really play it or not is, of course, another question.

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ETA: no I won't. There will be no Sims 5; only Sim 4 DLC, at least in this millennium.