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.