Comment on Sims 4 devs assemble team to focus on fixing bugs and upping performance

• Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t even know how I feel about this. On the one hand, it’s great we’re moving away from 4 which was always a shitshow to begin with, on the other hand I have no faith whatsoever 5 is going to be even on par with 4.

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  • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m both hopeless and optimistic at the same time. I want it to be good so I’ll reserve judgement until we get actual concrete info.

    Yeah, I got sick of the way they dealt with dlc for 4. Early on it was still kind of annoying but if you were of a certain persuasion you could look past it. But compared to how it ended up being, the early days of 4 expansions now look like heaven.

    Instead of playing 4 I’ve been messing around with XP and playing 1, 2 and the Stories games. I’m sad the series had ended up how it is but I’m glad of the earlier games still though and they bring me endless joy.

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• Mini_Moonpie@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Where did you see that they are no longer making new content for Sims 4? The article doesn’t seem to say so and the last I heard they planned to release content for Sims 4 alongside Sims 5. FYI, I would prefer they stop with Sims 4 content.

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  • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It didn’t explicitly say. I’m reading between the lines of the PR speak.

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    • Mini_Moonpie@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh okay. A while back, their VP Lyndsay Pearson explicitly said they plan for Sims 4 to continue to exist side by side with Project Rene (aka Sims 5). I was wondering if that had changed. My cynical take on the plan to keep both going is that Sims 5 is probably going to be a live service abomination, which they wanted Sims 4 to be, so keeping Sims 4 might be hedge in case Sims 5 fails hard. Of course, they could also have been lying.

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