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If EA puts genAI in the Sims, that will be the last straw for me and I would never touch Sims again. I don't care if it's "optional" just as I don't care that it's going to be optional in InZoi. GenAI has no place in the creative space and if games get away with putting it in "because it's optional" that still sends a message that more games can do it if the game succeeds and then eventually it won't be an opt in thing anymore and just be a full feature of the game itself. I refuse to support that shit. Wonder if there's a place to send feedback -- if they'll even regard any feedback given or just ignore it.
It feels to me like they're gearing up to transform The Sims base game into something entirely new and groundbreaking. I believe they’re preparing to roll out a monumental update that will completely revitalize the game, overhauling everything from the user interface to the worlds, and making every element feel fresh and exciting. Project Renee seems to be more than just an expansion-it’s shaping up to be a full-scale reimagining of The Sims 4, rebuilding it from the ground up, and recreating core features like Create-a-Sim with a bold, modern twist. This could be the most ambitious update we've ever seen for the franchise!
10:45 I absolutely DON'T WANT an open world Sims. I'm not going to play a Sims MMO or a Sims RPG like Sims 3. I hated that game. Sims 3 was the worst in the franchise. It ran like dog turds.
Project Rene was never Sims 5. It's Sims Mobile on PC. Simmers, Simfluencers & the Media declared it was & y'all just let yourselves refuse to accept reality. EA got y'all good.
as a life long player, no sims 5 is still a shot to the heart. i've been looking forward to the next sims most of my life at this point. hoping to see the title evolve, new mechanics, new townies, new lore. Returning characters and lore. Getting missed features back. All of the hope. I'm sad.
@@IronSeagull it truly is. there’s been a lot of life sim content recently and it’s hard sifting through the pro and anti ai people- wish everyone made it this clear!
Also, since the Sims team want to keep the Sims 4 going, I WOULD LIKE to SEE some MORE improvements made to this 10 year old game. And PLEASE have LESS buggy-ness on uodates and patches IF possible. I am ok for now with playing the Sims 4 but I WOULD LIKE to also SEE some Serious changes,some GOOD changes made to this game still. Maby give us MORE good game play. Maybe Better packs. ANYTHING at this point. Just MAKE things BETTER for this game.somehow. please EA. Things HAVE GOT to Change for this game It just HAS to. 👍✌
Not shocked about MySims coming back, its kinda perfect for Switch and an easy way to get into the cozy games market. Sims 4 just won’t run on the switch with its 5 billion expansions. The Renee - Sims 4 - Mobile Game connected universe scares me. The AI bit, hate it and I don’t buy that it will even work. The text search and filters don’t even work properly.
Not so sure about this whole AI thing they are doing. The Sims 4 team really? Again NOT to sure. Guess we'll HAVE to WAIT and see what that is about. 😐🤔✌
Yeah I agree with you. I I like the idea that the search AI with using pictures because that is helpful for people who have illiteracy issues, Yes, most people who are over 13 and older shouldn't have an issue with that but you always have some that do. Especially if their language isn't represented in the Sims. It'll also be useful for something like mysims something geared for younger. Although they'll have to be more careful with what's suitable for that particular game. * I wanted to roll my eyes at first by the introduction of AI But I do see your point with that one, but everything else sounds like a pretty bad idea.
I usually don't pay much attention to this type of presentation. This is mostly for investors and investment groups. That's why AI is mentioned; it's the hottest new thing right now. Back a year ago, it was NFTs. It attracts investors. It's not for simmers, not really. I just hate the vague language they use, but that's an industry standard at this point. 😔
OK my question is this: I found 2 new files in my game folder this morning. one is GPU Benchmark Results and the other is GPU Score Results - when I looked it seems my gpu 'passed' but......what does this portend? o.O
MORE kits? That seems overwhelming. While I can see years worth of content since gameplay is lacking (hotels, cars, fairies, bands, future, etc) unless the creator kits also include gameplay, I won't be very excited. They need to step up the GAMEPLAY content in TS4 IMO. Especially if they plan on continuing it for years. I can see Rene being a new "basegame" that TS4 sims can visit/comingle - in this way they could provide a fresh, modern take but still "continue" TS4.
It seems like a mistake to me to start splitting the franchise into many little pieces. There were spinoff Sims games around the time of Sims 2 that were actually great, but they were niche. But most of us still played the mainline Sims games, because in the past those games could be pretty much everything the spinoffs were. We could make stories with them, we could build, we could be horrible to our Sims or we could be very kind to our Sims. We could set up elaborate challenges and situations, make movies, post story blogs, and so forth. We could play it as a cozy game or we could mod it into a crime game. Once they start splitting it up into pieces and once they inevitably stop releasing gameplay content (because to me, it seems like creator kits are meant to serve as microtransactions to keep the game alive past its expiration date--the engine cannot take much more as far as updates go), they will lose the benefit of the mainline game's broad appeal to a wide variety of players, and that will mean they will start to lose a lot of players. People will move on to Paralives and inZOI, but there are likely to be other life simulations released in the future that will fill the niche of the mainline Sims games better than those two games will.
Considering how much money some of us have invested in Sims 4, I am glad they are still focused on it rather than just dumping it for a Sims 5 which would require starting to invest all over again. - I also rarely buy kits so not that fussed about them. I buy ones I like and ignore ones I don't. I do kinda wish I had a Nintendo Switch now as I haven't played My Sims in years and that would be fun. The Sims movie...I'm really curious what it is going to be. The Sims is ripe for comedy, poking fun at itself and all the odd little quirks in game. I just hope they keep it fun and fluffy, though a Sims slasher where Grim goes on a rampage could be fun too.
It'll probably involve people who can't figure out how to walk around a plate set down on the floor and doors and pool ladders mysteriously disappearing.
Personally, I'm glad that they're not doing a Sims 5 and just focusing on improving/adapting/updating Sims4. I've spent a lot of money and put a lot of time into this game. I would not play the Sims 5 just because I don't want to have to repurchase all the content and rebuild legacies, etc., etc. The way I understood this was that they are going to continue to work on Sims 4 and incorporate new technology. That's the thing with games these days - they can be constantly updated. Edit: I'm glad they aren't giving up on improving Sims 4. While it doesn't look like there will be a "Sims 5", they ARE making other life Sims (which may have exactly what is missing from the Sims 4 - and there's plenty of companies joining the life sim genre. In short: the Sims 4 isn't going away, and there WILL be other life Sims. (We get to eat our cake and have it too.)
Sims 4's engine is just not great and there's a lot it doesn't support even with updates. While I don't especially relish the idea of buying hundreds of dollars of packs all over again, a Sims 5 could have given us graphics and lighting updates, better optimization, better customization options (i.e. color wheels, possibly the return of Create-A-Style), open worlds with higher Sims populations in appropriate areas (i.e. few people in rural areas, but lots of Sims wandering in cities), and a strong foundation in an engine that would allow for easier future updates, modding, etc. without as much risk of breaking. My understanding is that Sims 4 actually mishmashed multiple programming languages, which certainly hasn't helped its tendency to break with every update. So, my take is that if we had to be stuck with one iteration of the Sims going forward into perpetuity, I'd prefer that it should be a version that didn't start out broken and stay that way. I'd be happy with a Sims 5, assuming it wasn't as broken as Sims 4 has been.
I've been ready to move on since Island Living came out. No matter what fixes or content they bring to The Sims 4, this game will never be what 2 and 3 were. It's been a freaking decade! Why is the worst sims tittle the one that lasts longer? Instead of building a solid new game that can compete with upcoming "rivals" they will milk it until they can't do it anymore. If it fails it will be over, because it's EA we are talking about. I'm sorry if i'm being negative but as a long time simmer that doesn't love The Sims 4, I genuinly feel that they just announced the slow death of The Sims franchise. I don't see how keeping The Sims 4 (already kinda dated), an online multiplayer crap and other crap mobile games will compete with games like Inzoi and Paralives. Also, a movie? I feel like in the past decacde they've been more focused on pop culture rather than making a good game. As long as they earn their dollars, they just don't care. It's over!
Island Living... I went back to play that a while back and try playing a mermaid. It's just as shallow and broken as I remember, and it's not even mitigated by having dive spots and houseboats like Sims 3 did. It could've been so much cooler than it ended up being.
A Sonic movie also seemed horrible (and had a horrific character design that got so much backlash they redesigned him) yet here we are with what started reviving the Sonic games
My boyfriend used to joke about a Sims movie back in 2002, which was the time of Sims 2 and I thought that was ridiculous 'cause The Sims is just a simulation of real life. Now if they focus on a lore or maybe make it a comedy with Sims 1 and 2 humor, then that'd be interesting.
The idea of a Sims movie is really cool. I actually would like something like some skids that are here on RU-vid where basically a regular dude gets traped into the Sims world where the weird stuff happens. So that would be a little bit more in the direction of the barbie movie. Which could make sense considering who is working on it. Although I hope they do a better job, because the people who made the barbie movie made a beautiful set and beautiful songs, but the actual plot and storyline was absolutely awful. They basically adopted the idea of people who don't know and sdon't like Barbie and doesn't know how she's usually portrayed in her own movies. They just stripped her of all the personality and the character that that character was always portrayed with in her own media. they shat on values she stood for and the lessons she taught. it was a pain to watch a character I loved to be done dirty like that. So I hope they don't do that with the Sims.
There was never ever any sign of a sims 5. They will do for years, what they do now, expand the Sims 4. More Packs, more Kits, more Basegame Updates. There is Stuff for years and years....
The sims is a wobbly tower built upon a foundation that was already questionable from the get go. Building upon it even further doesn't seem like a smart move. I enjoy this game and don't want this tower to collapse and leave an unplayable ruin. Creator kits just feel like EA is going to make us officially pay for CC. I am sure the kits will look great and the CC creators involved are very talented. But it feels like the end of CC as we know it. If project Rene is going to be online and multiplayer, then PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do all the time limited events over on that platform and not on the sims 4. I am already dreading the 24th with the grim reaper event. I can't play this game every day and I don't want to feel forced by EA to play on their terms to acces items that will otherwise be unobtainable forever and ever.
Am I the only one who feels like EA and Maxis just don't understand their audience and what the fans want? I remember thinking in 2018, that The Sims 4 needs to en soon, cause it is dead... And now here e are. They are sticking with this dead game
A lot of people do want to keep playing Sims 4 because they bought so many packs. But, it's not built on a good engine, and even with massive patches there is only so much they can do to make it work going forward. My suspicion is that the creator kits will become microtransaction content that fuels the game going forward, and if this works for them they will soon stop releasing packs and expansions and focus more on mobile games and similar products that produce more income. They seem to be shifting their focus more toward both mobile and cozy games, but meanwhile they have a massive audience of long-time adult Sims fans who would probably eagerly welcome an edgier, M-rated release of the game that could tackle more adult concepts without skirting around them by using alternative words. I don't think EA will ever give us that, though.
The base of the sims 4 is bad. What they built the base on his considered old because it was 2013 and bad because all the bugs that we get. If they release a new game the base would be updated and we would experience less bugs hopefully that’s why we need a sim 5
Oh joy MORE updates or a patch. Something that MAY or May NOT be buggy. Could the team just for ONCE SEND US A UPDATE OR PATCH THAT DOES NOT HAVE BUGGS AND MESS UP OUR GAME EVEN MORE?! Sorry if I come off sounding upset/mad. But any time I have gotten a update or a patch it HAS in SOME darn way MESSED UP MY GAME!! I don't want a buggy update or buggy patch. Does the team even take the TIME to TEST these updates or patches. BEFORE just sending them OUT to US?! Just wondering. 😠😤👎 its almost like forgetting Some one's B-day.:(
Also this is just a thought but It would be interesting if there was a system or update or something that would let us make our sime be half human sims and half vampires Or maybe even half wherewolfs half Human sims. Again just thought. doubt that Ea/sims team would DO something like that. But just thought it would be interesting to see in this game at leaste. 👍✌
I doubt they'd do anything with hybrids for occults that not everyone has, it would take too much effort. A modder might do it. Sims 2 actually let you hybridize almost any kind of occult sim with any other type, but Sims 3 and 4 both actively tried to prevent that happening.
I really don't see the attraction of open worlds - The Sims 3 worlds seemed so empty to me and some of the later sims 4 worlds, like the For Rent world feels similar. I love the festivals in City Living, for example, where sims tend to gather together. I do agree about the bugs that keep compiling the more content that gets introduced - I really hope they have a plan. I do enjoy this version of The Sims now we have more of the content that was missing at release, it's just the bugs that frustrate me.
I feel the same way. I didn’t like Sims 3 as much as 2, and I actually enjoy 4 more now that there’s actual content in the game and it doesn’t feel like early access anymore.
Sims 3 suffered from bugs in implementation and from being too advanced for the computers of the time. It struggled enough with packs and that's before you add in crowds of sims it would have to simulate and would still get stuck on broken maps. I still enjoy Sims 2 and 3, and honestly in many ways prefer them to Sims 4. I don't hate Sims 4, but sometimes its gameplay does seem significantly more shallow than previous games, and its engine clearly can't handle much more. It seems like a bad idea to keep updating it, unless the plan is to let content creators take over with the creator content program, and start only releasing creator packs in the near future while the focus shifts to other franchise-related projects. Edited to add: My point is just I feel like Sims 4 can't take much more no matter how many fixes they put into it. They should've just worked on Sims 5, but now they've openly said that's not happening, they've also opened the door to any competitor companies (aside from inZOI and Paralives creators) that may want to give life simulation a try.
Have seen all the sonic movies.and loved them and still DO. Can't wait to see the NEW Sonic movie too. Also. SIMS MOVIE? UMM..OOK. wonder what that would be like. WILL the actors have the sims plum bob ove thier heads. Lol. just a thought but that would be an interesting idea. I mean, its the SIMS. But just as a movie. Unless its gonna be more like the Barbie movie. 🤔🤔✌ The NEXT thing ya know, is the twam will be NEEDING to SEND out some emergency patch to FIX what ever problem the first patch or uodate casused! NOT cool Sims team. Just saying. If your gonna keep Sims 4 going for as ling as you guys CAN than the leaste you guys could DO is send out uodates or patches that ARE LESS buggy and LESS glitchy. It allways seems to be the SAME thing guys OVER and OVER! Just TIRED of it already! Just CHECK your updates or patches BEFORE U guys SEND them OUT PLEASE EA/Sims team. PLEASS for the SAKE of the fans and the 10 year old GAME. Also, wish you guys HAD DID simethibg special the this gamw 10 th b-day still SHOCKED about that one! Not even so mu h as a KIT or a stuff pack at leaste for that time. Really Guys!? N ONLY A few days later we gets Kits but NOTTA to DO with the The Sims 4 game's 10th B-day. Thats just SAD guys :( 😠👎
I played sims 1 and loved it but when sims 2 was announced (I STILL watch the trailer all the time) my life changed forever. Haha. I loved sims 2 and married Angela Pleasant. We had twin daughters. Now in sims 4 I've continued our family legacy with new generations.
kits and the like are just excuses for ea to cheap out on packs and content. just as the next simulation game running alongside ts4 is yet another way for ea to keep Boths Hands in players pockets.
Creator kits are a way for them to sneakily end support while still bringing in money and claiming the game is technically still receiving content and support. They won't need a team to develop them because content creators do it. My guess is it's the end times for any gameplay-related packs going forward. We might get another year or two of expansions and/or gamepacks, but I wouldn't bet on it.
Well, there's Paralives and inZOI already on their way, so even if those are not to your liking, perhaps someone else out there is working on a new life simulation game at this very moment that will do everything you could hope for.
@@brassbuckles Yes. I have supported Paralives since shortly after they started the project and will definitely play it when it comes out. Still, I have a strong sentimental attachment to The Sims as I have played it since the week it showed up in software stores. (The only purchase option back then.) I especially liked how each iteration expanded on the previous one(s) - except for TS4. Now it looks like TS4 will be the last edition for those of us who don't want to play multiplayer, mobile, etc. Oh well - such is life :)
Mixed feelings about them draging out making the sims 5. It means that they're working hard on it to at least makeing it playable but while they're doing that they keep putting out packs for the sims 4 and I don't know for how long it's going to be substainable for them to keep updating it.
I don't think it is sustainable much longer. The engine wasn't ever built to be that robust. Sims 4 will likely be sustained on content creator packs going forward after the next year or so, instead of receiving further gameplay packs (unless those can also be made by content creators/modders). EA seems more interested in focusing on MySims and mobile content now. Project Rene is meant to be the next mainline sims game, so Sims 5 is not going to be a thing. Project Rene sounds like a multiplayer reboot, and multiplayer is one thing I really don't want in my Sims games. Too much risk of interference, intentional or accidental.
EA NEVER said anything about a "Sims 5". They have always referred to the next iteration as Project Rene. Why are gamers still trying to call it "Sims 5" instead of Project Rene? This makes no sense to me. Gamers continue to set themselves up for disappointment instead of actually listening to what EA is saying. I love MySims!! Lets Play!! Woo Hoo!!!
As I’ve said many times before, SimGuruLyndsay said it’s the “next generation of The Sims” when she first revealed Project Rene in that Behind The Sims Summit. So instead of blaming gamers, I blame EA and Maxis for their confusing communication
Next generation implies it's the 5th game on the timeline. people also call SimCity 2013 SimCity 5 when it was actually a reboot failure that they seem to forget.
I think in that case they could just stop making Sims games. They didn’t just wait for the previous games to become unprofitable. I don’t know if we ever would’ve made it to Sims 2 if they went by that logic? Or if they did, it would’ve taken many long years
I don't think we will get the Sims 5 at all. I also think splitting the Sims up into subgenres will hurt the franchise, since part of its mass appeal was that it had aspects that appealed to a wide variety of people and playstyles. If Project Rene does not deliver that, it'll be the end of the Sims, and hopefully some other company will pick up life simulations (other than the takes provided by Paralives and inZOI) and do the job better than EA did.
