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[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I think the real news is that they are no longer making new content cause the new mainline game is now all hands on deck with whoever's leftover just working on minor updates for 4 now

[–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months 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.

[–] Mini_Moonpie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Mini_Moonpie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months 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.