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No 'Sims 5' Coming as EA Updates Franchise With Multiplayer (variety.com)
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[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This is what everyone wanted! Another "as a service" game! Oh, and look, a store front!

and partner with some “Sims” players to sell their own custom in-game content through the EA store as “Creator Kits.”

Would those "players" be musicians? 100% someone is already trying to figure out how to "collab" with Katy Perry. Big IPs of other franchises (movies/games/anime)? Are they going to do limited timed events to really push the FOMO? Did they see Fortnite and thought "Lets do that!".

[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Sims multiplayer sounds like it could be fun, but it is highly dependant on how that is implemented. The other "features" just sound like shareholder porn.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 12 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Sims multiplayer sounds like it could be fun

Me, who remembers The Sims Online: 🤣

[–] Naz@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

Making pizzas in slave-like conditions

"Mmmh, this sure beats pressing fast forward for 8 hours in single player"

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Pretty much exactly what I thought of.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh no, I never got to play online. Why wasn't it fun?

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There wasn't anything to do. The whole loop of the game was basically akin to making a carnival midway and trying to sucker other players into your home to have their sims pay your sims for crap they could have used in their own home. All so you can buy better attractions for more money.

I imagine a new version would simply change the sims paying other sims to players paying EA directly.

[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Hell, I still have the CD installer. And I think the soundtrack CD.

I did enjoy the puzzle houses people would make though.

[–] Peffse@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I gave FreeSO a try since it's an open-source implementation of Sims Online, but the hookability wasn't there. We've come so far from the days of Sims 1...

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nah, they just see all the paid Sims 4 mods and want a cut for that.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 5 points 1 week ago

"New fix for the broken game we released out now! Only $12.99!"

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I mean, it’s better than them releasing a Sims 5 and making people buy their hundreds of DLCs all over again, no?