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submitted 11 months ago by geosoco@kbin.social to c/games@sh.itjust.works

The next Sims game currently goes under the name Project Rene rather than The Sims 5, but that aside, we know a growing amount about EA Maxis' next social simulation. During today's latest Behind The Sims community update, they shared more, including the news that the next entry in the series would be free-to-play and without energy mechanics or a subscription.

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[-] drekly@lemmy.world 53 points 11 months ago

Ah, so the sims is dead, I see.

[-] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 17 points 11 months ago

It's also soon to be astroturfed to hell and back with "omg let people enjoy things" and the "stop having FUN" comic any time people mention how dogshit this is.

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 14 points 11 months ago

RIP Maxis. Who knows what kinds of awesome stuff we could have had. Oh well, at least Cities Skylines 2 is on the way. Haven't played a Sims game in a long time but had such a blast with the earlier entries in the series.

[-] doctorcrimson@sh.itjust.works 16 points 11 months ago

RIP Maxis and like 50 other studios that EA bought and dissolved over the decades.

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago

Still haven't emotionally recovered from Westwood

[-] drekly@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

And Bullfrog

[-] Squizzy@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

I loved Tiberian Sun and the Red Alerts

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 11 points 11 months ago

Good thing there's that spiritual successor (paralives) coming down the pike

[-] Iunnrais@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Haven’t heard of paralives. The one I’m familiar with is “Life by You” from Paradox. I’m hoping for cities skylines integration, which is why I have my eye on that one, even if it is a different developer it’s the same publisher so there’s hope…

(Sorry if you briefly saw a billion duplicate comments from me— Memmy suddenly crashed and when it reopened it seems to have just kept reposting again and again. I think I deleted all the copies now)

[-] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 26 points 11 months ago

Prepare for microtransaction hell

[-] MountainWizard@feddit.de 6 points 11 months ago

Just by reading the headline I can tell that's will be a terrible Game. But it will make a lot of money.

[-] fogetaboutit@programming.dev 12 points 11 months ago

If sims 5 doesnt allow my sims to exit the house without loading screen, then it isnt worth it

[-] geosoco@kbin.social 13 points 11 months ago

The loading screen is optional DLC. Definitely not a micro-transaction. Just very small DLC.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 points 11 months ago

I want to actually watch them do their jobs, too. Not just enter a building and forcing me to watch time go by for the 8 hours they are there. I don't care if they're just packing boxes for Samazon; I mean, I will watch them watching TV. Watching them do boring stuff isn't that boring.

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago

Agreed. Working is the worst part of the Sims. They make you just fucking sit there for all that time staring at the outside of a building

[-] fogetaboutit@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

yeah, jobs on sims 3 is basically entering a building and waiting. With an occasional prompt about "what should your sims do?"

[-] Squander@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Its free-to-play but you need to buy the housing/eating/sleeping/jobs/relationships DLC.

[-] PM_ME_FEET_PICS@sh.itjust.works 10 points 11 months ago

Pretty sure they already had decent free to play Sims games on mobile a long time ago. Not sure how good the current one is.

The current base game is free to play as well with paid DLC. So they are taking the form that works for them.

People will by DLC if they want to and others get to enjoy a the base game for free.

The Sims has been pretty shit since the Sims 3.

[-] doctorcrimson@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

Sims 4 base game is actually already free on steam. I hear from a good friend, not me personally, that it has some great porn mods on the lovers lab site. Some bad mods, too.

[-] hydroel@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The Sims 4 base game is already free. So if I'm understanding this correctly, EA, of all game publishers, is announcing that, against all odds, a free-to-play game with in-game MTX is an efficient business model that they want to promote? This might not be related at all that the Sims has always been a license that caters to the general, not particularly gamer audience.

[-] Toribor@corndog.social 5 points 11 months ago

With Sims 4 already being F2P this announcement just means they are once again going to resell the same content back to you at a premium. Piecing up their game even more.

[-] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago

We're releasing 100 chairs each sold separately.

[-] Hyrulian@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Whelp at least Paralives could be fun? Or that other one being worked on by Paradox? We honestly just need someone to save us at this point. Anything else would do so well even if it wasn't quite as polished. It just needs to be feature complete at launch.

[-] Summzashi@lemmy.one 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Life by you is the Paradox one, it honestly doesn't look good.

[-] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

Looks like a porn game without the porn

[-] RixMixed@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago

Give the modders at least an hour.

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 11 months ago

An hour!? More like when the game launches.

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