EA is, as always, convinced they know their players want better than the players do themselves.
Today, that attitude is directed at fans ofThe Sims 4, with EA remaining adamant thatthey don’t really want The Sims 5,no matter how much they think they do.
That’s not to say that EA isn’t currently developing new things for The Sims. They’ve been working on a multiplayer project for the series,codenamed Project Rene, for a few years now, not to mention yet morenew expansions for The Sims 4.
We’ve also known since last year thatthere’s a movie in the worksfrom Amazon MGM Studios and Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap Entertainment.
However, as far as the core single-player games go, EA is still trying to convince fans that they don’t really want a new entry in the franchise.
‘Resetting That Is Not Player Friendly’
This most recent case of EA telling their fans what they want comes from aVarietyinterview with EA Entertainment president Laura Miele.
She’s sure that sticking with The Sims 4 indefinitely is best for the fans, mostly because of thedozens of content packs and expansionsthat have already been released for the game,and if they released a new mainline entry, players would need to start all over from scratch.
“What I wouldn’t want to have happen,” Miele explains, “is you to have to start from day zero and start from scratch and give up all of the things that you have created, give up all of the content that you’ve purchased over the years.”
We put out over 85 content packs over the last 10 years on ‘The Sims 4,’ and so resetting that is not player friendly and not a good idea for our community. – Laura Miele
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On the one hand, I kind of get where she’s coming from. Players have potentially put hundreds of dollars and uncountable hours into this one entry, so being pushed on to the next game where they’d suddenly lose everything they’ve accumulated and built over the years could sting.
On the other hand, though, The Sims 4 is over 10 years old at this point, and fans understandably want something fresh, especially since many consider the game to be borderline impossible to get into unless you’re willing to shell out hundreds of dollars for the expansions that add things that, in their eyes, should have been in the base game.
The exact reason why EA thinks fans shouldn’t want The Sims 5 is one they’ve created themselves by inundating them with those dozens of expansions and other packs over the last decade.
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