The Sims 5 Announcement Outrages Fans

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Key points

  • Last week EA announced that it has no plans for The Sims 5 and will instead focus its development efforts on TS4.
  • Fans are not happy with the decision and are declaring The Sims series “dead” while they wait for new competitors.



Last week, EA announced that The Sims 5 will not be made. Instead, it will continue to support the decade-old Sims 4 with even more expansions and updates, which the community is not taking kindly to.

“Rest in peace, Sims franchise,” reads the top post on the subreddit, declaring the series dead after 24 years. Many in the comments were quick to agree, with one fan suggesting they might want to look elsewhere for their life-sim fix.

“I might eventually become more passionate about InZoi and Paralives than a series I’ve dedicated more than half my life to,” one commenter responded. “I hope they don’t disappoint me so much.”

The Sims series is truly dead.


One of the main reasons EA decided not to move forward with The Sims 5 was to avoid a complete reboot, believing that fans would be upset at losing all the progress they've made over the past decade with each expansion and stuff pack, not to mention the money they've spent buying them all.

This is a sentiment that some in the community agree with, as evidenced by another notable post, “I Wouldn’t Mind Sims 5,” in which the author states that “it would be a shame for us to have a basic game” and that we should “wait for it to recover,” but not everyone agrees with this sentiment.


Some fans want to start over with a new foundation

A photo of Sims talking in The Sims 3.


“You don't have to start over, you don't have to buy the new game, and no one is going to take the old one,” one response reads. “I really don't understand why we can't have both: a new game for people to enjoy. [if] want while people who don't want to “start over” can continue playing Sims 4.”

Another commenter added: “You don't have to restart, you can just keep playing TS4. I played TS3. So if they made a TS5, it wouldn't change anything. It's been ten years and the game is worse than ever.”

I think many players who have not played the other Sims games would share this opinion.

Wherever you go, one thing is clear: focusing all the attention on The Sims 4 is an incredibly controversial move, which is not surprising given that The Sims 4 is one of the most controversial titles. But hey, we can always go back and continue playing TS3, eh?


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