EA Isn't Considering The Sims 5 Right Now Because 'It's Not Player-Friendly' To Expect Fans To 'Give Up All of the Content That You’ve Purchased Over the Years'

EA has opened up astir the destiny of its hugely fashionable The Sims franchise, offering a sneaky tease astir what to expect from the upcoming multiplayer game, and wherefore we astir apt shouldn't expect The Sims 5 immoderate clip soon.

In an interrogation with Variety, EA Entertainment president Laura Miele said that a multiplayer spin-off from The Sims "represents 1 of the biggest maturation opportunities for EA," teasing that the squad is "hard astatine enactment and feverishly processing what this [multiplayer] level is going to be."

“What we’re doing is upgrading and refreshing each this technology, and we’ll beryllium adding modes of play — but we besides are going to beryllium creating and updating the basal exertion and the basal idiosyncratic acquisition connected the halfway game,” Miele said.

“So you’re going to person this beingness simulation, you’re going to person multiplayer capabilities, we are going to person mobile expressions of this. We’re doing cozy games arsenic good and much to travel connected that. We did a merchandise with Nintendo connected cozy games successful Asia for The Sims. I spot The Sims arsenic a important ecosystem, and a beingness of aggregate Sims experiences that we person to physique on.”

If you were hoping for a hint that The Sims 5 is connected the way, however, brace yourself for disappointment — Miele said that it wouldn't beryllium "player-friendly" to merchandise a caller crippled with its assemblage has invested truthful overmuch clip and wealth successful The Sims 4.

“What I wouldn’t privation to person hap is you to person to commencement from time zero and commencement from scratch and springiness up each of the things that you person created, springiness up each of the contented that you’ve purchased implicit the years,” Miele said. “We enactment retired implicit 85 contented packs implicit the past 10 years connected The Sims 4, and truthful resetting that is not player-friendly and not a bully thought for our community.

“Where we beryllium today, from a exertion perspective, innovation perspective, we are successful a infinitesimal wherever we tin really co-create contented and beryllium a multiplier for each different and person these large experiences for fans,” Miele said. “It’s going to beryllium truthful afloat ellipse and truthful fulfilling to bring contented successful a linear mode and an interactive way, simultaneously, and adjacent person it accommodate to fans and however things are going. When we person a mates of ideas astir however we would spell to marketplace with a movie and a mates of antithetic expressions, I conscionable deliberation the accidental is truthful ripe.”

Project Rene — the codenamed crippled initially thought to beryllium The Sims 5 until EA distanced itself from those rumors — was archetypal teased successful 2022 during a Behind the Sims Summit. It's a free-to-play Sims crippled that features multiplayer inspired by Animal Crossing and Among Us. It hasn't yet been formally revealed oregon received a merchandise date, but EA has been holding small, invite-only playtests for the crippled since its announcement, with the latest playtest presumably spawning these caller leaks.

The sanction Rene was chosen due to the fact that it references words similar "renewal, renaissance, and rebirth" that "represent the developer's renewed committedness for the Sims' agleam future."

Last October, however, images of Project Rene leaked from a closed online test, prompting complaints astir the creation style, constricted features, and the usage of microtransactions. It was the summation of a café that drew the astir skepticism, chiefly owed to the smiliaries to 2018's The Sims Mobile. It was past that EA said Project Rene was not The Sims 5 but would, successful fact, beryllium a antithetic "cozy, societal game" released nether The Sims franchise.

Another video purportedly taken from the adjacent iteration of The Sims besides popped up online earlier this year, and that excessively did not spell down good with fans.

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