#Project Rene

[simnostalgia]

The funniest thing about the news that project rene WON'T be a hard cut from TS4 to TS5 is that it makes me think that they were like "oh let's float this to the community and see if they like it..."

Then when we REALLY didn't it was like "OH JK, It's not part of the mainline series. Another 10 years of TS4!!!" So they're basically telling us without telling us like "yeah,,, we don't really believe in our product either. It's uh... not great."

Each piece of news is more hilarious and confusing than the last. Like, at this point, I really do feel like the higher ups are just sort of giving up on the series and being like "Let fucking Paradox figure this shit out."

I legit just don't believe that EA thinks they can make another mainline windows-based sims game because the market has changed too much and they don't think it's viable. I may be wrong but if I had to guess they're chasing the casual market and that market's mostly on mobile now and easier to manipulate with micro-transactions.

I think they're wrong, I just think that they don't understand that their audience changed. In like 2006, you had a bunch of teenagers who had computers and NOTHING else playing The Sims.

Now? Your audience is going to be mostly older life sim players and a much smaller group of young people.

Turns out alienating your older dedicated fan base to chase a much smaller group of 12-18 year olds that, let's face it, just don't care about the brand is a losing strategy.

It made sense to aim at that demographic in the 2000s, not so much now. LBY has a much better chance at succeeding because they're not trapped by a marketing strategy that was developed while Bush was still in office.

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[mdpthatsme]

Let's not forget this is what they wanted Project Olympus to be before the SimCity 2013 backlash.

[cryptiam]

They should have just worked on a new Sims 5 game instead...

Just how old is The Sims 4?

Obama was still President when it came out.

Brexit was about to be first discussed in 2016 (ended in 2020)

The PS4 & Xbox One were new consoles. The Wii U was a failure and the Switch was still 3 years out.

Valve was just on 'hiatus' after Portal 2 was released 3 years prior.

Kojima was still involved with Konami, working on PT / Silent Hills and getting the demo the same year TS4 dropped.

Pixar's Inside Out hadn't been released until later in 2015.

New Simmers that weren't born when TS4 came out are now around the age you likely were at when you first played a Sims game.

The Sims 4 started as Project Olympus - a multiplayer game that got scrapped then reworked into The Sims 4, with a lot of the same core parts.

Here's a video by Plumbella if you haven't seen it:

Console TS4 hardly works, and it's always been that way.

Starting off - TS4 wasn't even on consoles for like, a year. Then finally it got a console release for Xbox/PS4 but it was very unstable.

Every Expansion they make now breaks something else in the game because other devs worked on older stuff & the game is bloated. Their entire dev team has shuffled throughout the decade - losing many who worked on TS4 or devs being relocated to work on Project Rene.

And now Maxis want to add multiplayer into The Sims 4...along with EA using Generative AI as a company going forward.

[anggloria]

No Sims 5 for us 😪

It’s like getting into a relationship where the boyfriend promises to marry you one day and 10 years later you’re not even engaged, you’re just his baby momma

[wolfxdreamersims]

Hey quick question.

How did we go from this

To this…

[issuehaver]

Didn't include Life By You as that's been cancelled and I only really know about Inzoi and Paralives

[thesimsprojectrene]

Behind The Sims: Project Rene!

[sulaniya]

It's so funny how online journalists are trying to sell us bad news as good news. How exactly is Sims 5 being "free to enter" good news? It's the worst thing I've heard about it so far. Directly followed by the other "good news for simmers" - Sims 5 being available cross-platform.

So it won't only be "freemium" micro-transaction bullshit, no, it will also have such bad graphics, so it can be played on a smartphone.

No thank you. I'll skip this one.

[satureja13]

Sims Summit summit

Watch it on youtube -> here

Project Rene/Sims 5 prototypes.

This looked to good to be true and I almost was excited... and then they showed the sims... The already scare/annoy me to death ö.Ö'

And said the game would look good on pc AND mobile... (again a sims game on the low for the simmers with old computers? omg!)

the hair says everything! I would cry but i shed all my tears on sims 4

And the worst: Instead of just reassemble that heartshaped bed for sims 4 - they build it in real! Another punch in the face after wasting their time on a disassembled bed for the kit.

[simnostalgia]

"player purchase journey"

"OPTIMIZING PLAYER SPENDING PATTERNS"

oh girls, it's worse than we thought. the bar could not GET lower.

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[mdpthatsme]

Some leaked images of Project Rene. I'm assuming these are mobile pre-alpha? Because the quality is much lower than HERE.

As always I would not put it past EAxis to scrape the bottom of the bare minimum barrel.

More on THIS Twitter account.

[redhotchilisimblr]

rant about the sims 4

new roadmap unpopular opinion :

i’m quite satisfied with this roadmap. i mean, we got so many EPs in 2023 that I can barely catch up (I haven’t fully explored growing together, not finished my ranch and still setting residential lots..) there are so many things to do and a lot of simmers want “content for having content”, and are not actually playing the game. i know that we don’t play at the same speed (I'm very slow, I don’t age my Sims, haven’t finished Willow Creek.. so it says a lot), but how can you complain that EA releases too many packs, but at the same time request for more and more expensive packs? lmao it doesn’t make any sense. 

also, I don’t consider kits as packs. they are add-ons for people who want to expand some collections, but are not really essential to get (let alone the fact that some cc creators made some kits available as base game items). despite being a GC, I have purchased some of them with my own money and I regret some kits lmao. now, they are better quality content (for the price I mean) but at a time it was like.. yeah, I don’t want this but I still want all the DLCs. 

I live in France and here we have a powerful currency with the euros. But a lot of simmers tend to forget that many players are living with minimum wage or in a country where even 5$ USD means a lot on their salary/earnings. Now, imagine how players from “weaker currency” (let them called like that bc I don’t want to be biased, or let people think that everyone is poor in some countries when its totally not the case) are dealing with 40$ USD EP coming back to back ??? I mean, in some countries, 40$ USD is a monthly salary or not far away. Which means, getting 3 EPs is out of pocket - literally. 

The Sims 4 is now a luxury to play - because of EA’s greed, for sure, but also bc some players are pushing this agenda of “we need more packs, now!” and bc there’s a high demand, they do not care if the product is exactly want people want. I’m not trying to blame anyone in particular. Tbh, I used to be this kind of player (mostly bc at the launch, the game feeled empty and like a let down compare to previous edition). But now, I fully understand that we are responsible for this never ending issue. As a Game Changers, I know that some people might not believe me, or think it’s not genuine but, clearly, I’m not paid by EA for doing anything. I just playtest most of the time in very short period. I have a great job, I also have some passive income. I don’t need to be influencer to earn money and its a blessing.   

don’t forget that we are all waiting for updates to fix For Rent. it will be mad to launch a new EP if the previous one is still broken for so many players. there’s a lot of things changing for the influencers also and this “slow” time could be used to discover new gameplay, new players, new cc for those who used them and explore all the things we missed in the packs we already have. i still discover new options to this day and I play quite a lot so, you know, we are going to chill together and it will be good. 

as for my suspicion, I really do think as simmers we shouldn’t be worried about upcoming contents. with new competitors launching their game in 2024, EA will be more cautious about the kind of content they release, and they might release more in a shorter time period. I BET we will be flooded with DLCs by the end of the year... 

Now, I really do hope that more Game Changers will be more vocal about the issues (its starting but with caution). we really have nothing to lose. Not bc TS4 is going to be fixed (it won’t, as the BG have so many structural/coding issue) but for Project Rene. We need collectively to point out all the things we do love about TS4 (bc it’s a really beautiful game with a lot of potential) and also the things we don’t like. Loving something or someone is always about honesty : if you friend smells bad, please, tell him. if your friends is in the wrong, tell him! So if you care that much about the Sims, please, tell politely whats is wrong with the game without harassing the creators/workers. 

someone should just open a public file with all the complains compile and give it to the Project Rene team bc we do not want to miss this one for sure.

with all my love always, 

Red