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Electronic Arts just made a game - exchange revelation : Project Rene , long thought to beThe Sims 5 , wo n’t be a one-dimensional sequel to the wildly successful and prospicient - runningThe Sims 4 . The publisher is moving away from sequential press release and will focus rather on flesh out the dealership to other games , genre , and platforms .
In ablog postpublished Tuesday , EA saidProject Renedevelopment is “ focused on establish way for friends to meet , associate , and divvy up while playing together in an all - new world . ” This could imply that EA Maxis is testing multiplayer for the first time sinceThe Sims Online , an MMO from 2002 that never reached the heights of its contender . It also announced that an invite - only , multiplayer - found playtest will be pass this declension throughThe Sims Labs programme .
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In aninterview with Variety , The Sims enfranchisement ecumenical managing director Kate Gorman clarified why the company is n’t publish a traditional fifth version of the game : It does n’t want any new releases to be a “ alternate ” forThe Sims 4 .
“ The way to think about it is , historically , The Sims dealership started withSims 1and thenSims 2 , 3 , and4 . And they were get a line as replacements for the previous production , ” Gorman tell . “ What this entail is that we will continue to land HD simulation experience and what people would want from a5 — but it does n’t intend that we ’re going to start out you over , reset all your progress , and really sense like you ’re going to lose all of that amazing bid you put into4 . ”
EA wants to experiment with more ways to toy The Sims , with feature such as event or more narrative - drive storylines . The post also mentions “ cozy games , ” “ mobile tale game , ” and , of course , more update toThe Sims 4.The company revealed that around 80 million mass have played the aliveness sim since its release in 2014.According to Circana Group ’s Mat Piscatella , around 10 % ofallconsole and PC players in the U.S. have play the game at least once . The Sims 4will continue to receive updates and content expansions for the foreseeable future , along with Creator Kitsmade by the communityand formally published by EA .
“ We ’re still continuing to supportTS4more than ever . Still stay to deliver expansion packs and updates and fixes , ” Gorman say .
The dealership ’s flagship plot has been out for a X , and has been struggling to handle all the DLC and to keep up on modern microcomputer and console . The developer read in May that it hadformed an home teamdedicated to take on issue instrumentalist have noted over the years . The first batch of fix will release on Wednesday , and more will be release every two month . actor will also receive an “ exciting base game update ” ahead of theLife and Deathexpansion plurality in October .
