I'm sorta expecting EA to reveal The Sims 5 and it'll be a giant fuck you bait and switch with their online multiplayer being a focus. The SimCity online-only disaster is still pretty fresh in our minds.
Like, when Laura Miele , the Chief Studio Officer at EA. said something like this along the lines:
"I think 20 years later we learned a lot about how players interact, what motivates players, how players can come together co-operatively and so as you imagine as we think about the next generation of The Sims it's SUPER important for us to have the best tools, the most flexibility and for players to really expand on their creativity, remix items and objects in the world."
"I think that's one of our biggest opportunities with The Sims… [it is] is the social connection component that we need to bring to this brand and this franchise. The team is hard at work on the next generation of that experience."
basically means, how can we monetize our game so that our playerbase will fall into it? I mean, Bethesda also said something like this regarding Skyrim and we had Fallout 76 as a result.
