EA’s Andrew Wilson confirms the next generation Sims Game – The Sims 5!
First we wrote about career listings that hinted about the production of the next Sims game. Then we had some more clues adding up that the game is in development. And now, we have official confirmation from EA’s CEO Andrew Wilson that the Sims 5 will have multiplayer! Read on to see what he included about the next generation Sims Game – The Sims 5!
Will The Sims 5 have Multiplayer?
In the Third Quarter of FY2020 earnings call, Andrew Wilson was asked a question if Maxis has any plans of relaunching an online version of The Sims. Similar to The Sims Online that was present from 2002 to 2008. Andrew Wilson gave an interesting answer, saying that Maxis is continuously thinking about The Sims for a new generation. And, that features from The Sims Online will become a part of that experience “in the years to come”.
Throughout his answer Andrew shared that, although they will always stay true to creation, escape, motivations and more (hinting at some of the keywords of an offline game). They will also start to embrace a new social experience such as social interactions and competitions (as they were present in The Sims Online years ago) in a Sims experience in the years to come with sims 5 multiplayer included.
Andrew Wilson – Full Earnings Release Transcript
Check out our full transcript from the Earnings Release, including real questions and answers by Andrew Wilson. The audio recording from the earnings release is at the bottom!
Question: Any thoughts on relaunching an online version of the franchise given its large popularity? (referring to The Sims Online that was present up until 2008)
Andrew Wilson (EA CEO): Great question on The Sims! The Sims will be 20 next week. That Maxis team and the team that’s been a part of Maxis over the years continue to deliver unbelieavably innovative and creative content for a constantly growing Sims community globally. As we think about The Sims – again, I reference the motivations of why we play the games – inspiration, escape, social interaction, creation, self improvement, competition. Typically what The Sims has done is really focus on fulfilling the motivations and inspiration, escape, creation, self-improvement and not necessarily focus as much as on social interaction and competition.
But a few things are in fact true over the years. One is that the Sims community continues to grow and with the broad of social platforms continue to connect with each other and share what they do – in and around the game they play. And we’ve seen that manifest in The Sims Online which was a more social experience for us. And we’re also seeing that the competition nature of The Sims is also rising and we’re seeing people compare and contrast. Not competition in an original sport sense but how they create and what they create and how they use their imaginations and what they’re able to build inside of these Sims universes.
As Maxis continues to think about The Sims for a new generation – cross-platforms and a cloud of a neighborhood world, you should imagine while we will always stay true to our inspiration, escape, creation, self-improvement, motivations – that this notion of social interactions and competition like the kind of things that were actually present in The Sims Online many many years ago – that they will start to become a part of The Sims experience in the years to come.
We are very excited. This is a game that really doesn’t have any competition in its category for delivering and fulfilling these motivations for players and we think of the tremendous growth opportunities for us for many many years to come.
So, what are your thoughts on the next generation Sims game and what should be included? Let us know in the comments!
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It would be nice to have online sim world, or Sim city where we can talk meet and up are skills at the same time.
TS5 must be for all people of many worlds of community communitcation for all.
The Sims Online was pretty neat while it lasted. Too bad you didn’t get to play it!
I have been a Simmer since the first release and i honestly believe that if they could combine the features of all the sims such as the simulation in TS2 the customization and live play in TS3 as well as the building tools in TS4 (Give us round walls!!!) And create a platform like IMVU where players can visit each others worlds and interact with other players sims (with privacy settings of course for those who like to play solo) and of course a center world run by EA itself with different themes reflecting world events that are happening at the current time (such as holidays, celebrations, venues etc). I personally would love to finally have a Farming feature with horses. The pets in its entirety should be expanded. A lot more social interactions and personal actions to choose from. Instead of just viewing a object have other interactions such as finding inspiration with a artist or breaking a object like a troublemaker lol. The Sims has so much potential. With the right programming it could be the game of the century
then head over to play sims online, its called FreeSO
I really hope y’all do Sims 5 multiplayer and single player and I would like for us to have seeable neighbors to interact with and can multiplayers live in the same house as an option
We did all of that in The Sims Online!
Hello, I love the sims 4 and now i can played. This information is so interesting for me because when I had 6 years old I love the sims. And I wish, the sims 5 had espectacular graphics, that we can go to the hospital and to the police station and I would like also go to the school and I finish. They are just request for The Sims 5. Thank you so much for listening.
I would be extremely excited for an online option for The Sims 4! Especially if you could host your own servers. That would bring in so much opportunity for Roleplaying as well as other fun things.
Can sims 5 also be in console? I would appreciate split-screen multiplayer in console since my sibling and I want to play the same slot at the same time with our own households.
I wish EA stop “innovating” new content and just redo the awesome idea of pack and content they already create in other sims game that everyone love and are asking for. 🙂
I dont know anyone in my sims friend that like competition… for me, sims need to be relaxing. So… Im a bit afraid that sims 5 will be a better sims online… still bad but better.
Im also really surprise :0, he said the sims team is interacting with the community to know what we want… Could I know where and when? XD I realy need to know who is the people that prefer a ecolifestyles pack better than car, horse(animal), werewolf… XD (joke aside, if there a place where we really can be ears, I need the link please). They could announce car and horse and everyone including myself would have lose they mind and preorder sims 5 with a big smile even if he will be out only in 2 years.
Bring back online features. Those that want to play one player can opt to play single player mode but for those of us who want to play with friends, and there are more of than you’d think, we deserve and desire the option to click over to the online platform . It’s entirely possible and doable to make a game that has a single player option as well as a multiplayer world. Get on it please!
Im actually disapointed, I want farming in TSm 4. I want farm animals, especially horses. Without horses my game Will always be disapointment.
Can the Sims 5 have more peronality trait options? And non ageing options no matter how many years go by? Because I wanted to create Lucario as a human character, and give him realistic personalitus and characteristics to bring to live! Ma be even make my own me and have a relationship with him too! Can u make that happen? Ma be even make him be in the military sense he’s from Pokemon movie 8 and was in the war!
I have every sims game that has come out. the only reason I play this game is because its not a multi game. I hate multi games and if sims 5 is multi I will be moving on.
It sounds a little like VSide, and I’m in !! 😀
I have played the Sims since the Sims 1 through to Sims 4. I am horrified at the thought there is a chance of multiplayer. For me the Sims is an escape that allows me to forget what is making me anxious or just to relax when my kids are in bed. I don’t want to be interacting with a person I don’t know. I am anxious enough as it is I don’t need anymore. I want to play as a SINGLE PLAYER. If I wanted to go online with it currently I would use the gallery but majority of the time I don’t as am uninterested. Multiplayer games are so common now that finding a game to play is hard enough as if it is not the Sims it has a story line. Multiplayer would ruin the franchise for me and make me lose a game I love all because of this. Also with it being a multiplayer game, as it clearly doesn’t need to be, means subscription instead of buying a base game and expansion packs. This would hammer the nail in the coffin for me as I can not afford a monthly subscription but a couple of times a year I save up enough money or use birthday/xmas money to buy one. If this happens I will not be playing past the Sims 4 for sure as none of what people have been saying that needs improvement is being listened to but things like multiplayer are is…my brain can’t cope with the logic EA is coming out with. Btw my opinion
The Sims Online was so fun! I hope they add multiplayer! Even if it’s just creating your own worlds that you can and your friends play together. Some of the features of TSO and the social creativity involved were amazing! I’m sure they could easily add features to make your “lot” private, invite only, and only allow friends, or noone at all. Bring us Sims 5 multiplayer! If you don’t want online play, Sims 3 and Sims 4 have plenty for you!
We’ll just agree to disagree. You’re the only person I’ve ever heard say that it was fun. I, and my friends, thought it was a huge snoozefest. But then, I also hate Facebook.
F* u just because you dont want it doesnt mean no one else wants it, if there is a single player AND a multiplayer thats fine, whats not fine is having single player WITH multiplayer, you f*ing prick
Same here. There’s absolutely no way I would ever play it as a multiplayer game. I never, ever play those type of games. Ugh. I refuse to even use Origin to launch the game (yes, that’s possible if you know how to set it up). I never use the gallery either, if I want content there are plenty of other [better] sites to get it.
I guess they forgot what a failure the online thing was the first time around.
I Totally Agree With Clare, I Too, Play The Sims To Relax, And I Don’t Want Strangers Coming Into My Game Either. I Am A 61 Yr Old Grand Mother, Who Plays The Sims {For 20 Yrs} To Try And Take My Mind Off My Cancer Pain, And My Husband Dying Recently From Corona Virus; However, In The Same Since, My Daughter, My Sisters, My Mom And I, All Need To Interact With One Another Through Our Sims House-Holds, Due To Being Thousands Of Miles Apart, Because Of Quarantine’ Therefore, In This Case The Way The World Is Today, We Would Welcome Being Able To Interact With One Another. I Would Like That Choice Of Being Able To Play Off-Line As I’ve Always Done, And Being Able To Go Online Whilst Playing With My 79 Yr Old Mom {Who Will Be Playing For The First Time And Needs My Assistance} ~ But In The Same Since, I Don’t Want Strangers Coming Into My Sims Homes, Impregnating My Sims, Robbing Them Of Their Belongings, Etc. ~ How Can We Rectify This By Marrying The Two Ideas Without Harm To My Sims?
Your transcript of what Wilson said is really really poor. He doesn’t say “cross-platforms” or “a cloud of a neighborhood world”. He says “across platforms” and “a cloud enabled world”.
Before working on the Sims 5 put bunk beds in the Sims 4 just saying
With the Sims, EA have a monopoly and have been aggressively monetizing small ammounts of content. Andrew Wilson said that he is happy they don’t have competition in this genra and they are using this to heavely charge for dlc that normally you could create yourself in old Sims games.
If you are a fan, just sum up the pricing of all expansions and then compare it to the value of what you are getting.
Would it kill them to not charge for everything? Or at least not pricing it so high?
Can we get the custom neighbors of sims 2 (Designing your own neighborhoods) with the customization of sims 3 (choosing what color you want and item) and the social interactions you had in sims 3 with babies( rocking them to sleep but being about to move them around like sims 2) and adding more animals like pigs chickens sheep and bring back the horses!
If they do go with multiplayer they better have an amazing anit-bullying mechanism in place. There are people who will buy the game just for the joy of harassing and putting down every one else. Look at the comments in the gallery if you don’t believe me. Harmful comments aren’t hard to find there and it is supposed to be moderated. Like a lot of people I play sims to get away from the real world. I don’t need random strangers invading my game and life. Also anyone using multiplayer would not be able to use mods or other custom content created by other players.
I agree 100%, I would be done with Sims if they went multiplayer.
Definately angels and demons, pets WITH horses, good and evil fairies. And of course lots of “normal” sims.
Oh yes!! What a great idea Kamma!
I do not want online experience. I have been praying sims for over 10 yrs and I like building and decorations more than the actual game play. When I do play, I don’t want to play with other gamers online. I play to escape people & reality. Playing online completely destroys this for me.
Things I want in the Sims 4, first…detail to the baby life stage, and more furniture – changing station, baby bath etc as well as more objects for children and toddlers || Return of the private school headmaster visits, for private and boarding schools || Horses, other farmyard animals, farming and a whole lot of new build/buy stuff to support it || Fairies, Werewolves and moon phases (but no thanks to zombies, enough of that!) || Cars and teen driving lessons || Different culture-styled worlds as in French/Chinese/Egyptian in World Adventures || More depth to University, at least being able to go to graduation and sports games || Follow your child and teen Sims to School || For operatic, theatrical, cinema, sports games not to be rabbit holes || Play as the pets || More depth and detail to relationships and memories || More focus on Generations/Ancestry and a more detailed family tree (at least going as far as cousins || Ladders, spiral stair cases n for flap’s sake, bunk beds! And once you’ve finished all that, gradual ageing and the return of the Open World in a ‘Sims 5’-type title. If after all that you still wanna put in online, go for it. :p
I am still concerned that there are still issues with the Sims 4 game so I cant think that far ahead. The acting career certainly needs fixing I am so frustrated. I took my sim through University to prepare him for the acting career but I cant get him a gold as the preparation that I do for his Gig disappears and goes to not started when you change lots and you don’t have time to do it when you get to the Gig. HELP !!!!!!
Really?! I have other games that I play for the multiplayer option! The sims is somewhere where I can escape to and I wouldn’t particularly want others in my game, so I won’t be buying this when it’s out.
Sul sul everyone! I absolutely love TS4 but there are some fixes that need to be made. I think being able to play online with friends is great but we should also have the option to play how we do now. Instead of making TS5 I think EA should continue to focus on TS4 and listen to what we would all like too see happen in the game. Yes there are certain things they can and can’t do which is understandable. I also feel like they should keep working on TS4 because a lot of us are still trying to get the new stuff packs etc. and spending all that money just to find out there is a possible better sims coming is frustrating. Not sure if it’s just me but I’m quite happy where TS4 is right now besides some fixes ♀️
I want to approach his statement in a different way. It doesn’t meant it has to be a ‘new’ Sims game, but it’s about something new, edgy & in-trend or radical in certain way. I would suggest that it’s about giving us an option, like what we suppose to have in this current era. “Option” to play the OG style as well as playing it perhaps as MMO. It should give us another world that allows us to interact with another Simmers, as and when we want. I personally would prefer to play it offline, but I won’t limit myself for not trying to play The Sims online too. However, I don’t think that I would be very happy to start investing in another Sims series.
I would love to see multiplayer added back on like they used to have in some of the first sims games on console. I would also like the city editing you could do for sims 2.
Same, the multiplayer on console is what I would like since my sibling and I really enjoyed playing together.
I love the sims I have sims2 3.n4 but I like sims2 the best. Its like being in your own world controlling the people. building your own city I love it. What ever new
Sim they come out with sims2 will always be my favorite
Of course EA gonna jump on that multiplayer to get that sweet $$$, and bombard the next sims with micro and even more dlc. Damn EA can you pls not destroy every single game you touch.
I’m hoping for a multiplayer game , it’d be interesting to see how it would work. I’ve been playing sims since the beginning of it all and always loved the weird little quirks and things the game had. Sims 2 on the PlayStation was SO FUN! They had aliens (which I know they still do), weird foods, overall just more fun and different elements. The aliens could abduct you in sims 2, things like that made it game play way more fun and interesting. I wish EA would bring these little fun quirks back to the sims.
Oooh! A TSO 5 possibility??! Yay!! I was a big fan of the original TSO and was very upset when it closed down a few years back.
What would be the actual point of playing online? You’d be stuck with all Maxis-created content and stifled creativity, wouldn’t you? Not to mention putting up with other player’s… um… stuff. I ditched it pretty quickly last time. I get you enjoyed it, but I genuinely don’t understand why.
Si el próximo Sims llega tener mejor jugabilidad y online sería muchísimo mejor. Tienen que ver los viejos juegos de Sims y recolectar lo bueno que dejaron atrás. Es un juego que tiene potencial de ser algo mejor pero no lo saben aprovechar. Espero que para el próximo venga muchísimas cosas diferentes siempre e sido gran fan de la saga The Sims, pero estas últimas entregas me han desilusionado mucho. De echo me gustaría contactarme con ellos y hablarles sobre todas las ideas que tengo.
Don’t get your hopes up, we have better chances of having Sims 5 be a F2P MMO with loot box mechanics and paid season passes than getting an actual improvement from Sims 4.
Is the sims 5 actually going to come out because everything I’ve read about and in the titles of videos says it’s confirmed but never says it’s ACTUALLY confirmed
Sims 3 worlds are much better than in Sims 4 …
The Sims 4 game The cities are smaller in play as in the Sims 3 game. Will the Sims 5 game be an open city at all? LOL
Sims 3 is definitely better.
Weaknesses The Sims 4 game.
Despite being a full-fledged sequel, there were still objects and opportunities in earlier sections that just disappeared. I specifically missed the free movement within the city. Simem on foot, by taxi or even with his own car, could get anywhere in the city where he lived. In The Sims 4, it was a huge disappointment that if I leave my home, I can visit some sites but just my neighbors; when I want to go further, I have to wait the same way as in The Sims 2. No, I disagree!
There are no cars, no bicycles, no means of transport that can be used by a simmer. Sometimes a car appears in the city or is now a tram, but I can not use them. Jobs have not even been seen in the form of a building, just like a bookstore, a grocery store and other catering or community facilities.
Sims 3 is fun with all accessories. Sims 4 is interesting for maybe 1 week, and then becomes tedious because there is nothing in it.
Sims 3 is definitely better.
Weaknesses The Sims 4 game.
Despite being a full-fledged sequel, there were still objects and opportunities in earlier sections that just disappeared. I specifically missed the free movement within the city. Simem on foot, by taxi or even with his own car, could get anywhere in the city where he lived. In The Sims 4, it was a huge disappointment that if I leave my home, I can visit some sites but just my neighbors; when I want to go further, I have to wait the same way as in The Sims 2. No, I disagree!
There are no cars, no bicycles, no means of transport that can be used by a simmer. Sometimes a car appears in the city or is now a tram, but I can not use them. Jobs have not even been seen in the form of a building, just like a bookstore, a grocery store and other catering or community facilities.
Sims 3 is fun with all accessories. Sims 4 is interesting for maybe 1 week, and then becomes tedious because there is nothing in it. Will the Sims 5 game be an open world at all? LOL
Think about all the kids and teens playing it. Wouldn’t this open up a whole new opportunity for pedophiles and online predators to grab hold of innocent young people? I mean if you think about it there’s a lot of sexual content in the sims and that’s not ok for anyone to pose as a boyfriend/girlfriend to anyone who is a minor when you’re some 40 yo man living in your mom’s basement. You know this WILL happen if it’s like… online/MMORPG. Anyone can lie about age and this is already a serious problem. At least there’s no threat with single mode. Online predation AND bullying is real and growing, especially with games where you chat with other players. It’ll be super interesting to see but just warning you, it will open a lot of opportunities for bad things to happen too.
Believe me when I say it happened in The Sims Online. No one know how old any player was. When many of us migrated over to Second Life in 2007 from The Sims Online, there were others that followed us there later. Some of those were just kids.
Will it be possible to play on other laptops like acer not just pc and Mac
Multiplayer dosent scare me, as long as there is single player as well. It sounds it could be great fun to have a roommate that is controlled by another player.
What scares me is facebook and the sims in the same sentence. “Competition” is another one, that usually mean lack of gameplay. There is no fun eating 100 cakes, but if you make it a competition and give out a prize you will see people do it any way. Thats super boring. And should be a bad experience from the sims 4. Challenges are so big in sims 4 because gameplay is boring – sorry.
FREEPLAY, please.
I’d love to see a feature to make easy neighbourhoods again and then giving them themes like “medievel” “fantasy” “korean” whatever, so when you make a korean neighbourhood filled with your korean architecture and no npc shows up called Curt. That just me, but i have so many stories i did love to play out outside of america.
Mormally i shut up, because i dont think the community should influence too much. But the sims community has made this game a digital paperdoll engine, and that horrifyies me. Less hair more gameplay. If the community want hair they can go download it. You shouldnt have to download gameplay features.
Kisses – For now. 😉
I cant wait! Been waiting for this for years
Multiplayer PLEASE
I think the way he spoke in that last part was really confusing. The sentences feel obscure and incomplete.
Typical generic PR talk, EA’s Ceo is a sociopat who only cares about money
I’m curious what style they’re going for with TS5. Will it be more alpha or MM like with TS4. I just hope the overall world lighting is brighter so I don’t need reshade.
fk ea
Imagine if TS5 use Frostbite Engine and support with Ray Tracing
elo
I don’t need multi-player game. I often use mod so it would be a total mess.
Here are the things I would like to see added to the sims 5.
1. About how sims feel about each other. This shouldn’t be always the same for both sims, for example, one sim may be interested in another while the other sim hates her.
2. Sims should be able to have several different jobs at the same time and the player should manage Sims’ working time.
3. After a long time of using home stuff, they should become old and unrepairable or their appearance should become old.
4. Facial makeup should be removed and re-applied after bathing or washing the face
5. Stores will be added to the game to buy clothes, groceries and other things. The sim player can also go to the city store to buy clothes for them self and they should be able to have as many clothes as they want And every day they can wear the clothes they have in a different or predetermined way.
6. Show the number of fruits and vegetables that are in the refrigerator at the time of purchase and it is not possible to cook food without raw materials.
7.Drinking too much alcohol will make Sims drunk and this will affect Sims’ behavior.
8. Girl Sims should have a menstrual cycle and the chances of getting pregnant or having child should be different for each sims.
9. Work on relationship and behavior more than creating stuff.
10.university degree must be required for some jobs.