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The Sims 4 will be present during EA Play 2019! Here’s what we know

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The Sims 4 will be present during EA Play 2019! Here’s what we know

EA Play 2019 is a huge gaming event held by Electronic Arts in Hollywood, Los Angeles this June where players will be able to get their hands on new experiences, participate in Dev Talks and various Interactive Experiences and more!

EA has also released their brand new EA Play app where you can keep track of all of the events that will happen during EA Play.

Among all of that they’ve also included gaming franchises that will be present during EA Play 2019. Among other video games that they’ve listed The Sims 4 is also going to be one of the games that you’ll be able to get your hands on in the Fan Fest area:

The Sims 4 will be present during EA Play 2019! Here’s what we know

The game is going to be playable from 10:30AM to 6:30PM PT, both June 8th and June 9th. You’re currently not able to reserve your gameplay time but considering that the app has just been released.

What’s interesting is that the app hasn’t specified if The Sims 4 will have any new experiences or packs present during the Fan Fest as they’re keeping it all under wraps with a very short description of The Sims 4’s essence.

However, considering that they’re offering Gameplay Reservations for The Sims 4 booth it’s almost certain that there’s going to be something new offered on the event. Last year The Sims Team has also kept The Sims 4 under wraps before they announced the game in late May and stated that it’s going to be playable during EA Play 2018.

SimGuruLyndsay has also reassured players that The Sims 4 will be present at the event:

We also have a speculation post regarding that a new Expansion Pack for The Sims 4 could be released sometime in June – just when EA Play is taking place! Mix that with an official confirmation that a brand new Expansion Pack, Game Pack and Stuff Pack is coming to The Sims 4 in the following months and we’re almost completely assured that a new experience will be presented at EA Play 2019!

This Riverdale star tried playing The Sims 4 for the first time

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This Riverdale star tried playing The Sims 4 for the first time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DOsjJZY0r0

Although it’s definitely not the most brilliant TV Show out there, Riverdale still manages to captivate a huge audience, myself included. The cast playing in this show are talented when it comes to acting, but are they good at playing The Sims 4? Ok, sure, that’s not something that you could count as a talent but after you watch the following video you’re definitely going to appreciate all the simming skills you’ve got.

One of the main Riverdale actresses Madelaine Petsch has given The Sims 4 a try for her very first time. The video is rather interesting and definitely shows what introducing a whole new person to a Sims game looks like. However, if you know all about The Sims and its possibilities you may want to brace yourself as Madelaine embraces her beginner adventure in The Sims 4!

The Sims Mobile Blog: Move to the Land Down Under

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The Sims Mobile Blog: Move to the Land Down Under

The Sims Mobile Team has issued a new blog post, officially talking about the switch of The Sims Mobile from Maxis Mobile Team to EA Firemonkeys studio in Melbourne, Australia.

It’s moving day for The Sims™ Mobile as the latest addition to the world-wide hit franchise relocates from California to Melbourne, Australia. As with every big move, there’s a lot of love, laughs and bittersweet moments as the game switches hands from Maxis to Firemonkeys Studio.

Despite the big change and moving to the other side of the world, both the Firemonkeys development team and fans of The Sims Mobile have a lot to look forward to.

“Firemonkeys has been immersed in the world of The Sims for almost a decade as we developed and continue to create amazing content for The Sims FreePlay,” said Joe Donoghue, General Manager of Firemonkeys. “We are thrilled to bring The Sims Mobile to our studio, and the development team is working hard to bring the fun, creativity and imagination that players have come to expect from our games.”

While the team at Maxis will continue to invest in The Sims on PC & Console, the team at Firemonkeys is ready to take The Sims Mobile to new heights. Changes may not be immediately noticed, but the team is currently busy working to bring new and improved community and player support, features and content to the game. And for fans of The Sims FreePlay, players can continue to expect exciting updates.

Download The Sims Mobile on the App Store or Google Play today. And while you’re at it, be sure to follow us on Twitter to keep up to date with all the exciting changes coming your way.

The Sims Mobile Blog: Move to the Land Down Under

EA Play 2019 Tickets are going live today!

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EA Play 2019 Tickets are going live today!

UPDATE: The tickets have gone live! You can claim yours by clicking the button down below:

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EA Play 2019 Tickets are going live today!

Electronic Arts has announced that they’ll be offering free tickets for their EA Play 2019 event starting today!

From 9AM Pacific you’ll be able to register for this annual event held in Hollywood, Los Angeles. EA has announced that they’ll be covering multiple franchises throughout various livestreams and events inside of EA Play. This event is taking place from June 7th to June 9th!

Some of the Sims Game Changers including myself have announced that they’ve been invited and that they’ll attend the EA Play 2019 event. Learn more HERE!

This post is going to be updated with a registration link for EA Play 2019 as soon as it goes live.

EA Play 2019 Tickets are going live today!

Origin is currently down: The Sims 4 Gallery is under impact

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Origin is currently down: The Sims 4 Gallery is under impact

UPDATE #2: All EA servers are back online!

UPDATE: EA has issued a new statement:

ARTICLE UPDATE: It seems that The Sims Mobile is down too, meaning that any EA game that relies on Online Services is currently not functioning.

Many players have just started reporting that their Origin Program reports that it’s in “Offline Mode”. This issue is caused by connectivity problems within the Origin’s Client which has also been confirmed by EA.

During this period players won’t be able to access The Sims 4’s Online Gallery which relies on Origin’s servers. We’ll make sure to update this post as soon as Origin is back up and running!

Origin is currently down: The Sims 4 Gallery is under impact

Win a copy of The Sims 4 ULTIMATE Edition!

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Win a copy of The Sims 4 ULTIMATE Edition!

We’re kicking off our 6th year Anniversary Giveaway with a bang!

The first giveaway that we’re having is the biggest (and the longest one) and includes a special copy of The Sims 4 Ultimate Edition, specially crafted by Electronic Arts for the purpose of this giveaway.

The Sims 4 Ultimate Edition is a one-of-a-kind code that contains ALL The Sims 4 Games for PC / Mac including The Sims 4 Base Game, all Expansion Packs, all Game Packs and all Stuff Packs which are currently available in The Sims 4 Series.

If it just so happens that the winner of this code has The Sims 4 Base Game or any of Sims 4 Packs registered on their account, this code will update their library with a complete collection.

This is the first (of many) giveaways we’re having. To keep better track of all of the entires we’re hosting this giveaway on Sims Community Social. If you don’t have an account you can easily create one and enter the giveaway. Just make sure you follow the specific rules that we’ve linked within the giveaway thread down below!

Click below to enter the giveaway!

Win a copy of The Sims 4 ULTIMATE Edition!

Make sure you also follow us on the following social media outlets as there are going to be giveaways on both Sims Community Social and some of our social media platforms:

The Sims Mobile: Super Throwdown League 2019 Event + Quest Walkthrough

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The Sims Mobile: Super Throwdown League 2019 Event + Quest Walkthrough

Presented by EA Game Changers

The Sims Mobile has launched a rerun of the Super Throwdown League Event for this year with some new prizes and a new quest!

The Sims Mobile: Super Throwdown League 2019 Event + Quest Walkthrough

The main focus of this event is to earn Participation Ribbons, an event token specially crafted for this event that you can obtain via various events and the limited time quest.

Clicking on the blue ribbon icon on the top right corner of The Sims Mobile’s User Interface will take you to the Super Throwdown League Event Menu. From this Menu you are able to keep track of all of your event tokens as well as Event Chests and Special Events you can perform in exchange for Simoleons, Event Tokens and XP Points.

The Sims Mobile: Super Throwdown League 2019 Event + Quest Walkthrough

The Consolation Prize Chest and the Championship Chest both contain the same items you are able to obtain. However, the Championship Chest can be obtained via SimCash and will give you a higher chance of obtaining rare items.

Super Throwdown League Quest Walkthrough

There is a brand new Super Throwdown League Limited Time Quest that lasts for the next 7 days. Completing al 27 parts of the quest in time will grant you The Great Barback Juice-off item along with other prizes and tokens along the way.

The Sims Mobile: Super Throwdown League 2019 Event + Quest Walkthrough

  • Part 1: Complete events to earn Simoleons (25 Simoleons) (Object reward: 1 Light of Victory)
  • Part 2: Argue with 3 Appliances
  • Part 3: Ask 3 Sims “Are you competitive?”
  • Part 4: Start a Rival Story
  • Part 5: Complete an event
  • Part 6: Change your appearance
  • Part 7: Complete an event
  • Part 8: Open a Consolation Prize Chest
  • Part 9: Give Stickers to 5 Sims
  • Part 10: Collect 600 Participation Ribbons
  • Part 11: Complete an event
  • Part 12: Earn 650 Simoleons
  • Part 13: Complete any 5 events
  • Part 14: Complete any 3 Standard events
  • Part 15: Complete all LlamaZoom tasks and collect rewards
  • Part 16: Open a Consolation Prize Chest
  • Part 17: Complete any 1 Long Event
  • Part 18: Collect 600 Participation Ribbons
  • Part 19: Complete all LlamaZoom tasks and collect rewards
  • Part 20: Complete any 3 Standard events
  • Part 21: Collect 1200 Participation Ribbons
  • Part 22: Complete all LlamaZoom tasks and collect rewards
  • Part 23: Complete any 1 Long Event
  • Part 24: Earn 1000 Simoleons
  • Part 25: Complete all LlamaZoom tasks and collect rewards
  • Part 26: Collect 1000 Participation Ribbons
  • Part 27: Complete any 3 Long Events

The Sims 4 StrangerVille is the Next Pack coming to Consoles!

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The Sims 4 StrangerVille is the Next Pack coming to Consoles!

It seems that The Sims Team has sneakily included a brand new pack to their The Sims 4 Console Library collection with the latest update.

The Sims 4 StrangerVille Game Pack is now included in The Sims 4 Console’s “Your Collection” section. Although an official announcement hasn’t been made yet, we could expect the release date of this pack to be announced very soon considering it’s now a part of the Console Pack Library.

We’ll make sure to keep you updated as soon as we know the full release date!

The Sims 4 StrangerVille is the Next Pack coming to Consoles!

New Community Manager Announced For The Sims Mobile and The Sims FreePlay

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New Community Manager Announced For The Sims Mobile and The Sims FreePlay

SimGuruFrost has announced that SimGuruVix is the new Community Manager for The Sims Freeplay and The Sims Mobile.

Please welcome her to The Sims family! We can’t wait to see what she and the Firemonkeys team have in store for both mobile games this year.

More clues are adding up that The Sims 5 is currently being developed

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More clues are adding up that The Sims 5 is currently being developed

Today SimGuruLyndsay, General Manager for The Sims Franchise has made a rather important announcement that doesn’t actually seem so important at first.

She announced that SimGuruDuke, who previously worked on The Sims Mobile is stepping into the role as a Senior Producer for The Sims 4. This role was previously taken by Grant Rodiek who worked as a Senior Producer on The Sims 4 all the way back from 2011 to this date.

The tweet mentioned that Grant Rodiek will from now on work on “a number of important and awesome Maxis things”. He’ll also no longer be sharing development talk regarding The Sims 4, considering that it’s no longer a Maxis game that he’s working on.

So, how does this add up more receipts beside the ones we’ve found a few months ago that a New Sims Title is in development?

This would be Grant’s first important role switch in years – more specifically the first one in the last 8 years.

Grant’s work history clearly shows that he’s made a role switch only when he started working on a whole new Sims Title, including:

  • The Sims 3 (Lead & Associate Producer) from September 2005 to November 2010
  • The Sims 4 (Producer & Senior Producer) from 2011 to 2019

More clues are adding up that The Sims 5 is currently being developed

Also remember that it’s already known that EA had been looking for new people to join their new and small team of veterans (which could now also include Grant Rodiek) working on the next Sims Title.

One of the key things the career application had mentioned was:

  • Work closely with the Art Director, Production and Creative Director to create a vision for the game as we develop its initial look
  • Create a wide variety of concepts including characters, fashion designs, pose sheets and props
  • Create skin, cloth, eye and hair shading studies
  • Create a wide variety of concepts including vistas, structures, organic and hard surface props and vehicles
  • Create lighting schemes and color palettes that capture the tone of the world
  • Create environment mood paintings, lighting studies, color keys and scripts
  • Create concept model proxies as well as produce work of ranging styles and detail levels

All of the career listings mentioned creating a new Sims Game entirely from scratch, and it could be highly possible that Grant is now a part of that development process.

CLICK HERE for the full career listings for the next Sims Title!

If all of this is pointing towards the new Sims game (The Sims 5 or whatever The Sims Team decides to name it) we could expect its announcement and release in the next 2 to 5 years, according to Grant’s previous work history and the development process length we’re aware it took to create The Sims 3 and The Sims 4.

Until then, do remember that The Sims 4 still has a lot of content planned for the next several years!

The Sims Team Announces the Maxis Monthly Livestream for May 2019

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The Sims Team Announces the Maxis Monthly Livestream for May 2019

SimGuruFrost has just made an announcement over on Twitter that the next Maxis Monthly Livestream will be held on May 7th at 11AM Pacific Time.

He also confirmed that this month’s Maxis Monthly stream won’t be revealing any new content or updates for The Sims 4. The focus of this livestream will be an “Ask Me Anything” session held with SimGuruLyndsay and SimGuruDuke.

We’ll be covering the entire thing here on Sims Community so stay tuned!

The Sims 4 Console: New Update + Patch Notes! (April 30th, 2019)

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The Sims 4 Console: New Update + Patch Notes! (April 30th, 2019)

The Sims 4 Console: New Update + Patch Notes! (April 30th, 2019)

The Sims Team has released a brand new Update for The Sims 4 for Console devices – Xbox One and PS4!

Patch Notes

Since we were last here reading the release notes together, a few pesky issues managed to sneak through. This update is pretty small but looks to address the reports we have seen since the update, especially around the controller.

General Issues

  • Somewhere along the way, selling objects from your lot would duplicate them instead. Just because your Sims won’t give up their possessions without a fight doesn’t mean you don’t get the final say. Now you can sell objects as much as you like.
  • On the other hand, sending to Household inventory won’t sell your objects anymore either.
  • It was never intended that you could put a door or a window in your inventory and the game reflects this properly. I mean, who has pockets large enough for a door?
  • The camera almost had a mind of its own at times, choosing what to look at. It should behave and look at only the items you want to look at.

– SimGuruLegacy

SimGuruDuke becomes the new Senior Producer for The Sims 4

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SimGuruDuke becomes the new Senior Producer for The Sims 4

The Sims 4 series has gotten a new Senior Producer – Michael Duke!

After previously working on The Sims Mobile, SimGuruDuke has made a significant switch as a Senior Producer for The Sims 4, the title which was previously taken by Grant Rodiek.

SimGuruLyndsay has made the announcement on Twitter saying that SimGuruGrant will still be around in Maxis, however working on other projects not related to The Sims 4.

The title of The Sims 4’s senior producer was, before Grant Rodiek, previously taken by Lyndsay Pearson who is currently working as a General Manager for The Sims Franchise.

The Sims 4: Official Community Survey for April 2019

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The Sims 4: Official Community Survey for April 2019

The Sims Team has shared a brand new survey about The Sims 4’s community, management and more! They’ve covered the questions such as:

  1. How likely is it that you would recommend The Sims 4 to a friend or colleague?
  2. What improvements could the Community Team make for you to give it a higher rating?
  3. What is your primary community channel of choice?
  4. On a scale of 1 to 10 (where 1 is very poor and 10 is excellent) how would you rate the communication and engagement you receive from your Community Team?
  5. On a scale of 1 to 10 (where 1 is very poor and 10 is excellent) how would you rate the Maxis Monthly program?
  6. How can we improve the Maxis Monthly program?
  7. What does the Community Team do really well?
  8. On a scale of 1 to 10 (where 1 is not interested and 10 is very interested) how interested are you in the following?
    1. New Stuff Packs
    2. New Game Packs
    3. New Expansion Packs
    4. Bug Fixes
    5. Base Game Content Updates

 

You can fulfill the survey by selecting the survey button below!

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The Sims 4: Official Community Survey for April 2019

Listen to the first Official Maxis Podcast!

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Listen to the first Official Maxis Podcast!

The Sims Team has started with their very own Maxis Podcast where they’ll be discussion various topics and behind-the-scenes facts and information regarding the games they’ve worked on!

The Maxis Podcast is hosted by SimGuruGrant and, according to his tweets, there are going to be many more episodes in store.

For now you’re able to enjoy the first Maxis Podcast Episode as Grant hosts the General Manager for The Sims – Lyndsay Pearson!

You can listen to the podcast on the following outlets:

Listen to the first Official Maxis Podcast!

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