"Sims 4 developer warns there won't be a Sims 5 if this one doesn't sell"
Oh shit, I guess I'd better run out and buy The Sims 4 right now! *eye roll*
How about you fuck off with your flaccid, none-too-subtle threats, EA. If anything, this makes me even less inclined to buy The Sims 4 than the piddling amount of inclination I was already at. Also, if The Sims 4 continues being the steaming pile that it apparently is at present (I don't know, myself, as I still haven't played it, but I've heard that it's a fairly big step backwards from the vanilla version of The Sims 3, even ignoring bugs and such, which doesn't make me very enthusiastic to play it any time soon), then I won't much miss The Sims 5 if it is never made. In any case, it's not like they won't end up making The Sims 5 anyway. The previous games sucking ass hasn't stopped them from making new Command & Conquer[1] or Dragon Age games, has it? So then, why should it matter for The Sims? Then again, those games still sold well (if not necessarily as well as the actually good games in those series), I guess, even despite sucking ass, so who knows? Most gamers these days seem to have their lips surgically grafted to the sewer pipe as it is, so I guess EA will probably have nothing to worry about with sales of The Sims 4. ¬_¬
[1] - Wikipedia says it was cancelled, but EA has said that they're going to keep at it. Maybe it won't be exactly the same game (or so we can hope), but they're still at least planning to continue making Command & Conquer games, anyway.
How about you fuck off with your flaccid, none-too-subtle threats, EA. If anything, this makes me even less inclined to buy The Sims 4 than the piddling amount of inclination I was already at. Also, if The Sims 4 continues being the steaming pile that it apparently is at present (I don't know, myself, as I still haven't played it, but I've heard that it's a fairly big step backwards from the vanilla version of The Sims 3, even ignoring bugs and such, which doesn't make me very enthusiastic to play it any time soon), then I won't much miss The Sims 5 if it is never made. In any case, it's not like they won't end up making The Sims 5 anyway. The previous games sucking ass hasn't stopped them from making new Command & Conquer[1] or Dragon Age games, has it? So then, why should it matter for The Sims? Then again, those games still sold well (if not necessarily as well as the actually good games in those series), I guess, even despite sucking ass, so who knows? Most gamers these days seem to have their lips surgically grafted to the sewer pipe as it is, so I guess EA will probably have nothing to worry about with sales of The Sims 4. ¬_¬
[1] - Wikipedia says it was cancelled, but EA has said that they're going to keep at it. Maybe it won't be exactly the same game (or so we can hope), but they're still at least planning to continue making Command & Conquer games, anyway.