I disagreed because when this was designed to be an online game I think it would have required the player to purchase items like the usual design of online games. I don't think EPs would have existed, the content would all be piecemeal. Since I don't really play online games my understanding is limited but I doubt we would have had EPs, not like we've traditionally had for Sims games. In fact, I'm not sure even now there will be EPs, Maybe, but I wouldn't be surprised if instead there will be "packs" of various sizes (some would be more extensive than others maybe) available for download. They have not specified how additional gameplay content will get added to the game, and they have changed so much with TS4 I am not assuming anything.

For those who do play these kinds of games - functionality is usually added in patches, right? But you have to purchase items to actually benefit from the functionality? I don't see how else it would have worked. You can't invite other players into your game if the game varies that much from player to player, could you?

Again it begs the question, what is so great and new about this series that the normal sims stuff is too hard and expensive so it must be cut? Why getting some game play video is like pulling teeth, wisdom teeth at that? Who thought being secretive and not say anything until the game is released will be the best marketing strategy? I hope the thought we will buy because it's The Sims is not the business model of the day.

No sushi, as I remember it, though I agree sushi is excellent and would be even more excellent if it was in game. (Went to a great new sushi bar yesterday AAMOF).

Sims 4 Gameplay walkthrough released in German!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uut_YLu10fI

Oh Lord - that looks as bad as I thought it would. Going to try to persuade Him Indoors to give me a running translation.

There came a sushi bar with Superstar.

Oh, so it pretty much was the demo they showed at E3. Bros, gym (why always the gym?!), Kim Jong Un, burning to death.

Clocked the load screen at 15s.

The bugs that only they'll see? Hahaha yeah okay. Because they're so great at fixing all the bugs and glitches before they get to us

The first thing we got from that was Grant saying that the beta version they are playing with is one month old.

I am pretty sure the original Sims 4 would be a free to play game like Habbo and it would he a chatbox where you could life,play and chat with your friends in a Sims world. I don't understand why EA didn't released both version the online version looked like a nice idea. Especially since Habbo is dying right now. Not that they should replace the normal Sims but I doubt they would ever do that. The Sims Olympus was just a spin off.

I still don't believe they made their decision because of Simcity since Olympus would be a real online game and require a internet connection while Simcity was just DRM. Big difference.

Why is there only a German video? I don't get this new fangled marketing strategy these days.

Wake me when CAS is over.

@TanookiMark - I don't agree that this is true about SimCity. The whole game was designed as a multi-player game. Even playing offline by myself, I've never been able to build just one city. You need more than one city in a region just to provide workers, or electricity, or education, or oil, or whatever resource you need. I don't see how you could put everything you need in just one of those tiny city plots. Maybe it's different now that there is a mod to increase the city size, but I always ended having to build 2-3 extra cities in one region. To me that spells out multi-player design.

And speaking of SimCity, what happened if one player bought the EP future city expansion and you played with another player who didn't? Maybe it didn't matter in that game, since everyone stayed within their own cities anyway. The online sims game would have been different because you invited other players into your neighborhood, I think? It's difficult to tell how exactly it would have worked and we'll probably never know for sure now. Heck, we can't even get an answer to how the game works as an offline game.

They should be uploading it right now but maybe the germany office has a better internet connection than the american.

Ah OK - sushi is still excellent though.

Him Indoors is struggling with the translation - I'm sure some of our German members would make a better job.

4 minutes in. Thoughts: I'm not a big fan of the live mode UI.

It looks just like that one we saw like a year ago that we all thought was just a prototype that would be fixed later.

The UI seems so....plain. Like really basic and plastic.

Cos they won the World Cup

Holy crap! I'm watching it right now! I'll be back with some impressions. :D

On the upside, the loading screens don't seem as bad as people kept saying they would be. TS2 fans will probably be happy.

Oh god... no taxi what so ever...
Its just like a fast travel system when you going to community lot, like Skyrim
Choose a sim to travel with, select lot and BAM, you arrived there, no public transport (taxi), no walking to edge of lot (like walk to lot in sims 2) NOTHING.

They has them in TS2 - from Bon Voyage, I believe. Not as much variety, though, only four types of food stands with different cuisine types - one for each destination and one which was just American (hotdogs etc)

My point was and is...

TS2 had the Exchange and a Store and EA didn't need to "stress test" the servers they were on and it worked.

TS3 has the Exchange and the capability to go online to post memories, share them on their EA TS3 Page at the official site, share them on Facebook and Twitter, it has the Store that we (yes I have bought from the Store) purchase items/sets from out of the game and in-game, and there were no servers tested for that.

So... TS4 comes around and they're "testing" servers like an MMO ... and this game is supposed to be offline? There's a disconnect here that I'm not understanding. We know that TS4 will have their version of the Exchange called The Gallery, we know that EP's and SP's will have Digital Downloads when they roll those out, we know EA will probably have a Store (to be named something else since they renamed the Exchange) for TS4... same thing but they're testing... hmmmm. Sounds suspicious to me.

And no the questions weren't hysterical, more like suspicious.

Oh god the sideways text is still there KILL ME NOW

After what I'm gonna start calling "Bobbie-gate", we all know that it wouldn't be the women that got cut 'cause after all, BOOBIES!!!



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Why do I feel like we learned nothing new? Oh! That would be because WE DIDN'T!!! WTF!!????!!!!!

In the gameplay video, I noticed that the dropdown menu for socializing and Go here and etc doesn't have the sim's head anymore.