Last week, EA announced that The Sims 5 isn't happening. Instead, it will continue to support the decade-old Sims 4 with even more expansions and updates, something the community isn't taking it well whatsoever.
"Rest in peace, Sims franchise," the top post on the subreddit reads, declaring the series dead after 24 years. Many in the comments were quick to agree, with one fan suggesting that they might look elsewhere to get their life simulator fix.
"I might at some point get into InZoi and Paralives more than a series I dedicated more than half of my life into," one commenter replied. "opefully they won't disappoint so much."
The Sims franchise is indeed dead.
A big reason EA decided not to go forward with The Sims 5 was to avoid a complete restart, believing that fans would be upset losing all of the progress made in the last decade with each expansion and stuff pack, not to mention the money sunk into buying it all.
This is a sentiment some do agree with in the community, as evident by another top post, "I'm okay with no Sims 5," in which the poster says that it would "be a shame...
