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InZOI’s director was disappointed the new life game isn’t as silly as The Sims (www.pcgamesn.com)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Yeah, there were a few attempts in the 00s (including several NSFW ones, for some reason). It's definitely tough to get right. I see the on-paper appeal of InZOI, in that it seems to be going for the same "we'll do what Maxis won't" appeal the original Cities: Skylines had. It's just that with The Sims you risk finding out there was a good reason for what they weren't doing, I guess.

I don't know what's going on at Maxis. I don't know that rolling a whole modern platform, games-as-service approach into Sims 4 retroactively is the right call, regardless of it's due to a lack of capacity to do it or a strategic choice. I am pretty sure that a lot of the stuff in InZOI isn't doing it for me, though. Those two ideas can be held at once.