We all know that EA loves to buy domain names and hang on to them, but it’s surprising to see that this was done just recently. Skyline shared his thoughts on a possible SimCity 5 that may just be coming. Of course, key word is MAY. This isn’t a guarantee but it is a good sign and a first solid step. Back in June, EA registered SimCity5.com as well as renewing SimCity.com around the same time. Skyline speculates that EA may be reviving the franchise due to its popularity on it hitting Steam as well as basing a theory that we usually see new SimCity games every 4 years.
As for now, mark this down as a huge rumor. I just hope EA can find some way to keep it inhouse with their studios – preferably give the game to a small team within Maxis…but I’m not keeping my hopes high.
i hope if they are making it. it will be in-house like you said. look at simcity societies. they outsourced it and it was crap. let’s hope with the success of Simcity Deluxe that EA let’s Maxis have the Simcity franchise back. would be awesome if it was like Simcity 4 but better.
4 years?! you know how many lifetime’s that is just for 2 games?
*praying in heart* “EA please dont blow up ,please dont blow up, please dont blow up”
*after 1 year* “ughhhhh, AGAAAAIIIIIIINNNNNN!”
Please EA listen from the past and give this franchise to maxis, it wont hurt.
But with Late Night see that they are giving us the superstar expansion from the sims 1 that the players have ever wanted, now next stop Weather and Petz! ooo yeah!
😀 😛
If EA actually manages to surprise everyone with a REALLY AWESOME SimCity, I can imagine the headlines.
“EA releases SimCity 5, shops close due to excessive traffic”
“Pre-order SimCity 5 to make sure you get your copy! Wait, all the pre-orders have been bought…”
I still have nightmares about Simcity Societies.
@Kiwi_tea lol
Omw! i never had societies, but i saw nw that its just weird. im so glad that people are buzzing about this. we have to continue,until ea hears, and maxis should step up and design it. what i want is also something like sc4 bt with a water tool. and also to not be restricted to squares. and to have cool bridges and roads over each other.and some cpu cities growing on their own then just some disasters happening by itself.and seasons could work. so lets make this happen! long live simcity!
There is a new SimCity finally coming sometime next year. From what I read about it, it is going to be an awsome game.
I hate SimCity Societies…..apparently they made that fiasco to fix the learning curve…..it took me about 30 minutes to master the controls of SimCity4 when I was 14…..and I’d never played another SimCity game before. If they’re reading this; is SimCity5 tiem?
@Simgirl Sorry, but quote your source or you’re just spouting untruths.
Simcity5.com and Simcity6.com and so on were register in 2002, this year they just make the domains renovation.
I sure hope if SimCity 5 does come out , it will support SimCity 4 plugins because there are tons of them !
I hear about them trying to make the game less complicated but IMO simcity 4 was great because of it. Allowed so much customization, if sim city 5 is every made (hopefully) i hope they don’t dumb it down. Why not make difficulty settings and keep the complication for harder settings. Why are we waiting 6 years for a “real” sequel. EA sports is poison for the video game industry.
I too wish for a Simcity 5. I wish theybwould put seasons in it….more disasters such as floods….an online version where ppl can hook up to others cities and trade stock, loan money, etc…….and would def want a option where u can control a region all at once so i wont be confined to those DANG LITTLE SQUARES! XD
Please EA & Maxis make another SIM CITY game just like 4 and 3 but with newer tech. Even Sim tower keep me entertained way longer than societies. Now thats saying something about were EA has taken this once spectacular franchise of games. Just thinking of the endless revenue stream EA & Maxis could be making with a new and proper sim city is sickening to me. Get off your arsses and start developing it NOW!!
how about you bigwigs listen to the common man. we want a real sim city 5. no more socities that was really sad. sc4 is still great and people are dedicating their percious time making new props and plops. listen people, fans would flip a lid if they saw sc5 at e3 2011. not to mention the technology we have now compared to 2001 or 2002 or whatever. it would blow peoples minds if u put sc4+modern tech into 1 game
Hopefully this is more than “just a rumor”, and hopefully we can see a new simcity game soon enough.
The best way for Sim City to survive is to offer more than one way to play. Maybe a Simple mode, an Advanced mode and a custom mode where you can control weather things happen automatically or manually.
Curved roads would be great. Adjustable lanes (amount of) for highway and avenues. Buildings that conform to odd lot shapes. YES lots should be able to conform lots to the roads and terrain. Ex. Triangle lots would create the possibility of a triangle shaped building that fits that space.
To simplify building or a complex of building that will morph itself to the shape of the property it when being built.
Double Decker bridges and highways.
Multi-Use bridges (trains and autos).
An easier way (but not too easy) to connect parts of the city to utilities and resources.
Roads that can be widened and updated easily when needed.
Oh crap! i would have a field day when thats announced. i never had societies, thank goodness. but simcity 4 is lacking now. i need new city scapes. i would definitely get simcity 5. it could be huge. btw whens e3 2011?
it sucks that simcity 4 wasn’t followed by a proper simcity 5… simcity 2000 is my fav video game and i liked simcity 4 a lot too… i seemed easy enough for a big game company like ea to fund a successor with full 3d capability and evolved from 4 but… societies wasn’t… proper. surely they could see that it would be able to be popular if they marketed it right? i mean simcity 2000 was popular wasn’t it…
We all want a real faithful proper Simcity5 that follows in the footsteps of Simcity4. I would simply take Simcity4 code then throw on a new graphics engine and fix the bugs and shortcomings of Simcity4. I think GPU compute would be useful for calculating city statistics as well, it would be much more efficient than using a CPU given that it is nothing but a massive multi dimensional matrix.
EA, if you are listening… PLEASE MAKE A REAL SUCCESSOR TO SIMCITY 4! I am 34, and I still have wet dreams when thinking about what a REAL simcity game would be like if it was made atop of today’s 3d systems. Make a dream come true, EA!
We’ll see. According to a whois enquiry, the domain name simcity5.com expires on “Sat, Aug 06, 2011”.
Curveable roads, odd shaped buildings and lots good ideas. i think they should also let you like 10 different schools, hospitals, and high shools to choose from. to make each city more customizable, also, make country clubs, universities, airports and other big square buildings more flexible and have a couple diffrent ones of each to choose! just my thoughts on SC5
How about flowing water between elevations, more civic bldgs and workers, construction and non-retail service industries and workers (eg road, bridge, rail construction and maintenance, etc).
Modders, have been sucessful in making curving roads and rails and single rails but they should be including in the basic game.
Also the ag industry needs to not be a dead end industry. Just some off the top of the head ideas.
There is massive potential for raking in the cash from DLC too.
I say that in a “glass half full” sense. I don’t hate DLC. Rather I appreciate what it makes possible.
Please make a Simcity 5 modeled after 4. I am 75 year old worman and I love that game more than any other I have played and I have played many. Not uncommon to spend a whole day at it. PLEASE!! Can’t imagine why you would ignore a money maker.
please please ea/maxis…i also want SimCity 5 patterned after SC4…SC Societies is just a bunch of crap for kiddos…
please make this happen!!!
I would love to see a new Sim City. There are so many ideas here!
What about adding climate and seasons into it? Or make a journey with your city through history? Have immigration? New disasters? I could go on for ages!
PLEASE! I NEED A SIM CITY 5
Dear EA:
I will stop buying EA games UNTILL YOU FINALLY BRING OUT A DECENT SIM CITY 5!