Thanks to a little slip-up on Twitter, EA accidentally confirmed the rumor that has been percolating all week: For the 25th anniversary of the franchise, EA is re-releasing The Sims and The Sims 2!
I have been wistfully dreaming of this for years. I figured they would eventually get around to it. Ever since the announcement that they cancelled The Sims 5 in order to focus their energy on older and existing games, I hoped this was in their plans.
Here’s the thing, though: The Sims is hard. A lot of us have fond memories of playing The Sims, and in the haze of nostalgia, it seems like a simpler time. It was not. I think a lot of us are going to come away from this experience feeling both spoiled by and grateful for the later games.
That being said: NOW PLEASE HURRY UP YES GIVE ME THE THING.
In the meantime, EA is letting us “party like it’s 2000” with a delightfully retro The Sims website. The Y2K vibes are perfectly detailed, right down to the dashes in the URL, the loading screen, and the way you have to type the WWW in www.the-sims-2k.com.
I laughed when I tried to go to the-sims-2k.com and got a 404 error. It’s the nerdiest of all possible Y2K jokes, and trust me: it hit home.