The Sims 5 multiplayer explained: Developer Lyndsay Pearson on our podcast

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This week’s guest on our One More Life gaming podcast is Lyndsay Pearson, the vice president of franchise creative on The Sims 4 and its upcoming sequel, The Sims 5.

Of course, we couldn't resist the opportunity to ask Pearson about the addition of new multiplayer experiences that have been promised for The Sims 5.

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Pearson’s life with gaming has taken her on the kind of journey that most fans can only dream of — she started out as an avid player of The Sims, and now she’s become one of its main creative talents behind the scenes.

In this chat, Pearson discusses all the unusual things that people do with their Sims, and she shares her own memories of growing up as a gamer with a very cool grandma.

For fans, though, her generous insights about The Sims 5 are sure to be the headline attraction here.

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«We definitely want to introduce multiplayer,» Pearson said on the podcast. «And not multiplayer in the big, scary 'jump in a world full of strangers' kind of way. But literally, how do you and your friends want to do some play together?

»And there's a lot of different flavours that could take, so we're exploring a lot of different spaces there.

«Because playing together can look like so many different things, right? Even our chat now, we've talked about, like, trivia games to fighting games to racing games, playing together and social can mean so many things.

»And so we're having a lot of fun exploring all those different opportunities, particularly within