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EA confirms The Sims 5 will be free-to-play and co-exist alongside The Sims 4
(www.eurogamer.net)
Free to play with all items available at DLC
hard pass
this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2023
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It's days like this that remind me I'm not a typical gamer.
When Sims 4 came out, I put Sims 3 away thinking it was time for something bigger and better even though I'd had wishlisted DLC unpurchased. When Sims 4 clearly had basic content locked behind future DLC, I quit and didn't go back to anything because playing the old version when the new version is out "didn't make sense". Went from being a Sims player to not a Sims player, not in protest but because their business model "failed to monetize" me. Obviously, if I were the base case, EA would have backpedaled.
Reminds me of the "mini-outrigger and story collection" thing with fantasy literature. I've gone from being a diehard fan to no longer even reading simply because I didn't have the bandwidth and research hours to take it all in (Dresden and Iron Druid, lookin at you).
If you enjoyed the sims 3 I think you should check out Life by You. It looks like a bigger and better sims 3
I am cautiously hopeful for Life By You. My favorite thing in the Sims was to set up crazy soap opera dramas and see what happens, but Sims 4 sims are so docile and boring, it feels a lot more like just playing with dolls and decorating the house. I'm not judging if that's the part you like, but it's just not for me.
Life by You
Leave it to Paradox to make a Sims clone ;). I'm going to add this to my wishlist and keep my eye on it. Thanks!
the ultimate life sim.
I've basically never seen a free to play title cost less than a paid one (for similar content). Typically free to play has some sort of completely uncapped money-sink as well. Given that Sims 4 already costs $500+ for all content, I can only surmise that Sims 5 will cost thousands for the same amount of content.
Yup, my wife has spent far more on Lost Ark than she ever spent on WoW..
I hate F2P, so I'll be passing on this, but the model does work.
I love the rage over this. You've all clearly never met most of the people playing this game. They already spend hundreds on DLC, it's the majority of the game.
Frankly this is a $70 discount for most fans.
But it'll be worse now. It won't be the same as 4, but free. It'll be a glorified store with constant popups begging for money
It says a lot that it's "running alongside" the previous game. You must not have a lot of faith in your game if you're expecting your sequel to not replace the previous game.
Lolol you just described the past 10 years of the Sims. It has been, from day 1, a glorified store. And people love it.
Yep. And now it'll be much worse
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Yeah, I know a Sims player and Sims 4 is literally the only game she plays. The way you or me would buy a new game, she buys a DLC. It's like it is its own gaming ecosystem for most of its players.
"Motherlode": $4.99 for 25k Simleons
Thankfully paradox are making a contender. Although paradox overdoes kt with dlc, too, but they're not a scummy company like ea so it should be better. Plus they're trying to take marketsharr from es so doing the exact same thing would be counterproductive.
Also paraloves might not be too far out either.
Usually Paradox has some content DLC but the vast majority is cosmetic, so you don't have to buy it but that money fuels their development of future content. Also with every content DLC they almost always release updates and extra content for free for the base game, I feel that Paradox is one of the only companies that do DLCs right.
Also they always allow mods, and a lot of their cosmetic DLCs can be immigrated by mods, so it's not like they block people from doing what they want with their game just to shove cosmetics.
For me for a game like Sims I need a big variety of cosmetics to keep me playing, new game mechanics are kind of secondary. But still, you are completely right, paradox doesn't abandon players that don't buy the dlc but release content patches at the same time. Plus if you happen to play with other people only one person needs to own the dlc, which is one of my favourite things paradox does and more companies should do.
Also, I completely forgot about mod support. That makes a huge difference, too.
That paradox game looks horrible though. I think I'd just rather pirate Sims instead...
Game is free but now you pay real money instead of sims money for building the house. No more motherlode and rosebud for you.
Want that couch? It'll take your sim 4 real time weeks to earn it with their pay, or you could just spen $15 in real dollars and get it now. Another for the guest room, or because you lost the first in a cooking fire? $15 more, please.
Lol
At least paralives is in development... (its slow though.. but looks like a solid alternative to sims)
I really only want the house building. I had a blast in Sims 2-4 building my dream house and trying out floor plans, optimizing flow of everyday life and just the architecture/design aspects of making it look good. Sadly they always hit limitations which took the fun out of it due to not being able to build like you wanted. Especially roofs were tricky or impossible to get to look good. And slanted roofs wasn't in any base game and I didn't buy DLC (and haven't played 4 in like 5 years+).
If someone could make an house architect game I'd so love it! Build a house for a family of 4 with a budget of X with these bullet point demands. Then get scored on stuff like usable sq footage, how well the bullet points got satisfied etc.
Paradox announced a Sims-like game with a focus on modability. I’m hoping they pull a Cites Skylines and add some competition to the genre.
Yeah I saw that but it looked to also have a lot of focus on the dolls and not the dollhouse, I'm more about the house.
I completely get it!
isn't the Sims 4 also free to play? They'll just lock more content behind dlcs.