sims 3 vs sims 4 prices

Pricing is one thing but the main point is value for money.

Give me an expensive store set for TS3 over a scaled down TS4 GP any day.

In TS3 if you where to download a world, that world would be open and you would know what to expect. You could place more lots if you want, or you could change existing ones from residential to community or vice versa.

In TS4, if you where to buy an SP lets say, you would be limited on editing the colours of clothing whereas in TS3 you have CASt.

The TS3 EPs where rich as well while the TS4 EPs, at least from what I have seen have mixed reactions usually leaning towards negative.

So while TS4 is on discount, it still does not appear to provide the same value for money that TS3 does and TS3 is still selling. The EPs, the SPs and store content are still being brought by Simmers wishing to complete their collection after either not being impressed with TS4 or not moving onto TS4 anyway.

I have even seen a few 'new' players buy TS3 after having only played TS4.

The price seems to have nothing to do with it, it is all about value for money and it seems that TS3 has more value :smile:

@king_of_simcity7 That's a good point I was not thinking of that when I wrote the post. I was just thinking a lot of people must be going back to sims 3 if they don't lower the prices like they do with sims 4.
I really want to like sims 4 because it has some fun elements that sims 3 lacks but I don't know what it is with the sims 4 that the game really bores me. I can't play more than one hour in one sitting whereas with the sims 3 I get so addicted I can play the whole day. Which is what I am going to do now. I have a bachelor party and a wedding to do.

My sims in 3 socialize as well autonomously, might that be a processor thing? And I don't need a ton of cc to make them look good but that's personal preference I guess. I agree on the galery!

(as for those prices, it's odd for sure)

@kiara07 It is a shame that some of the small features that work well in TS4 are undermined but less popular features.

@JoAnne65 I agree I don't need CC for my Sims either and I am happy with how they look

@JoAnne65 It's not my PC, I have an i7, 8GB RAM and GeForce GTX 950M. My sims just prefer to do things by themselves like reading or playing computer, or play with their pets. I tried to look for mods to make them socialize autonomously but didn't find any.
Well I think some of the clothes and hairs are hideous but that's just me :p On the few ocasions I play sims 4 I didn't download any hair or clothes. But at least it's fixable, unlike the things I don't like about sims 4.

@king_of_simcity7 I am very shallow about my sims, I want them to look perfect o:)

I have no idea why that is, I see it mentioned a lot but I don't recognize it. In my game sims are constantly finding each other to have conversations. Just not compulsory, canceling other actions. I dislike most of the cc hairstyles there are out there, so like I said that's probably personal preference. This is the only CC haircut in my game I couldn't resist ;)



Some of the clothes and hairs in the game are hideous by the way, that's not just you :# But there are also lots of clothes and hairs that are acceptable to good and on top of that there's always CASt to save the day.
(some dislike the clay hair in 4 by the way; I don't, I like that style myself)

Lmao that is insane you guys pay the same for the packs on normal price. Over her the price for sims 4 EP is more than double we pay for a sims 3 pack.

Sims 3 is R250
Sims 4 is R650

"kiara07;15443380" wrote:
@JoAnne65 It's not my PC, I have an i7, 8GB RAM and GeForce GTX 950M. My sims just prefer to do things by themselves like reading or playing computer, or play with their pets. I tried to look for mods to make them socialize autonomously but didn't find any.
Well I think some of the clothes and hairs are hideous but that's just me :p On the few ocasions I play sims 4 I didn't download any hair or clothes. But at least it's fixable, unlike the things I don't like about sims 4.

@king_of_simcity7 I am very shallow about my sims, I want them to look perfect o:)

We almost have the same pc lol

Definitely not the hardware my sims do enjoy socializing though. I agree and so far I have put it down to the sims 4 not having a lot of actual gameplay I tested this by only playing 3 similar packs in sims 3 and I couldn't even do half of what the packs offered. Also sims 4 sims are not unique so you cant connect with them. All my sims 4 games are the same no matter what I do. Sims 3 I can remember a lot of different stories that just happened.

The vlithes and furniture are often ugly but you should use cast. A lot of them can be saved with it.

I'm keeping my Sims 3 game as far away from Origin as possible (bought nearly everything second-hand) so I don't really check the prices, but it's understandable. I mean, they could put their 10 year old games on the front page too, but that wouldn't make much business sense, would it? But you're still getting it cheaper than the ones where they count in euro. (if we look at Origin prices, retail is much cheaper)

Sims 3 is older and less likely to have sales, at least on Origin. It's had plenty of sales in the past before Sims 4. I'm not surprised here. :/

Steam however has been throwing some great sales on Sims 3 plus packs. Cheaper than most Sims 4 sales too.