What's up with these prices?
Right, so personally I have every pack I want, and I've had them for some time. At about 6000 hours, I've easily gotten my mileage out of them. But now I want to buy them again for a streamer friend,...
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"SimplyJen;c-16669911" wrote:
You missed this year's summer sale but there will be more sales. Just keep an eye out. Follow Steam on social media as they probably announce sales. Last sale they changed things up but in the past we've seen 75% for base game and packs.
Instead of taking advantage of the past Steam sales, I went the physical route and collected disk copies to replace my digital Origin collection. I owned some of them already but it wasn't cheap. (You can do this with pre-2012 base game + disk collection + super patch 1.67) I don't regret it one bit. Nothing against steam, I just prefer to be free of all digital distribution platforms when possible.
QFT.
Thank you for reminding simmers about this reality check SimplyJen. For making simmers aware of the industry push towards 100% online games. Lots of simmers (especially younger ones) don't realize EA made a fundamental change in how they would release their single player Sims (and other) franchise titles in the future. And yes, this was when they changed their policy to pressure simmers to exclusively download TS3 & other DLC from Origin in 2012. Force a mandatory online requirement. Which not only removed player choice but compromised simmer's ability to use 3rd party mods in their game as well. :s
Too many simmers (and gamers in general) are blinded by the convenience of digital DLC. Until they lose their internet or IP access. Or the software dev/publisher retires the servers that were dedicated to their game for whatever reason (franchise obsolete, dev bankruptcy etc, a hardware retirement like Micrsoft GFWL etc etc.). At which point, the digital owning gamer suddenly realizes they're permanently cut off from ever playing their favorite title again....
But with hard DVD retail copies, it doesn't matter if you're vacationing on the moon, the top of the Himalayas, the bottom of the Marianas Trench, or the center of the earth. Unlike digital/cloud server games, hard copies of games will NEVER have this problem. Especially where your official DLC modded content is concerned (if stored on your HD). You'll ALWAYS have access to your sims game :D
edit: and your post explains the trending phenomenon of why our 9 year old Sims 3 franchise making Steam's top 100 all of last week! LMAO
But then again, Steam did have an excellent bundle were they offered the base game + all the fundamental DLCs which should've been in the base game i.e. Seasons, Gen & Pets
