Transforming The Sims: From Virtual Playground to Profitable Marketplace

That sounds a bit like Roblox to me, something that EA have said that they would like the next sims game to strive towards. Something like a digital marketplace or a way for people to provide EA with content that they can make money off.

I am pretty much against this whole idea because I have seen plenty of people trying this model and failing. The chase for the "next big thing" is something that we have seen with many games that have failed because they spent millions building a game that no one wanted to use. For example Bethesda and their paid mods in their games. The community disliked the whole idea of having to pay for mods, mod creators that provided content to the platform where not met with positive feedback. The content itself was poorly made and overpriced. Rockstar Games made great open-world games until they discovered the profitability with GTA Online where they could just make a few cars and offer players way to bypass grinding the game for money by buying shark cards. Why bother spending money on developing a game when it could just be a digital marketplace?

So I don't believe in this business model, I think it will reduce development for The Sims and instead they will focus on making money off content that they themselves or other people are making.

The Sims have survived for all these years because of the escapism, creativity, free content like cc and mods, and the support from the community and EA's support in the form of new developed content and bug fixes.

It should not be a digital marketplace.

This idea is a hard no for me... and moreover, I am a bit suspicious about the motives/goals of the post, particularly the continued push in the face of universal distaste for the idea by someone who appears to be a new/unknown forum member. OP seems to have some personal monetization scheme in mind, and continuing to push that seems to me to fly in the face of the spirit of the forum rules, at least.

Having at one time created CC for the Sims 1, it became a job and took away from my game. I thoroughly enjoy just playing the game. So this would be a big ol NOPE for me. But good luck with it. 

This sounds like NFT's, that failed spectacularly 

I'm neither a cc creator, nor a heavy cc user, so I'm not particularly excited about this. I would be okay if they added a marketplace to Sims if it was a world ("Blue Water Village Market"?) that appeared in manage worlds if you were playing while connected to the internet. Those who have no interest could stick to the other worlds and ignore that option. Those who wanted to check out the products could click on that world and connect to an online environment where they could click on stores, allowing you to search for product types or seller, and then load into a shop. There could also be a runway you could visit, where they would cycle through different creators' clothes, and a furniture gallery where they have show rooms by creator. 

Maybe, instead of trading in real money, selling CC could be an in-game career, and the other simmers have to pay out of their sim's funds to have something added to their game, and the vendor sim takes home the money.