Sims Payment Model
I would like to give some feedback regarding the change of how you play The Sims.
I dont like the changes that have been made to the way you buy this game and maybe other people can relate to this aswell.
When I first got into the Sims 3, we were a group of friends and family (4 people (mark, dave, sabrina and me) that started playing.
A part of the experience was, that when a new expansion hit the market, we were able to share these games with eachother.
For example.
David bought the base game. Mark bought the Career Pack, Sabrina bought The Travelling Pack and I got the Late Night Pack.
Then david bought the extention after mine so he could play all our previously bought extentions.
This was possible in the Sims 3 mainly because it had a weaker DRM, but I think that was a big part of its success (that and the open world aspect).
I think that such a system should be part of the next Sims experience. For example you can share your copy of The Sims with up to 3 friends on Origin or something like the Steam Family Mode.
That way a lot more people would spend more money on this game, because its a group effort.
Just my 2 cents on this topic. I think the Sims is great and I was a big fan of the genre (accounts: aigemark & this one).
But I am not going to buy the current version because I am not going to spend that amount of money alone (all in all everyone of us paid nearly 100€ or more on Sims 3 but none of us got into Sims 4 because of this reason... each of us would now have to pay 400€ instead of it being split between each other)
