"Writin_Reg;c-17300999" wrote:
"kaylin205;c-17300977" wrote:
Also for double the price, they aren't done milking the cow just yet.
Well they have a long way to go to catch up to Sims 3 - I own everything made by Maxis for sims 3 and It comes to 3600 dollars and that is just things I bought - not including content I was gifted. Now was that milking too - and I don't regret anything and love all the choices I have. I enjoy using all my Sims 3 content, and Sims 2 content and Sims 4 content. Keep in mind no body but each of us makes us buy anything. So a bit hard to call it milking when we are the one who decides to buy the content. Maxis doesn't even go out of their way to show us how much we should want this stuff or need it - so really we decide for ourselves we have to have it. That's not milking where I come from. No one is forced to buy anything. Be glad they make it - it is our choice to buy it or not.
Oh and not double the price Sims 3 eps were 39.99 and sps were 19.99 when the game was being developed and we almost never had all the sales Sims 4 gets. Even one of the sps in Sims 3 was 30.00 when it came out. I bought them all because I liked them - it was my choice - and I never considered that milking either.
That’s like calling Ikea an expensive store because when you add up everything you can buy there, you’d be bankrupt. When you list all the EP’s, you have everything you really need for the Sims 3 experience. Most of the Store doesn’t add much else than paint, most of the SP’s as well. It sure was milking, it sure wasn’t necessary to complete your game though.
In the meantime each and every pack for Sims 4 adds gameplay and therefore each and every pack will have something in there that makes it essential for players to buy. Which is exactly why they do. A highly praised fact, in reality of course nothing else than a very smart move.
So, if we add it all up, disregarding the paint (sorry but as addicted as I am, I never spent €3600 on Sims 3 which actually includes a lot of paint), that’s a basegame + 11 EP’s for Sims 3 = € 500,-. That’s what it took to have the content comparable to everything Sims 4 needs to have a remotely similar
gameplay experience. I stopped counting, but how much will it be when University will be released? Have we reached € 700 already? I’m quite sure we have.
Sims 3 was a milk cow. Sims 4 is a perfected milk cow. Sims 4 will last about ten years, will cost a lot more than its predecessors and about everything in it is inferior to comparable content in its predecessors.
