"JoAnne65;c-16406332" wrote:
"Loanet;c-16406084" wrote:
You could say that every Sims 4 pack is optional too. Or at least, that's what EA is saying. AGAIN. And NO. You can't have it both ways. There's a mod to travel in Sims 3? Well then, EA didn't make a complete game with the ability to travel between worlds - modders filled in the gaps.
Don't worry about TS5. I keep saying it, if you're so certain that EA is doing this all for profit (which it IS) then you can count on there not being a Sims 5. EA is appealing to more players by making Sims 4 ports. And DLC. It's more profitable.
It just irritates me something chronic when people talk like Sims 3 is a saint and EA's Store, with its exorbitant prices and mountains of reskins, was totally not a way to cash-grab that went on throughout the entirety of the game's duration just because it has some great gameplay items. It was just a DIFFERENT way to cash-grab. It's no shame to admit that EA was just as enthusiastic with its money-vacuum with Sims 3 as it is with Sims 4.
No DLC should have overlapping content. That goes for the bundles too - why should I pay for something I already have? Don't reduce the price - just don't double up the content and make different content for it instead! Look at Sims 3 Late Night and Sims 3 Supernatrual. Vampires were used TWICE. Why does everybody overlook that?
It’s optional in terms of nobody can force you to buy. It’s not optional when you want to have things to do. Again, the focus for neither Sims 1, 2 nor 3 was (interactable) stuff, for Sims 4 it is. So if you don’t buy it, you have nothing to do (in 4). That’s the bottom line here. And vampires weren’t paid for twice. They just added some features several packs later (like sparkling, which nobody in fact wanted). For C&D they clearly have left things out to sell just a couple of months later. It’s beyond me why people insist on defending that.
And sure, if you regretted Sims 3 didn’t come with features Sims 2 had (shop and restaurant) you were obliged to buy that in the Store (though a restaurant system was also added to ITF but that was the very last pack), like when you had to buy the farm and similar stuff if you’d want to play a farmer. That’s not quite the same thing as having to buy everything though, that’s the whole point.
This is the problem with the sims 4.
I agree vampires were not paid for twice. I bought late night for the world and other game play features and then supernatural down the line. Two separate packs with two different focuses. One was not sold as an additional pack to the other unlike the current model.
