"TheGoodOldGamer;c-16413437" wrote:
"MidnightAura;c-16413427" wrote:
I don’t see this as a time issue. It’s not about that. Ea can swing dlc for a dlc as a normal practice until it’s blue in the face- but it’s not. Some people will accept it, more power to them. The game industry is changing and yes some games choose to do in game purchases etc. But dlc for dlc is a new low. It’s up there with loot boxes and charging for outfits (looking at you Far Cry 5) But at least FC5 has still sold you a full game. The story is still there.
You yourself Writin_Reg acknowledged the games direction was alien to you and completely different and unrecognisable. Until toddlers came out. But I guess that’s where we differ because Toddlers to me were a mere pit stop in the journey - the course the sims 4 has on hadn’t changed. That course is set regardless of what we think. Things being sliced and diced into little pieces and sold back (many times as re colours) is not “just how it is now” across the industry. I assure you it’s not, it’s an exercise in seeing how far they can cross the line before the community wakes up and goes: “Hold up, what’s going on?”
I play so many different types of games, this is the only game that does this to this degree and the only community that say: “That’s bad but I’m buying anyway”
Speaking about Far Cry 5, I've heard you can earn enough in-game money to get most if not all the stuff from the store, which provides an interesting thought. What if just by having the base game of the Sims, your Sims could earn enough money for you to get packs 'for free'? It would obviously have to be a currency other than regular simoleons that wouldn't have money cheats in it or whatever, maybve there would have to be an online check to make sure it's legit (which with the gallery kind of thing, it wouldn't be hard to include anyway)... but it's an interesting idea.
In game money is fine - charging real life currency for silver bars to buy outfits is another particularly in a game played in first person.
My first thought was “I hope the sims devs don’t play this game!”
