"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”
Well you are missing some games then as my 15 year old grandson just got in trouble this week with his mom for charging 160 dollars in purchases for a bunch of single items from guns to armour to potions for his X-box games - including 25 dollars for a single mount (horse) that was on sale for 25 dollars (what the heck was the non-sale price for a horse) - for his various games - because his account is linked to his moms because of his age - and those were all single items - not even packs - some of which to me did not even amount to one pet dog out fit in a 10 dollar pack. My hubby had to go into the account for the mom and get parental controlls turned on to keep Derrick from having the ability to buy anything. She even said had it been expansions for those prices she could have at least understood it - but single items. But I suppose thats okay seeing it is not 10 bucks for a whole pack of content and not EA.
