Do we no longer get free updates?

"stilljustme2;c-16283526" wrote:
We get free updates every month -- even if it's just for bug fixes that's still content.

Plenty of game companies do exactly the same without labeling it as "free content." It's called a monthly patch.
That's sort of the point. Sometimes these forums have a culture of gratitude, and it feels strange given plenty of other companies do the same and yet this culture of gratitude doesn't exist.

Team Fortress 2 is 10 years old now and still gets free major updates much larger than anything we've gotten. New maps, new gamemodes, new classes or weapons....you name it. Heck, it even gets trailer vids made "just because" and has it's own comicbook with a writer/illustrator staffed. The comicbook brings in absolutely zero profit, yet they do it just for fun. No one goes thanking them and acting like Valve is the best company ever because there's an understanding Valve does this to promote the game and encourage sales of things like hats, which do cost money. There's nothing wrong with that, but it's still weird if people were to have the attitude of us owing them gratitude for providing us with a service in the hope we give them money.

In the case of the Sims 4, it's even weirder because it's not a free comicbook "just because," but rather toddlers were taken from the base game, then given back, and somehow people react more positively than they would had we just gotten toddlers from the beginning.