Do we no longer get free updates?

@LeGardePourpre What does HCP stands for...? ;)

"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.

"LeGardePourpre;c-16284374" wrote:

"@JoAnne65;c-16284293" wrote:
@LeGardePourpre What does HCP stands for...? ;)

Holiday Celebration Pack

Oh haha, thanks :)

"Sk8rblaze;c-16284174" wrote:

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

We were told, explicitly, "new ways to play every month".

Bug fixes are not playing the game in new ways. Bug fixes are playing the game the way it is supposed to work.

We were told, explicitly, "new ways to play every month".

Yeah, and another whopper they told us from the very beginning: “YOU RULE!”

Personally, I'd like a free revamp of Ghosts.

"LeGardePourpre;c-16285051" wrote:
On August 5, 2015...

SimGuruRachel wrote:
That’s just a few of the new things we’ve introduced in the past year, and we’re gonna keep on growing The Sims 4 and giving you more ways to play with life every month!

Note: I don't see the "forever" word in this sentence. It was true during 3 years.

If there was to be a limit in time there, that should have been mentioned ;) Not mentioning it suggests it will be till the very end. Like with Sims 3 by the way, where the Store kept offering new stuff constantly (till the very end). So simmers were actually used to that.

"ChadSims2;c-16282458" wrote:
@SimGuruDrake has said that patching in content every month is over, so giving you more ways to play with life every month is done. At this point free content is random but now seems to be used to draw players back in before a bigger pack is released.

@ChadSims2 Have you got a source for that?

I miss having free updates but honestly these should have been in the base game in the first place. I’m still waiting for burglars.

https://simsvip.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Sims-4-Timeline-SimsVIP.png
The image is a png image which is ridiculous in itself.

"Netzspannung;c-16280852" wrote:

"MidnightAura;c-16280732" wrote:
I can’t see your link/image.

But to be fair here we only got free content last month.

This.
And also, basements and swimming pools, dishwashers etc were all things that should have been in the base game upon release. It is good that they added them in the first year, but it was not groundbreaking new content. This was the reason I did not buy the game until December 2015.

That's why I quit after a month and just came back 4 months ago, lol. Well, mostly because there were no toddlers and kids had no option to meet other kids except look around the neighborhood hoping to find some...