"elelunicy;c-17567251" wrote:
"SimmerGeorge;c-17566478" wrote:
@elelunicy To be honest with you this has become too much text and too off-topic but there was never in any Sims game DLC listed in the main menu of the game with sales up to 75% almost every week. FYI I can't even find a single EP for The Sims 3 under 10 Euros in used condition let alone a new one. Not even Store content is ever on sale. You basically said yourself The Sims 3 doesn't go on sale anymore.
Lol TS3 EPs can be found for $5 easily back when people were still play that game. You think 75% off is a lot? $5 is a whopping 88% off when you consider EPs were originally $40 each.
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Also, TS3 EPs all had permanent price reduction from $40 to $20 within a few years of their releases. Get to Work is over 5 years old now and its full price is still $40.
"@SimmerGeorge;c-17566478" wrote:
Bash The Sims 3 all you want at least it brought innovation, something The Sims 4 has failed to do.
What innovations? Don't say Open World or Create-A-Style cause that's gonna make me laugh :D
So much stuff in TS3 base game like objects and animations were literally copy & pasted from TS2 and it's honestly beyond embarrassing.
"SimmerGeorge;c-17566478" wrote:
About the store content I explained to you exactly why it didn't sell and EA decided to call it something familiar and made it into Stuff Packs so people don't have to make accounts, buy points and btw in 2009-2013 a lot less people were brave enough to use their credit cards online. At least in my country.
Amazing. EA was desperate enough to put store ads straight into CAS/build mode, and yet it still didn't sell :D
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"SimmerGeorge;c-17566478" wrote:
Lol, when the devs themselves complain about the limited budget and time then there is a big problem. For a game that sells so much there should be more money invested in making it better. With limitations to keep it under control sure but still more. You know where all our money goes to? To freaking Vanessa Hudgens and all those other celebs that get paid to advertise the game. EA is spending so much cash on advertisments they could spend some in the actual game as well.
The devs are not complaining; they're educating people who're clueless about game development about budget and time restrictions, which exist in all properly managed video game projects.
"SimmerGeorge;c-17566478" wrote:
The Sims 4 is good in selling itself it is however lacking in other areas.
TS2 & TS3 were lacking in sales AND many other areas.
That's steam and online, when I bought the sims 3 I knew nothing about steam and bought most of the cds in stores and the games are still at 19.99 plus the expansions. A lot people still prefer to buy physical copies of a game instead digital download and will grab what is the closet to them unless they have no choice but to buy offline. Did you forget that sims 4 just copy and pasted the conservation career out island living just to make eco lifestyles and slapped 40 dollar price tag on it? For the 20th birthday they gave you a recolored hot tub and have snatched a lot decor items and clothing out packs and recolored them so you cant call out sims 2 or 3 for that when sims 4 is doing the same. In fact, ifsims 4 had a color wheel they wouldnt feel the to copy, recolor items so much. Sims 4 is also recycling animation..And yes the color wheel and open world were great innovations even though they had issues. Compared to sims 4. The sims 2 and 3 were definitely not lacking in sales when they were first released and sold millions within their first days/week of released and still selling. The sims 4 are no were close if wasnt for the game constantly going on sale, been given away for free, and dropped in price multiple times throughout its 6 years of life. It took them 10 years to give away sims 2 and sims 3 still hasn't been released at all. So even at an 88 percent discount on steam/online it's still to much for a game that old. There should been a complete sims 3 collection at 5 to 10 or just free.