Kit Packs: Yay or Nay?

"Felicity;c-17817476" wrote:

"Beardedgeek;c-17817333" wrote:
Part of it is that I am old.
There is at least one generation of players who has never lived in a world WITHOUT micro transactions in 90% of games and therefore can't imagine why it would be bad, it is just normal to them.

It is even more evident in other countries; Korea for example has done it much longer than the US or Europe; I once brought up the issue not knowing the other two people I talked to were from SK and they literally didn't understand what I was going in about; it's just normal business practice to them.

I DO think this is a test bed for Sims 5; I am 100% sure that the base game of Sims 5 will be much much more lacking than Sims 4, but you will be able to buy individual mechanics, not to mention virtually all CAS items, like in the Sims 3 store. Or in a lot of mobile games.
Basically a YA Sim will only have one of each kind of clothing, maybe in two different colors and if you want your Sim to have a jacket you'll have to buy it for real money. If you don't want all your houses to only use one type of door and one type of window? Same thing.
Do you want more than one single career? That's 5 dollars thank you. Btw the jacket is 2 dollars and the window and door together is 11 dollars because it comes in three color variants.

I am 100% certain this is how Sims 5 will be. Not exaggerating.

If Sims 5 is online, you're probably right that this will be how content will be delivered. I have a smidgen of hope that it may not be, but just tiny bit. Dragon Age 4 is going to be single player -- the multiplayer part was scrapped. So it's possible that EA will stick with their mobile games for online and have Sims 5 be single player.

The kits that were announced (or leaked) do not look interesting to me. My main concern is that the kits will end up being MFPS on steroids. I like extra content. I don't like content being stripped out of packs and released separately.

Yeah I read about that too, Anthem was so unsuccessful that Dragon Age 4 will be single player so there is a small hope that EA might not be as interested in making the sims5 online because it could go the same way as Anthem. There was this article published recently from IGN as well.

https://twitter.com/IGN/status/1364779908937912320

So who knows, but it's still EA we are talking about and they still want to make huge profits, so kits will probably be a part of the sims 5 (if they will sell well) but maybe Maxis will have more control and can decide what the sims5 will be.