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"wormofthebook;c-17948951" wrote:"TS1299;c-17948444" wrote:
I will not be surprised if the profit earned from The Sims 4 was being used to fund Battlefield, Need for Speed, FIFA, or even other EA Franchises. It seems to me that instead of the profit a sign of bigger investment for the game, EA decides that it would be better to use that in their other games. I mean Battlefield V failed expectations and earned very low number of profit....yet somehow DICE and EA get to create a new better and bigger Battlefield game with tons of new effects (weather simulation for example and even animals like penguins) for their next game..... also don't forget that according to financial report, quarterly The Sims 4 is surpassing expectations... If this is a sign then I don't know what will.
So far the biggest money makers for EA are Apex Legends, The Sims 4 and FIFA. With FIFA being filed with lawsuits due to gambling, it is only a matter of time before the Ultimate Team will be categorized by law as gambling. Don't forget that FIFA earns billion dollars on Ultimate Team, yet from FIFA 17-FIFA20 there are almost no major improvements on that game showing how the money is being used for other games like Battlefront and Battlefield. It lead stagnation for FIFA. Now with FIFA slowly having more contreversy with the recent discover of Ultimate team black market from the players who use computer algorithms, I would not be surprised if EA already looked at other games like Apex Legends and The Sims 4 to finance their new and upcoming games.
One of the Sims 2 devs, Jake Simpson said that EA did this during Sims 2 run using the profits of TS2 to prop up the development of another game (https://mobile.twitter.com/justjakesimpson/status/1377687600262090753). I would not be surprised if the same thing is currently happening with Sims 4. Hopefully the Sims team gets their bonus for good sales this time though :)
Ever since Andrew Wilson become the CEO of EA as much as I hate his love for the monetization and Live services games, he did make EA a better place to work for. The problem left is that they are too focused on other games. I fear that they consider The Sims as just a "Casual" game which is why they don't gave Maxis a bigger team.
I do wish that Maxis Europe will grow and then able to do their own Expansion packs for the game. Until then we just really hope that EA will notice how The Sims could have been a great investment. This is the community that was easiest to please since mostly simmers are united on content they want.. They just have to invest.
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