Sims 4 Base Game To Become Free To Play

The problem is the Sims 4 is still missing a lot of content.

Hotels
Pool Slides
Pool Waterfalls
Romantic and family gameplay. I don't count My Wedding Stories as a romance pack.

I have mixed feelings and different speculation regarding this announcement.

One side of me is thinking, TS4 is winding down in the next year, the free TS4 base game is to get new players interested who will jump on the band wagon of TS5 when it comes out.

Then another side of me is thinking, nawwww that's not it, they have stated over and over and over again that TS4 has many, many more years of content planned. And I know they've recently listed job postings that are specific to TS4, so they are definitely planning on more content for it.

All of these job postings were from last week and mention TS4 specifically.

(Dated 09-08-22)
https://ea.gr8people.com/jobs/175635/gameplay-software-engineer-the-sims?locale=en

(Dated 09-09-22)
https://ea.gr8people.com/jobs/175540/game-designer-ii-the-sims?locale=en

(Dated 09-09-22)
https://ea.gr8people.com/jobs/175545/3d-artist-ii-the-sims?locale=en

Guess we'll have to wait until Oct 18th to watch the "Behind the Sims Summit" at 10am pacific to learn more.

"simgirl1010;d-1003483" wrote:
https://twitter.com/TheSimCommunity/status/1570008385927380994?s=20&t=wVPOaZpQQODDgJp5IinOcg

https://i.imgur.com/e4ZJkom.png

Starting October 18th

There’s also a new poster that heavily hints at Bonuses. Presumably for those who already paid for The Sims 4 Base Game.

https://simscommunity.info/2022/09/14/breaking-news-the-sims-4-base-game-is-going-free/

I was shocked when I saw this. Free?! ?

What about those of us who bought the base game full price? ???‍♂️?

I hope it’s just a for a short while.

Free doesn’t always equal value. I love the excitement of saving up for something. I feel the game is losing that feeling of speciality.

I myself would not buy DLC for a free base game. I’ve got the bargain. The main ‘part’.
There’s free mods and CC for new stuff. No incentive to buy things.

Offering a free kit (which I don’t like) is only around 10% of the price I paid for the base game.

They need to be clearer over the bonuses mentioned.

I understand the game has been out years but I do think there’s better ways of enticing new players.

"LeGardePourpre;c-18182413" wrote:


The games are always cheaper later, there is no reward for the long term players.

The reward for long term players is “early access”. We got to enjoy the game for nearly a decade before the non-buyers got to play it. ?

I have zero problem with it. Just because I purchased basegame 6 or 7 years ago doesn’t mean I can’t be happy for others to get it for free now until forever.
My brain is not wired in a way that these things could possibly bother me. I’ve been lucky enough in the past and (hopefully) I’ll be lucky enough in the future to get stuff for free that other folks had to pay for at some point in their lives. In the end these things all balance out.

Soon enough no one can pay their bills anymore, so at least some folks get to play basegame for free and use the Motherlode cheat to make themselves feel virtually better. Bills, Shmills.

Now, obviously it would be really sad to have paid for something full price one day and the very next day the friggin thing is available for free. No, that wouldn’t make me a happy person either, but in that case I probably deserved not getting it for free as it was most likely karma biting me in the ?.

If this is like Sims Freeplay get ready to fork out a lot of money.

I wonder how this will effect the release of eps,gps,kits and sps.

wait desert luxe is free?
confusion intensifies

https://twitter.com/TheSimsDirect/status/1570078530188230665?t=caCngqumYtwaJfWpqg9b2A&s=19

"catloverplayer;c-18182020" wrote:
I wonder how this will effect the release of eps,gps,kits and sps.

Considering there were no SP since Kits were announced, I don't think those will be affected in any way :D

BTW, does anyone else has all the kits marked as purchased in Origin even though they don't own them? Not counting the new free kit, I only bought Bust the Dust, Modern Menswear, Little Campers and First Fits kits. But now, I have all of them marked as purchased, which also means I can't buy them, if I wanted to (which I don't, but whatever). I even have option do download them, but that does nothing. Inside the game, however, they are all still marked as not owned and I have button to buy them from there, but when I click that, it'll tell me I already own that, which I obviously don't. Or do I? I am quite confused here.

Anyway, redeeming the new kit went without problem, except Origin still wanted payment method confirmation. Don't get why Origin want that for free content, but whatever.