» Did you hear that EA plans to make The Sims 5 a subscription-based service? No, surely they wouldn't do that. The franchise will turn into a huge pile of jokes if they do. It would be awful and it would kill The Sims. It moves it further away from what made it great. Did you hear that EA plans to make The Sims 5 a multiplayer game? No, surely not! The fanbase would abandon The Sims and play other games. Didn't they learn their lesson with Simcity 5? I don't want anybody else meddling in my game. No, no, ten thousand times no. »
This is what you read everywhere here on the forums. But how many of the people who complain have bought all expansions, stuff packs and kits for The Sims 4? And how many will buy The Sims 5 when it comes out, even "just to see what it's like"?
Sims players on this forum can complain, cry, vent, rant, lament about the current state of the franchise as much as they want, but at the end of the day, the only language EA understands is money. They don't care that you're an OG who has been playing the franchise since 2000. They don't care that you want an open world. They don't care that you want cars. As long as people keep buying the packs, they will keep on screwing their customers over. Do not even give them a single cent.
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Because although many here in this thread mock EA for having ruined big series like Simcity, FIFA & Mass Effect with their greediness, the truth is they know exactly what they are doing, and they have never been faring better.