Sims 5 subscription

I want to buy a game and be able to play it offline and to choose the expansions and additional stuff I want. If they plan to make The Sims 5 a subscription based game it's a deal breaker for me. I hope they meant another version of Sims like some suspect.

I loved when I could buy games and expansions/stuff packs on discs, install them and put the boxes in my bookshelf. Then I had them and could re-install them if I needed to, without depending on if they were still available for download. I don't want to have a game or program connected to my bank account or having to pay bills for them every month.

For younger simmers, I doubt that parents would want to pay subscription fees for their kids' games every month. What kind of present is that if you have to pay for it perpetually? Should an aunt have to pay for a monthly subscription for a present to her niece or nephew?

A lot of major and well known companies go with the subscription plan. It gives them a guaranteed secure income, but not a fan, and if EA decides to go in this direction with the new iteration of The Sims (5) believe I will pass.
For the player thats paying double or close to it for a game when you add it all up.

"Loanet;c-17991494" wrote:
As if releasing paid DLC so reguarly isn't close enough to subscription as it is? Ugh.

Concerns about this have made me turn my attention towards Paralives - I don't want to get carried away, but The Sims SO badly needs competiton.

Me too have been watching paralives development, and I play other games, and still play TS2 and TS3 a lot.

Done with Country living already ? Wow that was fast :D
Was reading there are little stumps for rabbits or something did you explore those yet :)
Just saying doesn't say much for the game if people see all there is to see in a few months.

Bluntly, the game franchise will turn into a huge pile of joke if EA does that. There's a huge possibility I won't even bother to buy it. I need to prioritize my money, considering sooner or later I have to make my own money, pay taxes and necessities. I wouldn't have the money to pay them.

EAxis will basically make fools out of themselves if they're planning on doing it - they try to milk money in any way possible, but getting to that level of milking us? They'll just lose all of their fan-base and almost nobody will buy their game. Great job to them for it!

"temporalgod;c-18015636" wrote:

"sulfurstyless;c-18015577" wrote:
Bluntly, the game franchise will turn into a huge pile of joke if EA does that. There's a huge possibility I won't even bother to buy it. I need to prioritize my money, considering sooner or later I have to make my own money, pay taxes and necessities. I wouldn't have the money to pay them.

EAxis will basically make fools out of themselves if they're planning on doing it - they try to milk money in any way possible, but getting to that level of milking us? They'll just lose all of their fan-base and almost nobody will buy their game. Great job to them for it!

Exactly why pay a Subscribtion for a game like the Sims, I play the Sims whenever I'm in the mood, I'm not rich enough to afford buying every Sims DLC, I'm also quite selective about the DLCs I get but that's besides the point, I can only get Sims DLCs with my birthday money, if it goes that route I'm going to have to drop the Sims for another game.

I'll just continue playing The Sims 3. Also, on the topic of selecting DLCs carefully, I may have purchased some DLCs for The Sims 4 but when I've done that with Snowy Escape, I said it's the last straw with that game. Then, I bought Late Night & Ambitions (once again since the original keys hadn't been working) and then Island Paradise to complete my collection. I'm done with buying DLC.

I wonder how they will market TS5. Are they going to put down TS4 to make TS5 sound better. They did that in 2014 by saying they were good at selling that fiction (TS2 had emotions, too) and we had never seen emotions like those in TS4. They put down TS3 many times in order to push TS4. I can't recall how many ways they put down TS3 but they did. lol It's going to be funny to me how they market TS5 as they point out all the faults of TS4 to make people believe how much better TS5 will be. After all these years of telling us how great TS4 is and hiding or ignoring all it's faults. Then remove and or frown on any negative feedback about TS5 when it is them who told us how great TS4 is, and then go and tells us no, that was fiction, TS5 is better. ROFL

ummm bye...LOL no way am I paying a subscription. This is not an mmo and they are not releasing content fast enough for it to be worth it.

It's probably both.

Kits are the equivalent of Store Bundles. Add a subscription. Or Season Passes, which are subscriptions in all but names.

"temporalgod;c-18017025" wrote:

"LeGardePourpre;c-18017010" wrote:
EA probably want to become like Disney.

EA Lifestyle is designed to turn their "gaming brands into globally-recognized lifestyle and entertainment brands and to create a significant new revenue source." (product licensing, brand partnerships & entertainment)

TS4 is the center of the brand (The Sims Spark'd, The Sims Official Threadless Store)

Only if EA wants to lose money, 2020 and 2021 were not good years for Disney, Covid 19 exposed their two-faced hypocritical nature, Mulan's concentration camps, Firing both Johnny Depp and Gina Carano were just the tip of the Disney Iceberg, They didn't support the things they claimed to support and personally I don't want EA going down the same path.

It is already probably too late. Corporations are in it to make money. That's all. They are a means to an end, and usually that end is skewed to paying the people at the top, the people who already have it beyond luxurious, who simply want to pile money upon money to compete with their own type to a pointless, soulless display of extravagance, like peacocks. And in exchange, they offer work for pay with the minimum they can get away with to get the job done.

The rest is window dressing designed to pull the gullible or soft-hearted in, whatever trend is likely to rake in the dough fastest. If they think they can make more money by shocking people and/or making them angry, they will do that. If they think they can make more money by appealing to people's ideas of a better world, they will do that, and pretend to offer a solution, if we will just buy their product. If they can scare us into believing doom is imminent if we do not buy their product or service, they will do that. And if you cannot afford their product, they don't care what happens to you in any way, shape, or form. Welcome to the world of money-worship.