Sims 5 subscription

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.

"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)

Bingo. It is all about money. They need to pay their employees, their contractors, their rent, their utilities, their own subscription services and dues, and of course the lion's share to the top of the food chain. And if they go to a mostly online service in the cloud, they have some great excuses to add advertising money to rake in more cash. However, one thing about services in the cloud: most eventually get discontinued once they become a smaller niche product and don't have the cookie-cutter mass marketing appeal. This is why there probably will either be no Sims 5, or they will rename it, or they will make Sims 4 disappear without a trace for anyone connected to the internet who did not have a base game disc in a few years, just like Microsoft's planned obsoletion and end of support life.

» 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.

https://i.imgur.com/IbSV8gO.png
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.

"HSDev;c-18023901" wrote:

» 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.

https://i.imgur.com/IbSV8gO.png
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.

I stopped playing SimCity when it went the mobile MMO route. So no my pay grade doesn't go high enough to pay for those games. I couldn't afford the Sims Online either. So yep the creepy old men and women can have their Simbler dating game. I rather stay away from the six figure plus a year community trying to get a lazy date.