"Simburian;c-17638121" wrote:
"MidnightAura;d-980591" wrote:
I posted this in another topic but I feel it deserves its own thread.
This is the opinion of someone who isn’t a Game changer so therefore he is completely unbiased. And I think he hit the nail on the head with the issues.
I recommend people watch.
https://youtu.be/gPPm9zlrJAw
That 700 dollars? or so is over 6 years so buying in packs over the 6 years didn't hurt my purse and people now are getting packs much, much cheaper in EA Sales. I've got 6000+ hours of play out of it too with no lack of stuff.
That's no price compared to this with all packs! Train Simulator 2015 – £3,000 for Everything for a fanatical railway enthusiast.
And £649.99 for a Lego Millennium Falcon for a Star Wars fan if they are lucky.
If you are a true fan you can pay out a lot. I'm a fan of Terry Pratchett's books and probably have about 50 plus with calendars, diaries and all the Diskworld hardbacks, first editions and that's probably cost me well over £800 or so. Paying at the most £40 for a Sims 4 expansion pack occasionally doesn't seem too bad in comparison. (mind you they would make a profit if sold secondhand)!
I think you are missing the point. Also you can’t compare a video game to a Lego set or books.
To a new person coming into this series looking at over £700 or your regional equivalent for a video game that isn’t even completed yet and the majority of fans feel is STILL missing basic things is disgusting. Yes Sims games have always been expensive, but not this expensive. And at least the previous games feel complete.
Let’s not have my thread turned into a sims 3 store criticising thread. Because I’ll say it once, yes the store was a rip off. Yes it was expensive. But thanks to ads and pack registrations I have 8GB of store content for free. And I could play my sims 3 game without it, I did for years. I wouldn’t be so keen to play my sims 4 game without my dlc equivalents.
My niece got into the sims 4 for a little while. But she got bored of her own collection and her parents are relieved. Because to a newcomer to the series seeing £700 worth of dlc sitting in your main menu with the game reminding you what you don’t have is a huge turn off.
The complete cost is a rip off and when you consider that if you do have all dlc the game still feels incomplete? That’s ridiculous. As simmers we shouldn’t be sugar coating that fact or defending it. Yong Yea isn’t a simmer, he is objective as he is on the outside looking in and I think he makes some good points about the Star Wars reaction.
