6/27 BTS Rene Reveal Discussion Thread

"Coconut27;c-18283148" wrote:
Just found out TS5 will apparently be free to play upon release. Any hope or excitement I had for this game is now crushed and gone. Free to play at start is never good. There will be microtransactions galore.

Free to play means that TS5 will likely be nothing more than a framework. It won't become an actual game until many, many purchases (read: years) later.

TS4 was the proof of concept and has been spectacularly lucrative, despite it. Now that EA is aware of how willing the community is to be squeezed, there is no longer any reason for excuses and subterfuge.