6/27 BTS Rene Reveal Discussion Thread

"logion;c-18283175" wrote:
Offering the game as free to play at release is a surprising move, they are most likely not going to have any expansion packs ready at release so they would need to have some sort of monetization model.

But I would still imagine that EA/Maxis will design the game so it's still appealing to people that are familiar with the sims, they are not going to have a game that they don't expect that people would not want to play and buy content for.

So Rene will probably have features that appeals to people, maybe features that they were not able to make in the sims4. In fact, if they are going for a free-to play model then they have to focus even more on that part because the success of the game is even more dependent on getting people to play it.

It's NOT a surprising move, it opens up for a 100% micro transaction driven game "as a service". This is a mobile game on PC meant to milk you for money every time you want something.

In other words I will not have anything to do with this since it is a trap to make people spend money.