JOB OPENING: Head Of Monetization & Marketplace

"bixters;c-18283177" wrote:
This looks pretty bad.
I imagine this marketplace is going to be very aggressive with in-game sales. With the Sims 4, they already know that customers will buy anything they put in front of them. I wouldn't be surprised if they have sales all the time for different clothes, furniture, hairs and cosmetic items for $2 or more.
There will most certainly be an in-game currency. Maybe simoleons, but you have to earn them by doing quests.

People keep comparing this to Animal Crossing, but it's going to be very different. This sounds very similar to an MMO, despite their attempts to say it's not. Animal Crossing never had an in-game store with real currency.

I really don't understand how anyone can be optimistic about the Sims 5. The signs are all there for what type of game it is going to be, and it doesn't look good.

Thats why I never understood the people screaming for a ts5 thinking it's going to be the ts2 ts3 ts4 combined with 90% of the DLC as basegame because they hate ts4 or think expansion packs should be gamepacks.
Ts5 itself could be a very good game with the new features and technology sure. But it's a "new" game. And all of the new games fall into the new way of gaming. Subscriptions, limited items,market places, in game currencies and micro transactions, online multiplayer, gotcha style games and more. No game can really escape this because it's what makes money and what company wants to miss opportunities for more money?

Just based off of my guessing I honestly believe ts5 will be a good fun game! May have revolutionary features, beautiful Sims, great animations and interactions.
But money wise I don't think it's going to be as cheap as ts4. And I think the company owner is going to take any opportunity he can to model this after games with money grabbing features we all hate. I think DLC is the least of our concerns.
I would love to be proven wrong but I truly believe this.