Pricing, expansions, base game features
As the Sims 4 is now free, it has me wondering about the next working Sims title. Project Rene should be free upon release, however, they may offer paid early access a month or so in advance. I be...
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Ok, let's analyze all things in the most logic way possible, first of all, we talk about EA, sad to say, but is the most moneygrabber company in the world, they relase free for everyone the sims 4 after what? 8 years? You think they relase it free for charity? No, the sims 4 become free for make people focusing on the series, in fact a few weeks later, bum, announcement of project rene (and little joke, rene in Italian, without any accent on the e means kidney, so people troll about the cost of the entire packs for have the game "complete"), with all the spotlight on EA, is all marketing, and did you expect the next the sims become free? No way, because the only way the sims become free to play, is because the game become a gaas (game as a service) and this, is the worst case scenario, at least now we have an expantion every what 2 months? With prices between 4,99€ or $ i guess, for kits to 39,99€ or $ for a proper expansion pack, if the game become a gaas, what stop EA to make and relase a "micro pack" every 1 or 2 weeks at i don't know the price of 9,99€/$ wich barely add somethings to the game? The answer is, no one, the only purpose of EA is make money, and the fact is in sims 4 for we have at least 4 different pack wich add supernatural creatures (vampires, mermaids, "wizards" werewolves), for make the highest possible profit by the player, so don't hope for a free to play base game, because it could mean, the things will be worse... For our wallet, another thing is the needs for veichles, it's a feeling, but at 99% the game world remain the same of the sims 4, and that's because when project rene was annouced, they talk about the possibility to play not only via computer/console, but even on your smartphone, so, unless they announce the "cross-play" is only for the building mode, at today, we can say you can play the normal game even on your phone, a good thing? No, because the hardware of a smartphone, don't have the same power of a computer or a console, so can handle an open world map (even an open world district), so even in the next the sims we probably have loading screen when we decide to leave our house to visit another place, so veichles become, well useless, all i can say by the information we have now, the game is, pratically a restailing of the sims 4 with the possibility to customize better your home with other people in the same time (and for the argument multyplayer there's a lot of things to say, one of all, is, how can work, because play with someone who annoing you with an infinite tasks, without consent you to do nothing or set your kitchen in fire just for fun is not a good thing, is frustrating), onestly i've been playing the sims for over 20 years, when it relase in europe on 2000, when i buy the sims, the first episode of the saga, i was not a teenager yet (i enter in my teens ages a few months later), and today, i'm a fully grown adult person, and i never, never fell so much scared for the destiny of a saga, who litterally grow up with me.
In another thread, there is a discussion about Life by You and ParaLives being contenders for EA's Sims5/Rene throne. I'm a long-time Sims gamer, and even though I want Rene Project to succeed, there is one thing I'm hoping for that is a deal breaker for me. Not getting an open world like Sims 3. I want open world. I didn't play Sims 4 for that reason.
Other things I'd really like: less generic ableism and more diversity (I would love to see wheelchairs or blind/deaf), traits/wishes that actually "do" something within the world. As it stands now, none of the traits really "do" anything. For example, an "evil" sim might start a fight, but if that same evil sim witnesses a fight, it will call the authorities. This makes no sense. Theoretically, it should join in. It's evil. The "lucky" trait did nothing. etc.
I know that ParaLives is talking to their potential user base about the things they hope to see in the game, so I would hope items like the above would be added. I don't know as much about Life by You, but I believe they are targeting an open world, so they do have that going for them.
manamath2001 i try to respond in the best way i can, yes, not having a open world (or at least an open district) in sims 4 suck, a lot, because the game is pratically the same of watching an hamster in a cage, so i hope to the open world but honestly, i don't belive we see it in the sims 5, for the diversity, i talk about without any racist o evil intent, but, honestly for the game, looking like they work in the sims 4, less diversity is better, at the beginnig of the game, pratically when the game is relased, until a couple of years ago, after 2-3 generations, every single sim in the game, is a very very large size, and you can say, ok there's nothing bad in people with large size, but when the entire world is only in one way, and unless you create a new one, or for an "immortal" living since first generation, you can't find a skinny sim, or a buff one, things gone a little weird, even when they add body hairs, all the sims starting in the exact time become teenagers (no matter biologically male or female), become the thughest lumberjacks you ever see with the all extremly amount of body hairs, and with all respect of people with disabilities, and as a volunteer, but seeing how they work for diversity, if they add disability in the game, we pratically see all the sims disable, and of course there's nothing bad in it, but totally break the mood, because they pratically, don't know how to make diversity, or all sim are skinny, or are not, or all the sims doesn't have body hairs, or everyone have, there's no compromise, i agree partially about the wishes, tecnically wishes, is the "egoist" part of a person, for example, today i go out and buy a brand new shirt, so like they propouse at the begging, are not so bad, but i agree about traits, some trait are no use, and other need to be reworked to work properly, just a few traits are functional for the game, and have sense, and about life by you, there's a youtube channel about the game, but, some thing you can do, first, open world without loading screen, second, you drive your veichle, third, you pratically built off the grid (in one of the video, they show how to built in the game, and placing a stair go over the grid of the lot), fourth, as i can see, you can switch form a family to another in real time, without any loading, and i suppose, from here, until the relase of early access in september if i remember correctly, i'm sure more info will be relased, pratically, Life by You, risk to became what the sims was supposed to be by the beginnig, a proper life simulator.
