would you play rene as a subscribtion ?

I think there are tons of options for additional monetization -- even stuff like a season pass like system would work really well with the Sims. The major problem for EA in that regard is the modding community. As a publisher they'd be shooting themselves in the knee if they actively restrict the possibilities for modding to make whatever they add to the game more interesting. Especially, when we are talking about the possible cross-platform game; mobile games get away with the absolute worst ways of monetization, and unfortunately, the industry is trying to slowly push this to PC and console.

I guess the only thing we can hope for is that they will find a fair and balanced way to monetize the game while continuously updating it with high quality content. At the end, we are talking about a mega corpo named EA with the sole purpose to push their numbers as much as possible. Kinda odd how most modern games potential is completely bottlenecked by the money people.