would you play rene as a subscribtion ?

There should be a "Maybe" :)

I already have an EA Play basic subscription. Unless Project Rene was included with that, I would not pay for another separate subscription.

I don't know.
I will need to know how much the subscription is so I can calculate the cost across a number of years
If it costs as much I would normally pay for packs over a number of years, or less than I might go for it.

This would be bad for people who don't buy all the packs though. They will probably spend more than they normally do.
One thing that concerns me about this is EA could be less concerned about the quality of the extra content because they are going to get paid no matter what since the player's only option is to pay up or give up the game completely.

:p I just talked myself out of it.
I can't support such a concept.

So, NO!

"Rflong7;c-18201653" wrote:
There should be a "Maybe" :)

Why
Should be a NO

For people than say about way to afford DLC, just see Grand Theft Auto Online
Rockstar gives us DLC without a monthly subscription

"leo3487;c-18201785" wrote:



For people than say about way to afford DLC, just see Grand Theft Auto Online
Rockstar gives us DLC without a monthly subscription

That is actually such a good point. Other franchises do something similar. From a community perspective it would be best to have all the DLCs be free and for EA to find a different way to monetize their game. Unfortunately, the current system is making so much money that I would assume it's unlikely for them to go down the "for free" route.

"Dkaffe;c-18201789" wrote:

"leo3487;c-18201785" wrote:



For people than say about way to afford DLC, just see Grand Theft Auto Online
Rockstar gives us DLC without a monthly subscription

That is actually such a good point. Other franchises do something similar. From a community perspective it would be best to have all the DLCs be free and for EA to find a different way to monetize their game. Unfortunately, the current system is making so much money that I would assume it's unlikely for them to go down the "for free" route.

Ways to monetize
let me think, as GTA Online your character progress and shark cars are to have a money boost to buy in-game, ont apply to The Sims
Could be the gallery. You have for free a limited space (number of households and buildings) when you buy the game
Pay if want more space and be elegible for Maxis favorites

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.

Yeah, I have to vote no :( The idea of having to pay a monthly subscription to play a sims game for the rest of my life sounds costly and stressful lol.

Yes I would. As a matter of fact I think a subscription model would benefit the game as they dont have to lock features behind paid DLC anymore, such as seasons, pets etc. It means we would get more stuff sooner. Its what most companies do these days.

Nope.