Hi,Do you plan to purchase Marketplace content ?(Note : Kits and Creator Kits will be only available on the Marketplace after March 17th.)

Absolutely not. I'm not going to support microtransactions.

Custom content belongs to the community! It should remain FREE, and CC creators should respect that. This marketplace is milking our creators. I won't support any CC creator who will join this ride. Only because of CC—I've been playing this game for so long; without us?There would be no Sims! Simmers need to raise their voice!I would rather support the creator directly because I don't need EA to monitor for me the CC I want to use. EA should focus on their "official content"; it already has enough things that need to be fixed or done! But sadly, someone always wants to milk the MILK! Well, NO moo milking for 🐮 from me!

I think this is a bad 'Moo've and bad for Community cohesion. It does nothing positive for EA's (and the Sims Team's) optics with regards to greed or the new ownership, and involved creators will have their names tarnished through their involvement. The Sims community on Tumblr looks very unhappy with this news, especially creators who were formerly involved with the Creator Network. I think the low pay cut on top of this is a bit insulting as well. Most publishing platforms do a 60% or 70% cut in favor of creators. There's a claim that the money will go towards quality control but in previously released Creator Kits, that seems to have been overlooked in several cases, and the value proposition of the content previewed in the Marketplace trailer looks even worse than that of the Kits. We don't need even more FOMO in a hobby that's become more and more monetized but I think the creators should get a larger cut of sales if this has to happen at all.

No. I do not intend to buy Marketplace content unless I'm forced to. Even then I doubt I'd touch it with a 29 and a half foot pole.It literally makes me sick, to the point that I might not even buy any sims 4 packs ever again. This lost a lot of trust in me, and I don't need another source of FOMO making me, a cancer patient, stressed out beyond belief. I already can barely afford what I need to, and I don't need sims 4 on top of it, anymore. We'll see where I stand but this was a horrible move on the Sims Team's Part.

No. The greed is through the roof, if this was to "Support the Creators" as EA and the Team want to project for a start the revenue split should be flipped to be in the Creator's favour. From what we understand the creators are the ones making the content for the marketplace themselves and EA is enriching themselves from creators' hard work, shaving off the top to pay for the financially, morally and ethically wrong buy out.Exploiting the creators, their communities and the sims community as a whole in the process. A creator came out speaking about the build up to the marketplace's announcement the targeting of the vulnerable, the secrecy and deceit; with everything else that is coming out about the business model, it makes me sick.The Marketplace itself is much more aggreges than even the Sims 3 Store was looking at the Moola prices thread and the TS3 Store bar was already deeper than the pits of hell to begin with. If anything is to be changed about this to make it even the tiniest bit better, to start with the revenue split is the first thing that needs to be addressed; 30/70 (creator/company) split is such a disgusting split, not even YouTube or Twitch stupe that low. YouTube has a 55/45 split and Twitch's standard for subs is 50/50. Creators make the content, they should never be getting less than half measures, as an artist myself this split is just insulting.Not to mention the game itself, the amount of bugs I see this causing... because there totally isn't enough bugs already and with all the additional content the marketplace will bring.The game is physically struggling under its own weight with the infamous shaky foundation it was built on. It's a matter of when (not if) the game will cease to be functional.

🛒 Will you purchase Marketplace content ?

56 Replies

cortneyhehe
Seasoned Newcomer
3 days ago
Absolutely not. I'm not going to support microtransactions.
NoahLGP
Seasoned Ace
3 days ago
I would say "yes" at least for Maxis official content if it's still as good as the previous kits.
Makers content maybe not but if there are interesting sci-fi themes and Male CAS content I could temporarily change my mind, I purchased a ton of Sci-fi/Male products from Daz3D Shop.
I liked TS3 Store, I hope this Marketplace will bring back Premium items and Worlds.
crocobaura
Legend
3 days ago
Can't say I will never buy but I feel we get a lot of content as it is from packs and kits and so far I have been playing vanilla. Also, would be nice to see the feedback, because they say they will test stuff before releasing, but even with kits there are issues and not sure they will be able to keep up the quality checks if they will be flooded with lots of new content.
HollownessDevour
Seasoned Ace
3 days ago
I do not use free CC, so why would I buy it?
Official Maxis stuff, well I don't even want to buy kits (only have what came with R&L) as I feel they are a rip off (the limited bundles I almost did, but I rather make my own bundles).
But I almost completely owned the Sims 3 Store (but I was gifted a bunch and that isn't available so... booo).
Edit: I also shy away from the idea of getting content creator kits, as they IMHO do not match official content, which reminds me of CC, which I don't use.
simsimsere
Seasoned Ace
3 days ago
I have bought kits in past and will likely buy some in the future as well. For creator content I'm still on the fence... maybe not, but time will tell. It could become a temptation as I need to get some of the currency for kits anyway.
logionX
Legend
3 days ago
I dunno, it depends on what it is, but probably not. I'm not that interested in filling the game with more content.
HollownessDevour
Seasoned Ace
3 days ago
As someone who contributed to free user made world projects with Create-a-World (well I think it was one, and then the other one got cancelled because the other user got pregnant/had a kid, and didn't have time anymore).
If they charged for official worlds, ok, Sims 3 Store worlds where amazing and some of the best. But if only "Makers" can make Create-a-Worlds (I know that isn't' available at this time, but if they did in the future) and charge, I'd be disappointed.
Karamazov123
Seasoned Ace
3 days ago
If we get free Moola from limited time events and stuff, sure. I'll use them. Otherwise, I'd rather not support the program.
HollownessDevour
Seasoned Ace
3 days ago
(Note : Kits and Creator Kits will be only available on the Marketplace after March 17th.)
So they don't plan on bundling these again (let alone custom bundles)... so a bigger rip off :P
NoahLGP
Seasoned Ace
3 days ago
EP, GP and SP will also be available in the Marketplace (in addition to EA App, Steam, Epic, ... ) so bundles with kits could still be possible.