🛒 Will you purchase Marketplace content ?
Hi, Do you plan to purchase Marketplace content ? (Note : Kits and Creator Kits will be only available on the Marketplace after March 17th.)
Forum Discussion
I like new stuff, especially for CAS & Build and Buy and I think the Maker Packs are adding in a decent amount of additional things for my builds and Sims. Having the new items for me certainly increases the amount of fun I have in game because I enjoy working out how to impliment the new items in different ways.
As for the amount of players spending on the Marketplace, I think there are more people that are spending money on the Marketplace than people actually think. The online playerbase is a very small fraction of the actual playerbase that The Sims 4 has. There are many many more players who don't spend all this time online complaining about things and just simply enjoying their game and buying what they want. As of mid 2024, The Sims 4's playerbase is over 85 million. So I think the amount of players spending money on the Marketplace outweighs the players who are not.
Don't forget in the 85 million of players, 50 million of them came when TS4 became Free-to-enter meaning they are players who didn't spend money in the game.
As recent players they don't own everything yet ($1572.91) :
- For $5 they will probably prefer to get a kit with 25 items instead of a maker pack with less than 15 items.
- For $10 Stuff Pack with 60 items + gameplay is also more interesting than less 30 items from maker packs.
- For $20, Game Pack with 150 items + gameplay is better than less 60 items from maker packs
- For $40, Expansion Pack with 300 items + gameplay + world, maker packs can't compete with less than 120 items.
And I don't talk about the Publisher Sale where these players can get way more content than the Marketplace for the same price.
Maker Packs are in direct competition with paid content (EA packs) and free content (CC and Mods for PC/Mac players), the makers should be more creative to give something special and unique convincing more players to buy their products.
The "Collectors" who own everything aren't the majority of the community.
