I think they'll be ok.
For the most part, Sim's historically has lived off of those expansions and Sim's 4 fully was able to bring back many gamers and bring in new consumers to a point I've never really seen with such an old IP, generally over time fans move on many copy cats come in and it just becomes a title lost to history or something, but they were going out swinging if they felt it would be the last one or something lol
Sim was sorta up and down after Sim's 1 and 4 ends up being the best selling and making over 1 billion for EA, so I feel....maybe this free to play thing makes sense and everyone gets the base game and it lives off expansions or something, but that generally was the formula they had going since Sim's 1.
Sim's 4 merely pulled it off far better and to almost an extreme.
lolz, yea I don't know about all that bud.
You literally don't need to buy any of that shit, all of it is completely optional and the concept of "expansion" fits this IP more then most imho as its made to expand upon the idea of what the game is.
They want to do "predatory" things sooooooo much they fully allow and support mods?
While many of EA’s games ruthlessly oppose modders The Sims has thrived as a result of their endorsed support. For more than a decade there have been sites devoted to letting creators share new clothes and items for Maxis’ life simulator.The same is true of the upcoming The Sims 4
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During its Gamescom conference EA took to the stage to play a live demo of The Sims 4. We have all the new details here.
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The fuck?
just stop man lol
This whole "biG bAdz eA" is old and doesn't really have much substance, its like just repeating what some YouTuber with (shockface) Thumbnail says or Jason Scheirer lol
So for them to literally have a decade of support, allowing free mods by the community, ON TOP of expansions, I don't really know what one could really complain about, but rest assured...I'm sure someone will find something to be a victum of ala "da victumhood filez" lol
This is one of the few IP, I don't really have much of an issue being free to play and keep in mind, EA never fucking needed to even make it free, they could have charged $70, broke tons of records annnnnnnnd still fucking made expansions, I mean holy shit, Sim's 4 broke many of those records, made a billion plus for EA, BEFORE they put it as free to play, as in they fucking have an example where they can charge full price, put out expansions for 10 years on top of mtx and still likely make a killing, but shit, you'd probably complain about that too lol
Be like "WOW FULL PRICE and big badz eA still released evil Pediasure Monocalzonez mtx FORCING people at gun point to buy it"