The next Sims game currently goes under the name Project Rene rather than The Sims 5, but that aside, we know a growing amount about EA Maxis’ next social simulation. During today’s latest Behind The Sims community update, they shared more, including the news that the next entry in the series would be free-to-play and without energy mechanics or a subscription.
Ah, so the sims is dead, I see.
RIP Maxis. Who knows what kinds of awesome stuff we could have had. Oh well, at least Cities Skylines 2 is on the way. Haven’t played a Sims game in a long time but had such a blast with the earlier entries in the series.
RIP Maxis and like 50 other studios that EA bought and dissolved over the decades.
Still haven’t emotionally recovered from Westwood
And Bullfrog
I loved Tiberian Sun and the Red Alerts
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Prepare for microtransaction hell
If sims 5 doesnt allow my sims to exit the house without loading screen, then it isnt worth it
The loading screen is optional DLC. Definitely not a micro-transaction. Just very small DLC.
Pretty sure they already had decent free to play Sims games on mobile a long time ago. Not sure how good the current one is.
The current base game is free to play as well with paid DLC. So they are taking the form that works for them.
People will by DLC if they want to and others get to enjoy a the base game for free.
The Sims has been pretty shit since the Sims 3.
Sims 4 base game is actually already free on steam. I hear from a good friend, not me personally, that it has some great porn mods on the lovers lab site. Some bad mods, too.
I’m the good friend and will confirm
Its free-to-play but you need to buy the housing/eating/sleeping/jobs/relationships DLC.
The Sims 4 base game is already free. So if I’m understanding this correctly, EA, of all game publishers, is announcing that, against all odds, a free-to-play game with in-game MTX is an efficient business model that they want to promote? This might not be related at all that the Sims has always been a license that caters to the general, not particularly gamer audience.
Whelp at least Paralives could be fun? Or that other one being worked on by Paradox? We honestly just need someone to save us at this point. Anything else would do so well even if it wasn’t quite as polished. It just needs to be feature complete at launch.
We’re releasing 100 chairs each sold separately.
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