I thought the entire Sims system was releasing a new game and then dropping the same 50 DLC until the next one was ready to repeat the cycle. I guess they’ll just milk Sims 4 forever?
The only reason they were making a sequel was because there was going to be a competitor to their 10 year old game that would absolutely take the market share of this niche. Now that the competition died they can put the devs back to making a bunch of overpriced DLC for another 10 years or when ever another viable competitive game shows up on their radar.
EA knows their current Sims game has been a flop they had to make the base game free to play. They wanted a games as service model but 2013 SimCity had such a strong backlash they had to scramble to make it something else and hope no one noticed. So here we are with an underperforming game from a series that pretty much always topped the charts when it released a new game or expansion pack. Thats how bad they screwed up.
they’re probably still making ‘enough’ money off the addons and dlc for the current one (which itself is now free-to-play), that they don’t have to remake it again to resell remade addons and extras again…yet.
I thought the entire Sims system was releasing a new game and then dropping the same 50 DLC until the next one was ready to repeat the cycle. I guess they’ll just milk Sims 4 forever?
The only reason they were making a sequel was because there was going to be a competitor to their 10 year old game that would absolutely take the market share of this niche. Now that the competition died they can put the devs back to making a bunch of overpriced DLC for another 10 years or when ever another viable competitive game shows up on their radar.
EA knows their current Sims game has been a flop they had to make the base game free to play. They wanted a games as service model but 2013 SimCity had such a strong backlash they had to scramble to make it something else and hope no one noticed. So here we are with an underperforming game from a series that pretty much always topped the charts when it released a new game or expansion pack. Thats how bad they screwed up.
they’re probably still making ‘enough’ money off the addons and dlc for the current one (which itself is now free-to-play), that they don’t have to remake it again to resell remade addons and extras again…yet.