Nope. It just wouldn't make financial sense to me. I don't want an extra bill on top of my other bills to start, but also. I go MONTHS without playing sometimes and paying monthly for something that is just sitting would infuriate me. I would end up cancelling it anyways.
Not worth it as I see it and another way to milk the cow and that is my opinion and maybe a way to charge for features that once came to the series before Sims 4 without paying extra for it.
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No but that $4.99 a month to play an EA game might have been one of my considerations way back in TS4. I really enjoyed TS4 for a few years with Vampires, Parenthood etc. But then Maxis went in a social direction forgetting gameplay and started pushing things outside of actual gameplay. EPs and GPs started becoming less about gameplay and more about clutter and set dressing. Less about life and more about the avatar. They lost me when snow was just an idea instead of seen as depth on the ground. There were several packs I considered even though I didn't like their direction of Simself play they kept pushing, but it only took a day or two to realize each one after Parenthood (5 years ago) was chocked full of bugs of even the main selling features. No, EA/Maxis takes the money to fix later which never happens.
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I'm only interested in single players that you can actually buy and enjoy offline in the cabin in the middle of the woods at any time afterwards, not some crazy situationship with controlling game publisher.
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It would depend. if it was a subscription to be able to purchase things from creators (like how youtube/tiktok have creator funds) I would. But if to just get access to the base game/gameplay than no. I used to play when I was a little poor kid and my parents would never have been able to afford a subscription and The Sims honestly brought me so much happiness.
It's a no for me, I have to pay for so many subscriptions already. I'd like to be able to play the game without worrying if I'd be able to play it next month because of lack of funds.
Nope. It just wouldn't make financial sense to me. I don't want an extra bill on top of my other bills to start, but also. I go MONTHS without playing sometimes and paying monthly for something that is just sitting would infuriate me. I would end up cancelling it anyways.
Only if it's an MMORPG is it allowed to touch discussions of a subscription. Non-MMORPGs are not allowed to charge me subscriptions because they are not providing a service.
I’ve thought abut this a lot and I really don’t know my answer. In principle I don’t like the subscription model, but I know this is the way everything is going so I probably just need to get used to it. Maybe there are even some advantages to it. But I have some questions that I’d need answers to before deciding for Project Rene:
How much will it be? If it’s too much for my budget, then that’s that.
What happens if you want to stop subscribing for a while - do you keep the content you already have, or do you no longer have the game? And what if you then wanted to start again after a break - do you miss out forever on the content that came out during your break in subscription? Or how do you catch up?
Are you locked into getting all the content - which means all updates and all new EPs/whatever, with all their bugs as soon as they come out? What if you don’t want some content (e.g. occults)? What if you want to wait a while before getting new content to make sure any game-breaking bugs are fixed first?
I like to get packs in sales, but does having a subscription mean no more sales?
Maybe the ideal would be both models running together: a subscription for those who like to get everything straight away, but alongside the current model where you buy content when you’re ready. Then you could opt out of the subscription for a while if you wanted and revert to the current model, and vice versa. But I guess that’s probably unlikely to happen.
So I shall just wait to see how it works out in practice, and how players react to it, before deciding whether it works for me.
I go months without playing, and I really don't want to bother with cancelling and starting a sub frequently. I just end up paying for something I don't use. And I already pay for an MMORPG sub, and that's quite enough for me.
Already planning to jump ship for Life By You, which means I probably won't bother with TS5, unless they do something REALLY special. Adding a subscription fee would NOT be it.
Absolutely not. Yes, the price of DLCs adds up. But subscriptions also very much do. Big time. For a million reasons, there’s just no way I’d pay a subscription to play The Sims. The biggest one being that there’s just no way they wouldn’t charge as much as they possibly can for it, and as much as the cost of DLCs right now makes me , a high-priced subscription would just cross a line and be more than I could stomach. I could easily see them charging $15 a month if they went the subscription route, which would be the equivalent of buying a full-price EP every 3 months, and then some.
Already planning to jump ship for Life By You, which means I probably won't bother with TS5, unless they do something REALLY special. Adding a subscription fee would NOT be it.
I feel the same way-I'm not even going to bother with Sims 5. As for Sims 4, I'll probably switch to Life By You once the game comes out in September.
I played TSO also, and later EAland. I had lots of fun there, and was sorry it all crashed and burned. I don't know, I might be looking at that time with rose tinted glasses, because I don't think that time will ever come back. It was all about the people, just wouldn't be the same. Besides, I found making money was difficult, unless you were hosting a really popular house, and not much else to do but keep skills up.
I distinctly remember when TS4 was advertised and I, naïvely, advocated to trust that it would fulfill our expectations and not to judge it before it was released. After all, TS3 was amazing, despite crashing every hour and not being able to play with all the EPs purchased if you wanted a smooth game, and the constant cash grabs...
I'm not doing it again. My eyes are open and TS5 is going to be horrible. Free to play? OK. Suuuurrreeee. You want that top for your sim? $5. Hairstyle? Another $5. By the end of one CAS session you'll have handed EA $100. Or yeah, a monthly sub for everything, except the *special loot boxes* or some bull. You think spending over $1k is bad on TS4? Wait until a sub based sims game comes out and watch your paycheck disappear.
I would play Sims 5 with an EA subscription if needed, yes. Or, with a Sims 5 specific subscription. But, only if it's a cheap subscription. I would be willing to pay from $2 to $10 per month to play.
They already lost me by chopping up expansion packs into smaller money grabs with TS4. The series seems to have gone full on corporate without giving the charm the series used to have with TS1 and TS2
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It really depends on the cost, what they offer and how much I want it.
But for now, I say no.
> they were talking about doing this
It would depend. if it was a subscription to be able to purchase things from creators (like how youtube/tiktok have creator funds) I would. But if to just get access to the base game/gameplay than no. I used to play when I was a little poor kid and my parents would never have been able to afford a subscription and The Sims honestly brought me so much happiness.
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- How much will it be? If it’s too much for my budget, then that’s that.
- What happens if you want to stop subscribing for a while - do you keep the content you already have, or do you no longer have the game? And what if you then wanted to start again after a break - do you miss out forever on the content that came out during your break in subscription? Or how do you catch up?
- Are you locked into getting all the content - which means all updates and all new EPs/whatever, with all their bugs as soon as they come out? What if you don’t want some content (e.g. occults)? What if you want to wait a while before getting new content to make sure any game-breaking bugs are fixed first?
- I like to get packs in sales, but does having a subscription mean no more sales?
Maybe the ideal would be both models running together: a subscription for those who like to get everything straight away, but alongside the current model where you buy content when you’re ready. Then you could opt out of the subscription for a while if you wanted and revert to the current model, and vice versa. But I guess that’s probably unlikely to happen.So I shall just wait to see how it works out in practice, and how players react to it, before deciding whether it works for me.
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I feel the same way-I'm not even going to bother with Sims 5. As for Sims 4, I'll probably switch to Life By You once the game comes out in September.
I played TSO also, and later EAland. I had lots of fun there, and was sorry it all crashed and burned. I don't know, I might be looking at that time with rose tinted glasses, because I don't think that time will ever come back. It was all about the people, just wouldn't be the same. Besides, I found making money was difficult, unless you were hosting a really popular house, and not much else to do but keep skills up.
I doubt they're going that way again.
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I'm not doing it again. My eyes are open and TS5 is going to be horrible. Free to play? OK. Suuuurrreeee. You want that top for your sim? $5. Hairstyle? Another $5. By the end of one CAS session you'll have handed EA $100. Or yeah, a monthly sub for everything, except the *special loot boxes* or some bull. You think spending over $1k is bad on TS4? Wait until a sub based sims game comes out and watch your paycheck disappear.