It's cool that there are so many great deals for simmers. Most of which only useful to those buying the content late. I buy every single pack and every single expansion the day it's available. I know I'm not the only simmer with every single pack. Can we have content offered to people with all of the packs? So, we may not benefit from a 40% of sale months after the release of a pack but we get cool stuff...etc. A type of "loyalty" program would also be an incentive to have every pack for those who may not usually care to have all of the content...something akin to that would be cool
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The perks of buying the pack immediately is that you can play also immediately. Something that simmers who buy packs from sales can not experience.
I do agree that the devs should appreciate loyal simmers a lot more. And I am not talking about those who have the ability to buy packs right away.
As for purchases, the incentive of buying things right away is just that - you get to play it right away. The people who wait for sales have to.. well.. wait.
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I see where you're coming from and in my mind...a reward is not necessarily content that only I can play with but more like...a 10% discount on the upcoming pack.
That's probably what bums me most. There really isn't a large incentive to preorder other than the fact that I am incredibly impatient. But, again, that's a choice I make. I could learn to be a bit more patient and wait for a sale. I just don't. So I can't complain about something I choose to do. At least, that's my take on it.
Right! exactly what I'm saying...something like that...your thought is more inclusive but it's a long the lines of what I mean.
Maxis creates a membership program so that with every pack/game you buy you earn one point for every five dollars or something similar, and you can use the points to get free items! Kind of like with hotels and airlines.
If they had a system like that, I'd quit sims entirely. I do not want to be pressured into packs that I don't want to buy, and giving financial rewards and game rewards would definitely be that kind of pressure.
I will not buy MFP, for instance. But under this idea, if I wanted to get better prices on new packs, I'd have to. No thanks.
I don't see it as excluding those who don't but rewarding those who do. But everyone has a different mindset on these things, so it might not be the best idea.
Hm I re-read the OP's thread again and yes, you are right. She was mostly talking about those who own all the packs.
It still is an economic class issue though, cause packs cost money and not everyone can afford, but it is not much disturbing as I thought in the first place
As said before, I would like EA to pay attention to it's loyal simmers and listen more to them then trying to appeal the new crowd as their first priority. But that's more about how long and intense people have played The Sims in general.
That's pressure, though. Maxis/EA are not my friends so that's really not a good comparison. If the idea is I get rewarded for buying things I don't want, I'm really getting penalized for not buying things I think are blatant ripoffs.
What I think would be a much better idea is for them to bring the pre-order bonuses back. That would reward people who like to have their games immediately, and may get people like me to preorder. I was not crazy about pre-order bonuses back when they had them, but it certainly wouldn't make me feel I have to buy packs like mfp in order to get additional content.
With Sims 4 you would get a mood lamp for every Sims 3 EP you had registered. A statue if you had them all. I could get behind something like that for Sims 5 but for the current game it wouldn’t make much sense. With how spaced out packs are those who already own it all would just get additional content with the purchase of new DLC. That’s a penalty for everyone who doesn’t own it all
Players should not feel pressured into buying packs that they do not want to get benefits on future purchases.
Someone may not be able to buy Seasons or Pets because their computer can't handle it and they don't have the money right now to upgrade or get a new computer anywhere in the near foreseeable future because of things like rent, food, etc. Should they be penalized by having more expensive costs for future packs just for having their priorities in the right order?
Someone may not like occults and therefore chosen to not get the Vampires pack to avoid the vampires. They gritted their teeth with Get to Work and Island Living with the occults in them due to the fact that they wanted what else was in the pack more than they didn't want occults. But the Vampire pack didn't offer enough to offset their dislike of occults. Should they be penalized with higher prices for future packs just because of their preferences?
And there are some of us who voted with our wallet with the My First Pet stuff pack that required the Pets EP because the pack simply looked like it was cut out of the EP with the sole intent of being sold separately as it was mostly just recolors. Should we be penalized with higher prices on future packs simply for telling EA what we think about that practice in the only way they'd listen?
Edit to add: Little things like the lamps you got for owning various Sims 3 packs and such even in the current game for players who own everything I'm fine with. Items that give minimal benefit if owned. Especially if it's done like the lamps where there's a specific little item for each pack.
EA/Maxis used to do this all the time, or shops did for them, with freebies or online extras if you made a pre-order. I got a collection tin for all the CDs made or to be made in future for Unleashed (Sims2). Didn't we get several mood lamps for Sims 4 when it came out? Nothing since.
It would be nice too. Not all of us are wealthy, it's just that we buy them as they come out and probably budget for them.
I've just had a message from VirginMedia that my subscription is increasing £4 a month from September and think it will be cheaper to get my roof arial restored (a storm casualty) and go back to Freeview costing nothing.
Loyalty? What you have to do these days is phone up and say you are going over to a competitor and might get a handback but with Sims? What competitor?