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[Draugoth]

via Variety

The Sims 4″ added more than 15 million players over the past year, Electronic Arts reported Tuesday in its latest quarterly earnings report, just ahead of the life-simulation game’s release of its new “Life & Death” expansion pack Thursday

 

[The Inventor]

It's their GTA.

 

[JayK47]

The base game is free, so I am sure many people downloaded it at least. But are they playing it?

They also added free top surgery scars and chest binders to the game. The same company that charges for everything added top surgery scars for free. I stopped playing the game with that update. If they are going to give that agenda garbage away for free, they should give a lot more away for free and fix existing issues before crapping out more DLC that they base game can barely handle.

 

[Superkewl]

They also added free top surgery scars and chest binders to the game. The same company that charges for everything added top surgery scars for free.

I have been meaning to try this for a while now, as I have enjoyed other sims game in the past but this has just shut that possibility down.

 

[onQ123]

I mean it went free to play I have it & a bunch of other free games that I have yet to actually play but I have them in case someone else wants to play it .

My niece is obsessed with it though

 

[ZiggyPop1991]

I have been meaning to try this for a while now, as I have enjoyed other sims game in the past but this has just shut that possibility down.

I will never understand someone lets something optional that dislike make them completely not do something. Shrug. Not the predatory expansions and monetization? lol.

 

[Aenima]

I had alot of fun with Sims 4 last gen when droped on PS+. Started to play just to build a house and see how the sims would interact with it, then i found out sims could age and die and there was a way to keep them alive by killing other sims using a carnivorous plant and milking the life extract from the plant. I ended up roleplaying making a mansion with a underground dungeon where i invited the neighbors and kill them to keep my family from aging. Ended up killing the entire neighborhood untill the game spawned new neighbors.

 

[Gamerguy84]

Well my daughter was one of them and I spent a lot of money. Built a decent PC. NVMe drive of course with over 150 GB of mods.

Every expansion pack, etc.

F u EA.

 

[cash_longfellow]

Was interested…then I tried it on PlayStation and the controls made me want to throw myself off of a cliff or some sort of sky rise building.

 

[EDMIX]

I have been meaning to try this for a while now, as I have enjoyed other sims game in the past but this has just shut that possibility down.

who cares? I mean...you are talking about a game where you create the character lol

You could do this with mods, using this logic, anyone modding a game and doing this would have you avoiding it lol So look man...i don't know if any of this shit is THAT serious to avoid actual fun, this makes zero sense and shit, anything you are meaning to try out, I'll mod this in the game so you have to quit gaming.

Does that sound like it makes any sense to you?

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

That's more new players than XBox sold new consoles.

Ye still doubt that games are the new platforms? I sensibly chuckle.

 

[Superkewl]

I will never understand someone lets something optional that dislike make them completely not do something. Shrug. Not the predatory expansions and monetization? lol.

The aggressive DLC has been the main barrier so far, however in regards to the politics/agenda, some of us are just so sick and tired of it being shoehorned into every aspect of our lives, or so it seems...

 

[EDMIX]

The aggressive DLC has been the main barrier so far, however in regards to the politics/agenda, some of us are just so sick and tired of it being shoehorned into every aspect of our lives, or so it seems...

Its a game with mods, its a game literally about creating people. I get the idea of if it being in a game were its a bit odd, but the fucking game is about actually creating people, that doesn't sound "shoehorned into" that sounds like that makes complete sense in a game about actually making people

 

[EDMIX]

lol, how about I launch Sim's 4 and this the first thing I see in the create a character mode lol

 

[killatopak]

They failed to mention it went free to play.

 

[EDMIX]

They failed to mention it went free to play.

I mean, you failed to read the statement actually states "players" it is not stating anything sold for money regarding that figure

 

[killatopak]

I mean, you failed to read the statement actually states "players" it is not stating anything sold for money regarding that figure

I would argue that would be fine if it wasn’t a retail game most of its life. Most people would assume it was players who bought the game simply because of the history of the game.

It’s glaringly obvious most of these are free to play players to me. I’m a Sims fan, bought all DLCs until the werewolf dlc and frequent reddit, facebook and discord groups of Sims 4 myself. There’s a huge increase of people asking some basic stuff about the game and about content locked into dlcs and such. I have personally seen it.

 

[Gamezone]

They went free to play and also released it on Steam. Their own launcher is terrible.

 

[EDMIX]

Most people would assume it was players who bought the game simply because of the history of the game.

36 million people bought The Sims 4 before it went free to play.....so....yea. It is the best selling Sim's game in history, even before Free To Play

It’s glaringly obvious most of these are free to play players to me.

Well sure, the game is free now, where would they be buying it that it would be counted anywhere? So with 70 million users, by default most would be the ones that played it for free, but the game isn't simply living off of that idea, it was already the most selling Sims game prior to this.

here’s a huge increase of people asking some basic stuff about the game and about content locked into dlcs and such. I have personally seen it.

Well, I agree, this is based on those getting it for free, but my comment is more so stating that this announcement is not seeking to pretend they sold units, the very much state players as no units can be sold, its free on all store fronts. I feel this approach is likely to move more units of Sim's 5 by building this base to sell DLC, or it could be to see if a market exist for free to play with this concept.

70 million is not some accident. Someone wants to play it

edit i lied lol its even more, that 70 figure is from last year, which means that 15 million is on top of 70 million. Thats a lot of Sim shit going on lol

The Sims 4 reaches franchise milestone with 70 million players

How do you say, "Congratulations!" in Simlish?

www.gamedeveloper.com

They went free to play and also released it on Steam. Their own launcher is terrible.

True, you still need it when you first download the game, but after you can just launch it from Steam. EA should have never been forcing people to use that junk, but how do you even being to explain that to a board of executives lol

This is just like the whole Netflix, Amazon, Hulu thing. You saw all those smaller companies like AMC, CBS etc make their own streaming things and slowly you saw them just cave and make deals, its funny seeing all of that HBO content back on netflix lol So I feel everyone going to Steam is a good thing, the consumer has decided, let Steam handle it, focus on making good games vs launchers .

 

[Shake Your Rump]

I really don’t get it. When your game is literally free to download and play, how is “adding players” a relevant metric? Just booting the game will add you to the list. How long did they play? Did they buy any expansions? Etc.

 

[Spyxos]

And will lose almost all of them when this releases.

 

[Drew1440]

The base game is free, so I am sure many people downloaded it at least. But are they playing it?

They also added free top surgery scars and chest binders to the game. The same company that charges for everything added top surgery scars for free. I stopped playing the game with that update. If they are going to give that agenda garbage away for free, they should give a lot more away for free and fix existing issues before crapping out more DLC that they base game can barely handle.

What's the point of adding this, in a game where you can freely choose your character's gender?

The franchise peaked with Sims 2, 3 was way too laggy with it's open world. 4 lacked a lot of content and focused on silly political messaging rather than fixing bugs due to 10 years of spaghetti code. Remember when they somehow made incest possible with an update?

 

[LordBritish]

Id play if it was 4-player co-op