Comments on: EA Trailer Reveals “The Sims 4 Premium” Membership

By: Susan Mitchell

Susan Mitchell — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 01:56:14 +0000

This won’t affect me directly since I won’t be buying the game for a few months at least. It still upsets me though because the people I rely on for videos & information, the people who are loyal to EA, they’re the ones paying for this. EA knows that they can rip off intelligent people too (not just suckers) because unlike them some people care about their fans.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 20:43:22 +0000

They took toddlers,pools, eyelashes, open world and Create a style from me. I loved CASt!
And now this crap. Ain’t gonna buy that shit.

I’m so disappointed in EA, I was (or am) a real sims freak, have all expansions in limited edition and stuff to sims 3, 2 and 1.

I was so excited for sims 4 at first. But it feels like when some news comes out it’s always to the bad. Even if building mode and create a sim is really cool I won’t support EA for their crappy work. Like the create a style was the It-thing when sims three came out, that was the brand new thing as well as the open world thing! But it feels like they don’t add it because they’re lazy, and the say its because it will run smoother and bla bla bla…

Soon ea will make the sims into some kind of packman game that even a old Nokia mobile phone could run with the excuse “now everybody can play it! (and we can make more money to still our addiction)”

The evolution is going backwards, I would even say sims 2 is much better than sims 4 in many aspects. And the sims 3 base game beats the crap out of the sims 4 base game.

I will probably download it illegal in some quiet protest so EA don’t get their beloved money.

By: Nana

Nana — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 15:14:41 +0000

Thanks friends!!!

By: mmoblitz

mmoblitz — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 10:39:26 +0000

I agree Cody. This is EA’s business model for all there games. I haven’t seen yet what they are doing with Dragon Age: Inquisition which could be the last game from EA I ever buy (if it’s done well this time). I won’t be tied to any game that inserts pay walls to get a complete experience. If they want to do that, then they need to make the base game, EP/SP free and let people just pay for what they want.

I have never wanted any company or game to fail, but I’m rethinking that now.

By: Julianna Hopkins

Julianna Hopkins — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 03:21:50 +0000

Yes, glad I’m not the only that gets angry when they sell store content that should have been an EP! Like midnight hollow and moonlight falls like hello? Both are supernatural and both include consignment shop like objects. Not to mention they totally ripped us off with no open for business type EP if you buy all bakery,cafe,theater etc. through the store it cost at least $80 USD that should have been an $40 USD EP.

By: Cody

Cody — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 02:49:58 +0000

It is just sad to see our games piece mealed to us with dollar signs attached. What happened to the days of gaming where we got a complete gaming experience with a single price tag. Expansion packs I understand but it has just gone to far, they keep pushing the boundary line with each iteration. I dislike the feeling of being pressured into shelling out more money just to get more of a complete experience and I think many would agree.

By: Musewanted

Musewanted — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 02:15:51 +0000

It’s hard not to take a cynical perspective when hearing about this. This is essentially an extension of the Sims 3 store (I am surprised this didn’t happen sooner), and there will always be a market for all the additional items that the store provides. What I don’t want to see however is the incorporation of actual features that could be sold off individually. Once that sleeping dragon wakes, we could be looking at using simpoints to buy new walk-styles, careers, traits, and perhaps even entire skills/supernatural forms.

On that day (even if it isn’t until the Sims 5), I will seriously reconsider further investing in the franchise.

By: Mel

Mel — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 23:55:24 +0000

I know many here are wise enough to see through the BS (which I’m happy to see). Although anyone who is defending this (aside from EA shills), and anyone seems inclined to buy this thinking it’ll be a “good deal”, please, PLEASE reconsider before spending un-godly amounts of your hard-earned money.

This is all bad news. The sole existence of this “premium option” screws all of us, whether we get it or not. You could just stick to buying micro-transactions separately, or buy into the premium membership — they’ll be getting more of your money either way. This is why the game will be light on content. No matter what the gamer/consumer chooses to do, we’ll all have pay ***additionally*** to get the full experience with this business model. Even if you don’t buy into any extra content, you’re then getting screwed with a very flimsy game. Anyone who understands and is okay with this… well, at least EA will surely love all the extra hard-earned money they shamelessly steal from you… -_-^

I’m *not* advocating p;rating the game’s content, but this game is going to be p;rated in record numbers due to all these “annoyances” and disrespectful tactics on the consumer. These sorts of disgusting business models give p;rates every reason to justify what they’re doing. Greed and theft (by EA) only encourages more greed and theft (by p;rates). This is an ugly, endless cycle.

By: Mel

Mel — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 23:47:45 +0000

Yes. Obviously the fact that it’s optional is not the problem… -_-^

By: Mel

Mel — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 23:45:47 +0000

No, not well-said… at all. These two situations are completely unrelated. One involves buying games for consoles, another involves paying EXTRA once you’ve bought a game. And that extra money amounts to *far more* than 60-70 bucks. This situation involves the “choice” of milking the player continuously, or screwing them out of content that could’ve been part of the game in the first place.

People have every right to be sickened by this. If you feel the need to defend TS4’s dirty business practices, feel free. But you need a much stronger argument than “but.. c-console games!!”. -_-^