Comments on: The Sims 4: 50% Discount for Game Time Users

By: Candacis

Candacis — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 13:28:01 +0000

still not nearly cheap enough to buy it. just too expansive for the things it offers.

By: 1234

1234 — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 17:55:12 +0000

I think some people who bought it just right after it came out, could be a little more displeased 😛

By: Sock Puppet

Sock Puppet — Sun, 15 Feb 2015 02:50:44 +0000

I feel bad for the people who bought the game right after their Game Time finished.

By: Chelly Madock

Chelly Madock — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 20:02:11 +0000

Did you use Game Time to try out the game?

Try going into Origin (the program, not the website) and then clicking “Launch Featured Today…” (found in the Origin menu at the very top). If that doesn’t work, then it may not be world wide.

By: DerLetzteMonarch

DerLetzteMonarch — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 19:18:55 +0000

Discounts are not a sign of something not selling well. Dragon Age: Inquisition is currently on sale for 33% less, too. And that game is officially the Game of the Year 2014 and the best-selling title BioWare has ever released. It is marketing, nothing else. People have tested the game during Game Time, many will have liked it, but some of those people who liked it still didn’t buy it. Then came the 33% sale for Game Time Users. Many saw that as reason to buy the game they liked. Some would have still been hesitant. Lowering the price even more fishes in the last few Game Time users who weren’t entirely convinced to buy it yet.
There is no real indication that Sims 4 is selling any worse then any of the other titles. There are no official numbers by EA. They and some of the other big publishers stopped doing that a couple of years ago. But there are numbers from some physical retailers. those indicate that Sims 4 sold about half as many physical copies as Sims 3 in the same amount of time. But Sims 3 did not have a digital version at release and nowadays games sell about the same amount of digital copies as they sell retail copies. That number varies depending on the genre. On top of that, Sims 4 still lacks the sales that come from Mac-users. Those will increase the number of sales even more next week.

By: 1234

1234 — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 17:27:28 +0000

It does make it seem that it is not selling as much as their previous sim games. I guess we’ll never know until official numbers are released.

By: symoneweekes13

symoneweekes13 — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 14:50:51 +0000

Is this worldwide? I can’t find the offer…

By: Libra_Style

Libra_Style — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 12:52:14 +0000

Now this just sucks really bad 🙁 , i.now I wish I would’ve waited to purchase my sims game

By: Chelly Madock

Chelly Madock — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 12:32:44 +0000

I think it’s more economics than flopping. They know that by now most of the people who want the game, and were willing/able to pay full price for it, will have already bought it. They saw I (and presumably some others) didn’t buy the game after playing Game Time, even at the 33% discount offered for a few weeks, so they lowered the price a bit more to encourage my buying it (it worked).

And once someone starts purchasing things, they’re more likely to keep buying (that’s why malls will have small priced trinkets near entrances, to get you into “shopping mode”), so they’ll probably increase sales of OR and GTW by discounting the main game.

By: simmy549

simmy549 — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 08:25:45 +0000

I have the game, however that’s a good deal!