EA Unveils Sims 4 Premium Membership
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It just seems like as EA games get newer, they get better engines and attention to fine details, but they often end up losing a lot of content from the previous game along the way.
If your brand new game that came out in 2014 has less content that the first game in the franchise back in 2000, then you are doing it wrong.
If your brand new game that came out in 2014 has less content that the first game in the franchise back in 2000, then you are doing it wrong.
This is why I'm proudly sticking to my policy of not buying any EA games. The endless cycle of fuckup, outrage and fake contrition shows that they do not care what people think at all, so you basically have to take your money elsewhere.
This is a common issue whenever an EA exec opens their mouth. If a reboot doesn't fix it, try CTRL+ALT+DEL and end task NOPE mode. Click "FU EA" on the confirmation prompt and restart the "Don't give a damn" system service.lacktheknack said:
It looks like there's going to be a loooot of feedback-backslash-backlash that they could capitalize on. If they really wanted to. Or they could keep doing whatever it looks like they're doing and handle everything after the game is launched. It does make sense that they'd take on an alpha model, but again, the important stuff is feedback, and I can't be certain whether or not they'll take advantage of any of it.
Learn your lesson. Stop giving them money.
But despite the complaints people will still buy this. They can't even have the self-control to wait a week in order to hurt the release numbers.
And like always, the more anti-consumer they get, the more pirates they create because pirates won't have to pay for a full game, then extra for withheld furniture off a day-one digital store, and then extra for an expansion that puts in what was always in the full games.
They're treating customers actually willing to pay them like suckers they can squeeze for every penny rather.
But despite the complaints people will still buy this. They can't even have the self-control to wait a week in order to hurt the release numbers.
And like always, the more anti-consumer they get, the more pirates they create because pirates won't have to pay for a full game, then extra for withheld furniture off a day-one digital store, and then extra for an expansion that puts in what was always in the full games.
They're treating customers actually willing to pay them like suckers they can squeeze for every penny rather.
As much as the CoD series is hated for stagnating, at least they provide a complete AAA game for the initial price at launch! No platform exclusive missions and nothing cut out from the offline single player to sell as day 1 DLC. All of the other AAA developers (Except Valve AFAIK) are continuing to extort every penny from their paying customers while Activision, Infinity Ward, Treyarch and Sledgehammer Games continue to provide a full offline single player experience for the game's asking price and still end up laughing all the way to the bank.
EA doesn't NEED the extra money generated by the subscription service, it WANTS the extra money out of sheer greed and nothing more.
EA doesn't NEED the extra money generated by the subscription service, it WANTS the extra money out of sheer greed and nothing more.
I've got something for you, too, EA. Just give me a second, it's in here somewhere...
Ah yes, here you are. It's a brand new shiny GO FUCK YOURSELF. Enjoy!
Everything I hear about them these days just pisses me off more and more. All this exclusive BS, give us money before we've done any work, blah blah. What happened to making just a freaking game straight up. So now we'll have this and 10 very over priced "expansions".
Ah yes, here you are. It's a brand new shiny GO FUCK YOURSELF. Enjoy!
Everything I hear about them these days just pisses me off more and more. All this exclusive BS, give us money before we've done any work, blah blah. What happened to making just a freaking game straight up. So now we'll have this and 10 very over priced "expansions".
Remember when BP caused a spill, drilled into another dimension, and then summoned cthulhu somehow in that trilogy of excellent south park episodes? And they issued those apology commercials?
That's what this is. That's totally what this is. To a tee. I can't believe a company can fuck up this much. The key difference being that petrol, while slowly being phased out, is still a very necessary and useful fuel source.
Here, they're selling an entertainment product which nobody needs. And they're still fucking up this badly. There are no good reasons to buy the sims 4. No good ones. New emotion animations? Yeah, that sure sounds worth 60 dollars and a subscription. If you have literally no concept of the worth of a dollar or value for money.
You know, when I first joined this forum, I kind of liked EA, if only because of the good NFS games. And battlefield 2 modern combat. But instead of asking anybody, I simply hung around the forums, checking the news. And that is literally all it took. All the shit they've been doing for the past few years. I've seen news articles exposing all of it since my join date. The sim city debacle, yahtzee's sims 3 review, dungeon keeper mobile, a subscription fee for tetris (look it up and you'll find a wonderful destructoid article by our own fabulous jim sterling), all of the shit they're doing. No wonder people hate them. Hell, I hate them now too. I can't defend this. It would be like defending hitler while he stands behind me eating kittens.
That's what this is. That's totally what this is. To a tee. I can't believe a company can fuck up this much. The key difference being that petrol, while slowly being phased out, is still a very necessary and useful fuel source.
Here, they're selling an entertainment product which nobody needs. And they're still fucking up this badly. There are no good reasons to buy the sims 4. No good ones. New emotion animations? Yeah, that sure sounds worth 60 dollars and a subscription. If you have literally no concept of the worth of a dollar or value for money.
You know, when I first joined this forum, I kind of liked EA, if only because of the good NFS games. And battlefield 2 modern combat. But instead of asking anybody, I simply hung around the forums, checking the news. And that is literally all it took. All the shit they've been doing for the past few years. I've seen news articles exposing all of it since my join date. The sim city debacle, yahtzee's sims 3 review, dungeon keeper mobile, a subscription fee for tetris (look it up and you'll find a wonderful destructoid article by our own fabulous jim sterling), all of the shit they're doing. No wonder people hate them. Hell, I hate them now too. I can't defend this. It would be like defending hitler while he stands behind me eating kittens.
EA: No it's cool. We don't mind being voted the worst company in America, anymore. Bring on your hate. In fact, We're thinking about piecemealling all of our games. Then we can charge for a premium service AND have a cash shop at the same time. And then, we can piecemeal the premium service. The premium service won't really kick in until you buy both parts A and B. Don't worry, Angry Joe, this is all in the name of fighting piracy.
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Well, damn... that turned into a Corporate Commander sketch...
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Well, damn... that turned into a Corporate Commander sketch...
You know, I'm starting to believe that all the people who eternally ***** about EA's practices, but then go out and buy the game day one, are merely victims of Stockholm Syndrome.Nurb said:
Ah, remmeber when all these features and more were free and in vanilla game? remmeber when moders could add 10 times the content of the game, for free? pepperidge farm remmebers.
not that i would really watch a 30 minute sims advertisement anyway....
the linked video is 20 minutes long. wrong video or a typo?roseofbattle said:
not that i would really watch a 30 minute sims advertisement anyway....
the guy is seriuosly overexited about GabeN wallpaper.Ultratwinkie said:
Huh? What steps forwards? I don't recall anything like that, just one long DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHH...The Great JT said:
All rumors of EA's intelligence are structly heresay ans idle gossip, propaganda cooked up by their PR staff and delivered...badly.
It's getting to the point where I'm just tired of being depressed by the whole thing and I actually think I'm more impressed. Impressed that EA can just be so forward about trying to screw people over. Impressed by the fact that they can implement so many horrible awful ideas, and still get people to buy millions of copies of their games. And make no mistake, they will sell MILLIONS of copies of The Sims 4. We know they will. And EA will make money, they won't learn a lesson, and they will just keep doing horrible things for the gaming industry. But we'll let it happen. So what does it matter.
EA atually has done something decent recently. All owners of the Sims 2 have received the ultimate edition for free, which means all DLC. Granted the game is about a decade old, it's still much more stable and content filled than 3.FalloutJack said:
Source:http://www.gamesreviews.com/news/07/ea-upgrades-sims-2-owners-dlc-packed-ultimate-edition-free/
Ah, so the company motto is "Better late than never", eh? My advice to those guys is to embezzle now and save time.Elfgore said:
It's too easy to hate them.lacktheknack said:
And you know, I'm one of those who mourn for old Maxis. Pre-EA Maxis...
FUN MAXIS
yeah I really liked that they did that, it doesn?t make up for things like a Sims game with a premium membership, but it is still a step in the right direction.Elfgore said: