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PM_ME_FEET_PICS, do games w The next Sims game will be free-to-play with paid DLC

Pretty sure they already had decent free to play Sims games on mobile a long time ago. Not sure how good the current one is.

The current base game is free to play as well with paid DLC. So they are taking the form that works for them.

People will by DLC if they want to and others get to enjoy a the base game for free.

The Sims has been pretty shit since the Sims 3.

doctorcrimson,

Sims 4 base game is actually already free on steam. I hear from a good friend, not me personally, that it has some great porn mods on the lovers lab site. Some bad mods, too.

DocBlaze, (edited )

I’m the good friend and will confirm

drekly, do games w The next Sims game will be free-to-play with paid DLC

Ah, so the sims is dead, I see.

pimento64,

It’s also soon to be astroturfed to hell and back with “omg let people enjoy things” and the “stop having FUN” comic any time people mention how dogshit this is.

mind,

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  • pimento64,
    bionicjoey,

    Good thing there’s that spiritual successor (paralives) coming down the pike

    Iunnrais,

    Haven’t heard of paralives. The one I’m familiar with is “Life by You” from Paradox. I’m hoping for cities skylines integration, which is why I have my eye on that one, even if it is a different developer it’s the same publisher so there’s hope…

    Iunnrais,

    Haven’t heard of paralives. The one I’m familiar with is “Life by You” from Paradox. I’m hoping for cities skylines integration, which is why I have my eye on that one, even if it is a different developer it’s the same publisher so there’s hope…

    Iunnrais,

    Haven’t heard of paralives. The one I’m familiar with is “Life by You” from Paradox. I’m hoping for cities skylines integration, which is why I have my eye on that one, even if it is a different developer it’s the same publisher so there’s hope…

    Iunnrais,

    Haven’t heard of paralives. The one I’m familiar with is “Life by You” from Paradox. I’m hoping for cities skylines integration, which is why I have my eye on that one, even if it is a different developer it’s the same publisher so there’s hope…

    Iunnrais,

    Haven’t heard of paralives. The one I’m familiar with is “Life by You” from Paradox. I’m hoping for cities skylines integration, which is why I have my eye on that one, even if it is a different developer it’s the same publisher so there’s hope…

    Iunnrais,

    Haven’t heard of paralives. The one I’m familiar with is “Life by You” from Paradox. I’m hoping for cities skylines integration, which is why I have my eye on that one, even if it is a different developer it’s the same publisher so there’s hope…

    Iunnrais,

    Haven’t heard of paralives. The one I’m familiar with is “Life by You” from Paradox. I’m hoping for cities skylines integration, which is why I have my eye on that one, even if it is a different developer it’s the same publisher so there’s hope…

    Iunnrais,

    Haven’t heard of paralives. The one I’m familiar with is “Life by You” from Paradox. I’m hoping for cities skylines integration, which is why I have my eye on that one, even if it is a different developer it’s the same publisher so there’s hope…

    Iunnrais,

    Haven’t heard of paralives. The one I’m familiar with is “Life by You” from Paradox. I’m hoping for cities skylines integration, which is why I have my eye on that one, even if it is a different developer it’s the same publisher so there’s hope…

    Iunnrais,

    Haven’t heard of paralives. The one I’m familiar with is “Life by You” from Paradox. I’m hoping for cities skylines integration, which is why I have my eye on that one, even if it is a different developer it’s the same publisher so there’s hope…

    Iunnrais,

    Haven’t heard of paralives. The one I’m familiar with is “Life by You” from Paradox. I’m hoping for cities skylines integration, which is why I have my eye on that one, even if it is a different developer it’s the same publisher so there’s hope…

    Iunnrais,

    Haven’t heard of paralives. The one I’m familiar with is “Life by You” from Paradox. I’m hoping for cities skylines integration, which is why I have my eye on that one, even if it is a different developer it’s the same publisher so there’s hope…

    Iunnrais, (edited )

    Haven’t heard of paralives. The one I’m familiar with is “Life by You” from Paradox. I’m hoping for cities skylines integration, which is why I have my eye on that one, even if it is a different developer it’s the same publisher so there’s hope…

    (Sorry if you briefly saw a billion duplicate comments from me— Memmy suddenly crashed and when it reopened it seems to have just kept reposting again and again. I think I deleted all the copies now)

    Aurenkin,

    RIP Maxis. Who knows what kinds of awesome stuff we could have had. Oh well, at least Cities Skylines 2 is on the way. Haven’t played a Sims game in a long time but had such a blast with the earlier entries in the series.

    doctorcrimson,

    RIP Maxis and like 50 other studios that EA bought and dissolved over the decades.

    Aurenkin,

    Still haven’t emotionally recovered from Westwood

    Squizzy,

    I loved Tiberian Sun and the Red Alerts

    drekly,

    And Bullfrog

    Aurenkin,

    Still haven’t emotionally recovered from Westwood

    fogetaboutit, do games w The next Sims game will be free-to-play with paid DLC

    If sims 5 doesnt allow my sims to exit the house without loading screen, then it isnt worth it

    geosoco,

    The loading screen is optional DLC. Definitely not a micro-transaction. Just very small DLC.

    Kolanaki,
    !deleted6508 avatar

    I want to actually watch them do their jobs, too. Not just enter a building and forcing me to watch time go by for the 8 hours they are there. I don’t care if they’re just packing boxes for Samazon; I mean, I will watch them watching TV. Watching them do boring stuff isn’t that boring.

    bionicjoey,

    Agreed. Working is the worst part of the Sims. They make you just fucking sit there for all that time staring at the outside of a building

    fogetaboutit,

    yeah, jobs on sims 3 is basically entering a building and waiting. With an occasional prompt about “what should your sims do?”

    DocBlaze,

    you never used open careers mod? it sort of works how like university life did. you get career progression from using associated objects, and are otherwise are free to talk to your coworkers, grab lunch, etc during the work day.

    fogetaboutit,

    That sounds awesome actually, but no im not aware of it. I think it would be nice if its integrated tho

    Voroxpete, do games w The next Sims game will be free-to-play with paid DLC

    Totally unrelated, but that “Totally not The Sims” game that Paradox are developing looks pretty great, huh?

    SpaceNoodle, do games w Steam turns 20 today: "We've had to try a lot of different things over the years"

    Only 20? What was that platform I had to install in the late '90s?

    Jagermo, do games w Steam turns 20 today: "We've had to try a lot of different things over the years"

    Never forget how it started. In the beginning, steam was as hated as uplay, origin and epic combined

    https://feddit.de/pictrs/image/6b9b3bc9-5d74-4fc0-9c56-4dd8a2c3999c.jpeg

    Kichae, do games w Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag can’t be bought on Steam due to a “technical issue”, not an incoming remake, Ubisoft insists

    Well, you see, the technical issue that's stopping them from selling it is called "canibalization of sales", which is technically an issue for their marketing department.

    SkullHex2, (edited ) do games w Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag can’t be bought on Steam due to a “technical issue”, not an incoming remake, Ubisoft insists
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  • all-knight-party,
    @all-knight-party@kbin.cafe avatar

    Probably because Black Flag is fucking revered and people would eat that shit up on the pedigree alone. It's an open world pirate game, which doesn't have much competition.

    AC3 stands to gain more from a remake, but it would require some good faith from the community to buy into it, and it's not as unique of an overall experience from the initial premise compared to Black Flag which instantly forms a picture in your mind of a free booting high seas adventure with some light assassination.

    Delusional, (edited )

    I’d kill for that game but more centered around pirating. Maybe have your own fleet with more ship customization and be able to take over and build a city on an island that becomes thriving over time and then have to defend from attacks by the British navy or something.

    ConditionOverload, do games w Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag can’t be bought on Steam due to a “technical issue”, not an incoming remake, Ubisoft insists
    @ConditionOverload@lemmy.world avatar

    Weird to think it was because of a remake. The game isn’t old and still holds up very well.

    GreenMario,

    Last of Us part 1 remake says hi

    mateomaui,

    Yeah but the original wasn’t on PC for TLoU

    Virkkunen,
    @Virkkunen@kbin.social avatar

    They didn't remake the game so they could port it to PC, they did it so they could sell more banking on the triple dippers

    mateomaui,

    Both is correct.

    I mean if you don’t understand that they’ve ported or remade their PS exclusives to PC because they also wanted a new untapped player base that didn’t own playstations, I don’t know what to tell you, brah.

    Endorkend, (edited )
    @Endorkend@kbin.social avatar

    It's not weird to think as the remake being in the works has been reported many months before they pulled the game from Steam.

    It's a decade old and big studios are creatively bankrupt, so they just love simple redoing old shit and reusing the old work.

    Skyrim wasn't the game that started this shit, but it sure was what popularized it with studios.

    Daefsdeda,

    It holds up well until you try to run it. Terrible issues on PC they never fixed…

    ConditionOverload,
    @ConditionOverload@lemmy.world avatar

    Weird, I don’t get those issues on my PC. I usually install it every year at least once to play through it.

    Daefsdeda,

    I think it can go one of two ways. Either it runs fine

    Or you need windows 98 compatibility mode, change some ini setting, set physx or whatever its called to off and be finally able to play.

    Then see yourself standing in your ships boundaries, unable to move. This all happened to me and I just stopped playing.

    It did play well a few years back but that was on windows 8.

    bionicjoey, do games w Tenebris Somnia is an 8-bit horror adventure with a flashy twist

    Any Matt Colville fans think of the Somnium Tenebris?

    caseyweederman, do games w Tenebris Somnia is an 8-bit horror adventure with a flashy twist

    Ooh. Will I find the front door key inside the jack-o-lantern?

    toxicbubble, do games w Google, Netflix, Apple and Amazon are the "barbarians at the gate" of the games industry, says ex-Sony boss

    i imagine Netflix games would end in a cliffhanger then cancelled before a sequel, google games will track your usage for personalized ads, apple games will eventually require accessories & dongles, amazon will slowly buy smaller studios & become the next EA

    dyma, do games w Starfield Steam Deck performance report: a frontier too far
    @dyma@lemmy.world avatar

    mods aren’t for everyone but the Steam Deck Essentials mod boosted me like 10 fps in most areas and I’ve had a pretty good time

    HidingCat,

    This is hilarious, a mod released within a week of the game's launch boosts it by 10 FPS. Why can modders do it but not the dev team?

    PutangInaMo,

    Because they’re free and can be counted on.

    dyma,
    @dyma@lemmy.world avatar

    I’m gonna give the devs the benefit of the doubt and say maybe they don’t want to ship compressed textures by default since plenty of people will need them to play on ultra settings, but a modder can cater to the smaller, dedicated fanbase on the steam deck. but idk I’m not a dev

    moogs,

    Most likely because it makes the game look more potato than the Devs were willing to allow

    Ismay, (edited ) do games w Starfield Steam Deck performance report: a frontier too far

    Too bad the performances are not the biggest problem with that game

    Sooooo boring, shitty interface, emotionless characters, the starting plot is dumb as f. I’m really happy to have taken the pass to test it, would have been a waste of money

    Well more time for bg3 and sea of stars

    nanoUFO,
    @nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works avatar

    That sounds like fallout 4 in a nutshell, a game that I couldn’t stand more than an hour of.

    aesopjah,

    The starting sequence is waaay too long.

    Hey, I’ve got an idea for how to start our go-anywhere do-anything space exploration game! 8 hours of hand holding tutorial quests ought to be plenty of buildup, right? None of this exciting dragon attack starting sequence BS, let’s really bore the hell out of our players.

    BlinkerFluid, do games w Epic are hiring for a Fortnite open world survival game
    @BlinkerFluid@lemmy.one avatar

    What kind of survival game?


    Get out of here, Stalker!

    yelling at Darth Vader

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