The next Sims game currently goes under the name Project Rene rather than The Sims 5, but that aside, we know a growing amount about EA Maxis’ next social simulation. During today’s latest Behind The Sims community update, they shared more, including the news that the next entry in the series would be free-to-play and without energy mechanics or a subscription.

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      Just by reading the headline I can tell that’s will be a terrible Game. But it will make a lot of money.

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

    • 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.

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        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

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

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          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.

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    Its free-to-play but you need to buy the housing/eating/sleeping/jobs/relationships DLC.

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    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.

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      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.

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    The Sims 4 base game is already free. So if I’m understanding this correctly, EA, of all game publishers, is announcing that, against all odds, a free-to-play game with in-game MTX is an efficient business model that they want to promote? This might not be related at all that the Sims has always been a license that caters to the general, not particularly gamer audience.

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      With Sims 4 already being F2P this announcement just means they are once again going to resell the same content back to you at a premium. Piecing up their game even more.

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    Whelp at least Paralives could be fun? Or that other one being worked on by Paradox? We honestly just need someone to save us at this point. Anything else would do so well even if it wasn’t quite as polished. It just needs to be feature complete at launch.