In the end, they can charge more per item, and people who don't do the math get the shaft. When you have to buy points to make purchases, it creates a psychological disconnect from the real cost. Not just for the EA store, but Xbox Live as well. On the flip side, I've always been against the methods used for downloadable content. It's a sound business decision, as long as they don't over charge. It also allowed them to pimp out other franchises (Ikea, H&M) for extra profit. However, furniture and clothes are fairly redundant and don't typically have unique functionality you get with game-altering mechanics in expansions. After the 2nd EP for TS1, I liked them, because they kept the game fresh.Īgain, when they started selling stuff packs for TS2, I was annoyed at first. However, I chalked that up to game improvements. I've been playing The Sims since the first game was released, and was initially nonplussed by the stream of expansions that followed. I do not like to be nickel and dimed to death, as most reasonable consumers can relate. (Now, if you can show evidence that items have been cut from the main game to pad out the store, yeah, then being peeved is a fair reaction) Now, if there are content packs as well as the micropayment system, yeah, then I'll be annoyed, but as far as I can tell, the micropayment system is a better way of distributing non-free, non-expansion content than content packs.
#The sims 3 store 1000 points card free#
I'm also pretty sure there will be enough for people like me to not need to spend anything other than the 1k free points that come with the game.
If the expansion packs come with free points for the store (which, if EA are intelligent as far as customer satisfaction is concerned they will, though, cynicism on this front is understandable) all the better. I don't mind this, actually.Įxtra objects, hairstyles, clothing, etc for sale via electronic micropayments in a style similar to Wii Points, etc, to me, as a consumer, is the preferable way of doing it than the Stuff Packs of the Sims and the Sims 2 - Buy what you want, ignore what you don't. No wait, don't, I don't want your greedy lips on my butt thanks. Sims 3 Store Kiss my ass goodbye, 'cause you won't be seeing it. They'll be seeing me downloading tons of free custom items made by all those wonderfull people out there who DON'T charge me for enjoying their work, and respecting them endlessly. lets say, they put one of each item you need for a sim to live in the game, but no more, I'd NEVER buy it.ĮA goes stupid, doing this. WE BUY THEM! And they want to charge us more for objects that we may need? I mean, they are surely rich enough to actually put items in our games. I actually thought EA could behave fair when it came to sims. If they had put enough to actually be cualified as a real sims game and then a few in the store, I'd be okay with it, but this!? Seriously, I was kinda mad when they got the Sims2 Store, because there were items I couldn't get even buying every expansion!