It’s official: EA is going private.
The leveraged buyout will be financed by a staggering $20 billion of debt, which likely means some *aggressive* cost cutting is ahead for EA in the coming months and years.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250929186526/en/EA-Announces-Agreement-to-be-Acquired-by-PIF-Silver-Lake-and-Affinity-Partners-for-%2455-Billion
In a deal involving a company owned by Jared Kushner, a company that is basically just the Saudis, and $20B of debt.
Due to Steam’s Autumn Sale putting the DLC anywhere from 30-50% off, you can currently get the complete game for the low price of only… $993.79.
I wish I was kidding.
So many of these DLCs are outright broken. For instance, the For Rent pack very well will corrupt your save file. I’ve had a glitch happen that was a for rent glitch, and I don’t even have the pack. Dine out doesnt function, my wedding stories doesn’t function. The game is still bland with $1000 of DLC.
It’s so bad, they added a toggle to turn off “unused packs” that break your game. You can now just uninstall them through the UI. Stuff you paid for, you can turn it off now, so your game runs more smoothly. Except, when It rolled out, it broke people’s games when they tried to use it, said they didn’t own the pack anymore, so you couldn’t turn a pack back on. Absurd.
Fuck The Sims 4, Fuck EA.
Rust console, is an old game, they released a new version to upgrade to new systems. Free to people who already owned the first gen game. They did this well imo. EA could never.
The Command and Conquer series has only a few or no equivalent right now, as far as I know.
There is INZOI, which should be superior to the Sims series, but its hardware requirements are very demanding.
Despite the existence of superior racing sims, some people still play NFSU2 but enhanced with mods.
I’m saying because in some places people like the games more than the corporation owning those titles (and sitting on, while keep on selling the games with the loot boxes), they’ll just pirate those copies.
Paralives I expect to gain a decent following for life sim games it should release fully early next year from my understanding. Inzoi, from what I gather, is not it, and I doubt it’s doing well.
I don’t know much about ea’s sports games. I also come from the pov of a mostly console player. I have a Lenovo go, but I only can play less demanding games on it.
It’s funny, when I got it, I was so stoked to play the sims 4 with mods. Wow what a headache it is to mod the game with constant flood of mod/game breaking updates. Too much of a headache.
Fleshed out games at release. Mods should be an afterthought, not a necessity, same for pirating. I want to give good devs money for their good games. Anything less, it’s not worth my time or self respect.
$1500‽ What the fuck‽
If people are willing to pay it…
Hell yeah, interrobang!
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The franchise basically created the microtransaction.
As much flak as Oblivion got for horse armor, the Sims did it first.
I can’t wait to never play either of those games. Thank Ahura Mazda for indie games.
Due to Steam’s Autumn Sale putting the DLC anywhere from 30-50% off, you can currently get the complete game for the low price of only… $993.79.
I wish I was kidding.
And It won’t run.
So many of these DLCs are outright broken. For instance, the For Rent pack very well will corrupt your save file. I’ve had a glitch happen that was a for rent glitch, and I don’t even have the pack. Dine out doesnt function, my wedding stories doesn’t function. The game is still bland with $1000 of DLC.
It’s so bad, they added a toggle to turn off “unused packs” that break your game. You can now just uninstall them through the UI. Stuff you paid for, you can turn it off now, so your game runs more smoothly. Except, when It rolled out, it broke people’s games when they tried to use it, said they didn’t own the pack anymore, so you couldn’t turn a pack back on. Absurd.
Fuck The Sims 4, Fuck EA.
Rust console, is an old game, they released a new version to upgrade to new systems. Free to people who already owned the first gen game. They did this well imo. EA could never.
Why you might as well sail and get a fixed pack for basically free.
Or just find a better game. There are plenty of games where you’re not expected to pay and download additional files to have rain.
The Command and Conquer series has only a few or no equivalent right now, as far as I know.
There is INZOI, which should be superior to the Sims series, but its hardware requirements are very demanding.
Despite the existence of superior racing sims, some people still play NFSU2 but enhanced with mods.
I’m saying because in some places people like the games more than the corporation owning those titles (and sitting on, while keep on selling the games with the loot boxes), they’ll just pirate those copies.
Paralives I expect to gain a decent following for life sim games it should release fully early next year from my understanding. Inzoi, from what I gather, is not it, and I doubt it’s doing well.
I don’t know much about ea’s sports games. I also come from the pov of a mostly console player. I have a Lenovo go, but I only can play less demanding games on it.
It’s funny, when I got it, I was so stoked to play the sims 4 with mods. Wow what a headache it is to mod the game with constant flood of mod/game breaking updates. Too much of a headache.
Fleshed out games at release. Mods should be an afterthought, not a necessity, same for pirating. I want to give good devs money for their good games. Anything less, it’s not worth my time or self respect.
Haha. Anyway have a good day stranger!
Oh yeah, they milked that shit as much as they could. Really ruined the franchise with their bullshit.
Don’t forget how many years it went live and the absurd number of expansion packs.
The game’s 11 years old, a constant flow of DLC and expansions adds up over time.
So just don’t buy it all at full price I guess.
That’s over 100$ every year in dlc
Or $25 a quarter, and that’s if you buy every single thing they release.
There’s always the whales, but personally I’d skip the “Horse Ranch” expansion, or the one that added Fairies.
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… And?
A shit ton of those couldve been free updates lol
Well, their artists did make additional assets though, even if they may be recoloured versions.
And…? Cyberpunk, monster hunter, witcher, … All got visual updates in their lifetimes :p
Witcher, baldurs gate, monster hunter, gta5 and more got actual content updates too
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I dunno man. Consider it aspiration! Pirate 1500 minimum in EA games.
I wouldn’t even take that shit for free.