Since its launch virtually 10 years in the past, The Sims 4 has been primarily freed from timed content material, with growth packs and free additions being obtainable at any level after launch. Nonetheless, that is altering in a brand new replace that brings a battle pass-style characteristic to the sport’s principal menu, and followers aren’t joyful.
At this time, EA revealed its plan for Occasions in a blog post, describing every occasion as a “restricted time expertise, centered round a enjoyable theme, with free rewards or gameplay that provides new alternatives to your sport.”
Come for the merchandising machine, go away with a brand-new trait! 🤩
Occasions are right here in The Sims 4 as restricted time experiences with free rewards that provides new alternatives to your sport. ✨
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— The Sims (@TheSims) May 30, 2024
Every Occasion is free and gives 8 rewards over the course of 4 weeks, with new rewards being made out there every week. This format requires gamers to launch the sport on at the very least totally different 8 days to say each reward.
The first occasion, titled The Sims 4 Happy at House Login Occasion, will turn into out there for all gamers by June 13 and introduces a number of furnishings objects, just a few new Sim equipment, and, most notably, a merchandising machine and a brand new trait known as Follow Makes Good.
The weblog publish clarifies that every occasion will finish in an additional week the place gamers can declare rewards they missed. Nonetheless, claiming every reward requires additional dedication, and followers have not been joyful about it, with many taking to Twitter/X to share their disappointment.
TIMED EVENTS IN THE SIMS 4???
fuck off. no. ur turning this sport right into a cellular sport, that is NOT what we wished. hear, i hate when individuals say this, however WHO TF ASKED FOR THIS??? fuck all the best way off with this bullshit.
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— OakieDokie (@OakSimStudios) May 28, 2024
This isn’t it. Gamers log into video games usually once they supply partaking GAMEPLAY. The Sims used to do nicely with 2 EPs a year- they that stored gamers busy for months. These days packs can’t maintain simmers attentions for two days earlier than they begin asking for the subsequent one. see the problem? pic.twitter.com/NGYpN4A4sK
— 🏳️🌈AnotherPlumbob🏳️🌈 (@AnotherPlumbob) May 30, 2024
Different gamers, together with some responding to a publish on (*4*), complained concerning the sport’s ongoing bugginess seemingly being ignored to concentrate on Occasions. Others speculated that EA was organising microtransactions for Challenge Rene.
“It is clear that that is the best way EA are eager to take the franchise. It is a disgrace that EA, a multi-billion greenback firm, feels the necessity to create a number of damaged DLC for a excessive value then suppose ‘nah, we are able to nonetheless earn more money,'” a consumer wrote. “We deserve higher than re-colored objects from different packs simply so the info exhibits that participant numbers are going up. I want we got real, unique free content material or higher but, concentrate on fixing the rattling sport as a substitute of modders doing it. Issues aren’t trying good for the way forward for the Sims franchise.”
EA beforehand confirmed that Challenge Rene, which most followers are calling The Sims 5, can be free-to-play when it is finally launched.
We gave The Sims 4 a 7.5 in our unique evaluation, calling it “an excellent begin to what could finally be expanded into an ideal Sims sport.” Since then, it is obtained a notable variety of expansions and smaller patches, the latest of which have added vitiligo, sexual orientation, and pronoun choices for Sims.
Amelia Zollner is a contract author at IGN who loves all issues indie and Nintendo. Outdoors of IGN, they’ve contributed to websites like Polygon and Rock Paper Shotgun, and they’re at present creating a sport known as Garage Sale. Discover them on Twitter: @ameliazollner.