Fans fear for Sims 5 – Are microtransactions and marketplace coming?

EA has revealed a job posting that provides thrilling hints in regards to the upcoming a part of The Sims.

The event of Sims 5 aka “Challenge Rene” is in full swing. Playtests are already going down behind the scenes, the place the builders at Maxis are gathering vital suggestions from gamers. 

Now, for a short while, EA posted a job advert in search of a “Head of Market & Monetization“. In it, there have been some hints as to how the brand new Sims spin-off may fund itself.

Free2Play, however microtransactions as a substitute?

In (said job offer) amongst different issues, they have been in search of somebody who can be liable for an in-game market. On this market, content material from EA and gamers shall be provided – each totally free and for a charge.

Additional, the Sims 5 advert talks about “free-to-enter”. The “Head of Market & Monetization” ought to subsequently control the provided content material and its costs. The demand of the gamers must be lined by the content material inside the “market”.

It seems like Sims 5 – identical to Sims 4 within the meantime – shall be a Free2Play recreation, which shall be financed by in-game purchases. There isn’t a official information but and the job commercial has already been taken offline once more.

Players worry the dying of the Sims

Followers of the life simulation video games now worry that Sims 5 heralds the dying of the sequence. They really feel that microtransactions and a full on-line market would harm the sport

As a result of the upcoming half may also be playable on smartphones, followers worry the same mannequin to different cellular video games.

Amongst different issues, they already see time-based, paid occasions, goodies or content material that preserve popping up on their display. The concept will not be unrealistic, because the job posting additionally talked about options, occasions and content material in collaboration with different product and franchise groups.

With all of this, The Sims would doubtless transfer away from the growth packs which have been frequent till now and supply content material solely within the market. Ought to this come to cross, quite a lot of gamers have already voiced that they are going to now not be taking part in the most recent installment.

Nevertheless, all this isn’t set in stone but, as the event of Challenge Rene is just about initially and possibly nonetheless wants just a few years of improvement time, as (EA itself reported) has.