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EA Says ‘The Sims 4’ Added 15 Million Players in 2024, ‘Madden’ and ‘College Football’ to Cross $1 Billion in Sales by Next Spring (variety.com)
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[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Didn't they give away the sims 4 for free starting in 2023?

It's no surprise that anyone who even had a remote interest in the sims might pick it up if you're giving it away. How many of those users went on to buy their stupidly overpriced DLC? That's what they really care about.

[–] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

It's so dumb because it would be so easy for them to use a business model people don't hate since it's a genuinely good game but they just won't. If they charged like $20 for the base game and maybe like $5 each for the DLCs I would probably buy the game and a few DLCs, but all the DLCs are so expensive that my options are either play the base game for free or pirate all the DLC for free, so either way EA gets no money out of someone who would otherwise have been a paying customer

[–] Linktank@lemmy.today 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Sports games are and have always been incredibly tame and boring.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Linktank@lemmy.today 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Upvote for a decent example. I didn't know a modern version of this existed. The super old one is one of the few examples of a daring sports game I could think of.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah it is a blast splitscreen and I could care less about (american) football honestly, it is just good arcade fun.

[–] shani66@ani.social 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I seem to remember some games from before the 2000s being really wild. Like, i remember playing this one street basketball game where you could just attack the other team.

[–] Linktank@lemmy.today 5 points 3 weeks ago

You're right, back in the 80s and 90s some devs actually had the balls to make interesting sports games.

20+ years of enshittification has caused me to overlook them.