EA has printed a job posting that provides thrilling hints in regards to the upcoming a part of The Sims.
The event of Sims 5 aka “Venture Rene” is in full swing. Playtests are already happening behind the scenes, the place the builders at Maxis are amassing vital suggestions from gamers.
Now, for a short while, EA posted a job advert searching for a “Head of Market & Monetization“. In it, there have been some hints as to how the brand new Sims spin-off would possibly fund itself.
Free2Play, however microtransactions as a substitute?
In (said job offer) amongst different issues, they have been searching for somebody who could be chargeable for an in-game market. On this market, content material from EA and gamers will likely be supplied – each totally free and for a charge.
Additional, the Sims 5 advert talks about “free-to-enter”. The “Head of Market & Monetization” ought to due to this fact control the supplied content material and its costs. The demand of the gamers needs to be lined by the content material throughout the “market”.
It seems like Sims 5 – similar to Sims 4 within the meantime – will likely be a Free2Play sport, which will likely be financed by in-game purchases. There isn’t a official information but and the job commercial has already been taken offline once more.
Avid gamers worry the demise of the Sims
Followers of the life simulation video games now worry that Sims 5 heralds the demise 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 can even be playable on smartphones, followers worry an identical mannequin to different cellular video games.
Amongst different issues, they already see time-based, paid occasions, goodies or content material that hold popping up on their display screen. The concept is just not 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 probably transfer away from the growth packs which were widespread till now and supply content material solely within the market. Ought to this come to move, plenty of gamers have already voiced that they’ll not be taking part in the newest installment.
Nonetheless, all this isn’t set in stone but, as the event of Venture Rene is just about at the start and doubtless nonetheless wants a number of years of improvement time, as (EA itself reported) has.
