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In a deal involving a company owned by Jared Kushner, a company that is basically just the Saudis, and $20B of debt.

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[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

At this point, I see pirating The Sims as a moral imperative. There’s no reason the full game should be ~$1500.

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago (6 children)
[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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.

collapsed inline mediaScreenshot of the Steam store page, showing the “Add All DLC to Cart” button with a total of $993.79. Most of the DLC is priced down anywhere from 30 to 50%.

[–] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 12 minutes ago* (last edited 10 minutes ago)

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.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

Oh yeah, they milked that shit as much as they could. Really ruined the franchise with their bullshit.

[–] Konraddo@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Don't forget how many years it went live and the absurd number of expansion packs.

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Nikls94@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

That’s over 100$ every year in dlc

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 1 points 4 hours ago

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.

[–] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

... And?
A shit ton of those couldve been free updates lol

[–] Konraddo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Well, their artists did make additional assets though, even if they may be recoloured versions.

[–] Retreaux@lemmy.world 2 points 47 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 points 46 minutes ago

underrated unicode character

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The franchise basically created the microtransaction.

As much flak as Oblivion got for horse armor, the Sims did it first.

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

I can't wait to never play either of those games. Thank Ahura Mazda for indie games.

[–] Leather@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I dunno man. Consider it aspiration! Pirate 1500 minimum in EA games.

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

I wouldn't even take that shit for free.

[–] Colonel_Panic_@eviltoast.org 2 points 1 hour ago

I downloaded every EA game ever made and I don't even want to play any of them. I have the files imprisoned on my computer, forever. Bwahahaha!

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 1 points 37 minutes ago

Yeah but we can also make a FOSS version of PlantsvsZombies & Sims