So glad I pirate Sims 4 instead of paying.
Any games that have 20 DLC packs that end up totalling $200-300 can eat my shit and hair. I am absolutely pirating it.
From what I could find out online, as of September 2023 The Sims 4 with all DLC costs $1124.29 USD
HOLY SHIT
Yo wtf, that's got to be more than 3, and here I thought 3 was absurd with the stuff packs and Katy Perry tie-ins
I don't want to suck paradox off as some of the dlc are completely ridiculous but the major expansions usually represent years of support and are mostly marketed at people who have played hundreds of hours.
Like EU4 came out 10 years ago and still gets major updates. If you're not playing in China you don't need or want the mandate of heaven. You buy it when you've played without it, or if you are experienced and want full complexity in a new area.
Skip the nonsense unit portraits and music and other scummy dlc but.
lol "just"? It's been out for three months. As far as I've heard it sucks. You literally get a loading screen to visit another apartment in the same building.
The Sims 2 Apartment Life did that shit right 16 years ago. How tf did they get so much worse at making the same game with the same DLCs over and over?
And from what we know about The Sims 5, it's going to suck even harder. When they were making TS4, it was originally going to be an online multiplayer only game where you played as a single sim. They pivoted after the Sim City catastrophe, but it looks like for TS5 they're going to try again. People are much more used to [James Stephanie Sterling voice] "live services" so they'll probably get away with it this time.
Can you invite your landlord over to use the pool and remove the ladder? Because if so pretty based
the game is more than $1000 for the whole thing if you pay for it
i also pirated it, but i am enjoying this dlc just because i want to make mini-towns and have everyone live around each other cos close-knit community is nice
and something i dont get to experience in real lifethere's a sim4 downloader you can get off cs.rin.ru that just downloads updates and dlc for you! it's great.
It's actually kind of accidentally subversive due to being so broken and buggy:
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Being a landlord is basically a full time job due to the amount of work (tasks and events) you actually have to do.
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Most tenants either rarely or never have to actually pay the rent due to bugs.
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It's basically impossible to collect fines for breach of tenancy agreement.
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Even if the landlord is basically perfect the tenants just protest them anyway (because of the way event probabilities are scripted, but I like to think it's because it's still inherently unjust to be a parasite landlord)
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Even in the case of 'justified evictions' or even tenants just deciding to move out, a bug causes the landlord to have to pay them a penalty legal fee anyway for the disruption caused to their life.
And yes, my Sims is also
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"My Sim just raided tenant A's fridge then took a shit in tenant B's apartment, so realistic!"
I didn't like 4 on it's launch and pirated it, fuck EA
Just download the extreme violence mod so that you can Chairman Mao your landlord.
Sims 3 no DLC (because it runs like shit anyway) gang rise up
I have so much nostalgia for 1, I love games that use simple polygons and prerendered objects, takes me right back to 2001
My heavy nostalgia is for 3 and the customizations available in the Create interface to change all your furniture and decorations to be whatever crazy colors and textures you wanted. I genuinely could never get tired of it, and I had to just remove it from my computer and firmly resist temptation to reinstall it to keep myself out of it.
Who cares about cleaning and decorating my actual home?! Sims 3 is so much more fun
