Is EA preparing a new form of subscription services for The Sims 4?
We discovered today upon the official announcement of The Sims 4 Royalty & Legacy Expansion Pack that there’s going to be a Bundle along with the Expansion Pack release. The website doesn’t mention anything useful on the frontend as it lands to a “404” page and reveals the new Bundle name.
The Sims 4 Royalty & Legacy URL redirects to a "Grand Bundle" page 👀 What do you think this Expansion Pack is getting paired with? pic.twitter.com/hLnwzKRWZ7
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We then received an email from one of our readers about new information discovered in the backend. Specifically mentioning several official EA pages with a “Collector’s Pass”. There’s also an instance that mentions “taking a spin” with one of the Packs. No idea what’s EA and Maxis preparing with this one for The Sims 4, but you can take a guess from the URL instances and descriptions mentioned below:
I have found multiple references to a “The Sims 4 – Collector’s Pass” which i believe has not been mentioned as of yet? I think it seems to be some sort of subscription service. All of these mentions are loaded internally on EA’s website, either by accessing backend APIs (which they accidentally return these).
Usually EA would obfuscate this, but loading the Grand Bundle page you showed us on the website returns many references. I have sent a screenshot with the references together with the e-mail 🙂
It even mentions an EA Help article that 404’s as of now, linked at “https://help.ea.com/articles/the-sims/the-sims-4/managing-collectors-pass-membership/“
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“key: “CANCEL_MEMBERSHIP_FEEDBACK_TS4_SUBSCRIPTION_TEXT_URL”,
“value: https://help.ea.com/articles/the-sims/the-sims-4/managing-collectors-pass-membership/”
“key”: “CANCEL_MEMBERSHIP_META_TITLE”,
“value”: “Cancel The Sims 4 Collector’s Pass – Electronic Arts”
“key: “CANCEL_MEMBERSHIP_TEXT_BODY”,
“value”: “Before you go, how about taking your membership for a last spin with one of these Packs?”
I’m following up with this extra information, which says the following:
“key”: “CANCEL_MEMBERSHIP_CONFIRMATION_MODAL_BODY”,
“value”: “Your Sims 4 Subscription is now canceled, but you’ll have full access to your games until your billing period ends on {subscriptionEndDate}. Keep an eye out for a confirmation email.\n\nIf you change your mind, rejoining is super easy — and all of your games and play progression will be right here waiting for you. \n”
This is a key for showing up on the website that EA’s server is returning. It does cite “Sims 4 Subscription”. I don’t think The Sims 4 has a subscription model outside of EA Play, but EA Play is usually reserved outside of the entire part of Sims 4’s section on the server response. I do believe they’re announcing a Sims 4 Subscription service soon. Not sure how it might work, the file doesn’t seem to cite much more apart from this lol but i will contact again in case i find something else.
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It’s currently not known when The Sims 4 Collector’s Pass will become available publicly, and even if it will become available to the players. We know by the tone of the official Sims Franchise Roadmap that the team is continued to delivering single player experiences, but no words about subscriptions for them as of now.
If this aspect turns to realization it’s expected that players can access the entire Sims 4 Catalogue of DLCs using a Collector’s Pass subscription. That’s all based on the URL code discovery above and doesn’t contain any other confirmations as of now.
We’ll make sure to keep you posted once we know more!
What are your thoughts on the new URL mentions of a Sims 4 Subscription service and “Collector’s Pass”? Let us know in the comments below and stay tuned for all Sims 4 News and Updates on Sims Community!
because people obviously LOVE Stellaris’ business model of “releasing DLC out of the wazoo and then making a subscription service for it”…
Mhm. Well, bye, The Sims 4. What a greed.
bye
And here is your next Sims 4.5 game, another subscription model. Just wonderful.
I will keep buying my DLC ,i take not the Collectors Pass to rent DLC ,thats not working for me.
Lmao. What a total sh!tshow EA has become. Probably one of the worst game companies out there.
disgusting if they launch this. killing the sims one day at a time
I can’t stop myself from smiling rn. I did not see this coming, but I also could not be less surprised?? Just… sounds about right.
eh, not the first game to do this and won’t be the last. i don’t like subscription services on principle, but i don’t think it’ll kill the game considering our current options are to pay thousands for dlc or turn to plundering the high seas.
yeah well I would rather not get sued or arrested. My cancer having self is already dying, last thing I need is to burden my family more just because I wanted to keep playing the only thing I am fighting to stay alive for.
If it becomes a subscription service, I will never ever play another Sims game. In 2004, I had a mental breakdown and tried to end my life. My therapist actually ordered me to play the Sims as part of my therapy. I have played nearly every single day since then. May as well write my goodbye letters. There is no point anymore.
…huh? I hope you’re doing well now, and as much as it is your right, saying this publicly out of the blue doesn’t sound like a good idea.
What people already own is theirs. It won’t take away your copies of the previous games nor of the ts4 content you already own. You can still enjoy those.
If you’re trolling, gg. I can’t even tell anymore