The Sims 4 Marketplace Reactions: Have Your Say in Our Latest Community Poll!

well more things to hunt in the salty seas

I just think it’s funny that creators now sell their stuff instead of giving it away for free. I don’t think EA is the only scammer part here

this is not about the cc creators earning money (if it was they should be getting more than 30% – what an actual joke), its about sims trying to increase profits while doing less because no one is wanting to spend over $1500 on broken janky DLC. the sims has slowly but surely been ruined and this is just adding salt to the wound with the buy out just around the corner.

So you know fans don’t want this by an overwhelming majority and you’re doing it anyway? Wow. Okay. You’ll never see another dime from me because of this. Pack it up yall, The Sims 4 is dead.

I wish they’d given us more warning/lead-time. Now I have to scramble to decide which Kits I want the most, that I can afford to get by the 17th, and which I’ll just never end up having. Ugh.

Love how my comments were cropped out from YouTube. Let’s be honest. Microtransactions are the LAST thing anyone needs. I am a content creator and I feel very unhappy about this. The game has been unplayable for so many people. Quit pumping out new stuff and FIX THE BASE GAME CODE.

Can’t believe how EA found a way to milk the community’s money without even needing any devs to work on the game anymore, indefinitely.. and give creators 30% only for their own work…

“as a console player”

honk shooooo I’m so sick of console players and their whining about not having mods. It’s nobody’s fault but your own for buying a crappy port of a PC game for a last gen console and then complaining you can’t mod it.
Get a decent rig with all that money you throw at EA for garbage microtransactions. Sims 4 should never have been ported to console.

EA, you’ve taken our money for a long time, and you still can’t even make your game bug-free. Many bugs keep happening because of base game features, again and again for years.
Now you’ve created a system where you’re not only making money from players, but also from content creators. Why do I need to spend so much to complete the game with all these Expansions, Packs, and Kits and now even buy mods that used to be free?
You’re pushing a sharing community into a business model where everyone is expected to profit from it.

EA being bunch of greedy bastards, nothing new. I knew it was a matter of time, that they would try this. Why fix your broken-ahh game, when you can just slap some microtransactions on top of it and continue milking that cow. Y’know EA, this is why we keep losing faith in humanity. On top of horrible things happening right now, YOU strut in and enshittify our game, our outlet of escaping this hellish reality. I guess this is a good metaphor, that you cannot escape corporate evil.

My fellow modders and cc makers, I urge you, DO NOT JOIN THIS BS PROGRAM! IT’S NOT WORTH IT! I’d rather give away my cc for FREE, rather than becoming a slave to EA, and let them control my creativity, and then STEAL 70% of my earnings there. If you have a sliver of dignity and self worth, I expect you to not post your cc and mods there.

Have to say one thing: The best EA ever made, Kits, were destroyed by this nonsense! I’m quit! I geuss, I never again will spend my money. It’s your own fault, EA!

i think this is gonna flop tbh. i do respect the idea of compensating modders for their work, but most modders who want that already do it via early access patreon posts and such, and considering the negative reaction i imaging a lot of cc creators won’t even want to sign up if it’ll make them unpopular LMAO. not a fan of the idea, but i don’t think it’s gonna signal a new micro transaction driven future for the game.

From this point onwards, Sims is an acronym for:

Simulation
Inspired
Monetisation
System

The gag is no matter how much yall boycott ea and how strongly you against that market place, it wont harm their profit at all. If there is a supply, there will be demand. Market place will make money off of ignorant white “gamer” girls, who play on their boyfriends rigs and would gladly buy cute cottage-core outfits for female sims. Also console players, who got no other choice but to buy CC will make great money. Market place, that ea will imploment is not meant for a wide audience, but for a small percentage of people who will make big purchases all the time. This is the same way all those wack mobile games make money. They only need small group of people to buy their stuff constantly, and not a regular players who would make small, rare purchases. Im honestly so upset, i play this game since 2022 and haven’t even touched almost 70% of the content from DLCs i have bought. Was hoping i would set up my save gile and start exploring the game, but now got no interes in playing, seeing how the devs treat their players.

It’s comical how shameless and pathetic this all is. But also, I think most of the shame should go to the people who happily dish out money for this stuff. Or the creators willingly going along with letting EA sell their content and take most of the money. The ONLY reason it’s gotten this bad is because of all the super fans who will shell out all the money they can to collect everything, no matter how poor quality the packs are. I can’t wait for this franchise to end forever.

With everything else that is wrong about this that 30% is an absolute slap in the face to creators.

I just wish for Paralives to be a good replacement for the sims whem it releases this spring. So the sims can just crash and burn.

Content creators should get at the very least 75% of the revenue accumulated from the sale of their creations, any less is insulting

From a console player perspective, the first mention of being able to get CC through the marketplace was pretty exciting as it was something that I always wanted to have in my game. However, after learning about the poor cuts in revenue between Ea and Makers, the cost of the packs for the items you get and the introduction of yet another pay wall (moola) the marketplace does not look as favourable. Ive always loved the sims, but it’s not been the same for a while. The community is more divided than ever, Maxis is now overseen by heads in Ea and ultimately I think this has severely resulted in a change in the overall culture of what once was the sims. Prior to this, it was about nurtring and caring for your community, and now the sims have heavily adopted a financial mindset and a desire just to keep earning revenue. I do think this could of been done In a different way, such as maybe lowering the cost of moola, or not having it at all and offering content for free, or making the cut 85% for makers and 15% for Ea, seeming as they are putting in little to no effort. We will have to see how it pans out.

This is an awful decision and the 30% to the creators is a slap in the face when they can just do normal cc. You will lose more players with this.

I only play vanilla but I create and share with cc. Will I use marketplace…respectfully, no

The fact they thought it was a good idea to add one of the things most criticized from the sims 3 to TS4 is so laughable it’s astounding. I really hope the Sims gets bought by an actual decent company because this is ridiculous

I have an idea! What if you can create a kit pack where it’s all based off 2000s culture, MySpace, and actual emo/scene fashion?! That would be so awesome and amazing that’ll make me scream! AHHHHH!!!

Hey! I enjoy reading about the community reaction to Sims announcements and releases. It’s a great indicator of the strongest feelings in the fanbase. I hope you post more about these, like the current lofi promo. It’s a shame to see the lack of awareness to people’s needs at the moment.