Why is The Sims Team being generous all of a sudden?
We always witness something new from The Sims Team when it comes to content releases, rollouts and roadmaps. This time around the team announced the latest Sims 4 Royalty & Legacy Expansion Pack through the form of an exclusive Bundle.
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Titled “The Sims 4 Royalty & Legacy Grand Bundle“, this Bundle release doesn’t contain just the upcoming Expansion Pack. But also the regal Treasures Digital content and two Kits including Silver Screen Style and Tea Time Solarium.
The first time we got something new in the form of Expansion Pack releases was for The Sims 4 Cottage Living. The Sims Team incentivized players to get a new Expansion Pack release in a timed window of around a month after the EP’s release all to get an exclusive DLC set of 3 extra items.
This tradition later carried on with all the future Sims 4 Expansion Pack releases, now with Royalty & Legacy too with the Regal Treasures Digital Content. Including A Crown of Leaves and Sparkles, Enemies to Lovers Practice Dummy and Under the Stars Lantern.
What does this have to do with Key Reseller Websites?
The popularity of Sims players getting their Sims 4 Expansion Pack and other DLC releases from key reseller websites skyrocketed over the last few years. There are many reasons why some players opted in for buying from sites like G2A, Loaded (formerly CDKeys) and others. Primarily for the reason of very affordable prices, which match to official Sims 4 Sale offers and even lower at times.
There’s no clear information about if EA and Maxis get any profit when players purchase their games from websites like these. But I’m assuming the percentage cut is much bigger when players get their games through official sources like the EA App (where 100% of profit goes to EA), Playstation, Microsoft, Steam and Epic stores.
Some Sims creators (and even official gaming news outlets) have opted in for affiliate partnerships with these websites for a percentage cut for using an affiliate code. And my assumption is that EA doesn’t like that, nor the methods of how these key reseller websites obtain their code.
Current Disadvantages of Getting Sims 4 Codes from Key Resellers
Players who have chosen to get their Sims 4 DLC from these key reseller websites often report no incidents or faulty game code that they receive in their inbox. But there are some clear disantvantages for using these websites, and most of them were slowly but surely prioritized by EA:
- You can’t get access to Bonus Digital Content for new The Sims 4 Expansion Pack releases
- (Some websites like Loaded offer the Digital DLC key codes later for a price varying from $3USD to $15USD, depending on DLC content key availability)
- The Sims 4 Kits are not sold on most of Key Reseller website platforms
Maxis managed to make an official way of purchasing The Sims 4 Expansion Packs a bit more exciting digitally by providing players a bonus set of 3 items.
Publisher EA always had an upper hand at providing exclusivity with The Sims 4 Kits releases. By making sure they’re not being sold physically anywhere – removing any chance for a key reseller to get their hands on a Sims 4 Kit code. The Sims 4 Kits can still be obtained only exclusively through official platforms.
A recent great example of how EA made their Sims 4 release feel fully exclusive is with The Sims 4 Bikini Bottom Bundle. A double-Kit collaboration which offered extra three items for players who choose to get the new Sims 4 Kits digitally. All through approved sellers and platforms only!
The Bikini Bottom Bundle was not able to be purchased at a lower price on any of the key reseller websites. Making the “FOMO” an upper advantage in the newer release strategy of Sims 4 content…
How This Applies to The Latest Sims 4 Royalty & Legacy Bundle
The good news is that you can get The Sims 4 Royalty & Legacy Expansion Pack from unofficial key reseller websites for a good price!
The bad news? That’s all that you’re getting. For the first time in forever, EA is bundling two new Sims 4 Kits releases along with the expected exclusive Digital Content.
If players choose to purchase The Sims 4 Royalty & Legacy Grand Bundle for the same Expansion Pack price of $39.99USD (or a price equivalent to your local currency), players also get two Kit sets for free. Who wouldn’t want over 50 new items across CAS and Build for the same Expansion Pack price offer, right?
Needless to say that there will be some unofficial codes popping out on services such as G2A, but the price won’t be able to reach an exclusive offer as regular Expansion Pack listings without bonus content.
But, Some Platforms are Succeeding?
Platform Instant-Gaming seems to be offering the entire Bundle for 25% off for PC & Mac platforms. It’s not known how their resellers have been able to obtain the exclusive Kits Bundle for a lower price, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it all goes through properly for players who Pre-Order from there.
At first I was under impression that EA and Maxis were successful at preventing key resellers from getting the Bundle, but I stood corrected. This will only be proven as time goes by and key retailer websites confirm if they’ve stocked up on the Grand Bundle DLC codes.
If you want to throw a fresh tea party and dress up for the ocassion, the deal of getting Silver Screen Style and Tea Time Solarium looks tempting enough through official retail store channels. Especially if you play on platforms like Xbox and Playstation. But we’ll never judge a way the player plays their games – or gets them! 😉
There is currently no confirmation from The Sims Team and EA if the two Kits will become available individually after the March 15th, 2026 limited window. It would be a first of its kind scenario for a DLC release to disappear after two months!
Either way, there’s still major advantage for EA to sell extra exclusive Kits content and get more profit through official retail sources. But will they succeed in that?
These new attempts of releasing Sims 4 Expansion Packs and general Sims 4 content only spark imagination for what they might do next for their next evolution. What are your thoughts on the new Sims 4 Expansion Pack bundle offer and are you interested in new ways of content releases or keeping it the same? Join the comments down below and stay tuned for more Sims News and updates!
I learned and then started using Instant-Gaming and Cd Keys because of big streamers (ea partners at that) who depended on key sites to gift packs during fundraisers. I can only assume that if ea had an option to gift packs (like I believe origin did), I wouldn’t trust the non-ea partners who get sponsored by those sites. I can only assume it, but it really feels like they shot themselves on the foot without that feature.
I think thermarked asnew kits so i adume yes yoi can get the, seperatly
I think you need a new keyboard
as much as i think EA losing money is funny, these key reselling websites like G2A and their ilk are often involved in all kinds of cyber crime such as credit card cloning, identity theft, and leaking people’s personal info. these keys for products are often bought with stolen payment information or acquired with hacked accounts.
but hey, i’m just someone that goes by “milf hunter” on sims community dot info.
This yet these “influencers” on youtube constantly promote them. I have seen people lose their accounts over this.
There’s one lesson in life that’s true for everyone: if something is good to be true, then it is.
There’s a reason why these sites sell those games that cheap.
They’re creating FOMO. From a pure selling POV that’s a BRILLIANT idea. Basic psychology.
From PR POV it’s a horrible idea.
The last thing the Sims needs now is some psychological behavior of EA. Not with the highly critisized sale going on.
By the way, I personally think these KITs might be locked behind a 40 bucks for now but eventually, they wouldn’t want to miss out on scoring 10 bucks. But it probably will take a while before it comes available, maybe untill the pack is 50% off or so. But who knows really.
Anyways, it’s just a horrible, really horrible idea at this point.
I think it will just be until the bundle period is over. So March 16th they will release the kits and EP seperately.
As the whole point of early access is just that *early* access. They still want you to buy the dlc afterward you just don’t get the bonus content.
In this case instead of getting the content for $40 after March 15th you would have to pay $50 dollars for all of it.
Buying car’s and driving while in game mode should be added to the Sims. Add more simulation to the world of Sims even when they travel airplanes and boat trips they can have yacht parties
Yeah, based on the fact that these companies get the keys using shady and sometimes harmful practices, I’m not interested to begin with. I briefly used CD Keys, but then I learnt about people (allegedly) having their games blocked or being banned from games because the keys were (allegedly) purchased using stolen credit card numbers (allegedly) from bank/online shopping hacks that were then dumped on places for people to buy. Everything is allegedly, maybe that was misinformation from years ago, maybe they did do that but don’t do that anymore, I don’t know. But I know that there are enough people who have said that they have had issues with these kinds of websites (like being blocked/banned/given keys that don’t work with no refund/etc.) that I’m fine not giving my money to them. I don’t want to give my money to EA, either, but at least you get the product without the potential illegality or grey area that key reseller sites exist in, and the ways that could both affect you and your game, and other people (ie the people who have had their card or identity stolen). Not saying buy from EA right now, but definitely DO NOT BUY FROM KEY RESELLERS.
When I started seeing people promoting these places it really gave me a kind of disgusted feeling? Like don’t take money from potential criminals to promote something potentially criminal, and if they can’t tell you how the system works, it’s almost certainly not because it’s trade secrets, it’s because it’s illegal. Look into key reselling before promoting it, people, it’s really not that hard to look nor that deep of a dive.
In truth the reason they’re being so generous is because there was a major massive backlash and fall off after the game got sold to a Trump and a bunch of still active slavers and now they’re trying to bounce back after that catastrophic failure of an idea