That's essentially how Sims players already view the current Sims 4 base game and its fundamental DLCs like Seasons and Pets though-tomato, tomahto. It could also imply that EA plans to offer a free pared-down version of the base game but sell the complete version. Though that change was made after nine years, it's not a big leap to imagine The Sims 5 starting out free to download and relying on EA's consistent schedule of DLC for revenue. The Sims 4 base game has been free since last year. Neither of those details are too surprising.

The base game will likely be free to own, meaning continued reliance on DLC like expansions, game packs, and kits. published 6 September 2021 If you own the Spa Day DLC that is (Image credit: EA) EA has confirmed that the Spa Day content pack for The Sims 4 is getting a large update to provide new.

Two of the role's primary responsibilities were listed as 'Own Project Rene's in-game marketplace of content and UGC (free and paid)' and also 'Own pricing of all content in this free-to-enter game.' From those two bullets, we can draw a couple of reasonable conclusions for The Sims 5: The Head of Marketplace and Monetization job posting has since been pulled from EA's job portal but was specific to the next major Sims game, currently codenamed Project Rene.