Total cost of all DLC and store content

[Bullet Sponge]

I ran the numbers. I went to the Sims 3 store and searched for "*" and got 3190 results. I took the average of the first 50 results and it came to 233.5 simpoints. A simpoint is worth 10 cents. So everything on the Sims 3 store costs approximately $74,486.50. As for DLC/the game itself, the total is $439.81. So grand total, you're looking at $74,926.31 to own everything the Sims 3 has to offer. Start saving those pennies!

[ZOMBIE 999 TP]

As any Sims 3 fan, i wish to have all Sims 3 expancions and stuff packs, but the price is just crazy... 550 euros.

[Sporky]

Oh so it's just 74 000 roughly. WHAT THE ♥♥♥♥! 74 thousand dollars. Granted, there's a lot of non-content in there (it's just skins basically). But what's funny is that in CS:GO if you were to buy all the skins there I'm sure it would reach a million dollars. Difference being, that is driven by market value where it's sold peer to peer. But how is that really better? In my opinion, it isn't. But I still have no problem spending €100 on a damn knife that doesn't do ♥♥♥♥. So VALVE isn't at all better. Still though, the arrogance of putting up ♥♥♥♥ on a store for over 70k is astounding to me. Back in the day, before the stores like this we got it all for free using modders. I get why EA wants to make bank but don't they care about their public image whatsoever?

[winter is here...]

Originally posted by chickenpeter10:

true EA is greedy,but some of the dlcs add alot of content,besides i wait for sales,as for simpoints content i just try to wait for free simpoints from the officle sims 3 site,oh and the big furniture dlcs(diesel or whatever its called) i never buy since its truly a waste no gameplay content is added

dont defend them

[-Fields-]

Originally posted by winter is coming:

Originally posted by chickenpeter10:

true EA is greedy,but some of the dlcs add alot of content,besides i wait for sales,as for simpoints content i just try to wait for free simpoints from the officle sims 3 site,oh and the big furniture dlcs(diesel or whatever its called) i never buy since its truly a waste no gameplay content is added

dont defend them

Thing is these days most games have extra content or store items, just look at the FREE to play games, they are full of these.

Look at your Iphone or tablet apps, they are all doing the same, THING IS PEOPLE BUY INTO IT.

IF anyone is to blame, blame the world for letting these companies get away with it and buy into these little extras.

[winter is here...]

Originally posted by -Fields-:

Originally posted by winter is coming:

dont defend them

Thing is these days most games have extra content or store items, just look at the FREE to play games, they are full of these.

Look at your Iphone or tablet apps, they are all doing the same, THING IS PEOPLE BUY INTO IT.

IF anyone is to blame, blame the world for letting these companies get away with it and buy into these little extras.

at least mobile dosent take game content and charge money for it

[Sporky]

Originally posted by -Fields-:

Originally posted by winter is coming:

dont defend them

Thing is these days most games have extra content or store items, just look at the FREE to play games, they are full of these.

Look at your Iphone or tablet apps, they are all doing the same, THING IS PEOPLE BUY INTO IT.

IF anyone is to blame, blame the world for letting these companies get away with it and buy into these little extras.

The problem with this is that these schemes are largely utilized by "whales" (costumers that buy extreme amounts, some could be considered obsessed), most people don't enjoy any of these or a very small amount. Most people actually vote with their dollars but the system stays the same because it's profitable. EA makes more money from less people, essentially. I think it makes economic sense to have a store filled with $74 000 fictional furniture that should in a real world cost about $60 bucks (the price of a full game) but since it's fictional it's impossible to put a real value on it.
That store is a shady business that makes me wonder sometimes if EA literally is satan in a hide-in-plain-view-disguise.

[tricksy_rabbit]

People. Get a grip. Again, a simpoint is NOT worth 10 cents and it never has been. 1,000 simpoints cost $10, meaning one simpoint is worth ONE cent. $74,486.50 is at least 10 times higher than anything that's even remotely realistic.

[Dutria]

you can just watch vids in the sims3 store to get simpoints you can make about 100+ simpoints a day so there are ways to get more stuff without paying a dime just a few min of your time

[Bullet Sponge]

Originally posted by tricksy_rabbit:

People. Get a grip. Again, a simpoint is NOT worth 10 cents and it never has been. 1,000 simpoints cost $10, meaning one simpoint is worth ONE cent. $74,486.50 is at least 10 times higher than anything that's even remotely realistic.

I think I know how I came up with the 10 cents per simpoint number. At the time I made that list, the only way you could buy simpoints was in bundles. see here:
https://www.flickr.com/gp/61787992@N00/8o22J2
I was probably going from the price of one of the bundles available at the time, and I remember chosing the one that gave you the least amount of simpoints but was the best deal.

If I did make a mistake, $7,400 isn't the best deal for a video game.

I made this post to point out the undeniable greed behind the Sims 3 store. There are currently 4355 DLC items available to purchase for The Sims 3.

[Sporky]

http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/178959.page here's a great post that is outdated but I doubt the price of everything in the store exceeds $2 000 after reading. Still, EA is a greedy company that exploits "whales" to make more money. That's what the store is.

[tricksy_rabbit]

Originally posted by Bullet Sponge:

I think I know how I came up with the 10 cents per simpoint number. At the time I made that list, the only way you could buy simpoints was in bundles. see here:
https://flic.kr/p/z2PMGg
I was probably going from the price of one of the bundles available at the time, and I remember chosing the one that gave you the least amount of simpoints but was the best deal.

If I did make a mistake, $7,400 isn't the best deal for a video game.

The link is private, but anyway Simpoints were always available in bundles and equal to a cent per point. In some more expensive bundles you get more points, making them less than a cent per point. I never said it was a good deal, but 10x the actual number is a pretty big miscalculation.

[Bullet Sponge]

I fixed the link. In the bundle I in the picture you got 100 simpoints and monte vista for $20. That's 5 cents per simpoint. You do get monte vista as well, but whatever I suck at math apparently.

I made a mistake with the calculations, yes, but it was an honest mistake and $7000 is still nothing to sneeze at.

[Breathe.. Calm Down]

Actually you are wrong. A SimPoint is one penny, so the cost of Store content is actually 7448 dollars. Even so, that number is pretty ridiculous. Plus the expansion pack and stuff pack money, as well as the cost of the base game. It would cost 744,000 SimPoints to buy every item in the Store, assuming your calculations were otherwise correct.

[Breathe.. Calm Down]

Sorry I didn't realize you had already addressed this.

[Raf]

I never logged in to the store and I feel like there's more than enough content if you buy the base game and a few expansions. If you really need 20 different kinds of tubs or something like that the store is there as an option. Seasons & Generations are necessary imo, late night Ambitions and University life are also great. The others are there if you really like that sort of stuff, buy Pets if you like pets and Showtime if you like Katy Perry etc.