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You can download the game for free until May 28 and keep playing it forever.
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Five years after being released, The Sims 4 is getting a massive price cut: down from its regular price of $39.99, to the low, low price of free. Publisher Electronic Arts is offering up the base game for free on PC and Mac through its Origin platform until May 28. And the game isn’t a trial version. Players will be able to continue to play The Sims 4 forever as long as they grab it before May 28.
The standard edition of The Sims 4 doesn’t include the expansion packs or special digital content like Cats & Dogs, Get Famous, or Strangerville—but it does include free updates to the game, like the new career options, like freelancing, that was added to The Sims 4 in April.
To get The Sims 4 for free, you’ll have to download Origin from the platform’s website. The product page will then allow players to download The Sims 4 for free, or opt into the Digital Deluxe Edition for $50. The Sims 4: Digital Deluxe Edition includes a few extra customization options, like fun hats, party gear, and a digital soundtrack for the game.
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What you'll get is a marvelously open-ended experience that can be more or less anything you want it to be. You might play it a little like an RPG, raising your skills, getting promoted in your career and raising enough funds to build your dream house. You might use cheats and build your dream house right away: or your dream bar, gym, museum or whatever. You might design some sort of twisted world where you imprison family members in the basement to slave away at work-from-home jobs to furnish your increasingly lavish lifestyle. Maybe you just want to get something going with an alien! That's The Sims: it has structure, but you get out of it what you put into it.
Here's what I'll say, however. If you're anything like me--it has its plusses and minuses--this game will not be free for very long. If you're anything like me, you'll wind up spending money on the thing before you even turn it on. I mean, don't you want a bowling alley in your house? You can do it with the bowling stuff pack, which also comes with a bunch of charming mid-century style decor. Or maybe you want a hamster? Of course you want a hamster, and that will require the complete Pets pack. Or how about Tudor-style exteriors and a lovely dark wood dining room table? And are you really going to pass up the glass ceilings available with the Seasons expansions? None of this stuff is cheap. The Sims 4 is stacked with game packs, expansions and stuff packs from years of release, and it's all great. Loading up will cost some money, however.
Sure, you could just happily play the base game and be a normal, non-compulsive person. But there's just so much to be had in the ever-expanding world of bonus items. Frankly, it wouldn't be the worst decision to just make the base game permanently free-to-play and to make the money back both on expansions and permanent Sims converts.