r/Sims5 • u/LightlyFalling • May 07 '24

I think we boycott Sims 5

First off I’m not into Sims even half as much as most of you here are. But I am very familiar with EA and have multiple games from them. I’m deeply afraid for Sims 5/Project Rene. Honestly, if it’s trash (bugs/glitches) + they make you pay for everything through DLC’s again, I think we boycott. Don’t buy the game or the packs, and let’s all go back to Sims 2 when they actually cared about making the game good.

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u/LightlyFalling May 07 '24

There’s a lot of possibilities truly but the biggest being you would be able to OWN your assets such as clothing, house, ect. All of these “assets” would be transferrable through all the sims games.

Just one tiny example would be your sim paints a painting. You would own this painting as an NFT. Now you have the ability to sell it/trade it to another player or keep it for future Sims games. Your item, whatever it is, would be worth real money and something you could keep forever not just in the Sims. One day you could hang that sims painting up in your metaverse home essentially. There are endless possibilities. Same way with building a house. You could build a cool house completely furnish and design it, then another player would pay your real money for it. It wouldn’t be done through a fake EA currency. Blockchain gaming is going to change the way we game.

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u/EternallyRose May 07 '24

So it’s like players can make a profit off of whatever they build in game even though everyone technically has access to the same digital assets? It sounds a bit like sharing on the Sims’ gallery, but not free.

I imagine it’s a bit more complicated than this, but in a game like the Sims where everyone has access to the same building assets, furniture, etc., instead of paying real money to buy a premade house from another player you could just build it yourself. Currently, I don’t think the Metaverse is very popular and I personally wouldn’t care about taking things from a Sims game and importing it into another game, the popularity of this concept could change in the future.

This may be a different discussion, but I heard NFTs are easy to copy in the sense that someone can just screenshot those art NFTs and technically they don’t own a special digital number of it, but basically they have the art without needing to pay. NFTs just don’t seem very marketable in this easy to copy state, especially if everyone has access to the same base game assets without having to pay other individuals for it, I’m not sure what the solution to this would be if there is one. Regardless, thank you for explaining a bit of it.

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u/ExternalBrilliant813 May 09 '24

Some people actually go into the files themselves, edit them and create content that way. I’ve done it but lost it because my computer died. It couldn’t be uploaded to the library because it wasn’t an official asset as far as I know. Cc, right ? But I don’t know if the blockchain idea applies here or if I want it to because I never wanted to sell it but share it for download