
By 2022, The Sims 4 had 12 paid expansion packs, costing around $19.99 each.Īside from Expansion Packs, you can buy Game Packs and Stuff Packs from the in-game lobby. And even though the game came out in 2014, Maxis continued to release free patches and paid DLCs for the game. Priced at $19.99, The Sims 4 became a massive hit for EA, raking in billions of dollars from its millions of players. It will also have no cost on the PlayStation 4/5, as well as Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S.ĮA is following in the footsteps of Activision's Call of Duty: Warzone, released as free-to-play in 2020, and PUBG: Battlegrounds, which transitioned to the free-to-play model in January 2022. Starting that date, players can download the game via the EA App, Origin, or Steam.

In a surprise post on The Sims 4 news page, EA announced that the game is transitioning to a free-to-play model on October 18, 2022.
