EA Play and EA Play Pro members will receive an upgraded experience when member-only bundles of The Sims 4 go into The Play List on October 18. The post says the team will share more about this transition during its Behind The Sims Summit on October 18, so be sure to tune in to that if you're interested. 'With The Sims 4 going free to play, our team is more dedicated than ever to developing new and meaningful The Sims 4 experiences for our players and we will continue to develop and release packs, kits, and Sims Delivery Express drops into the foreseeable future,' the blog post reads. As for why, it seems the team simply wants the game to be available to anyone interested in it. That's also the same day The Sims 4 officially becomes a free-to-play game, meaning you can download the base game for free on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC then. This news comes from a new blog post released today that also reveals EA will hold a Behind The Sims Summit on October 18 at 10 a.m. That's valid up until October 17, so if for any reason you feel spurred to buy the base game, now's the time to do it.Publisher EA and developer Maxis are making The Sims 4 free-to-play starting next month. Those who've already given their cold hard cash away for the base game will receive the Desert Luxe Kit for free which is a nice touch, but if you already own that too then you won't be entitled to any additional goodies. The main moneymaker continues to lie in The Sims 4's countless expansion packs, but this is also the first time I can recall that EA has made any of its Sims games free while it was still current.

It's worth emphasising that it is just the base game that's becoming free-something that has pretty regularly gone on sale for around $5 to $10 for the last few years now and received a permanent price cut back in April. Hours before the official announcement word had already been going around-the game's Origin store page was already displaying a big ol' banner proclaiming 'The Sims 4 will be free to play starting October 18.' Instant Gaming (opens in new tab) also managed to get its hands on two screenshots advertising that the base game was free, which have been circulating on Twitter for most of the day.

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