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sims 3 was actually an experiment to see how much a game company could get away with as long as no one was paying attention because it wasn’t a ‘real’ game and therefore could not possibly have wider implications for games at large

here’s an article from 2009 that’s literally about how sims 3 was EA testing the hypothesis that if they turned their games into storefronts for microtransactions they could turn a huge profit even when their games were heavily pirated