EA confirms The Sims 5 will be free-to-play and co-exist alongside The Sims 4

That doesn’t match with what I know; they make lots of individual expansion bundles, each with a fair amount of content.

The metric of “How to buy EVERY scrap of content for the game” is generally disingenuous, since most of its expansions are best enjoyed on their own, and you’d likely get tired of them after a few unless you really enjoy The Sims.

But, cash shop will open in one..