I have been hearing a lot about the sims free play and wonder what this is about. So I tried it today. Omg what a ripoff! To complete any task you need to spend life points which cost so much real money! I don't fancy waiting for real 25 min to play the RC boat! £79.99 for 3500 life points, meaning you spend £79.99 to be able to perform 3500 task! I am so grateful I play sims 4!
I am wondering if anyone here also play this ? Do you pay real money ?! I am shocked . Now I feel ts4 is cheap !
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The vast majority of app games are, though. Either pay to play or wait to play.
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I play it like...very casually since everything takes a ton of hours to do.
I have now done all the challenges, so that I have auto-aging in the game and I'm just planning to keep that rolling until all my sims are dead. I'm also not going to pay for any content anymore.
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I play it, but haven't played in months. But yes, the real time thing & having to pay money is a bummer. What I do, is when I sleep my Sims sleep. When I go to work, my Sims are working. So, the real time doesn't bother me as much as long you have a strategy. & then with the lifetime points, find a friend with a pet farm. Visit them, and stay there for a few hours & collect money & LP. I've spent very little money ($15) & have played months. It takes tons of patience to build everything up. I think I'm on level 36.
Almost every mobile game has the real time waiting unless you pay money thing; it's the nature of free to play apps
It makes me wish that more people would develop actual mobile games where you pay once to buy it and then have the game to play.
For example: Sim City BuildIt. It's free, it actually looks great, and at first it was fun! But after a while it just became the same stuff over and over again, waiting for materials to process and then upgrading a building. There's options to use real money to speed up this process and to buy special buildings to put in your town. I ended up deleting it because it became boring and tedious. I would much rather pay like maybe $10 for an actual Sim City game that lets you have free reign and progress like the PC versions do. Obviously it would be dumbed down a little for mobile, but still, I would rather pay a few dollars for a full game I can play how I want than download a free game that's just a hollow scam to get you to throw money into it.
It's nothing to replace a real Sims game though. And mostly, every time I play it, it just makes me wish I had all of the stuff in it for my TS4 sims, like TODDLERS, and babies that aren't attached to their cribs, and cars, horses, pets, and a lot of other really cute stuff that we don't have.
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Also, I haven't sunk much money into the game at all. Before I stopped playing for a while I was big on following this to get LPs without spending money: https://thegirlwhogames.wordpress.com/2015/01/14/the-sims-freeplay-how-do-i-have-so-many-lps/ (idk if they've nerfed it or not by now but it worked well last time I played)
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I mean...can you really just play it for fun?
It looks so cute in the trailers but when I used to play it (long ago when it 1st came out), I can't even remember being able to zoom-in on my sims that closely? I remember it always being a pretty great distance and looking down on them?
Hum...not really I guess. It's just goal based. You could do stuff but because it's in real time it's impossible to be played like a sims game.
Yea, that's kinda what I thought so...I can't see the appeal?
All I know is if TS4 had the same things going on as Freeplay, I'd be an extremely happy simmer it really has a lot of good ideas going on. I don't know how the game industry works but I sure do wish the people working on that were working on TS4 & pushing for similar things.