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Will this game be totally free?
Ciarassims
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I am so excited but...
Will this new game be totally free (no in app paying) or will we be doing what we did in the sims freeplay where we constantly have to pay to do something? I hope it is not like that
Will this new game be totally free (no in app paying) or will we be doing what we did in the sims freeplay where we constantly have to pay to do something? I hope it is not like that
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But, from what the trailer shows, it would seem that there are two currencies in the game. Simoleons and some kind of dollar currency. If I had to guess, Simoleons can be obtained freely through jobs, whereas the dollars have to be purchased. Either way, both can be purchased.
As for whether or not it will function like Freeplay, nobody knows quite yet. I've always disliked the way Freeplay functioned, in that you were stuck on one speed, and had to pay to advance. Given EA's history, I would not be surprised if it were similar, so do not get your hopes up..
> It's a mobile game, of course it won't. Lovely knowing they'd rather focus on making money through microtransactions than care about the game they currently have going.
Well but thats what EA does best i guess :/ (Not to badmouth EA. At the end of the road they are a company and need to make money) I hope it wont be as bad as during the Sim City times, when they released the App and kinda stopped supporting the game with bugfixes and stuff.
> Well but thats what EA does best i guess :/ (Not to badmouth EA. At the end of the road they are a company and need to make money) I hope it wont be as bad as during the Sim City times, when they released the App and kinda stopped supporting the game with bugfixes and stuff.
I wouldn't even mind if they worked on this alongside TS4, but this looks like as close to a port as you could get, and I'm really not looking forward to the pc game being limited even more because they need to keep less powerful mobile devices in mind. /:
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> I wouldn't even mind if they worked on this alongside TS4, but this looks like as close to a port as you could get, and I'm really not looking forward to the pc game being limited even more because they need to keep less powerful mobile devices in mind. /:
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I'm with you on that one. Then again - maybe its going a totally different route. As far as I know there are two different teams working on those games. Which could mean that everything will work out really great in the end and we dont have to be scared for the pc game to be limited. Nowadays everthing is possible. :D
Only if you let them.
I pulled out my financial holy water and poured it onto my wallet so it can be protected from "The Sims Mobile" so it should be fine on my part.
This game gets you though. You are in the middle of a day of work, doing hard work and stressed the time will end, you are almosty done doing your tasks when suddenly your sim's energy ends. Then they tell you you have to pay for a magic cupcake that restores needs with real money, or lose all that progress. They give 1 cupcake for free, not even gonna lie, It was so frustrating the first time that I used my one cupcake to finish work. Didn't even care. Now I'd rather lose progress and be reminded I have the full TS4 to play.
Gotta agree. I’d certainly get the second one, because Freeplay sucked. Let’s hope it’s better this time!
I do not play this game anymore and have found out for myself. Please don't necro this old thread of mine from months ago - Thank you .
The guide on http://toucharcade.com/2018/03/06/the-sims-mobile-tips-cheats-hints-guide/ tells us how to play the game if we don’t want to use real money at all and all F2P games can be played this way. The reason is that EA gets paid some dollars from other companies every time their adds have been shown 1,000 times. So if only we watch add videos enough (maybe 3 times a day or more) then EA will likely get enough money to continue developing the game.
Beside that we will be offered extra content for extremely high prices. But buying that usually isn’t worth it unless you are so rich that the money just doesn’t matter to you.
Not sure what you are disagreeing with. There's always going to be premium content also. It can be played either way. However getting premium content will be far fewer. And I'm far from rich
The problem about premium content is that there always still are gamers who think that they have to buy everything and therefore either stop playing such a game or use so much money on it that it will cost them maybe even more than TS4 with all packs will ever cost. This is a clear misunderstanding because extra offers in free-to-play games are never necessary to buy. They usually only speed the game up a little or changes its look a little and for so high prices that only a tiny percent of the fans ever buy it.
In the Sims mobile the only thing that is important to buy for simscash seems to be extra slots in the house to expand the maximal number of inhabitants. But it also seems quite possible just to save that premium simscash up without having to buy it. So people should just do that and not spend it on other things before they are sure that they won’t need it for such an important thing.
Besides that my point was that most gamers don’t realize at all how much money the game companies get for showing us short add videos from other companies although almost everybody already knows that TV stations offen are financed completely by showing adds. Such advertisings get more money to both TV stations and game companies than most people ever dream about!