Just like that...In a matter of seconds, FreePlay will no longer be available in the Middle East & Egypt. While some of you players won't be affected, it goes to show how easy it is for you to lose all your investments in the game. DON'T SPEND YOUR HARD-EARNED MONEY ON A GAME THAT CAN VANISH AT ANY MOMENT!
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Be it Sims 2, Sims 3, Sims 4, the MMO's you play, any phone games you play, whatever Call of Duty is your favorite, etc.
One day the app will no longer be supported and not kept up to date with new phone OS's and you'll eventually lose your ability to play those games.
Or the game will no longer work on any computer you own.
Or the game will not be made playable on the next generation console.
Only spend money on a game (be it initial purchase or in game purchase or DLC) if you think you can your money's worth out of the purchase before you lose access to it due to technology becoming obsolete or countries changing laws (which is probably what happened with regards to the Middle East and Egypt) or whatever.
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Yes, it unfortunately does. At least I have all the previous updates
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Single-player, offline games will more than likely be playable forever, or at least a life-time. These are games better worth spending into, IMHO. Of course, when they add online elements, such as the Gallery from TS4, one should expect that to be a temporary feature that will disappear in years time.
Any game that requires a server to function will not last. And, again IMHO, they are not worth spending a dime on.
You can expect The Sims Mobile to follow suit in ~5-10 years.
Single player games have a longer lifespan that online multiplayer games. They are limited by the advance of computer/console technology. People currently have to jump through hoops to get even Sims 2 to work properly on Windows 7, much less Windows 8 or Windows 10. One day, the technology will advance so far that the game is unplayable on those newer OS's. And as the older technology fails, it will get harder to get replacements for it as fewer and fewer manufacturers exist and fewer working used models will be out there. And the same will happen with Sims 4 one day. And even Microsoft limited which games from the original Xbox that they made the Xbox 360 able to play.
So all games that require technology to play have a finite period of time before you will be unable to play them, even though you spent money on them.
To me a game, or any form of entertainment, is only worth buying if you can get your money's worth out of it before one of the following happens:
For me, I'll gamble with computer games as it's usually pretty easy to read if a game is about to be dropped (once a company moves onto the next big thing is when newer technology starts to threaten the ability to play a game and when it starts to beg the question of will the company pull the server down). Because 99% of the time with me, I get bored before I lose the ability to play a game. I can only think of two games where I lost the ability to play the game before I got bored playing it (and that's despite me never having beaten that game due to end game being horribly tuned difficulty wise) - Operation Weather Disaster and Math Blaster - The Search for Spot.
Mobile games have to have a free to play version and I have to get my money's worth out of it and still be enjoying it before I spend a penny on it. Too many stop getting updates or push way too heavily on players spending money to progress at a reasonable rate.
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sorry to anybody effected.
there still making stuff for it though
My point just is that we shouldn’t fear that the game will end very soon in other countries too just because of this and the big pregnancy update makes it much more likely that the Sims Freeplay still will be supported by EA for several years. (EA isn’t likely to stop TSF before the game isn’t played by many (paying) simmers anymore!)
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Being it's only in Egypt and the Middle East, I wonder if it's some sort of law that passed there that's responsible.
Fun must be always -- Tomas Hertl (San Jose Sharks hockey player)
Considering this is only certain regions, there probably is some law that is responsible for this.
Invest wisely and enjoy a game while you can I guess.
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EA_Mai
Simmers,
We’ve always been proud that our in-game experiences embrace values as broad and diverse as our incredible Sims community. This has been important to us, as we know it is to you.
In light of regional standards, starting 5th July, 2018, The Sims FreePlay will no longer be made available in the following storefronts:
China
Saudi Arabia
UAE
Oman
Kuwait
Qatar
Egypt
You can keep playing after this date if you already have The Sims FreePlay installed on your mobile device, but further updates or purchases will not be available. Since we won’t be updating, the game could stop working at a later date. If you delete the game or switch to a new device, the game won’t be available to download.
We appreciate your support. Please be sure to download the latest update today to keep creating your story.
Thanks for playing!
The Sims FreePlay Team
https://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-FreePlay/The-Sims-FreePlay-No-longer-available-in-certain-storefronts/td-p/6872227
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