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7 years ago
If EA had wanted this then EA would have made PC versions of both the Sims Freeplay and the Sims Mobile too just like most other game companies most often do with their mobile games. Only EA hasn’t done it for the mobile Sims games and won’t do it either. Why not? Of course because EA doesn’t want any TS4 or TS3 simmers to switch to those F2P games!
The reason is also very clear because several investigations have shown that only about 2.2% of the gamers use real money on their F2P games. Those 2.2% are very important for the game companies though. But the income from showing adds in F2P games is at least as important. Still this can’t compete with the hundreds of dollars that TS4 simmers use on all their packs. So there are no chance that EA will switch to mobile F2P games also for PC simmers in the near future.
But the market for mobile games has exploded and grown much faster than the market for PC games and the market for console games in recent years. So EA was forced to also try to get Sims games into those markets too anyway!
The reason is also very clear because several investigations have shown that only about 2.2% of the gamers use real money on their F2P games. Those 2.2% are very important for the game companies though. But the income from showing adds in F2P games is at least as important. Still this can’t compete with the hundreds of dollars that TS4 simmers use on all their packs. So there are no chance that EA will switch to mobile F2P games also for PC simmers in the near future.
But the market for mobile games has exploded and grown much faster than the market for PC games and the market for console games in recent years. So EA was forced to also try to get Sims games into those markets too anyway!