I hope not. I hope they give us the chance to reward our sims with gifts from a store or,
when a Simmer wants to play out a story line from a time period that was before phones were invented.
Including them makes it difficult to play the game the way you want to play it. When they do things like that, they make it so it is no longer a sandbox kind of game, but a pre-determined linear questy type of game, which is completely NOT what a sims game is, at least from my perspective.