@PaQuilter1 Holy smokes. 5 days???
[Disclaimer: I swear I'm not bashing EA or the site. I love The Sims Mobile, and the admin here has been really fantastic. Below are my rational opinions.]
The first couple weeks I played, everything was relatively "affordable." And while wait-times were annoying, they were at least reasonable.
Now, at level 28, I can't buy a single new thing in the whole game that's not over 1,000 Simoleans. Waiting 5 days on land expansion? I believe EA is making a huge gamble on players' patience.
There's a sweet spot with wait-times: long enough to tempt a player to pay for a rush, but short enough to ensure the player sticks around if she chooses not to pay. If you overshoot that sweet spot, you lose players, which means you lose potential profits.
I've spent far more real-life $ on the game than I'm comfortable with, but facing the new game inflation, I've folded up wallet. I'd rather wait the 5 days and sadly drift away from playing rather than pay for a rush and find myself right back where I started—too broke to do anything with the land I just cleared.
