Real Time Kills this game

"thebobfather;c-15933636" wrote:
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> I agree, the realtime feature is the one reason why, I continue to play The Sims on PC and not on mobile. If EA were to remove this feature by allow the player to pay a one-off charge like $2.99 and additional charge pre-stuff pack created, I was shift toward The Sims Mobile more.
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> The Sims Mobile is a realtime multiplayer online game. If it shouldn't be realtime then it would mostly have to be singleplayer instead. But if it were singleplayer (and offline) then the price would be many times higher than just $2.99. Also the game wouldn't receive any free updates. Yes, EA could have made it into an offline $29.99 singleplayer game instead. But EA didn't because experience has shown that such games don't sell very well for mobile devices.
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> The game needs to be online because otherwise EA couldn't offer us paid ingame stuff to buy and thus would have to let us pay for the whole game instead.
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> Realtime makes the game a little boring in the beginning where you only has one sim that needs long sleeps. But on higher levels you will get more sims and can therefore just switch between them :)


I agree with what you mentioned.

My problem is the real-time element that all games are moving towards on the mobile platform, yes it proven that it in-app purchases are very strong on mobile devices. But the fans keep asking EA produce The Sims game that is true and original to the game found on the PC or Mac.

Could EA give the fans the same experience as found on the PC version of The Sims and put it on a mobile device. Is this one of the reason why fans continue to play the game on PC and reject the idea of using the mobile version.

Are fans who use The Sims Mobile getting the same experience they already have on Free Play, which in fact has developed over the years and become a very fun game to play.

I love playing The Sims 3 on the mobile which cost $6.99, and I even brought some in-app content, could we use platform method this instead where to get for example.

Party Pack Stuff - for $4.99

and keep release more and more stuff.

These are all suggestions. :smile:

I play the PC version and just started playing Sims Mobile when it became available in the US. To me they're very different games; the mobile version is very much accomplishment based - you level up based on how much you accomplish. There's really no leveling per se in the PC or console versions -- it's more about earning Simoleons and improving your Sim's life (moving to a bigger house, buying stuff, going on vacation etc.). It's very much like Sims Freeplay but with way better graphics. So I can easily see myself playing both; PC when I want that sandbox experience and I'm at home, Mobile when I'm out and about like at the doctor's office or waiting in the car for my husband, or if he's on the computer and I feel like going into the game for a bit.

I don't see a full PC experience coming to mobile -- for one thing, there is no way to install mods or CC on mobile and that's one of the key features of the PC game; the ability to customize the game to suIt your own gameplay. I think EA/Maxis recognized that so they provided the framework for installing mods (resource.cfg file), so while they don't officially support mods, at least they make them easier to install. Also, I'm not sure if current mobile technology (processor and graphics) can handle a full PC (or console) sandbox experience.