Real Time Kills this game

"Feedbackplease;c-15850271" wrote:

"dogboy678;d-917587" wrote:
I was so excited when I first saw the trailer for this game it give a simplified version of the sims 4 for mobile. I thought this was going to be a real sims game in app form. With the active careers and party's and cas it looked like a great time. But then you you realize that time will be drawn out for hours unless you pay money to skip it. This is just Freeplay with updated graphics. Although I did heat the time wouldn't be as long as freeplay it still plum that it's in real time at all. I wish they could have separated single player and multiplayer. I'll stick to sims 4.

I'm really disappointed with The Sims Mobile. I was really excited that it would act like The Sims 4. I only found out today that it uses real life time like The Sims Freeplay.

Alternatives to real time aren't very attractive because they are something like:
1. Only the first month and the lowest levels are free. After that it would likely cost something like $5 each month to still play the game.
2. The game could be an offline game and then maybe cost $10.

The point is that free-to-play games are always in real time with options about buying additional stuff and only get some of this extra stuff for free if we watch 30 sec adds instead. The game companies need to get money for their games one way or another ;)

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.

> @thebobfather said:
> 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.

Definitely a pre-stuff purchase to play without real time would be perfect.

"thebobfather;c-15923979" wrote:
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.

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.

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.

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 hate time

> @Erpe said:
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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:

"thebobfather;c-15933636" wrote:
> @Erpe said:
> thebobfather 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.

I don't think so. Fans prefer to play the PC game for mainly 2 reasons:
1. They like to play an a big screen and to use keyboard and mouse instead of a touch screen.
2. They like to buy 5 to 10 new expansions each year.

So even though EA attempted to make the mobile versions of the Sims 3 games similar to the PC version those game didn't sell very well. Therefore EA now only makes realtime free-to-play Sims games for mobile devices instead.

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.

No the Sims Mobile is very different from the Sims Freeplay:
1. The sims don't age in real time. Instead they age a day every day you open the game. So it doesn't matter how many times you open the game on the same day. Only if you open the game at all.
2. The sims need to sleep for an hour every time you have played them about 5 minutes. The game is fast paced. So you have to let your sim do a lot of things within those 5 minutes. But you usually only play with one sim at the time and only the active sim become so tired that he/she after 5 minutes need to sleep for an hour. So you can therefore play almost without breaks if you have a whole houseful of sims.
3. The sims will age up after only a few days. So they don't live very long and you therefore quite soon will have a big family tree.

The reason why I'm not into this type of real time sims game is because I don't consider it a sims game at all. When I play the sims games I play for the freedom the game gives, with how my sims look, what they wear, what they do, what I can do within the game, the mobile version takes all of that away with the real time and in app purchases. I can't customize my house the way I want to because chances are I need to buy some furniture with real money, or at least pay for sims cash with real money, or the only way to earn sims cash is to do tedious little things over a long period of time as opposed to just using a cheat to get whatever I want. Honestly it's all down to the real time and in app purchases that take all of the creative freedom away from a sims game, at least for me, I will probably try out the game when it comes out, but chances are I won't enjoy it the way I didn't enjoy free play.

Ive learnt to just not play mobile games, there not my cup of tea as they are so micro transaction heavy. Stick to the sims 4. thats what im going to do Unless EA do bring out a sims game for mobile that you pay one off for and own.

"Simsfan99111;c-16024186" wrote:
Ive learnt to just not play mobile games, there not my cup of tea as they are so micro transaction heavy. Stick to the sims 4. thats what im going to do Unless EA do bring out a sims game for mobile that you pay one off for and own.

EA did that for TS3 and released several such games (the Sims 3, the Sims 3 World Adventures, the Sims 3 Ambitions and the Sims Medieval). But they were all removed from the app stores a long time ago. I got them for my iPad. But they won't work with iOS 11 without an update that EA won't ever release.

So I strongly prefer the Sims Freeplay even though it is about as old. For it is free and also still gets all the necessary updates and much more :)

Sims games for mobile devices where you pay for the game only once have never been successful for EA. So EA doesn't make them anymore. Especially not because the Sims Freeplay became so huge a success :)