Well that debunks that then.

"Cinebar;c-15759571" wrote:
@Erpe, I'm going to disagree and bet you are wrong about changing the time etc. This game is built to nudge you into spending more money within those first four days. That is why it's structured that way. So a player would want to spend money on skipping sleep etc. before their Sim dies within that first four days and they get more accomplished. That's the way legacy works. Even in player made up legacy games you are given strict rules and this game takes it's influence from that...don't want to waste time sleeping? hurry along, hurry up time is running out....four days to get married/have kids and start that legacy...spend some money. It's a heavy micro-transactional game on purpose. There's no money profit if they ease up on all that.

You don't seem to have played f2p games before as far as I understand?

Anyway the idea in f2p games isn't to force us to choose between not playing or paying. I have played a lot of those games and even so I have never tried a game which couldn't be played unless I chose to pay. The reasons for this probably are:
1. It could be seen as false advertising to call a game "free" if it couldn't be played without paying.
2. They prefer to let us see all the ingame advertising even if we never buy anything.
3. As long as we still play the game there still is a chance that we will buy something anyway at some time.

So f2p games can always be played without paying and they don't ever want such a game to be so little user friendly that they lose us. But we should expect a lot of ingame advertising which also often is quite aggressive in such games. The trick therefore is to just ignore all that advertising and all those unnecessary but expensive offers which we get all the time while we are playing ;)