Well that debunks that then.

"BlackandWhiteBunny;c-16253052" wrote:

"Erpe;c-16244417" wrote:

"Chazzzy;c-16244272" wrote:
What’s the difference between this and Freeplay?

The Sims Mobile is a fast paced game where you only play a couple of sims living in one house but get a lot of events where you have to do a lot of things within 5 minutes. You follow your sims to work too.

But this hasn't been true for months now, events now last from 1 hour to 8 hours. You should at least try the latest version to not spread misinformation ;) It is definitely a different game from freeplay though, mostly about energy managing :)

I updated the game anyway. But even though I had an hour to finish a social event I still managed to finish it in about 3 minutes :)

I did that by doing a lot of actions which each took only 5 or 10 seconds. Then I had to do other actions or start other events and the game still seems to be intended to be played this ways for hours without any real breaks (except for watching adds to increase rewards). So I found it stressing and I almost certainly will stay with the Sims Freeplay instead. I will just give the Sims Mobile a very last chance when the official version is released though. But it doesn’t seem to be a game for me at all. I need a much slower game and I need a game where I can make longtime strategic plans instead of this fast paced guided gameplay where we mostly have to just follow orders (even though we most of the time have about 3 similar actions to choose between).

"BlackandWhiteBunny;c-16253052" wrote:

"Erpe;c-16244417" wrote:

"Chazzzy;c-16244272" wrote:
What’s the difference between this and Freeplay?

The Sims Mobile is a fast paced game where you only play a couple of sims living in one house but get a lot of events where you have to do a lot of things within 5 minutes. You follow your sims to work too.

But this hasn't been true for months now, events now last from 1 hour to 8 hours. You should at least try the latest version to not spread misinformation ;) It is definitely a different game from freeplay though, mostly about energy managing :)

I'm glad to hear this. I prefer the events that require more time to finish.

"simgirl1010;c-16255088" wrote:

"BlackandWhiteBunny;c-16253052" wrote:

"Erpe;c-16244417" wrote:

"Chazzzy;c-16244272" wrote:
What’s the difference between this and Freeplay?

The Sims Mobile is a fast paced game where you only play a couple of sims living in one house but get a lot of events where you have to do a lot of things within 5 minutes. You follow your sims to work too.

But this hasn't been true for months now, events now last from 1 hour to 8 hours. You should at least try the latest version to not spread misinformation ;) It is definitely a different game from freeplay though, mostly about energy managing :)

I'm glad to hear this. I prefer the events that require more time to finish.

I do too. But it doesn’t really matter when the events still are about making a huge number of actions which each only takes 5 or 10 seconds. The Sims Mobile is alas still a fast paced game where we even are guided so much that it is neither a strategic game nor a sandbox game at all.

I need to play the game more though to see if the longer events only are about letting us take some breaks from time to time like it seemed for the one hour event I tried but which still just was an event that easily could be solved in less than 5 minutes by doing a huge number of guided actions.

"Erpe;c-16255286" wrote:

I need to play the game more though to see if the longer events only are about letting us take some breaks from time to time like it seemed for the one hour event I tried but which still just was an event that easily could be solved in less than 5 minutes by doing a huge number of guided actions.

Exactly! The game is still quite early in development, and Maxis have been working very hard to make it the best it can be. Whether you just want to sit back and have a relaxing game, or go all-in on the leaderboards, there's got to be a well-rounded balance to make it enjoyable for everyone.

Besides, we can't have too much of what Sims 4 has to offer, because let's face it; we don't all use the same tablet/smartphone with the same specs.

I downloaded Freeplay but never played it after getting half way through the intro. I opened it up again months later to a gift of 2,000 simpoints Welcome back! for doing so! Made me a bit paranoid so I closed it again! I want to know how much it will cost me upfront when I play a game.

"Simburian;c-16361082" wrote:
I downloaded Freeplay but never played it after getting half way through the intro. I opened it up again months later to a gift of 2,000 simpoints Welcome back! for doing so! Made me a bit paranoid so I closed it again! I want to know how much it will cost me upfront when I play a game.

It will cost you nothing unless you choose to buy some of the extra stuff that we are offered all the time. EA wants you to play the game anyway and to choose to watch some of the 30 seconds videos which othe companies pay EA for showing there is a price of some dollars for every thousand times the videos are shown which the advertising companies have to pay to EA). So if you watch 3 short add videos a day in just a year then you have actually given EA about the same amount of money as if EA had sold Freeplay to you as a paid game :)

If you choose to buy everything that you are offered then Freeplay will cost you even much more than Sims 4. But I haven’t bought any of it and I am at the top level anyway :) So unless you don’t trust yourself to not pay $30 every time you are offered some new clothes or a new premade house for your sims the game is actually completely free for you to play!

There are quite much free clothes, free hair and free furniture in the game already. So I see no reason to buy something extra for the very high ingame prices. Therefore I just ignore all such offers :)