How much would it cost in real money (USD) to buy everything?!

^ Good observation.

I really want to get all the premium content that I can get but I am unsure what is the best solution to get them all (I dont really care much for the little things like the bench, trash, trees, flower pots, etc. I want the buildings and characters mostly, though the Springfield sign would be very nice for my town!)

Someone figured out the cost here.
http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/9052512.page#25468879

This doesn't include the new items like the bumble bee man, news van, and such.

sonny1618 wrote:

mitsuhoney wrote:
^ Good observation.

I really want to get all the premium content that I can get but I am unsure what is the best solution to get them all (I dont really care much for the little things like the bench, trash, trees, flower pots, etc. I want the buildings and characters mostly, though the Springfield sign would be very nice for my town!)

The best investments are the premium characters (SVT, Moleman, Kearney, Bumblebee), Otto and the Bus and Frink and his lab. Aztec Theatre, the Observatory and Lard Lad give you more tasks for characters too as well as earning money.

Why not split the difference, get a truckload and choose a couple that you'd really like? It'll give you some satisfaction while increasing your income and making your town look a little cooler and not break the bank too hard.

Thanks for the reply. No offense, but I don't pay real money for these types of games.
I'd rather "earn" them by clicking on videos or FB links.

Freemium game. I get it you don't want to spend money. Free. You are whining about not getting prelmum items (b*tchung is also now banned). Mium. Put both together FREE and MIUM. This is a man made word for a reason.

joshhuffman wrote:
Freemium game. I get it you don't want to spend money. Free. You are whining about not getting prelmum items (b*tchung is also now banned). Mium. Put both together FREE and MIUM. This is a man made word for a reason.

Umm, show me where I am whining.

sonny1618 wrote:

spoonmanx wrote:
No offense, but I don't pay real money for these types of games.

Fair enough. If you don't mind me asking, what type of games do you pay money for and what makes them different from this one and worthy of your cash?

I have been a gamer since the 70's and like to spend money on physical boxed games (currently for the Wii, 3DS, and PS3).

I'm just not a huge fan of how you really never own digital content. For example, with PlayStation 3 digital games, Sony gives you no promises that these purchased games will work when they move onto the PS4. It feels more like a lease to me and that's fine for some people, but it's just not for me.

I like to play older games sometimes and I also like to have a box to display on my shelf, but I also understand that not everyone cares about that stuff and that's fine too.

I did the math a few days ago, with bumblebee man and the news van and all the premium Halloween items. So buying every item once and not speeding up tasks, the total number of donuts is 1842. So you can do it if you buy the boatload of donuts for $100. And that is why spending money on buying a console game is different than spending money in these games. Console games are endless worlds that you can get for $10-$20, usually an absolute max of $40 if it's brand new and has a lot of hype. But you pay once for more content instead of having to pay at least $100 for all the content... Or much much more if you only spend $5-$20 at a time, or if or if you speed up tasks or buy more than one picket fence or apple tree...

That said I've almost completely hung up my console games and have my iPod touch permanently attached to my hand playing these freemium games... :roll: Lulz

Edit: damn autocorrect. Tapped out doesn't have any apes and has no relation to grammatical terms.

sonny1618 wrote:
All games are digital. That's how they work.
Paying money for a box seems slightly weird, but I guess I get what you're saying.

All games will always work on the device you purchased them to play on too, so the obsolescence thing doesn't really pan out. You don't have to get the latest and greatest device and the game makers are under no obligation to support every game they've made for every new gadget in the future. My old NES cartridges never worked in my SNES.

Well I don't really agree with "All games will always work on the device you purchased them to play on" comment.
This is especially true if iOS games that demand you to be connected to a company server. These servers almost always have an expiration date, and the game will no longer work after that point.

There are digital games (and by "Digital" I mean games you download from a particular service) on the PS3 that require you to have a constant connection to PSN in order to play or else it won't even start. Just as Microsoft shut down Xbox live support for the original Xbox a few years ago, I expect the same for current conses at some point... It may be 2 years, it may be 5 or more, but it's inevitable.

There are other benefits a to owning a physical game for the consumer, but I don't want to get into all of that.
Let's just say its nice to have the ability to let my brother borrow a game or trade it in towards another game (though I always keep every game I buy).

I am also into the collecting side of gaming as some are into collecting comics, stamps, or whatever.
I have about 8,000 boxed games and just about every American console, so I may not be their typical consumer. :P

There are some perks to having old boxed games too. I have some games that have gone up in value from a few dollars to a few hundred dollars.

I have spent money on this game, and probably will spend more in the future. Is it cheap? No, but for me this is entertainment, and this game has been entertaining me for a couple of months already. I play it everyday.
Go to a movie, a concert, a play. You will have to pay to be entertained. And if it sucks, your money is gone. With this game you decide to pay after you know what it is. You don't like the game? Delete it from your device. You like it, but don't want to spend money? Go ahead, no problem. But then stop complaining about the cost of donuts. Buy donuts in the real world, eat them, enjoy them. I'm having a donut while playing this game.
Mmmmmmmm, donut.

Jameh20 wrote:

spoonmanx wrote:

I'm just not a huge fan of how you really never own digital content.

Then why the hell did you make this thread in the first place.

Your answer is a pretty obvious one if you just read the topic!

And you took that totally out of context. READ AS *I* prefer retail hard copies over digital downloads.
Anyway, that's not what the topic was about. And it seems I've just provided an outlet for trolls to roam free.

So once again, to clarify:
1. I enjoy this game. Or else I wouldn't keep playing it every day and post threads about it.

2. I have nothing against people spending real money on fake donuts, signs, characters, etc... Whatever makes ya happy is perfectly fine.

petergeenen wrote:
But then stop complaining about the cost of donuts. Buy donuts in the real world, eat them, enjoy them. I'm having a donut while playing this game.
Mmmmmmmm, donut.

I wasn't complaining about the price of donuts. I was just curious the cost of items and saying that I lost most of mine in a flash by hitting a speed up button.