I have a little recipe if someone feels bad from this news. Play in Sims 2. This game will drive away all the bad thoughts and feelings.

Tried mobile deleted it with in a week of getting it the sims are very ugly and it's real SOB to try and play. If that is the future of the sims I'll pass on them and EA can goto Hell!

EA must be the last company on earth who needs to do budget cuts considering the cash that's rolling in for them. Sure their costs with employees and development must be a lot, but I sincerely doubt EA is making less money than they are investing.

I guess I will just have to accept (which isn't bad at all) that The Sims 3 will be the last jewel of The Sims, but I can also see a future in The Sims 4 wearing out and the mobile game flopping or having a lukewarm reception just like any other mobile The Sims title, and EA wanting to pick up the huge amount of money that is in The Sims franchise when you give the fans what they want.

Yep. You'll find me over in the corner with both 2 and 3.

It definitely deserved mine, because I disagreed.

I read today they came up with a new trick. A feature for your Sims 4 game you can only get when you install Mobile (something with family portraits?). Which means they are desperate for people to install Mobile, which means your idea doesn’t sound so bad at all.

EA can go to corporate hell for charging players $9 for a fucking outfit when players can get stuff packs for the same price and get a hell of a lot more content.

They’re taking this free to play model too far. I can see charging a dollar or two for all of that, but $9? They must be out of their minds. The economy isn’t that damn bad.

I’m usually one for the “if the price is too high, go somewhere else” mindset, because I too see customers that complain about high prices, but there’s a difference between high and ridiculous.

The real world dollar amounts seen in TSM aren’t to acquire said content, no, they literally just unlock that stuff early. If you don’t have the funds (coins, simcash, or tokens) to buy it, you will either have to buy those too, or “earn” them by playing the game for at least 8 hours a day, everyday for the better half of 6 months - at which point you will *maybe* have enough to buy the set you splurged to unlock at level 12 instead of level 35.

They’d be making money hand over fist if they stopped being greedy and worked.

How I see, with The new mobile game, they just have to use low poly models from TS4, modified animations, and then up-charge for them. The Sims models has already made most of its money from TS4 existing.

“Here’s 6 pieces from a set from Get Together. $40 please.”

You can even say it’s can be earned. No one’s spending that much time grinding for a bedroom set. They feel like they’ve invested time with the game, so the spend some money. They feel like they’ve invested in the game financially, so they spend even more. An ugly cycle. I met someone who spent $2000 on a game before. I could never...

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“Upgrade to a double bed to unlock woo-hoo! $5!”

Really?

Wait, perhaps I'm not understanding well. Are they really, really asking for players to pay $20 dollars (or... even $90?!) for ported (aka rehashed) TS4 objects? I'm mean... just... what?

Well, I wasn't going to buy an imperfect TS5 anyway seeing as how much "stress" my hate-love with TS4 has caused me at the beginning until they had added toddlers, but I'm sad for those that are 100 percent pleased with everything EA does for the sims and would buy anything with the label on it even if it has way less content than what you would expect for the price tag. NOT. It's your own fault, guys that EA thinks, we're so down for microtransactions and I'm partly to blame, because I do buy ten dollar stuff packs and almost naked EPs, because I do like the game somehow and starve for content.
Seeing as they've just reduced the team size for TS4, the EPs will probably just drop every two years and will be even more bare bone than they've been during the whole cycle. There was not one, I've been totally pleased with.

Studio Killer EA doing what Studio Killer EA does best. They are bold faced LYING. Hell yeah, sometimes people can't afford PCs to play different games. Do they deserve to play The Sims? Sure, it's an amazing game. But Sims Mobile IS NOT the Sims on a less expensive platform, they are seriously lying to people and I feel bad for the ones that weren't able to play and now think that they can. It's not the sims. It's a shitty mobile game loaded with microtransactions like every other shitty mobile game on the app store, it just happens to have the Sims name attached to it.
They'll leech whatever money they can from these people then dump everything down the shitter like they did to Visceral after DS3.

They didn't even create any new assets. Assholes.

Well at least now we know why. Because I had been finding it strange how the various Sims news sites and influencers had been going all-in on The Sims Mobile. To the point where there is more coverage about it than TS4.

Edit: Another tidbit from someone over at ResetEra:

A bunch of red pixel shoes actually cost 9 bucks!?!?!

ETA: oh, sorry, it’s 6 items. Which hardly makes it better.
ETA2: this puts the ‘we make a mobile game so everyone can afford to enter this lovely community’ into an whole new perspective doesn’t it

Lovely community which exists due to PC games and modding community.

Some of those clothes are cheaper to buy in RL than a digital version...

You can earn SimCash though? I tested the game during soft launch and after it’s worldwide release, you get SimCash by purchasing it or by completing objectives. Spending money gets you more and is much faster, but like any other F2P game you can generate in-game currency for free if you have the patience.

Yesterday I searched for videos to see what Sims Mobile looks like and watched that video @cows already linked about the $90 furniture set.

My conclusion is this:
- You play a game with the sims name on it on a tiny screen.
- It's about 5% of the pc version.
- If you pay the amount of a full EP, you get a few items (that you might already own on pc).
- There are goals to complete (so you don't play your sim, sim plays you).
- You can't build or mod.

So now I'm going to run to the store and buy an expensive mobile phone (since I don't have one), because EA just made my dreams come true by washing the Sims on pc through the toilet, for this utter garbage I have always been waiting for.

I have a very inexpensive mobile, I bought it a few months ago when my previous phone died after having it for about 4 years. I did buy a decent enough custom PC a few years ago, and I'm not really a phone person so I would much rather invest in a decent computer than an expensive phone. I can't afford both. My phone is just basic with a few apps. If I turn the wifi on it drains pretty much immediately. Even if I wanted to play TSM (which I don't) I wouldn't be able to unless I splashed out on a nicer phone. I don't have any games installed on it. The only game related app I do have on it is the TS4 Gallery which I browse through if I'm stuck in a waiting room somewhere.

Old image but perpetually relevant:



EA is where franchises go to die.

oh.i.cant.wait.to.get.my.new.frame.rolleyes.yawn

Not surprising, but the problem with these mobile games is that they consistently set the prices in such a way that your time becomes more expensive than your money.

Say you earn $15 an hour and this game demands an hour of your day every day for 30 days in order to unlock a $15 item without paying. You now rationalize you would theoretically "save" money just by caving in since it would save you time that might be more valuable spent elsewhere, and thus the slippery slope of payments begin.

Mobile games truly are just a scam. They play into that famous "sense of accomplishment" and try to exploit it to make people pay money. People load up the game, see things they could have if they work for them, and now their gamer sense to strive for a sense of accomplishment is interested. But since the grind is just so god damned ridiculous, most end up compromising and paying for half of their stuff, which is still a victory for EA since wtf most of the stuff has like a 1000% markup.

Something of note that I dunno if anyone called attention to yet:

https://www.reddit.com/user/fashionpolice2001

That's the account of the guy claiming to be a former SimGuru on Reddit. The interesting thing that I haven't seen anyone call attention to is that over 9 months ago, he made a post insinuating he used to be a SimGuru, specifically this one: https://www.reddit.com/r/thesims/co...scully/dk6bgt3/



People have been rationalizing that of course this could be anyone, so we should be hesitant about trusting their word that they're a SimGuru. However, I find it incredibly unlikely that someone would briefly pretend to be a SimGuru in July of last year, then suddenly pop back up when shit is hitting the fan claiming to understand the inner movements of the company. This would be both elaborate and lucky for a planned con, and the only way it would make sense being a fraud is if this were some person desperate for attention and feeling special or being treated special that just HAPPENED to remember they once tried to fake being a Guru and decided to re-access the account to try and capitalize off the current drama. Occam's Razor this shit: it's far more likely they're telling the truth.

I'm honestly debating messaging the guy at this point to ask more questions, though I worry maybe they don't access the account much since it's a clear alt, possibly to protect their identity.

That reddit thread is interesting, if it's legit. Something seems off though.

I agree with your second statement. I assume that EA employees have to sign non-disclosure agreements and such. There's nothing to lose with asking though, but I think it's telling that this person didn't reply anymore to the reddit thread.