Paywalled And Seemingly Made By AI: The Sims Freeplay Introduces The “Tale of Knights” Season Pass

The new update ruins the game. Even with the grind, it felt wholesome to play before. I was patiently waiting for winter to get a snowy template. But with this update, you need exorbitant paid season passes if you want a house template. Which you collect points for through daily tasks. That takes both the 'free' and 'play' out of freeplay.

The new search feature is a saving grace, but it comes in a garish tab which takes half the screen. If there are no new templates to be won by the regular player, and if all your sims will ever do is grind for resources, what's the point of play? Players that have played since this game first came out warned where it was headed, we should have heeded.

I respect the makers have to make money from it, but this model is not in spirit of the gameplay that the players love and support. I might be uninstalling.

What are your thoughts?

u/drberyl on r/simsfreeplay

I mean, this is gotta be the worst update I’ve ever seen. I’m glad they’re releasing it only to a select few and I pray to God they are harsh on the criticism because this update is awful. The only good thing about it is the search bar. Other than that, the new build mode layout looks like AI slop. something about the blue icons feels very clean and fresh but these new icons feel overwhelming and the fact that it takes up now half the screen is just a joke. introducing new pay walls on top of the abundant amount we already have.

like stop trying to fix stuff that’s not broken. Why don’t you fix the diagonal furniture? EA?? like biggest update whatever?? nobody asked for half of this crap. The only thing we wanted was a search bar and that took you 15 years to do.

u/GrandGPDiscipline on r/simsfreeplay

I hate the idea of the season pass. This game is getting more and more pay to win. I also don't need even more tasks to do every day, I do like the new items featured though. It's nice that we can finally search for items but I don't like that we have to remember their name because I'm so bad with names.

u/frigaard on r/simsfreeplay

this upcoming update has RUINED the game. We have to pay $10, and play daily to unlock a house? REALLY?! First of all, even if we've paid the $10, if we don't do enough daily tasks then we might not even get to unlock the house regardless. So you're forced to play daily or else you waste your money. People have lives, jobs, children, studying, work..... We can't spend all day every day being forced to play. The point of 'FREE'play is to play at your OWN pace, mostly for free. This removes the free part and the freeplay part. Also, build mode. Search feature is AMAZING but why does the new screen look like AI slop?! The beautiful classic blue was iconic and NEEDED NO CHANGING! Now we'll just be overstimulated when building.

No one asked for this. Most of us just wanted new Ocean view lots and different body types. What the heck?!

I've never seen an update get this much hate since the fated Life Dreams and Legacies update in 2014 which forced our Sims to die. and back then at first the life stage reset thing wasn't even free, it cost LPs, so people ended up loosing their Sims. I might have to stop playing after this. Never have I seen such a horrendous update, with nothing we truly asked for.

u/PositiveVivid5775 on r/simsfreeplay

No, you don’t have to pay $10. Only if you want it; think of it as an extra pack. You don’t need to spend money on ANYTHING in this game if you don’t want to. Nobody’s “forcing” you to play a single thing. Just ignore it for goodness sake. You’ll still be able to play like you always have without doing the season pass BS.

u/holly_b_ on r/simsfreeplay

I think the problem with this update that people are frustrated about is the not knowing how to win these houses and prizes without spending money. Currently we have the live events that we can choose to do or not do, it seems unclear if the live events will be heavily watered down like the crafting one seems to be right now or if we can still use those instead of paying actual money. If this is the case then the game won’t be much fun if there’s no other way to get decent stuff without paying money.

u/FabulousSpray9237 on r/simsfreeplay, in response to