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Tuesday, 7 February 2012

The Sims FreePlay coming to Android Market this month

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Is EA Mobile finally ready to take Android serious now? They have ported a handful of their most popular iOS games to Android, but most have been met with a lukewarm reception (averaging review scores of 3/5). A quick browse of EA Mobile’s site shows that they haven’t updated their Android section in years, with only the original T-Mobile G1 being listed as a supported device.

We don’t know much about EA Mobile’s future plans for Android, but their PR team has started to made an effort to reach out to Android bloggers and open a channel of communication. For example, to promote their upcoming Android game The Sims FreePlay, EA mailed me a Sims coffee mug, scarf, and paper speakers. I’m still not sure what the point was of these random items, but I’m sitting here writing this article so I guess they got the job done.

No release date has been announced, but we have heard that The Sims FreePlay should be available in the Android Market by the end of this month. The game previously launched on iOS devices back in December where it won several awards for best freemium game of the year.

EA’s current game The Sims 3 is priced at $6.99 and did relatively well selling between 100,000-500,000 copies (most came when the game was on sale for $0.99). Unfortunately the game has not been updated since September, which has led to many complaints about support and earned the game a 3.5 rating in the Android Market.

Even though most of EA’s titles have been disappointing compared to their iOS versions, we know they are capable of producing some awesome Android games – see Dead Space. Hopefully The Sims FreePlay will receive their best effort and more resources will be allocated to support the game after its initial release.

Do we have any Sims fans in the house?

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Taylor is the founder of Android and Me. He resides in Dallas and carries the Verizon Galaxy Nexus as his daily device. Ask him a question on Twitter or Google+ and he is likely to respond. Tagged#android games#EA#ea mobile#freemium#gallery#The Sims#The Sims Freeplay#video .nrelate .nr_sponsored{ left:0px !important; }.nrelate .nr_sponsored{ left:0px !important; } 13 Comments Join the discussion!Sort by DateRating

99Anthony Domanico 10 hours ago Thumb upThumb down +1

My wife is all over it.

99Taylor Wimberly 10 hours ago Thumb upThumb down +1

I played The Sims on my PC back when I was in middle school, but haven’t touched it since then.

93ranwanimator 10 hours ago Thumb upThumb down +1

I will lose my wife to this.

On a side note 100,000-500,000 is a huge number of unknown installs. It could actually be 100,001 installs and appears in the market psychologically as a much bigger install base. I wonder if this helps a game’s popularity.

MattGuest 9 hours ago Thumb upThumb down +5

Lucky you..Wish I could find a game to lose my girlfriend to! ha

79Homncruse 19 mins ago Thumb upThumb down +1

I wish I could find a girlfriend to lose to a game :(

92spazby 10 hours ago Thumb upThumb down 0

Not interested….

97BetterWithRoot 9 hours ago Thumb upThumb down +2

I would always wall my Sims up in their own room with no windows or doors and watch their slow agonizing deaths…

30greeny42 9 hours ago Thumb upThumb down +3

Great! Now I can pretend to live a different life on the go! Real life is so outdated.

23frankwhite44 9 hours ago Thumb upThumb down 0

Nice. I like the Sims.

100BiGMERF 9 hours ago Thumb upThumb down +3

i dont trust EA at all.. they have a lot to prove on android

RhoeddGuest 8 hours ago Thumb upThumb down +1

I would not touch the EA android games until they show that they are willing to support these games and specify exactly which hardware items they will run on. I bought two EA games which at first ran on my Dell Streak, then it became an unsupported device. The same games should run smooth on the Xoom I have, but that is also an unsupported device. If you go to the EA mobile forums you’d see many people having the same problems with no response from EA.