It is fair to say that everything in the game costs the player something to acquire -- whether that cost is measured in Simoleons, Life Points, social Points, or time itself -- with the exception of a very small handful of items in the game that are FREE, if it is something you are adding to your Sim Town, it costs you something.
The truly free items in the game tend to fit neatly into one of three categories:
(1) Promotional Items: Items that have been placed in the game as part of a paid promotional effort on the part of a real-world corporation. Toyota has been heavily involved in that sort of product or brand placement in the Sims games, as has Ikea and Pet-related brand Iams.
While these items are free - that is to say that they do not cost the player any of the in-game currencies to obtain -- they do feature the brand of the sponsor quite prominently and, depending on how strongly you feel as an individual, therefore come at a cost.
(2) Items related to Special or Themed Events: These generally tend to be specifically targeted along a theme basis, though there often are neutral objects that appear in the decorations Tab and that, whether on purpose or by accident, end up left in the game and item catalog long after the Event ends.
Most players consider these to be good things.
(3) Loyalty Rewards: A sort of randomly selected collection of items - often decoration-centric - that are added to the game by the developers as a way of thanking the player for their continued and active participation as players.
Enduring Free Items
As previously noted, sometimes a free item or two will stay in the game and in the in-game store catalog long after the Event or promotion that they are related to has ended. Nobody can really say why this happens - whether it is an accident or on purpose. Nobody except the Dev Team, and they are not talking!
The meaning of the proverb “Don't look a gift Horse in the mouth” is simple: when you receive a gift from someone, do not be ungrateful.
That's good advice - especially in the case of The Sims FreePlay! Compared to most other Freemium games available for Android and iOS on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod, via the related app distribution services, FreePlay is incredibly expensive!
To put this in perspective, here is the current (as of August 2013) Sims FreePlay Online Store offerings and their prices for in-game currencies:
In addition to the above regular bundles, there is a special bundle under the SPECIALS Tab:
Clearly the costs for playing the game using real-world money can be considerable if you allow yourself to take that route. That is why this guide is so valuable to players, as its focus is providing both the information and tactics that are useful for making real progress without having to spend real-world money!
Now that we have that issue addressed, let's take a look at the two basic Free Items Categories - Regular Free Items, and Temporary Free Items.
The Temporary Free Items List
These are items that pop-up in the game with little or no Warning, and are only available for a limited time. It may interest you to know that these can come and go with no official Notice on the official game website too!
The Regular Free Items List
The following list of free items was valid as of August 2013 (when this revision to the guide was written), and are listed here with the Menu Navigation followed by the Tab, then the item name.
Bear in mind that these items largely consist of items in the Promotional and Themed Event Categories. There are also items from the third though unofficial Category, which we term the Player Loyalty Category:
The following free items are temporarily in the game - if you get them, well then good on you! If they are gone when you go looking for them, well then you should have looked earlier!
As free items are added to the game, we will make every effort to add them to the list, since knowing that they are there and available is the easiest way to take advantage of them!
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Hey guys anyone know how to get free LP since I need it for baking a birthday cake
Hey guys? I can't pass lvl. 10 though, can anyone help me?
Hey I need a febreeze toilet... I know its my fault I didn't look earlier but still I need one .. Help me please!
where to download the free content to pass lvl10? i'm stuck. pls help...
I just got a new house+sim and I can't get any furniture or a bed or anything cause it's not unlocked! What level do you unlock furniture?
Me either i want lp LOL
I'm currently on 99% level 10 and couldn't pass to lvl11 bcs it's keep asking me to download free content,which is i'd done for several times already and nothings change. Anyone can help me?
We have the same problem.
Have you solved it?
Please let me know
Everythinkg on sims freeplay should be for free it gets boring when u need to pay and also how long it takes i will delete the game if this doen't change!
What would be the pint if everything is free? Although I do agree they should lower the prices on something's it's just so expensive!!!
I tried to buy 765,000 simoleans for $4.99 after my dad put the pass word in he kept getting asked questions like what was your first pet etc. I wasn't able to buy the simoleans because they weren't excepting his answers to the questions.
I don't know how to update my sims.
I just got sims back a few days ago but the last time I had it ( don't know if it's still there ) it helped a lot with getting lp but all you have to do is complete the cooking quest and then keep on cooking and leveling up and then you will get the chopping boards but do not give up on cooking just yet once you have the cooking boards it will give you a choice to reset the utensils and keep cooking get all of the sets and then your reward will be 5 lp how exciting right!! Hope this helped
You get chopping boards when you complete the cooking hobby.
I was not able to find it in the home store as well - I know that there is one in the restaurant, I will look into this further and follow up if when I find one.
ciao non riesco a connettermi nello store come mai?
Hi there.. Need help if possible: im ready to level up inthe cooking hobby but in order to be able to cook the mext item it says i need a chopping board but cannot find it in the homestore anywhere. Am i looking in the wrong place?
Thanks in advance
okay here is the thing just keep leveling up in cooking until you get to level 4 or 5 of cooking it will give you other options like this
the ones with the star you can make With a level 1 toaster level 2 fridge (for quiche) or level 1 microwave or if you are level 1-5 of cooking ( there are other dishes for them im just using these for this example)
Spaghetti - cooking board level 1
✩Quiche
Nachos- cooking board level 1
Etc.
Hope this helped!!!☺️
The Globe is found in the in-game store: STORE > FURNITURE > DECORATIONS and it costs $10K. Note it is rather large so you need a free area in your house for it so it will not block access to doors and such...
I Just Want A Globe So I Can Get A Toddler!!!
Just play through the quests.
I need help I got the turkey thing to buy a banner but it is not showing up
Generally the free gifts that you can place in your home are found in your personal inventory - the free items that are used for actions are simply part of the player record and are available when you use the associated action in the game.
Are there any free cars?
no
The swimming pool is found in the build menu but you have to have reached the level required to unlock it.
I got the swimming pool but not the level one so what do I do will it come up again
I have a quest to expand or add a swimming pool. but cant seem to find one to buy
My tip is make a sim fall in love with another sim you don't have to have them married to make them have a child the kid will usually take the moms last name.
can you get resources in a neighbors town for mystery island??
How do you get weights in the game, because my friend has weights in her game but I don't know how to get the weights. Some one plzzzzz help![size=14[color=violet][/color] ][/size]
What age do you have to be to us a surfboard?????? Crazy. That's what I wanna know.[video][url][color=red][color=red][spoiler][spoiler][/spoiler] [/spoiler] [/color] [/color] [/url] [/video]
Where do I find a mgfreeplayer? Teen sim must play a record on it
this is a tip for any one who needs simelons,buy lots of FREE items of the same kind and then later when the item is no longer free and are for sale you can sell them and get money for the item /items.
i restarted my game at level six so im at level fine now, and i restarted it because i didnt have enough sinileons or time to growtopia the wedding bundle pack so i could have a sims family. is there any time it will come back if i dont finish it in time???[color=Purple][/color]