Caleo Global Moderator Posted May 20, 2009 Global Moderator Share Posted May 20, 2009 The developers develop a pretty complete game, then the business plan by EA is to take all the decent stuff out (leaving a pretty bland Sims game) and sell it later for even more money as expansion packs. They kind of deserve a ton of people pirating it with their ****ty tactics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t0mbi Posted May 20, 2009 Share Posted May 20, 2009 Yeah with the sims 2, my little sister ended up spending about 200 dollars on expansions alone! Damn friggin EA :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starburst1980 Posted May 20, 2009 Share Posted May 20, 2009 I've read a couple of reports that some stores have been putting out boxed copies early, no idea if that's true or not (if it is, it means that it could be anyone anywhere that leaked it, not an EA guy) Exactly what I said. Thank you for proving me right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawkMan Posted May 20, 2009 Share Posted May 20, 2009 The developers develop a pretty complete game, then the business plan by EA is to take all the decent stuff out (leaving a pretty bland Sims game) and sell it later for even more money as expansion packs. They kind of deserve a ton of people pirating it with their ****ty tactics. Yeah, because all those 3D models, and textures for them, then the animation for them and for using them, As well as testing stuff to make sure they can be placed properly and navigated properly by the AI and all that, yeah that doesn't take time or resources at all. It actually pretty much develops itself. Sure if they could have used the resources from the Sims 2 then yeah.. but that's be stupid, then you might as wel just play the old Sims 2. Yeah sure there's a lot less stuff in there than in Sim2 with all expansions. but There's also a lot more and a lot more well done stuff than there was in plain Sims 2. If you wanted the game to launch with all the stuff form Sims 2+expansions, then the game would be in developement for years yet, and it'd cost a LOT more when it was released. Exactly what I said. Thank you for proving me right. "I heard/read somewhere" is not proof, just FTR :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(Spork) Posted May 20, 2009 Share Posted May 20, 2009 LOl i find it FUNNY that people are shocked i would guess EV has ****ed ALOT of workers off so they leak games Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xab Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 So anyone have this working properly? It hard locks up my system every 5-8 minutes or so. Have all latest video/sound drivers installed too. (My copy came from a store putting it out early of course) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jelli Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 So anyone have this working properly? It hard locks up my system every 5-8 minutes or so. Have all latest video/sound drivers installed too.(My copy came from a store putting it out early of course) Not a problem with the game when I went to a friends to see it running. Only crashed once, and he has been playing for a couple of days. Using Windows 7 and a 8800GT with 185.85 drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
»X« Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 Good game. Thanks EA (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red. Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 Do you have the ability to go to University or, as usual, are they going to add it as an EP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Antonius Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 So anyone have this working properly? It hard locks up my system every 5-8 minutes or so. Have all latest video/sound drivers installed too.(My copy came from a store putting it out early of course) Runs fine on a Vista machine, Windos 7 machine and OSX machine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draken Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 I was tempted to get it but .... no nude patch yet? worthless :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xab Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 Not a problem with the game when I went to a friends to see it running. Only crashed once, and he has been playing for a couple of days. Using Windows 7 and a 8800GT with 185.85 drivers. Odd, I'm running on Windows 7 x64 RC, using nvidia 185.85 drivers and a GeForce GTX 295. I can't get the game running for more than 5-6 minutes before the entire system hard locks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ylcard Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 Some nice improvements, but... it's annoying - it will be Sims 2 + EP all over again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mokthraka Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 its not really that annoying is massivly better then the sims 2 you can turn aging off you dont have to eat 50 freaking meals to be full you can choose like a million traits and a lot of other stuff I like it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulCabby Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 you can turn aging off So happy when i found that option ;_; Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mokthraka Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 or if you dont want to turn it totally off or want to make your sim age faster their is a slider for that for my young adult(yeah there is young adult and adult now) there aging was at 19 days for normal for epic it was 2xx and for the shortest setting it was 6 days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minifig Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 I was tempted to get it but .... no nude patch yet? worthless :laugh: Why would you want to look at ... barbie doll / ken doll like nude pixels?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perochan Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 played in my Leopard for about 30 mins and no crash so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
:: Lyon :: Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 I'm on Windows 7 RC x64, GTX 260 My save game keeps on getting corrupted (Crashed during saving) , making me have to start the game all over again. Happened twice. Will wait for a patch now before playing it again. Kinda frustrating to start everything over everytime you play it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mokthraka Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 its like EA wants games leaked you never know gets them good amount hype for the game in the end more people probally end up buying it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonhapimp Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 man i hate EA there going to make all there money off of expansion pack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ylcard Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 its not really that annoying is massivly better then the sims 2you can turn aging off you dont have to eat 50 freaking meals to be full you can choose like a million traits and a lot of other stuff I like it No, man - I actually like it too, might aswell buy it if there's a good reason not to "pirate". What I meant was that it will be Sims 3 + several EP's again, just like Sims 2, I didn't mean that the game itself will be the same as Sims 2. Although now - turning aging off seems redundant, as you can set the aging to "Epic" and it'll take quite a while for them to die. After a while the game gets super easy, but currently there's not much to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draken Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 Why would you want to look at ... barbie doll / ken doll like nude pixels?! Nope, nude textures!!!! :woot: No, really, it bores me a lot, I'm one of the few that really "wants it for his girlfriend" I've pre-ordered it for her B-day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0sit0 Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 I was addicted to Sims 1... then Sims 2 came out... bought it.. never played it lol. My bf on the other hand cant stop playing Sims 3 :blush: lol. I pre-ordered it a while ago, but I wanted to surprised him when I found out it leaked hehe :woot: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faks Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 http://www.dailymotion.com/user/hakerx1/vi...faks_videogames Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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