I will get it in the future I'm sure, but I JUST finished collecting all the expansion packs I wanted for Sims 2 and got a computer powerful enough to play them, so I am having fun with that.
The Sims 3 will be out this June...
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Yeah, it took me a while to get all the expansion packs as well, and I just got a computer that can run them last fall. My laptop that I did have had way too slow a processor. The good thing I've heard about The Sims 3 is that it's much less system requirement intensive, can even be run on a standard laptop. It also appears to run on OSX as well as Windows, so that's nice for Mac users that don't have parallels or run Windows through bootcamp.
Damn. Did a software pirate drop you on your head as a baby or something?
The developer in general, and that series in particular have a reputation for shoddy quality. Why would you spend $50 on something when you don't know if it's any good, or if it'll even work?
Oh yeah, the series is rated pretty low! And EA hasn't released any games recently that were well received.
I will always argue that people who pirate don't always represent lost sales and I don't think that the leak will significantly impact sales of the game. But the sort of rationalization you just gave is very weak. If you want to pirate, then pirate, but don't pretend it's something it ain't.
One of your examples had a user rating of 4.5/10. Is that your idea of "well received"?
Er... so because users on a site who were annoyed about DRM (because Spore definitely did not deserve a 4.5/10 and overall the game WAS very well received both critically and by the marketplace) you therefore can justify why someone should pirate a game? That's the only problem you have with my argument? A user poll on a site around a game known to have people intentionally vote it down because of a widely publicized DRM issue and not the actual quality of the title? Really?
Look, for people who had no intention of buying the game anyway, whatever, it doesn't matter. They're not a lost sale. They weren't even in the target market. It's the poor, self-serving rationalizations that I take umbrage with.
I can only speak for myself, but Spore's DRM issue doesn't affect me. The quality of the title affects me. I loved it for about three days but it had no replay value. Yeah, the universe is endless, but it's endless iterations of the same actions with no real endgame. Kind of like Sims (only Sims took a while longer to feel pointless to me).
People weren't voting it down solely because of the DRM. That's the only one of your examples that I've played, and it most certainly does deserve a 4.5. That score is actually very generous.
Go to any real gaming forum (no, I don't mean Sims forums), and you'll see that EA does have a pretty bad rep. If you don't try before you buy from them, you're basically playing a $50 slot machine.
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So does Nintendo of late. I don't expect that either they or their millions of customers are particularly concerned, though.
See! And the game comes out in 3 days! lol
Nonsense but whatever, different people like different things. If you didn't like Spore, then fine even though a significant number of people did. But common a 4.5? If you'd like anyone to believe that you're being objective you can forget that now.
Not really, as shown by both the improved critical reception EA games have received in the past year as well as tons of stuff I've seen on "real" gaming forums. Positive reaction to EA titles was splattered all over NeoGaf for the past year, as an example.
As to the slot machine comment... did you like The Sims? Did you like the Sims 2? If so, what reason would you have for not expecting to like the Sims 3? If you didn't, why do you even care?
Uh huh.
Nice attempt to turn that around, but I wasn't the one expressing a disproportionate amount of hatred here.
Sure thing dude....if you say so!
Uh huh.
Nice attempt to turn that around, but I wasn't the one expressing a disproportionate amount of hatred here.
Of the big three, EA is the only one left with cred amongst most hardcore gamers.
It'd probably be EA > Ubi > Activision at the moment. Even I was loathe to admit that EA has gotten better since Ricatello took over.
It'd probably be EA > Ubi > Activision at the moment. Even I was loathe to admit that EA has gotten better since Ricatello took over.
There was a huge improvement from Sims 1 to Sims 2. Besides the much improved graphics I felt the biggest difference was that they age. I mean, that just added a whole new element to the game that made it really awesome. I've actually found myself about to cry when one of my Sims dies...you put a lot of time into these characters and then they have to go off and get married and grow old.
The Sims 2 expansion pack that I felt added the most to the game was Seasons. The addition of weather and the different feelings that go with different seasons really gives the game a more realistic feel.
I'm not sure how much Sims 3 will improve on Sims 2...I'm sure the nice people here will let us know when it comes out. As I said before I'm still satisfied with Sims 2.
Anyway, if you don't want to fork out the money for Sims 3 because you aren't sure if you will like it, you should try Sims 2, it's a lot of fun.
I'm pretty sure the big change is that the world in the Sims 3 is one single town, not individual lots like the other Sim games, but I could be wrong, I haven't been following it closely.
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