I never bought a part of the series, but it's somehow cute that EA is working on the first add-on for the Sims 3 already:
http://news.bigdownload.com/2009/08/03/the-sims-3-world-adventures-expansion-pack-announced/

The cash-cow mooes again!


I really planned to buy myself a Sims-game when I heard about Sims 3 and thought that this should be it, but then I read the EULA of the game and it was dead for me. That was the biggest patronizing of a customer that the game-industry ever thought about until today.
Not even that they are collecting all your personal information, scan your hardware and use/sell these informations for promotion, bind your game to an account and reserve the right to take any of the custom-content created by you and sell it for money without letting you see a cent of it - no, they want also that you spent your money in their online-shop for download-content.

EA is in my eyes the most unsympathetic corporation in this whole business. http://www.gamestar.de/community/gspinboard/images/smilies/no.gif


But anyways: anyone bought the game?

Crusha, you and Sims? Interesting.
And, if EA so smart than we could be smart too, by using torrent etc and some hack stuff to play it without even internet or so Free and easy

m-knell wrote:
Crusha, you and Sims? Interesting.
And, if EA so smart than we could be smart too, by using torrent etc and some hack stuff to play it without even internet or so Free and easy

That would be the absolute wrong way.

The days when I used cracked software or copies are long gone. I bought every game I ever copied on the legal way later and also buy every game I play today.


If a game is good, then I am ready to support the developer by buying it and to help him this way to produce the next good game. Illegal copies are the worst thing for this industry. The only problem is, that they try to protect their games against copies with DRM and that stuff, but in the end-effect the customers are those who suffer from it, while the people with cracks have no problems at all.
But it's no use to play the cracked game then. I prefer to symbolize the developer/publisher that I'd rather give their game a miss than playing it with DRM.
And with "give it a miss" I mean that you shouldn't play the game at all then, also not with cracks. It's just the better way to do it.


In I would especially support those developers, who don't use any or only weak copy-protection on their games.
For example Ubisoft had no protection on the newest Prince of Persia (but there is no dowload-content for PC-gamers though, that was the shit thing about it) or World of Goo came also without protection.
World of Goo was 10 times more often cracked than actually bought and that's so sad for the developers of such a creative game, so I would buy it as soon as it costs only 10€ somewhere, though I'd usually wait for 2,50€ or 5€ to buy games.



EDIT: And EA lost a lot of money in this quarter. The bad thing is, that especially The Sims 3 caught them from loosing even more. It's selling good, even with DRM.
But on the other side those soulless sequels of old series broke EA the neck. The worst game was probably the last Need for Speed: Undercover.