EA has released a factsheet for The Sims 3 Ambitions containing information of many things we are already familiar with. However, there is a blurb about bonus content that we’ll get after we register our game at the official site:
BONUS CONTENT: Register your game to get access to exclusive online content such as private eye cases, hairs, widgets for the inventing bench and sculptures to create with the sculpting station.
Here’s the full fact sheet below:
Become Fearless Heroes and Ace Entrepreneurs
As the second expansion pack to The Sims™ 3, the best-selling PC game of 2009*, The Sims 3 Ambitions allows you to pursue a variety of exciting paths and careers in your Sims’ lives that in turn affect your overall gameplay experience and neighborhood. While on the job, you have direct control over your Sims’ work and can choose how they spend their days. Decide whether your Sim will be the brave town hero or cause loads of mischief among their neighbors. Make your Sim save the day as a brave firefighter, change the town as a leading architect, or live on the edge as a ghost hunter. Choose the path of a stylist and explore the new tattoo system to make over your Sim neighbors in fashionable or catastrophic ways.Will your Sim find success as a billionaire high-tech inventor or eke out a living as a bumbling mad scientist? Will they uncover secrets as a private investigator by dusting for prints or will they rough up suspects for information? For the first time, you are in charge of how your Sims’ career progresses and you decide if they will work for good or evil, pursue creative endeavors or technical affairs, climb to the top quickly, or be a slacker. The future of a Sims’ success or failure is entirely in your hands.
Features
- VARIETY: Be a hero or mess with the neighbors as a firefighter, private investigator, doctor, ghost hunter and more!
- CONTROL: For the first time ever, you control your Sims’ actions and interactions while they’re on the job.
- IMPACT: Your Sims’ on-the-job choices now change their town and affect other Sims. Modify the town’s structure as an architect or set neighborhood fashions as a stylist.
- NEW ACTIVITIES: Master the arts of inventing, sculpting and tattooing using your skills to earn Simoleons and advance your lifetime happiness.
- BONUS CONTENT: Register your game to get access to exclusive online content such as private eye cases, hairs, widgets for the inventing bench and sculptures to create with the sculpting station.
Specifications
Publisher: Electronic Arts Inc.
Developer: The Sims Studio
Ship Date: June 1, 2010 (PC/MAC)
Category: Simulation/Strategy
I’m wondering if the Bonus content will be made available thru a patch or thru the Sims 3 Store! I’m guessing a patch, but I’ve always wondered if it would be possible to add new content (animations, opportunities, recipes, music, etc…) thru the Store! Hmmm… 😯
It would be really stupid of EA to start adding any kind of substantial game additions and functions to the store in their “nickel-and-diming” sales scheme. They BARELY have customer support now. Imagine if everyone starts having problems with their game and instead of just stating you have Base Game and World Adventures EP, you have to tell them, “I have A patch + D Patch + base game” and someone else has F patch + A patch but not B patch or C patch. Plus there’s no stopping custom content, and the more ways EA tries to block it or stop it from functioning, the more effective and extensive the Mods will get. Another awful idea, EA.
They really are missing the point, EA. Make the game function extremely well, and then you have a HUGE market of Sims 2 players who will actually migrate. As of right now, so many of them aren’t making the jump precisely because EA isn’t doing the hard yards. The game practically eats itself alive if you play it too long with Awesomemod or Twallan’s work, both of which fix a huge host of bugs/features that EA itself ought to have sorted out long ago.
Sorry: *without
I wish they’d stop calling it “bonus content”, instead of “part of the game we stripped out to prevent pirates from getting the whole thing” :/ In any case, it’s not like that content doesn’t get pirated anyway within a couple of days.
Ah well, I’ll be happy if the EP and accompanying patches don’t introduce major new bugs 🙂
Ambitions feels like a half-assed attempt to milk our money. What if I don’t want to be a fireman, inventor, or a tattoo artist.. there is so little to do unless you follow EA’s rules. Its like EA doesn’t even care if we enjoy the game anymore.
I agree with you, Jo. For me, the fun of the Sims has always been the open ended gameplay and it just seems like they are moving away from that. I can still play that way but the new features of World Adventures were all about following along on EA’s guided tour and it became very boring very fast. I feel like Ambitions will do the same. It’s sad because I have no game to play anymore. I can’t find anything that interests me like The Sims used to do and I miss playing games. 🙁
I agree with you guys. The Store (if it must exist) should not include game features and functions, etc. Only actual content for your Sims. I can’t wait until the first official Sims alternative exists that will actually give us what we want and with less bugs. That’d be the only way that EA would shape up. It’s like Comcast being forced to lower prices and offering good deals when they lose customers and/or another company beats their currents deals/prices. But because Sims is the only game of its kind, that is why EA can get away with anything. And a half-assed EP for $40? Seriously? Jeez, at least Sims 2 EP’s were $30 and not quite as half-assed.
For what it’s worth, I’m pretty much betting the “bonus” content will be provided in a patch! I think that if EA could use the Store to give added features, gameplay, etc..they would have already done so! Since patching is pretty much mandatory, tho, it doesn’t seem very “bonusy” to me! 😛
I can accept that, but we still need more bug fixes. Oh well.
EA, it would be SO cool if you made the sims with people that are online. Instead of make-believe characters, you should let all of the people that have sims connect. Make it like Club Penguin. It would be like real life!