Bell said “The Sims 3,” available June 3, will also feature a moviemaking tool and more options for players to customize their Sims’ homes, furnishings and clothes. Gamers can even turn their Sims into kleptomaniacs.
“A Sim who has this trait is going to have wishes in life to steal things from other people,” said Bell. “They also have the ability to sneak into a friend’s house, walk into a room where nobody happens to be hanging out and maybe swipe something. One of the fun things I’ve seen people on the team do is build up a whole household of stolen things.”
In perhaps a case of life imitating art, a pirated copy of “The Sims 3” has already been leaked on several file-sharing Web sites two weeks before the game’s launch.
EA said the pirated version “is a buggy, pre-final” version of the game.
“It’s not the full game. Half of the world — an entire second city — is missing,” said spokeswoman Holly Rockwood in a statement.
Electronic Arts has announced it is publishing “The Sims 3” without restrictive anti-piracy software known as DRM, a form of copy protection that requires online authentication.
It’s about time someone from EA stepped up and made a comment. Although I do have to say it’s not a very good one – they could of came up with a better reasoning – the Riverview comment especially – it’s not even on the full game – we still will have to download it 😛
Associated Press: ‘The Sims’ return with more personality quirks
Didn’t they say that the second city would be available only as a digital download after the game was released? Would this be like the Wolverine movie leak, after which the released movie was exactly the same?
LOL which reminds me…I still need to watch that movie…However, must go out and see Night at the Museum 2 this weekend first!
If that’s all that’s missing then alot of people are going to be disappointed. From what I’ve read alot of stupid crap brings down what could have been a great game and sadly it’s alot of the same stupid crap we’ve been dealing with for years.
YES! Now I have a reason to buy it instead of keep the downloaded version 😛
june 3rd?
A typo on their end of the article
Well, it does say a “buggy, pre-final release” so maybe a lot of the stupid bugs I’ve been hearing about have been fixed. I have thought it likely, though not definitive, evidence of this being a beta that EA would be very carefully guarding the gold copies of the game. It seems to me much more likely that the pirated version “fell off a truck” at the fan events, where people other than EA employees were allowed to play the game before its release.
Nonetheless, I don’t usually believe a damn word EA says so I will be interested to see whether they are lying about this or not. EA has said NO SECUROM and apparently it was included in the pirated version, but that makes sense to me (trying to protect the pirating from happening in the first place).
SecuROM’s in the digital download version of the game, just not in the disk version. So it seems that that must have been the version that was pirated. Which points to somebody inside EA :/
As for bugs, whether or not the leak is the final version, there WILL be bugs in the final version. There are always bugs. And the Sims 3 would be a lot harder to debug even than earlier sims games, I’d think, with so much going on out of player control.
I don’t find the statement issued by EA very credible, they really need to make an official announcement at thesims3.com and thesims3.com about this.
Unless of course they can’t because the pirated version IS the final game.
If this is the case then we’re stuffed as it has some major bugs/flaws in it!
So….It’s not finished eh? True enough. You have to allow the program to register itself online before you get the next neighborhood. But I’m not worried not even a little. Game comes out officially June 5th. Well a cracked second neighborhood will be NO MORE than 2 days after on the torrent sites.
By the way. It IS the real thing and it’s NOT buggy.
Well, we’ll just have to download the retail copy when it comes out, and gets uploaded to torrent sites and see if it’s any different. I won’t go out and buy the game just cause EA said this one isn’t the final version.
Well I’m gonna go out and buy the game anyway because you don’t know, maybe the retail game is gonna be entirely diffrent than the leaked game. I mean if whoever wants to download the leaked version then be my guest but just remember this when you illegally download something you lose the creators money and when they lose money then there will be more sims game because there is no money to make it.
Oops I mean the creators, company, and producers lose money
Game is super slow. Takes sim 3 minutes to sleep on fastest speed on best bed. They better fix that :p.
Well fastest speed is like… 1 hour = 30 seconds.
IM DOWNLOADING IT RIGHT NOW FUCK EA!!!
Is it the release version of the game is it not…..who really cares..
It good enough to play and see what it all about. If you like it buy a copy from the shops when it comes out..If you dont then DONT…Hell get some mates throw some money in a pot and install on each machine im sure the crack will still work on the offical release version and if it doesnt within a few days a new one will appear..
And im sure some nice guy or girl will upload the shop version when it gets released….
I for one have pre order the game will i cancel the order cos of the leaked version NO
To those who say the leak is the real version — I have played the leaked version, and it is incredibly buggy. I HIGHLY doubt a game that they have been working on for so long not to mention delayed for months would be THIS buggy – maybe have some bugs, but not this many. A feature they just released, the ability to change body shape, doesn’t even work. So, you’re slightly ignorant for thinking this is the real game.
“I HIGHLY doubt a game that they have been working on for so long not to mention delayed for months would be THIS buggy”.
You haven’t played games for long, have you?
wtf is wrong with the creator of sims 3. The graphics are horrible its confusing and a piece of horse shit. i would rather watch a 60 yr old geek watch porn. besides there are a ton of glitches. i cant bekieve a wasted 50 bucks on this. i hate susan boyle please dont make a sims 4 or i will GAG.
sims 1 was better!!!!!! i cant believe it didnt have a laundry room.
i hate this game. its a piece of crap…. it sucks and the graphics are horrible…
I’m sure buggs will be fixed along the way. I just laugh at the people who didn’t belive there would be a second city… And every game you buy will have some sort of bugs in it, I just don’t see the reason to whine about it… I played the leaked version, and then bought the real version because I liked it very much. Only sad things is that it takes a lot of memory to play, even though my computer is fairly new…
well my sims graphics are horrible idkk if its my computer but they are messed up bad somehow fix it..
thankss for the updates but when i press create a family the graphics are finee. but when i move them out then theyy start messing up againn. its kinda badd but just work on the new updatess thanks:]]
Iam a true sims fan from day one, but i havent bought the sims3 yet. Only b-cuz of the same issue everybody is having with the sims3. Whats up with the bugs?? will yall fix it?? i jst wanna play without any problems.
Expansions would be hard with leaks
The Sims3 is buggy and EA refuses to acknowledge the thousands of complaints, let alone actually provide a fix such as a patch, or a refund. Awful customer service.
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