A few days before The Sims 3 released worldwide, Fragland caught up with Melanie Lam, one of the producers of The Sims 3 to ask her a couple of questions on the game:
– It’s almost inevitable, but are there some expansion packs coming our way for The Sims 3? If so, which one is next?
It looks like you are familiar with The Sims franchise ^^
Yes there will be coming new expansion packs, but we still don’t know which one first.– You probably already know that a leaked version of The Sims 3 is spread out on the internet two weeks before the release of the game. Will EA punish the consumer by adding DRM and other irritating software or is it going to reward the players that actually bought the game?
Yeah it was very sadly to hear that it was already leaked on the internet. But we are not punishing the consumers who bought the game, certainly not. The honest buyers of the game are rewarded with extra privileges and extra stuff like a new neighborhood named Riverside and we gave them a coupon of 1000 Simpoints (€10) which they can spend in de the Sims Store for extra items.
Isn’t the name Riverview?
(Also you have access to the items from the store without buying the game or registering it)