Can’t wait until you’re able to surf and purchase items from the Sims Store directly into your game? I bet you’re thrilled that this new feature is coming in the next patch of The Sims 3. I mean seriously…the official forum is flooded with complaints on the fact that we can’t buy things in-game – IT IS WHAT WE HAVE BEEN WANTING. Sorry, I’m just a little ticked off. I can’t believe The Sims team is addressing this to be such a big deal when in reality, all the fans want is a bug-free game, yet they’re shoving some useless junk down our throats thinking we will be as giddy as a schoolgirl.
The worst part? SimFans.de discovered a screen of this in-game shop mode – oh and look what you have there – more freakin’ errors! Here’s a thought…why don’t they just shove ‘Beta’ after every mention of The Sims 3. I can’t wait until February when The Sims 3 High End Loft Stuff Pack (Beta) comes out! I really wish for once The Sims Team would listen to the things players actually have to say about the game and for a change start addressing things correctly…
/End Rant
stooopid simz team. i’m gonna call elvis duran and the z-morning zoo on the radio to wish diarrhea upon you.
EA have always admitted that al they care about is maximum profit. They have never denied that. Now that The Sims Team is fully integrated into EA they will be getting incredible pressure from higher ups to maximize profits. Add this to there recent comments by their CEO in game/downloadable content is their big profit target at the moment so this was kind of inevitable.
To be honest though all The Sims games have been riddled with unfixed bugs, and the community has always done a far better job of fixing them than The Sims Team has ever done. It’s not right, but that’s the way it is.
As John Riccitiello has been mentioning, EA is trying to target DLC as a new market. EA lost over a billion USD in net profit this year. We’ve seen with layoffs and other cuts that EA needs more money and these methods are necessary.
I actually welcome this. I do download from the store so this in-game thing will be useful. However, they should probably make one for the exchange too.
On the subject of bugs, I must say: what bugs? I know they exist but this must be up to the end user. I experience no bugs in my game =D However, EA cannot ignore bugs and they’ve recognized them so this patch/update will most certainly include bug fixes =D
Also, EA never released a patch to fix a patch. It was because some players were too lazy to do a save as for the new save system, EA had to do it for them…
With The Sims and Spore, i’m hoping Christmas will be a good time for them and they’ll get some more money back =D We are forgetting EA IS A COMPANY, JUST LIKE ANY OTHER.
Loves that the Picture has an error on it 😛 I think EA should actually concentrate on fixing those bugs people get not adding new stuff which looks like it could possibly cause more errors…but i dont know havent used it yet or experienced any bugs 😉 Lucky me.
ConnorJack, you run a nice (if unsettlingly uncritical) website, but the arrogance here is getting a bit much. EA ignored the fps issue on high end machines for months, and yet told me it was aware relatively soon after the game came out. Yes EA is a company like others. Being a company, though, should never excuse poor business practises and extremely poor customer service and support. EA’s communications with its client base are minimal, and in that sense, they deserve the paranoia and dislike that many harbour for them. It would easy to counter.
What’s more, some of the bugs in these games are totally, absolutely unavoidable. It clearly doesn’t matter to you that some babies (and in rare cases adult sims) in other households disappear forever suddenly, but it bothers the rest of us, and that’s an error coded right into the game that the modding community supplies a fix for (that I can’t use because I’ve sworn off CC, unfortunately). You don’t seem to be making any good case for EA. Riccitiello is infamous for his terrible management skills, and is widely regarded as running the company into the ground (and some great titles with it).