Analyst Mike Hickey stated in a new Gamasutra article that he predicts The Sims 3 will sell 4 million copies in 2009. I don’t see why it won’t, as it now has a number of positives going for the game. The biggest threat the game has is piracy, but hopefully it will not be the case. No longer will the excuse “This game has SecuROM, I’m going to download it” can be given, so perhaps that’ll lessen the chance of it becoming downloaded. Let’s just try not to ship the game a little too early and have it leaked a week in advance much like Spore was, okay EA?
I highly doubt it’ll lessen the chance it being pirated. Just a different reason for it. It’d be interesting to know how people who pirated it actually own the game though because I’d thought about it even after purchasing the game just to not have to deal with the BS that comes with Securom.
I’ve never had an issue with it until now but since I’ve installed it on my new PC it’s started to error when loading the game which is easy enough to get rid of since closing the process for Securom will stop the message and the game will load. Oddly enough with all of TS2 installed it didn’t do it prior to installing Spore now both games suffer from the same error. “Cmdlinewhatever cannot find suchandsuch.dll blah blah” and installing the dll just leads it to name a different dll that it can’t find.
I’ve had more troubles with this than any game legal or not that I’ve ever had and it’s a 100% legal copy too. I just hope there’s a way to kill the pointless crap they’re including in Sims 3. Like that stupid launcher. If I cared I’d visit the site, if it’s news and it’s worth knowing I’ll find it here. I see no need for another thing to have to click to load the game when I’m never going to use it for anything anyways. That comes in at number 2 on my list of Sims 3 things that need to die horrible deaths. The censor blur being number 1.