The Sims 3 Racks Up Over 180,000 Downloads Prior To Release 187
Bloomberg reports that pirated versions of EA's The Sims 3 were downloaded over 180,000 times between May 18 and May 21. The game will not be officially released until June 2nd, and it does not make use of SecuROM for DRM. Quoting:
"That outpaces the 400,000 downloads over three weeks for Electronic Arts' Spore, the most-pirated game of 2008. ... Copies of the game available on file-sharing Web sites aren't the full version, Electronic Arts said. 'The pirated version is a buggy, pre-final build of the game,' Holly Rockwood, a company spokeswoman, said in an e-mailed statement. 'It's not the full game. Half the world — an entire city — is missing from the pirated copy.'"
Ill just wait then (Score:5, Funny)
Ill just wait and pirate the full copy when it comes out then. Thanks for the heads up EA i wouldnt wanna pirate a substandard version.
Finally game for /. crowd... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:What? (Score:5, Funny)
I'm downloading it so that EA feel compelled to put the DRM back in for the expansion packs. I will then start a campaign to boycott DRM laden games which will be so popular that no one will buy any of the $ims 3 expansion packs thereby killing the franchise once and for all.
Re:What? (Score:3, Funny)
Problem with versioning (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Let's be honest... (Score:5, Funny)
My wife likes to make me and her in the game and then make them have like eight children together...
This is my life.
Re:What? (Score:4, Funny)
Don't you have anything better to do?
You do realize that we are talking about The Sims players here.
Re:What? (Score:3, Funny)
I read in a review they can now get out of swimming pools without ladders.
That should be based on your Sims' BMI.
Re:Let's be honest... (Score:5, Funny)
If you don't see what the appeal is of a game that lets you do whatever you want, I'm not sure I can help you.
Can you kill your family? Can you fuck your dog? Can you construct an atomic bomb and detonate it?
Not really. but the sims 2 did allow for a lot entertaining sadism [somethingawful.com]. In all honesty, comparing it to an RPG is going a bit too far. I like to think of it as a micro-management less-god-game, where you don't really have a lot of freedom (because you're stuck with the "dialogue" options/careers/whatnot the programmers made for you), but it has a lot of a meta-game aspect to it.
A woman I once dated for a while really enjoyed the sims 2. She probably had a dozen or so families in her own little town, with meticulously designed houses and carefully balanced schedules heading for that maximum on the career ladder. She was quite the control freak when it came to the game, making sure that most sims stayed the same age as other sims, so she would switch families every time she played for a while. At some point I found myself alone at home with her laptop and the irresistable urge to introduce a little chaos into that perfectly ordered world.
After taking a backup of the savegames I created a character named Eugene Frankensausage, carefully crafted to be a bald bearded fat man wearing worn out jeans and what looked to be a dirty shirt. His house was a concrete square block adorned only by the mailbox in front of it and a single pink flamingo ornament in the yard. In the first few hours he got to know the neighbours, had sex with them which resulted in a fight, asked one of them to move in, then set the house on fire. This unfortunate process repeated itself quite a few times until he finally learned how to cook at which point the game became a lot more dull. By the end of a boring evening the neatly and carefully organized world had a lot of separated families, widowers, and people generally being in distress. There were also 3 people maneuvering through a small labyrinth in the yard with the end point being aforementioned pink flamingo lawn ornament.
Now, waiting for her to discover that Eugene Frankensausage had moved into town and not mentioning you had a backup, that was the fun part.
Re:What? (Score:3, Funny)
I am not convinced. A high BMI would give you more mass to haul out of the pool, but it would also make most of that mass much more buoyant. It probably evens out in the end.
I was sort of entertained that in Sims2 they even HAD a BMI. Or at least variation. I always wished I could change their height. A sim version of me doesn't look right unless it's short.
Re:What? (Score:3, Funny)
And at the low, low price of only $9.99!
Re:Ill just wait then (Score:5, Funny)
The pirated version is a buggy, pre-final build of the game
Sounds like the standard retail version to me.
Re:Let's be honest... (Score:2, Funny)