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[Ozymandias]

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So....Nerdrage - 1, EA - 0, I guess?

[AngelofShadows]

Its a trap. Calling it now.

[Melodic]

Jesus and fuck on a stick what else do they need to add to a Sims game? ARE THERE MINIGAMES IN WHICH YOU HELP YOUR SIM COPE WITH A URINARY TRACT INFECTION?

[Norton Quintessential]

ARE THERE MINIGAMES IN WHICH YOU HELP YOUR SIM COPE WITH A URINARY TRACT INFECTION?

I MUST PLAY THIS GAME.

[Alex C]

I'm excited for the Sims 3 because it seems good at making some seriously ugly screenshots. Trying to split the difference between the cartoony style they had going and a greater sense of realism makes for some vaguely horrifying character models. I appreciate this mostly because I expect things to get progressively skeevier as games start creeping ever closer to the Uncanny Valley and I can't wait to see how the general public handles it.

[jmrz]

This one you can roam the neighbourhood free-range. You aren't confined by the house anymore etc etc. Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING is apparently going to be customisable. But yes, some of the screenshots I've seen so far are venturing into uncanny valley. Some look really realistic and not weird and others are just... creepy.

Granted, I'll be getting it anyway and playing for hours on end because I uh... have all the other sims so I may as well keep going.

[KvP]

I never really understood all the superfluous additions they made to the Sims in terms of the things that they can do. Considering the speed at which time moves in the Sims my characters barely had time to work, sleep and eat, let alone go on walks or set up social functions or go grocery shopping. Going out on a short drive would probably last 4 hours, at which point you're setting your guys up for lots of stress the next day.

Really most of the fun of the Sims was just stockpiling money and playing Architect with it.

[jmrz]

See, I spend a couple of hours just using the money cheat and building the most fantastic houses ever, it's my favourite part, which is why I'm kind of excited about being able to customise all the furniture and stuff in game rather than downloading addons and extra stuff other people have made.

[Avec]

If the way you play reflects how you are in life, I'm seriously fucked up.

[Alex C]

See, I spend a couple of hours just using the money cheat and building the most fantastic houses ever, it's my favourite part, which is why I'm kind of excited about being able to customise all the furniture and stuff in game rather than downloading addons and extra stuff other people have made.

This. I had entire blocks of sim houses that have never been lived in. I really don't give a shit if Bella and Mortimer stay together.

[Spluff]

So EA have realised nobody is actually going to want to pirate the Sims 3?

[Ozymandias]

You're kidding right?

I mean, we are talking about the best selling PC franchise of all time. This is a ridiculous cash cow for EA and the fact that they're willing to take a chance on piracy with it is huge.

[David_Dovey]

Let's be fair/realistic. DRM was never an effective way of curtailing piracy, EA learnt that with Spore. They're not exactly "taking a chance with piracy" because the amount of piracy will stay roughly the same regardless of whether it is DRM'd or not. One might even make the contention that there will be less piracy because people who are anti-DRM- albeit probably a very small amount- might be more likely to buy the game than pirate it out of spite.

[Melodic]

Now pro-DRM fanatics will pirate the game out of spite!

[jmrz]

I'm probably going to actually buy this one. I bought all the original sims, then with sims 2 I just didn't have the money, so I got it from friends or whatever. I will actually have $100AU to go and spend on this game when it comes out, and if I don't buy it for me, someone will buy it for my birthday (which is the week after it comes out), so you know.

And Avec, yeah - my sister used to purposely block her sim children in a one cell room and watch them die, or make them go swimming and take all the steps out, she was mean. I on the other hand, made lovely houses and had perfect sims that had perfect careers and well behaved excellent children. Now I think about it, I don't know which one of us had bigger issues

[Avec]

What does the DRM exactly do? Is it anything alcohol 120% can't get through?

[Dimmukane]

If it were in the Sims 3, it would limit the amount of installs you could have at any one time.  Basically, you wouldn't be able to hand it out to all of your friends to install, only a set number.  You could deactivate a copy and hand it out to someone else, but you would always have that limit (usually 3 or 5), even with Alcohol 120%.

[Melodic]

120% only works because DVDs mostly operate under the same AACS encryption method. Since the levels of DRM vary on games, you can't have a one-hack-beats-all scenario. Instead, each game needs to be cracked individually, even if several games use the same basic DRM method, such as SecuROM.

[Yayniall]

If the way you play reflects how you are in life, I'm seriously fucked up.

It's not my fault they didn't learn to not set fireworks off indoors.
Or try to cook before reading.
Or wet themselves infront of a love interest.
Or wake up in a room with no windows or doors and die in x10 speed.