TS3 L&P

[J. M. Pescado]

I had a feeling the path finding would still be an issue.  I wonder if that is why they chose to have most of the community lots as rabbit holes.

It makes a certain amount of sense: Is watching your sim browse shopping racks REALLY that interesting? There's a whole lot of hacks designed to simply eliminate the nuisance of going there at all. Plus, with the entire neighborhood active at once, they have to cut system load somewhere.

O Sim BR is currently attending the Sims 3 Brazilian Fanday event, and they've just received word of a tidbit on the first Sims 3 expansion!  They spoke to the manager of Marketing for EA and were told that it will have something to do with job occupations and work!

So in other words, rather than finishing the damn game, before the game is even OUT yet, they're already going to cut out features that they were originally intending to include and resell them as a seperate expansion pack, essentially charging people extra for the rest of their game. Nice. Is it any surprise that Pirate Cat won't pay for his downloads?

[Zazazu]

That's always been their MO. I just want the ability to make my own neighborhoods from scratch. This second downloadable neighborhood is not what I'm looking for. Why the hell they had to take such a huge step backwards is beyond me.

[FourCats]

Why the hell they had to take such a huge step backwards is beyond me.

They tried it with simcity, when they made simcity societies, and what a flop that was.  None of the simcity loyalists liked the idea.  So I guess they thought they would try it again with the sims?  Fail in one game, so do it again in another.  Doesn't really make sense to me, but that is EA.

[Sigmund]

Since I haven't seen anything about it on this thread yet, I'm going to post this and hope I'm not screwing something up. *ducks* Supposedly, the game leaked early and a torrent is up at demonoid, though I make no claims about whether or not it is legit since I haven't downloaded it. Personally, I'm hoping to wait until CC is a possibility down the road.

Link: http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1925148/41351368/

[Skadi]

I'm downloading it now, I will report in soon 

[J. M. Pescado]

Well, EA has been bragging about it being out for manufacture for awhile now, so it's not a surprise that, naturally, Pirate Cat is the first to get his paws on it. After all, Pirate Cat doesn't pay for his downloads.

[Skadi]

Pirate cat doesn't need to worry about street dates either.

[Solowren]

It seems someone posted screenshots in the comments. It seems to be legit, but I'm still not gonna touch it yet.

[Zazazu]

This is hilarious. So it's following on the same lines as Spore so far. Except Spore was only leaked a week before release, right? And this one is leaked two weeks and two days before.

Goodness knows I don't have a job, so I guess I can be a lab rat.

[Skadi]

There are only 2 seeders, so it's taking it's sweet assed time.

[HomeschooledByTards]

An RL friend of mine confirmed the torrent is legit.

[Menchii]

This blog has it at many free hosts.  Check it out.  It might be faster than the torrent.

http://www.rlslog.net/the-sims-3-reloaded/

[ShortyBoo]

I can't get it off of Demonoid since I don't have an account, but The Pirate Bay has a torrent up. I'm going to try it out.

Should bypassing the launcher work the same way as TS2?

[J. M. Pescado]

Beware: There appears to be some sort of bizarre spyware wrap on the installer, although it WILL work if you extract the ISO manually and unrar the installer. Ordinarily, you'd blame dodgy uploaders for this, but with EAxis, you never know...especially since I found out about it because it's a repeated behavior from...another EAxis game!

[Skadi]

This one at Mininova has 51 seeders: http://www.mininova.org/tor/2600472
NFO lists protection as Securom.

[Menchii]

Beware: There appears to be some sort of bizarre spyware wrap on the installer, although it WILL work if you extract the ISO manually and unrar the installer. Ordinarily, you'd blame dodgy uploaders for this, but with EAxis, you never know...especially since I found out about it because it's a repeated behavior from...another EAxis game!

I don't have it fully downloaded yet.  Do you mean there is spyware inside the ISO?  I am confused by what you just warned me about.

[ShortyBoo]

Beware: There appears to be some sort of bizarre spyware wrap on the installer, although it WILL work if you extract the ISO manually and unrar the installer. Ordinarily, you'd blame dodgy uploaders for this, but with EAxis, you never know...especially since I found out about it because it's a repeated behavior from...another EAxis game!

On the RELOADED version? I've downloaded several games released by them in the past year and I've never had a problem. All the games I've arr'd are either RELOADED or Vitality releases.

[rufio]

Well, I'm definitely not installing it for a while, but since it seems legit and my neighbors have kindly left their wireless unencrypted, why not?  Mutorrent says it should be finished downloading in just five short weeks!  

[LFox]

This blog has it at many free hosts.  Check it out.  It might be faster than the torrent.

http://www.rlslog.net/the-sims-3-reloaded/

I'm currently getting it from the links on post 75.  It's at 28%.  I'm shocked the game got leaked so early.  Guess some store stupidly released a copy early like what happened with fallout 3.

[ShortyBoo]

Mine's going so slow! It's only 2.9% done and it says it will take 18 hours. There are only 3 seeds, (I'm not connected to any of them) so that's probably why. I wish I had a Demonoid account, though.

I noticed the Wiki article on the Sims 3 which had info about the game leaking today is gone already. So I guess EA knows about it.

[LFox]

Mine's going so slow! It's only 2.9% done and it says it will take 18 hours. There are only 3 seeds, (I'm not connected to any of them) so that's probably why. I wish I had a Demonoid account, though.

I noticed the Wiki article on the Sims 3 which had info about the game leaking today is gone already. So I guess EA knows about it.

35%.  I'm using rapidshare.com to download it so i can get it at my nets maximum speed.  If i'd be using a torrent i'd probably just finish downloading it when the game comes out in stores.

You can bet EA is going nuts about the leak probably already counting the money they think they'll have lost.

[Skadi]

I've given up on the torrents, and gone for rapid share too. Should have it within 2 hours, as opposed to 2 days.

[Zazazu]

This one at Mininova has 51 seeders: http://www.mininova.org/tor/2600472
NFO lists protection as Securom.

Pay up, people. I'm getting around 200kb-330kb speeds from the original, so keeping with it. I don't have a Demonoid account either, yet I'm getting it.

Pescado, can you explain how to unwrap the ISO manually to bypass this supposed spyware?

New forum section title is fantastic!

[ShortyBoo]

35%.  I'm using rapidshare.com to download it so i can get it at my nets maximum speed.  If i'd be using a torrent i'd probably just finish downloading it when the game comes out in stores.

You can bet EA is going nuts about the leak probably already counting the money they think they'll have lost.

I hate RapidShare, though. I always get one file and it tells me to wait an hour. Plus, the last time I was there, it wouldn't take the letters they make you type in the box no matter how many times I tried.

I'm getting around 55 KB/s but it's still saying 1 day or more to finish. I might have to go to the RapidShare one.

[J. M. Pescado]

Check your "Sims3Setup.exe" with WinRAR. If you can open it in WinRAR and find another one in there, along with a "codec.exe", you has it. That's the real one. Copy your CD contents, replace the wrapped version with the inside version.