Store & Exchange Open for viewing

[missaaliyah]

The Store and The Exchange is now open, if you can register your game with serial you can download Riverview and objects etc..
Just thought I would let you know.

[GloamingMerle]

The quality of a lot of the items seems better than what I've seen in screenshots of the game. This is very cruel of EAxis.

[WearsHighHeels]

Look at how much of this stuff is identical (or near so) to TS2 objects:

Tiki idol
http://store.thesims3.com/productDetail.html?productId=OFB-SIM3:17114&categoryId=11509&scategoryId=11531&pcategoryId=11525&ppcategoryId=&gender=female&startAt=0

Island bar
http://store.thesims3.com/productDetail.html?productId=OFB-SIM3:17010&categoryId=11509&scategoryId=11524&pcategoryId=11517&ppcategoryId=&gender=female&startAt=0

Many of the in-game objects are also almost identical.

Look at this bed. 5 energy points, WTF? Why even bother as who would want to use the stupid thing? Sleep takes them long enough in the most expensive bed already!
http://store.thesims3.com/productDetail.html?productId=OFB-SIM3:17015&categoryId=11509&scategoryId=11515&pcategoryId=11510&ppcategoryId=&gender=female&startAt=0

[WearsHighHeels]

The quality of a lot of the items seems better than what I've seen in screenshots of the game. This is very cruel of EAxis.

I disagree, take a look at the toilets:
http://store.thesims3.com/productList.html?categoryId=11509&scategoryId=11533&pcategoryId=11532&index=0

The lines on those are just as jagged as the bras close up in the game.

[GloamingMerle]

The quality of a lot of the items seems better than what I've seen in screenshots of the game. This is very cruel of EAxis.

I disagree, take a look at the toilets:
http://store.thesims3.com/productList.html?categoryId=11509&scategoryId=11533&pcategoryId=11532&index=0

The lines on those are just as jagged as the bras close up in the game.

Hmm.. I had the clothes and hair closer in mind when I posted that, I should have specified. However, a lot of the objects seem a little less plain than the ones I've seen from in-game pictures.

[I.Am.She]

That is one fugly toilet:

[nanacake]

Why do we need toilets. WHY. Oh wait, Pee.

[farmersimmer]

The Store and The Exchange is now open, if you can register your game with serial you can download Riverview and objects etc..
Just thought I would let you know.

Lousy EA mongrels! Liars!
 Quote:"The aaar'd version is missing half the world and another town and more content":end quote
Then they also have the hide to sell TSR style, with sims2 objects!
Deliberately omitted from the game.

[GloamingMerle]

LOL! How do you roll something which has hexagonal wheels?

[buny]

That is one fugly toilet:

Giant potty chair!! LOL

[Hook]

Dear Gawd some of that stuff is hideous.  Male hair styles that are just a variation on the bowl cut.  The hats look way out of place.  There's not much there that makes me want the game.  What's worse, they expect you to pay extra for it.

I forgot how ugly their demo Sims were.  I blame that on people here who have made some very good looking Sims. <sigh>

Hook

[GloamingMerle]

Well.. I think their choice of patterns [crappy wood pattern especially] is making some of the objects uglier than they actually are. Certain other objects have no such excuse though.

[Scotty]

Who comes up with this crap? I mean, really. Most of that stuff is just awful looking. The community has always made better stuff than EAxis. Most of that stuff could have shipped with the game, but EA just wants to squeeze as much money out of the sheep as possible. I'm not going to spend a dime on any of that shit. The only thing I want from that site, is the new town.

[I.Am.She]

Who comes up with this crap? I mean, really. Most of that stuff is just awful looking. The community has always made better stuff than EAxis. Most of that stuff could have shipped with the game, but EA just wants to squeeze as much money out of the sheep as possible. I'm not going to spend a dime on any of that shit. The only thing I want from that site, is the new town.

I think its hilarious that the best thing on that store is something you don't have to pay for... They've got a very backward way of thinking...

[tedw]

There are a few things I would probably get (the closed waistcoat for guys - why is the one in-game open and untidy? - and the women's quilted leather jacket come to mind) but a bunch of it is pointless.  I don't see a need, for example, for different designs of microwave.  I'd rather be able to recolor my stairs than offer my sims another design to stare at while they heat up their hot dogs.

[MistyBlue]

Does anyone else have free points? I logged in just now and noticed I have 850 points to use!

[GloamingMerle]

Nope.. I have zero points.

[Celestra]

I just looked and thought , I wonder what i could buy for 1000 free points . The answer quite clearly is ,next to nothing . If you bought the bed then no you cannot afford the bedside tables . Why am I in all honesty , not the slightest bit suprised

[snowluv]

Well, from the looks of the textures that were applied on some of the objects, I would hope to God the rest of us can do better.  EAxis has never been known to do much with their in-game objects, and has always left it up to the CC artists to fix the fugliness. Did  anyone here really believe that was going to change with The Sims 3?  With better textures and a bit of imagination, those objects could look pretty good. IMHO Of course, the hair styles lack... style.

I will use up my free points as I really like the Hewnsman Set. And I will await the arrival of better hair styles with much eagerness.  Not from EAxis, of course.  

Oh, does anyone know for a fact that SecuROM is not associated with the EADM?  I heard/read that a new EADM is in place. I wondered if that was because the old one contained SecuROM. I hate that piece of crap with a passion and do not want it on my system again.

[Dizzymental]

Looking at all that junk, I don't want free points. They can keep 'em.

[GloamingMerle]

With better textures and a bit of imagination, those objects could look pretty good.

Yeah, that's what I was getting at. I think several of those items have a lot of potential, and only look fugly because of the poor pattern choices.

[CaptaiNemo]

With the community being that much better than the Eaxis artists, why should they bother build good content in the first place. I rather see them build a nice and customizable engine than waste effort on something they fail at anyway.
And apart from that.. maybe it makes amateur content creators feel better about their stuff if the default objects sucks equally

[CharleeRose]

Every single item at The Store could glow with the light of the heavens and I still wouldn't buy it.  Now if they could get it to wash my car, do the dishes, or mow the lawn I may change my mind.

[missaaliyah]

I tend to use the toilet that they had in Sims 2.

[WatersMoon]

Oh look, it is all the items that would/shouls have shipped with the game - but instead they are charging money for them...Why am I not surprised? Oh, yes, because they are EA, and they hate us.