Who's getting the x-mas pack?

[Kitiara]

I'm having too much fun to pass out. I think I'll sign off and wake up my partner though.
It's 3am here. He'll forgive me right?

[Brynne]

gwrfwllldbd!!!

Mmmm? Huh? Llamas having sex? Where???

[Zandi]

I should know better than to post and drink.
But darn it's more fun this way.

[Motoki]

@Bagelnuts: I don't think that other games don't get away with not making patches to fix bugs, they surely do. What bothered me more about what Twain said is the gullibility of the users at the BBS who bought the lame assed explanation that the game was too complicated to patch and to add insult to injury thanked them for not patching it. I don't see that going on in other communities.

Twain, you're absolute right about the user base for this game being more females, teens, pre-teens and older people who aren't as tech savvy as those in other communities. Maxis and the pay sites take advantage of that. In the Morrowind community a lot of the users were guys in their late teens or twenties with some older techie types too. There was one guy who worked on Unreal Tournament and a net friend of mine who I worked with on our mod actually worked at Sony making PS2 games. If anyone ever tried to blind us with technobabble in that community people would call bullshit on it so fast it would make your head spin. In this community, even if someone tries the BBS and pay site sheep are so well trained the won't listen and go on the attack to defend EA and the pay sites who are just out to get their money.

[U_Dog_U]

i axed mi sims ef i shud gt teh hilidae pck und thy sad no sew i'm nt gutting it. nd mi hapmstir sad no two. 

[ZiggyDoodle]

Electronic Arts profit drops 47%

Electronic Arts Inc. Tuesday said its net income fell 47 percent from last year to $51 million, or 16 cents a share.
Redwood City EA (NASDAQ:ERTS) reported net income of $97.3 million, or 31 cents a share, last year.
The video game company reported revenue of $675 million compared to $715.7 million last year.
Analysts had expected a profit of 5 cents a share on revenue of $635.3 million, according to Thomson First Call.
© 2005 American City Business Journals Inc.

Could be that pissy stockholders are behind the new marketing methods.

[Zandi]

Electronic Arts profit drops 47%

Electronic Arts Inc. Tuesday said its net income fell 47 percent from last year to $51 million, or 16 cents a share.
Redwood City EA (NASDAQ:ERTS) reported net income of $97.3 million, or 31 cents a share, last year.
The video game company reported revenue of $675 million compared to $715.7 million last year.
Analysts had expected a profit of 5 cents a share on revenue of $635.3 million, according to Thomson First Call.
© 2005 American City Business Journals Inc.

Could be that pissy stockholders are behind the new marketing methods.

Yep sure right blame any one but EA right.
Perhaps the Stock holders have a reason to be getting Pissie with the company.
Like say the piss poor job the company has done in providing a quality product to put on market?

[magic cookie]

Well, then they've got it all wrong because pissing off their customers by selling sub-par products is not going to do the trick.

PS: Hi everyone, another bitter ex-member of MTS2 here

[veilchen]

Being a (somewhat) older female who is not tech-savvy, let me put my two cents worth in here. I most certainly know when someone is trying to pull the wool over my head (or is that 'eyes'? Sometimes I get your metaphors mixed up, to my kids' amusement.) Even being not tech-savvy does not prevent that. I am capable of locigal thought processes, and when something sounds as if someone is trying to dazzle me with techno-babble, I will do the one thing I know how to do: I ask someone technically savvy who I can trust. I do the same with doctors, car-salesmen, and repairmen at large. I don't take anyone's word for it if I smell a rat, and I smell a rat pretty quickly. I know when people try to put one over on me, it's what I've been trained to do.

Reading through the official board, the one's most vocal in defending the questionable ea/maxis practices are teens and pre-teens of both sexes, as well as the pre-computer generation of both sexes. Please don't lump the female population in with the kids and teens, that has been done for many centuries and it needs to stop. It has more to do with the fact that females are far more willing to give others the benefit of the doubt, once, twice, three times tops, and then we get pissed. I believe its far more a gullability issue, and gullability is not limited to gender. There is quite a bit more to it, but it's heavily involved in thought processes and personality issues, and I don't feel like getting into it too deeply right now. I'm enjoying my time off

[Zandi]

BTW folks .....
Forgive my ignorance here ....
But how the heck to I mount the pack?
I know you use alchohol 120% (we've got that)  and something about an image but beyond that I am beyond clueless.
Burn Method I know but ye old buner has taken major shit of late.
Help.
Please.

[Baa]

BTW folks .....
Forgive my ignorance here ....
But how the heck to I mount the pack?
I know you use alchohol 120% (we've got that)  and something about an image but beyond that I am beyond clueless.
Burn Method I know but ye old buner has taken major shit of late.
Help.
Please.

Check the Peasantry section for a tutorial by Lindaletterae (sorry if that's spelled wrong.)

[Zandi]

Thanks Bunches 
I knew it had to be under my nose.

[Baa]

Hmm.. I just checked there myself and I can't find it anywhere. Where'd it go off to?

[nectere]

Its been pulled completely.

[Zandi]

This is what I get for being slow.

Sigh.

[MutantBunny]

It isn't hard to 'Mount' a file. I can direct with IsoBuster: install the thing (read the directions) cruise over to whereever your file is that you want to read. IsoBuster had a little window that showed there was a setup.exe file within the bin file. Then you can extract the files that you see and put them into the same folder as the bin file and then go click on setup. Easy stuff. Alcohol is probably much the same.

[Baa]

Its been pulled completely.

Really? What for?

[Zandi]

Thanks.

I'm such an idiot with these things....
Guess I could just fire up alcohol and see if I can just quess at how it works.
I usually leave these things to the boyfriend type person.
But a girls gotta learn some time.

Kingdom:

I'm thinking it may be thanks to the BBS dorks and how they responded to having such information posted over there.

[nectere]

kingdom - harrasment emails

Zandi: You should be able to open the program and click the virtual drive, choose mount image and choose the .cue

[MutantBunny]

Linda was getting nasty emails--so she pulled everything. Small minded be like mes. Assholes by any name. Anyway--I am taking the heat now as long as I can take it that is

[Motoki]

This is what I get for being slow.

Sigh.

It's on filesharing. If you look around enough you shouldn't have a problem finding it. Search for Sims and Christmas though, not Holiday since the euro-types think a holiday is a vacation.

[nectere]

I think He/She already has the pack just cant figure out how to use it.

[Baa]

Nasty e-mails? That bites. Although I don't know how hurtful a few e-mails like "lol omg!!!11 u r teh piracry!1!" could be.

But if they were mean enough to make Linda pull it completely, idk.

Those kiddos can't read. She was posting it for legal owners who wanted to make a back-up. 

[Twain]

Please don't lump the female population in with the kids and teens, that has been done for many centuries and it needs to stop.

Sorry about that Veilchen...I did not intended to lump the female population in with the kids and teens per say.  My point was that the Sims games are targeted more at females and teens and preteens who are not traditional gamers.  I am not trying to say that females in general are as irrational or gullible or not technology savvy.  I would be a fool for saying that...there are plenty of women around here who know this game and technology better than I do.  My point was (and I should have been clearer) that this game seems to be marketed at people who are not technology savvy at all, and for who The Sims games seem to be their first foray into the gamming world.

[LK]

I have it.  Although I didn't pay for it.  *Ahem*

[Waves at Twain]