Still planing with TS2 anyone ?

[FourCats]

I'm happy with the sims2. And I haven't seen any talk of pudding that makes me want to buy or arr it.

[MaryH]

After nearly daily reading of the official forum for the game for the past year, I'm determined to never buy or install the sims 3, mostly because EAxis is determined to ruin: 1). your computer 2.) your game 3.) your mind.

How many times does one have to reinstall the game to get a patch to work? How many times do you have to rebuild the game from the start when you crash it? How much time do you have in your life? How much software do you have to fix when you install it? How much do you have to buy to get the game to work properly? In fact, do you have a limitless bank account for EA to just grab?

That's just the start of the problems I' ve seen. I won't even mention that I don't like how the puddings look, what limited interactions they have, the rabbit holes, or the intolerance of CC from the game. We won't mention the fact that EA would like you to hand over the control of your computer to them for their "phone home" opt-in.

Plus the fact that EA is not improving their customer relations, their technical support or support, period. I know that only a small fraction of players are on the forum, but if they're any indication of what's going on with the silent majority, fuggedaboutit. I don't want a half-made, poorly written, badly coded piece of overpriced shit near my computer.

In other words, I'm staying with Sims 2. Still discovering some things I haven't done-and it doesn't crash at all!

[J. M. Pescado]

How many times does one have to reinstall the game to get a patch to work? How many times do you have to rebuild the game from the start when you crash it?

You know, I've never had any of these problems, and I'm the one who does the craziest crap to it. The people who can't install the patches correctly are just idiots.

How much time do you have in your life? How much software do you have to fix when you install it? How much do you have to buy to get the game to work properly? In fact, do you have a limitless bank account for EA to just grab?

Buy? Huh?

[saraswati]

Mary, most of the reinstall issues actually dissapeared with the last patch. Now that you can put your Mods in your My Documents folder, patching is relatively simple. Plus, EA figured out that there was an issue with the Download Manager (surprise, surprise) and once you update the EADM, the game patches in the right order and there's no need to reinstall.

As to the question of the look and feel of the game though, that's purely personal choice. Personally I really like Sims 3 and the couple of times I've fired up Sims 2, I haven't played it for all that long. The load screens between houses annoy me now I'm used to Sims 3.