EA it is time to stop being stupid and start talking. A Rant by Twain.

[Twain]

Yes most of Anubis' comments were deleted....by Anubis herself :-/

[Avie]

Who cares? I get to wait 6 months for any EP So I adopt a total Zen attitude
"If a girl and her sister are walking down the street and one drops her fan who is the elder?"

[Argon]

Using stolen merchandise - even if you didn't actually steal it - is still a crime.

Personally I couldn't care less as long as you don't steal my stuff (hurray for moral ambiguity), but you might rethink admitting to any crime in public. Even though it is extremely unlikely anything will come of it, why take the risk?

It's not necessarily stolen, I've heard of employees getting games for free from their job. They do work there after all and it's possible that they get it as a reward/bonus.

My dad got a copy of the C&C Generals Expansion for doing something with EA (he was a computer consultant, didn't actually work for them); so it's not like every free game is stolen.

[ZiggyDoodle]

Here ya go, Twain:

http://www.comcast.net/games/invasion/details.jsp?fn=PC/837830

[Hei_Chavorale]

I don't want a pets expansion pack. I'd rather have a unique expansion pack. Such as adding characters to the list of getting pregnant ( they can get you pregnant or you can get them pregnant) such as the grim reaper.

[trancejeremy]

It could be that EA signed some sort of deal with Gamespy so that they would get the "scoop" on the new EP first. (Thus the secret page there).  Thus the crackdown.


Still, things like this are why I really wish some company would make a competing Sims clone. If nothing else, it would force EA to be less jerk like and more open in order to win business.  It's baffling that you get so many copies of other games, like Doom clones and C&C clones, but no one has made a serious Sims clone (at most you get the sleazy things like Playboy the Mansion or Singles or 7 Sins)

[tIIsuggas]

The link is for ps2.  It has nothing to do with pc version of the sims.

[J. M. Pescado]

Still, things like this are why I really wish some company would make a competing Sims clone. If nothing else, it would force EA to be less jerk like and more open in order to win business.  It's baffling that you get so many copies of other games, like Doom clones and C&C clones, but no one has made a serious Sims clone (at most you get the sleazy things like Playboy the Mansion or Singles or 7 Sins)

Nobody's stopping them from doing it, but there's one thing you're forgetting: THE INTERNET IS FOR PORN!