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Yeah, I don't get it either. Good on Mike and Ryan for taking these "games" to task.

But wait, don't I like The Sims still (for the most part)? Where do I, as such, get off talking about people playing a game like Farming Simulator? Why yes. Yes, I do play The Sims 3. My current game is with a family that consists of a vampire, a werewolf, a ( Read more... )

Heard about this news first via rabbitucker over on Facebook.

I'd have probably heard it sooner, but I've pretty much stopped following to-the-minute video game news altogether, at least for the time being, now that I've removed everything but Slashdot and Learn to Counter from my feedly thing (well, andexcept for Did You Know Gaming and Zero Punctuation, ( Read more... )

IT STARTS. The expansion pack express for The Sims 4 has now left the station!

I do have to admit, though, that this actually looks vaguely interesting, at least when compared to how most jobs were handled in previous Sims games. I.e., for the most part, all that ever happened was that your Sim would go to a "rabbit hole" (or simply leave the ( Read more... )

Well how about that. EA is patching pools into The Sims 4 for free. (And ghosts, apparently. Didn't know that those were not already in the game.) Well, color me mildly surprised that they didn't just wait and include that stuff with whatever the first paid DLC pack will be. Maybe toddlers will make it in for free as well, since this is ( Read more... )

"The Sims sequels are odd things. Normally, you sit down with a new game to see the world expanded, a game made deeper, the stakes raised higher. In this series though, it’s inevitably a clearing of the board, a throwing out of all the really cool stuff and also Katy Perry’s Sweet Treats so that it can be repackaged and resold later on. We all know ( Read more... )

Oh shit, I guess I'd better run out and buy The Sims 4 right now! *eye roll*

How about you fuck off with your flaccid, none-too-subtle threats, EA. If anything, this makes me even less inclined to buy The Sims 4 than the piddling amount of inclination I was already at. Also, if The Sims 4 continues being the steaming pile that it apparently is ( Read more... )

Yeah, and I wonder how many legitimate customers have been hit with this anti-piracy measure (assuming it is indeed a legitimate anti-piracy measure and not just the more typical case of EA screwing something up). If the answer is "more than zero," then this is a failed anti-piracy measure, in my eyes ( Read more... )

The Sims 4 was released today, apparently, and as per usual with EA, it came with a day 1 patch to fix a bunch of bugs that were in the release versionAnd now, back to mostly ignoring The Sims 4 until such a time as all of the inevitable expansions have been released and are bundled together for a more reasonable price, which probably won't be for ( Read more... )

While I'm on the subject of The Sims 4 and all ( Read more... )