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Electronic Arts / The Sims 3 Complaints - Too Many To Mention

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Electronic Arts / The Sims 3

Posted: 2009-06-06 by   Rock
Too Many To Mention
Complaint Rating:  83 % with 6 votes
Company information:
Florida
United States

I would just like to thank EA Games on screwing me over on yet another game. Thank You EA for giving me hope once again and disappointing me yet again after you have taken my money. All the promises you have made about this game you have not delivered, but then again whats new, you have never been out to please the customer and give us what we want, you only want our money, and you have no problem selling us a mediocre product to get it!!

Seriously What Era are you living in EA?!
*The cars drive over each other, usually you slow down when there is a turn in the road, and you don't drive 100+ in a town!
*90% of all the content is imported from The Sims 2
*Sims 2 had better animations, if you can't design a decent engine (which you clearly can't) then use a trusted one e.g: HAVOC!!
*No smooth continuous animations e.g: your sims just appear in the car they don't get in.
*Objects are not logically thought out e.g: the sprinkler should require a water source and the source should be opened up before the sprinkler is activated, but instead the sprinkler just starts when clicked on (even though my sim is reading a book)!!!
*I can't follow my sims into any community lots when they are busy with whichever activity e.g: going to a restaurant (Come On EA I could do this in Sims 1!!!).
*My sims 2 with all my mods, objects, animations and tweaks is 10 times better than sims 3.
*And there are still hundreds of other screw ups, but i'm just fed up!!

Thanks For Nothing EA!!
Hope you enjoy my money!!
Cause I sure ass hell am not enjoying your game!!
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 170 days ago by   whaa +1 Votes
The Sims.. isn't that for girls? They wouldn't care about any of those issues. Wondering where the sprinkler gets its water? Not a thought that will happen.
 169 days ago by   ashleynm85 +1 Votes
Come on asshole. Give it time. Remember the base game for 1 and 2? Yeah, nothing to be impressed with. Just be effin patient.
 169 days ago by   Dunja +1 Votes
Yeah, I'm pretty dissapointed, too. And has anyone noticed how hard it is to create a good looking sim?! They all look similar, whatever you change. One more thing about that, is it just me, or did the sims 2 have more options for changing the look of a sim's face (shape of the head, nose etc)?
 168 days ago by   rach +1 Votes
yeh its retty disapointing
i hate how you cant put the arrow to the end of the screen to move the angle in stead theres always a shitty angle
and the grahics is shit
but its ok
i still play it lots more options.
and to the guy who writ a long paragraph
get a life man seriously
 164 days ago by   anotherasshole +1 Votes
I don't really agree and I'm prolly going to get hated on for it. The Sims 2 had a shitload of problems with the house designer, had a 4 point isometric view [often resulting in misplaced items], there was always something your sim[s] needed, the load screen, no cars, less in game complexity [don't forget this is one installment], and it actually had less logic than this game [don't make me count the ways, sprinkler man]. The Sims 3 fixed all of that plus, the water is 10x better, the skin and hair on the sims and the rendering techniques are drastically improved. My two major gripes are that I can't give my Character a Chin strip [as opposed to the soul patch that they did have in stock], the animation and speed of the vehicles, which I don't care that much about, because I'm not a whiny ass bitch, and you can't interact, enter the building and/or see your Sim[s] at work. All and all, I think you people should have sunk your negativity into Spore [A.K.A. "Sim Everything"], because then you wouldn't be bitching about this vast improvement over the Sims 2. Ask them why they aren't making Sim City anymore instead of bitching about this game [unless you have actual complaints like not being able to see your sim work (which is a big deal because it's 1/4 of his life in this game and 1/3 IRL!)]. I suppose you'll want them to add prime time traffic as well! LOL!
 164 days ago by   anotherasshole +1 Votes
Actually, there is something very wrong, but you didn't scratch it. They are going to nickle and dime our asses for more objects [not in expansions, but they actually want to sell the items like it's fucking second life!]. Fuck EA for that shit. Apparently $50 isn't enough! They pulled this with Spore [anybody notice a stage missing?].
 163 days ago by   nikkifoster 0 Votes
I just bought the Sims 3 today. Downloading was fine but when time to play, I was missing shader model 2. I had just bought a graphics card last month in order to run Sim 1 and 2. Now the game suggest that I purchase another graphics card. I cannot purchase another one. I bought the new card for $100.00 and was told that it should run sims 3 but now that I have owned the graphic card over the 30 day mark can not return. I just don't see myself paying another $100.00 for a graphic card just to play one game. Also beware because if you do not have enough GB you might have to buy more ram. I am returning my $50.00 game back in the morning. So sad!!
 158 days ago by   alimarchi07 0 Votes
im pretty mad that i spent 50 bucks on this game. on the website for the sims3 they make it look like its a hell of a lot better than the sims2, obviously i guess they're trying to market it, but once i got it my desktop computer wont even play the damn thing! So i have to play it on my laptop and the graphics are absolutely horrible. i agree with dunja, all the sims look the same! Not only that, EVERY TIME they have a baby, its a boy! have to have like 3 boys just to get a girl! there's no objects worth buying, it just sucks!
 157 days ago by   mariah 0 Votes
I agree to this nonsense, I don't like how the way you can't move the end of the screen. It makes it more difficult to play. Especially at trying to move it at an perfect angle. This game was a waist of fifty dollars. And i am very dissapointed with the fact that you can't control their behaviors inside buildings. why would EA send out a game with problems. No wonder their getting complaints. Mine won't even start up. Supposedly i have a stupid disk authentication failure message. So i can't play the game, what the heck is this, They say this game is easy and fun, please. This game was difficult. How can EA expect you to buy a memory card that is 100 dollars..
Ea do something about this!!!
 153 days ago by   Andy103 0 Votes
Terrain paints are less than decorative and very small brushes are given the hole CUSTOMIZE EVERYTHING is a complete joke what it really means is customise our shapes customise our wallpapers as long as you dont mind sticking to the shapes we have provided to me the sims 3 looks like it was made for mobile phones the graphics are very poor and very child like i dont like how the sims pull cars out of there ass on the sidewalk and magicly enter them buliding a home for my sims ended up in me quiting there are no stages to build so far its been very boring and pointless lets all hope ea puts in a code for driveway animation and lets you delete designs on wallpapers not just colors camera controls are not very responsive even on a logitech G9 the sims 3 was worth a try EA .
 150 days ago by   DLMcE 0 Votes
I don't think that the Sims 3 is all that it was cracked up to be.. tbh I don't think its any better than the original Sims. The Sims 2 was a great game, there seemed to be a lot more to do and a lot more ways to change the Sim. The Sims 3 doesn't have this option. Also I have discovered that the cheats are not working for my game. The cheats bar isn't coming up whatever I do. I'm not a happy bunny!!
 149 days ago by   veggiedawg23 0 Votes
The Sims 3 is a total disappointment. I was really looking forward to it, but when I installed it on my laptop, couldn't believe how long I was spending watching my sim sleeping, given that the fast forward buttons don't work as they should.

The Ea excuse that it's down to the spec of machines etc is absolute nonsense. I have a high spec laptop and it still does this. Additionally, I have seen so many complaints about this on the internet that either it's a bug or the spec required to run this game is something that 90% of ordinary users aren't going to have and is thus targetted at the wrong end of the market.

I just opened up the launcher and was pleased to see they have added a patch. However everytime I tried to install it, the application closed without giving me any feedback as to why this was happening.

I've only managed to tolerate playing this game for an hour or so, and I wasn't particularly impressed by what I saw. The sims 1 and 2 were great because you could pick them up and within 5 minutes or so be totally absorbed in the game. Sims 3 however has been too ambitious, introducing too many competing gameplay options which have in turn made the game overly complex. They have also, in my view, taken the soul out of the characters. Previously, for whatever reason, they looked more likeable, and the terrain and decor available was more interesting and detailed, to the point you could actually take pride in the house and garden you had create for your sims. Now, quite frankly, it just looks crap. I dont even like looking at my character, and that's not going to want me to get involved in its life.

This game has lost all that's good about the Sims 1 and 2, and should have been marked the Sims 3 Beta because it's totally bug ridden and should never have been realised from QA in this state. I've been a devoted Sims fan for years, but I won't - ever- be buying any expansion packs for this game because it sucks!! It's clear to me that Ea Games is more profit driven than ever, but it'll be to their detriment because fans aren't going to put up with this crap.
 147 days ago by   Dalmighty 0 Votes
The Sims 3 isn't "as" bad as everyone says but it is still medicore. I also disagree with some of the above complaints are retarded and has nothing to do with the actual problems of the game.

EA is a greedy corporation that decides to strip the Sims Franchise as stated above and purposely make the game incomplete in order to maximise its profits from forcing us to fork over money for additional content that should of come with the original game. By doing this, they have made a game that is less functional then Sims 2. Unfortunately, the content that isn't in the Sim store scam will probably be released in expansions, even much of those that had come in the original Sims 2.

The game isn't as complex as people think but rather in many areas too simplistic. Repeating the same formula that worked for the first two but taking away those important ones that people require. This represents the regression we see when game companies try to maximise profits, not caring about their customers.

Obviously they're relying on the "fanbase" to improve the game through custom content and the such but this is pathetic. They've done this with so many other games such as Spore and their sport games. Shame on EA, Shame on us gamers for not doing anything to protest against them like a general EA boycott because you know every other game created while under this current management will suffer from this treatment seeing the gaming community as nothing but fat ignorant money pigs
 147 days ago by   Catfisf smell weird. 0 Votes
dude i would kill Sims 3! I would kiss the ground the creator walked on! I LOVE SIMS!
 146 days ago by   xrockstar211 0 Votes
I love the Sims3. I'm diggin' the personality traits and different life-goals. The expansion packs will rock. If you think Sims3 sucks, it's probably because you suck at playing it. It's not that hard.. really.
 142 days ago by   personneNeTeREmplace 0 Votes
LOL

Has anyone BOUGHT this game ?????

EA considers customers as "fat ignorant money pigs", for decades...

Just stop buying EA games!!!

Do you know "http://www.mininova.org/" ?

There you will find EA games with SUCKUROM cracked, so u dont pay to be annoyed by SUCKUROM (cf Spore...)

They dont want their game to be satisfactory when they launch it, they fuck it up, so that fat ignorant money pigs are forced to buy extensions...

And once a game is playable, with its 1564613576 extension packs, they just make an incomplete sequel, to eat more and more $ with fucked games...

FUCK EA!! DONT GIVE YOUR MONEY TO THEM !!
Just crack their games, figure out it sucks asses, wait expensions, crack them, and have fun!!
 140 days ago by   cheerio 0 Votes
To people who hate the cursor problem, you can fix that by going to game options.
 138 days ago by   anotherasshole 0 Votes
Hey personneNeTeR? Don't advertise that shit.
If you're smart enough to find the torrents that don't have viruses, then more power to you, but don't tell noobs this shit or:
a) there will be more viruses and virus producers
b) there will be more crack downs by greedy ass jackasses who buy out juries and judges
c) the noobs will advertise it even more and get this shit on further lockdown.
Piratebay was broken by noobs and courtroom corruption.
Do not advertise that shit and everyone will be happy, yes everyone.
 134 days ago by   MarkLouisWebb 0 Votes
You should've bought Empire: Total War instead.
 112 days ago by   Missnuki 0 Votes
Well, they have hacks and mods. I got custom skins and eyes. There's even a mod that alter the facial and body slider. Now my sims look more human and less like... moon heads?! lol

You gotta watch out for some of the patches EA does, because you'll have to take out certain mods in order to start it. But the modders work hard to cross those issues and the game is fun to play gain.

Granted, I don't play it for as long as I used to play Sims 1 or 2. I don't know, it's a love/hate thing. There are alot of things I like about it but there are an equal number of things I don't like. I DO think they gave us half the game and inventory. I remember on Sims 1&2 going thru 2-3 panels of items on the base games alone. Sims 3 has like 4 of everything--- and the rest of the house/sims objects are in the store. And they aren't even eye catching... ex: the hair is a fail.

It's still an amazing game, but I do feel screwed over.

I don't favor theft, but EA asked for it when they made an incomplete and buggy game. I can't even knock folks who got it through the Pirate Bay and etc.

I seriously tell my friends and folks to just get the torrent, or wait for the price to drop.

If I didn't lose my receipt, I would've returned my copy to EA myself.

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