Freetime Patch is out
notveryawesome:
Not only did they break a bunch of stuff, but they RE-broke a bunch of stuff. For example, pets scratching cribs/cots when in use has been a problem since Pets, and was fixed with a Pets patch. The same problem occurred with BV (and maybe Seasons too - I don't remember), so this means that they re-broke it when BV was released. And now they've broken it yet again. It's turning out to be as bad as the recurring piano borkage. It seems like EAxis is borking and re-fixing the same fucking dozen or so things with every EP. Obviously, they spend absolutely no time on R & D or QA - they just churn out the EPs and SPs in order to turn a profit, not caring if the products actually work, or not. Oh no, testing their merchandise before releasing it would make too much sense! [/rant]
Edited to fix typo.
tizerist:
can i not just use a standard no-cd exe now, then replace it with it with the securom one when it comes out, then patch the newer no-cd exe?
BTW, how long do you guys expect to wait for this updated exe?
ElfPuddle:
I'll wait as long as it takes.
Oh, and a note on another site from the dead guy KevinTMC about the SuxRom / Need For Patch issue, because at least one of you may be interested:
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Re: Still the SECUROM rages on...
« Reply #11 on: May 11, 2008, 09:14:32 AM »
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There are still some companies that respect their customers. Stardock (see http://www.stardock.com/products/?tab=mygames) comes immediately to mind; they have produced the highly-regarded Galactic Civilizations games (if you've ever been a Civ fan, you're liable to get hooked on those), the new hot title "Sins of a Solar Empire" which I've been meaning to check out, and others. They are proud of respecting customers enough to release games that have no copy protection...and that aren't bug-infested either. (They'd have been too proud and careful to release some of the Sims products, in their current states, as betas.) The lack of customer punishment copy protection hasn't seemed to hurt their sales...GalCiv 2 and Sins both rocketed up to the top of sales charts, and without massive ad budgets too.
They even have a no-DRM downloadable game service, TotalGaming.net, which I've used and would recommend without hesitation--it doesn't take over everything, doesn't seem to burrow deep into anything, only runs when I want it to like any other normal application. I used TG.net to acquire the fun Space Rangers games, so that I wouldn't get the nasty Starforce copy protection which had been used on the CD-ROM versions that Cinemaware Marquee released in this country.
Everyone makes mistakes now and then (there are some real dogs of games being re-distributed on TG.net along with the gems, for instance), and any organization is liable to eventually come down with a case of the evils; but so far in my experience Stardock and TotalGaming.net are teh r0x0rz. So when I become dictator if they ever asked me, I would insist that EA make a deal with these guys to fix up and then redistribute the Sims series via their online service. If the effort to repair Maxis' spaghetti code didn't suck up and exhaust all available talent and resources at Stardock, and cause them to collapse, that is...
jolrei:
Quote from: tizerist on 2008 May 29, 17:08:36
can i not just use a standard no-cd exe now, then replace it with it with the securom one when it comes out, then patch the newer no-cd exe?
BTW, how long do you guys expect to wait for this updated exe?
I believe you misunderstand. No-cd crack .exe files are used so you don't have to load the game from the CD or DVD. Bypassing the CD, means that you avoid installing securom (bad thing) on your computer. When you patch, the no-cd crack is out-of-date, since it was made for the non-patched game. This may cause problems due to what we call the "unholy hybrid" (patched game with non-patch no-cd .exe). Thus, people wait to patch the game until a no-cd crack for the patch comes out, so that we can continue to avoid securom (bad thing).
Gamblor:
Wonder if the next EP Apartments will re-break some of these fixes or do more harm to the game it self. Would have been more logical to just wait till the The Sims 2 series was done then come out with a large patch at the end then to have us remove hacks now and then put them back in later after the next EP comes out. We will end up with a broken game anyways since Sims 2 is almost done and they are busy getting Sims 3 out the door. I don't think I will be in any rush to play the next generation of the Sims anytime soon.
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