Anyone take the lastest survey on the Sims 2 web page?
MaryH:
Yes-that is quite a problem..how many tweens have credit cards, anyway? I'm going to assume payment is by credit cards, and I don't know how many mommies and daddies are going to give little darling theirs for the privilege of downloading crap. I certainly wouldn't waste my money on such shit.
As for the EULA, that is going to hit the other paysites right in the pocketbook, including the official one-TSR. Not only does this come into direct competition with them, how long is it going to be before EA decides to cut off any connection with them, and restrict the ability of any creator to copy their stuff?
I have the feeling that Sims 3 is going to be extremely limited in what can be copied and improved on. That means it will be a disaster-nobody is going to buy a game that has such a stringent creation policy. Epic phail, on a massive scale.
I fully enjoy the idea of EA taking a financial hit on this..and I'm looking forward to it.
xoferew:
Much as I am salivating uncontrollably at the thought of getting a new EAxis toilet... No, wait, that's not a good way to begin a sentence.
You know, EA, why stop there? Figure out some spy coding so that you know how many toilets we have on each lot, and charge us for each one! Our sims pay for each square of flooring, each kitchen counter, and each plot of flowers -- wouldn't it be cool if we could, too? It would make the game more realistic and help the children learn math skills like budgeting. I might have to sell my real life toilet to afford all this cc, but it'll be worth it! ^_^
Arina:
Wow! I didn't think I had any remaining respect for EA, but I certainly just felt myself lose some, so I guess now I really don't. I've been debating whether or not to get FT and AL (when it comes out), 'cause I'm a bit short for money, and I'm just getting my game how I like it, but, well, with buggy games, "Stuff Packs", SecuRom and now this, I am never buying anything with EA on it again. I may or may not play them, but I shan't buy them. Yes, they have the right to charge for CC, but that doesn't mean they should even consider it, especially in public (yes, this goes for SPs, too, in my opinion - all of that content, or at least the good bits, should have been in the closest EP! But at least those had some kind of 'look how much you get for a tenner' factor) They're not exactly making a horrific loss on this franchise as it stands, are they?! I feel dirty to have ever paid for their crappy, have-to-be-rendered-playable-by-random-internet-people £20-a-pop expansion packs.
Grrrr.
Liz:
Quote from: DrNerd on 2008 June 12, 04:51:59
...when they were asking where you currently download from, the only sites they mentioned were T$R, Peggy, Holy Simoly, Parsimonious, TS2, and the Exchange--TWO of those sites are 100% free and likely to stay that way, considering that the official site wants to be a paysite now. Think they're trying to convince people that CC should be paid for by sending people to T$R and Peggy instead of MTS2 or WNF?
I think it more likely that they're trying to gauge whether people are downloading from the free sites or the pay ones. If everyone who answers is ponying up for T$R's & Peggy's things, then charging for downloads would look like a moneymaker ("Hey, they'll pay for crap! We've got some crap! Let's sell them our crap!"). On the other hand, if everyone's downloading from Parsimonious, which is free, or AtS2 (was that it?) and Holy Simoly, which are mostly free with optional goodies you can pay/donate to get or do without, then it would look like we're not so much into being charged for stuff.
Of course, that assumes a sensible methodology to their survey, which may or may not be the case. ;)
bowrain:
I wonder why they didn't mention MTS... :P
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