TS3 L&P
Callista:
Sims has always been more demanding than most games that came out around the same time; I don't see why that should change now.
Yeah, I'm not buying 3 either.
Sigmund:
Quote from: jesslla on 2008 December 17, 17:37:11
Those specs sound a lot more like I was expecting.
A lot of people right now can't afford to build a new box, so I wonder if the sales of TS3 are going to be anywhere near what they are projecting. One of the nice things about TS2 was that the base game would run on lower end boxes at the time. My computer at the time was a couple years old, but it still ran the base game and UNI on med-high settings just fine.
Agreed. I'm also pretty skeptical of their projected sales for TS3, more so because of the specs than Securom. I know several of people who play TS2 that either just don't get what Securom is, or haven't run into problems with it on their system yet. Particularly for people who aren't particularly tech-savvy, they may not even *know* that their computer problems stem from Securom. On the other hand, none of my friends (including myself) are hardcore gamers, and buying/building a new computer just to the run TS3 is out of the question. Even for those who don't know/care what Securom is, if the demands for the game are too great, they'll just stick to what runs on their computer.
Mootilda:
It would appear that the EA marketing department wants to keep the specs for TS3 approximately the same as for TS2. So, we may see very unrealistic (low) "minimal system requirements" on the TS3 box.
(Marketing groups rarely care whether the specs are accurate. They care about what will convince people to buy the game.)
Annette:
The original spec's for TS2 were very low and when the game finally came there was no way it would run on my P3 that met them. So I bought a new computer. It exceeds these current minimum spec's but I really want to see the recommended spec's. Given Rod Humbles vision for Sim City was rubbish, I'm waiting to see if TS3 will be worth the effort and expense to upgrade.
talysman:
No way I could even Arrr that, then, unless I bought a new computer. Mine's a P4 1.6 GHz with 512MB RAM.
I find the specs amusing. Some of the early interviews about TS3 claimed they were planning on making the specs *lower* than TS2, so that it would work on "your grandma's computer". That is now revealed to be blatant L&P.
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