TS3 was to include weather.
ProfPlumbob:
Quote from: StormchaserOne on 2009 September 17, 21:11:32
You people have forgotten SIMs 2 base game so quickly. Majority of the EPs were already in base game it is the expansions which activate them. With Wanton which JB found would be used for a Nightlife Expansion. Weather Season Expansion. Adventure Bon Voyage. Found Pets for a Pet Expansion. SIMs makes expansions because they do not want a base game running $150. Clothes and Objects only Packs are last minute additions which are not planned out. And, there maybe a SIMs 4 around the corner if Expansions are a failure.
lol, not planned out? That's why they announced content to be released at their store BEFORE the base game came out. And now they're doing it again with the expansion, announcing a lovely linup of new shiny premium priced furniture to go along with the release of World Adventures instead of including it with the expansion. Last minute additions my butt, they're doing this on purpose.
it's not like everyone expected Sims 3 to include ALL the expansions. Dating/nightlife, apartments, weather...those make since for Sims3. A diving board freakin' makes sense. Hot tubs? Pinball machines? A violin to play at symphony's? Piano's? I could keep going...so could many of us.
So much content that was gimped from Sims 1 and Sims 2. It's like nails on a chalkboard hearing "It's just a base game" from the community when sequels aren't supposed to just be more of the same and wait for expansions to get what we've had before. Name one franchise that asks customers to pay multiple times for things they've had in previous games? We're not asking for all expansions in one, we're asking for a complete game where the features we've had prior make sense to have from the get-go. Pool items, band equipment, places to go dating and group hangouts, clothing stores...they should of said "What do we need in a life simulator with a whole living town?" and no one seemed to ask that question. Instead it was a list where they threw darts at and that's what got done, leaving a lot of content on the cutting room floor.
Sims 3 was a copy/paste rush job to please EA's suits and shareholders, nothing more. It's sims 2 slapped in an open hood with a fresh new coat of paint. I feel sorry for the Sims team because I'm sure most of them really want to make a great game for us but are tied down by EA.
Lorelei:
Quote from: tizerist on 2009 September 03, 14:51:12
All eyes are towards simslice then surely ::)
I have not cast my eyes towards Simslice since TS2 came out and they went pay, so, no, "all" eyes are definitely not on Steve & company at this point.
edalbformat:
Quote from: StormchaserOne on 2009 September 17, 21:11:32
You people have forgotten SIMs 2 base game so quickly. Majority of the EPs were already in base game it is the expansions which activate them.
Wrong assumption. The EPs included meshes and original colors. You could not do anything with the base game because meshes were missing. Not true that everything was already in a sack. My group have massively downloaded objects and meshes custom made by several of some dead sites. At every EP we were just confirming that custom contents that were put free for the users were just slightly made up and included in the EPs. So, they were not there, WE put them available, just that normal modders don't have immediate access to ass expensive tools/programs.
The EP that finally included a comprehensive bunch of alternatives to make objects available in game, was Appartment Life. Before this EP you could do nothing with the base game, first because it was too primitive and remained primitive throughout Seasons, BV and all previous crap. Finally as everything was already doggone, they released the pseudo EP Mansions &...
It included nothing that you could not find at MTS2. But it finally released all the coding so that people with a little patience could sew together all the EPs in one (I did, so any tard could do it).
dilitru:
I would also like to point out that EA stated once that The Sims 3 base game will have weather. If I recall correctly, there was a picture showing rain, with a sim looking up doing the "it's raining!" reaction like the one in TS2.
Wikipedia still shows a shred of this promise:
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Every lot is now synchronised with the main neighborhood time. Before, time of day and weather were different in each lot and would continue off from the last time it was played.
Curse those money-hungry executive meddlers.
(Edited many times to keep it short and simple)
Silver Knight:
Ive been looking around server boards, to share my frustration of this "bullshit" EA is doing, i guess i found another to share my discontent with, im no idle follower of MATY, but it's not half a bad place, good to see someones fixing EA's wrongs with awesome mod i guess.
If you have not signed not signed it already, theres a petition on the offical "Sims 3" forum, to get rid of the store.
What we truely need, in gaming these days, are indie developers, since they are pretty much the way forward for inventive fresh idea's and gameplay, if you don't believe me, look at Mount & Blade or Killing Floor. The sims is a dieing genre as long as EA is in power, and the only person willing to buy EA, is Microsoft which isn't a bad idea (They actually listen to customers) But thats not going to happen sadly, EA are Jackels, take all they can, and laugh.
The game took less than a year to make... they were trying to rush it out pretty fast, but they didn't quite make it, delayed it, snipped out everything, and released it. Some people are also pretty convinced they even leaked their actual game (BETA version) to draw attention to it, just like Spore.
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