Stop me from buying Seasons -- AGAIN
twooflower:
Quote from: ZephyrZodiac on 2007 August 31, 18:37:39
I only ever got started on the link because of OMGPetz, which I couldn't get on CD, and at the time I only had a CD drive on this PC.
So, after getting the thing from Virgin, who promised me it was a CD and not a DVD. and finding it was a CD after all, I was so mad I just went and bought the download! I never bothered to send the CD back, for which now I'm extremely grateful, as if ever I want to play without Seasons, I don't have to use the link. (I also use it on my laptop installation occasionally.) Then, when I found I would have this annoying wait for Season, I went and got the download again, and then is when the link got borked - every time they upgraded it, something happened and I couldn't access the darned game. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling Seasons, no dice. So I then did a complete reinstall of everything, and it was fine until they upgraded again. What I did discover this time was a nice little program the link had in its files - Seasons Key Uninstall, or something similar!!! Which is what they'd done, as every time I tried to open the game, the hourglass would appear and disappear almost immediately. But if I clicked on Pets, it would try to open it, and then tell me I had a later expansion on my PC! And all the registry entries were fine. Just no key to open the game with.
Yeah, I was impatient to get Seasons. It always takes a couple of extra days beyond the release in my area to get an expansion, and when the stores do get it, it gets sold out quickly. GameStop is the only halfway decent game store in the area, and I don't particularly care to shop there because of the attitude I get. They tend to ring up any game you ask about before you even say you want it or can ask them the price, which is really annoying and presumptuous. Their prices are too high, so I guess they don't want you to have time to think. Wal-Mart has good prices, but no one there ever knows anything or wants to bother to find anything out for you. Many times I have made a trip in vain to try to buy an expansion, and I live a half hour drive from anywhere.
I also understand about the problems when EA Link would update. That's when it broke for me as well. Fortunately up until yesterday I could still play my game if I was persistent and tried to start it a few times. EA Link hasn't been able to connect for a couple of months. Last night it refused to let me play until I could prove I owned the game. I would try to log on, but I couldn't click into the box to type my information -- just kept getting the annoying beep that says "you can't do that, stupid." I ended up completely uninstalling EA Link because I never want to deal with it again.
Quote from: ZephyrZodiac on 2007 August 31, 18:37:39
I think I'm going to read more thoroughly now, and work out how to access my game without the Link!
I went to GameCopyWorld as suggested by B and got the no dvd/fixed exe for Seasons. I'm not good at explaining it other than to say I made a backup of the files I would be replacing in the Seasons directory in Program Files and then put in the new files -- had to rename the Sims2EP5 file to Sims2EP5_DRM and then ran the program from there. When it worked, I made a shortcut to my desktop so I could set the program up to run in a window. I'm sure somone else could probably do a better job at explaining, but that's what I did. So far it's working for me.
ZephyrZodiac:
Well, I downloaded the .exe from the link Pescado gave earlier in the post, and I'm seriously thinking about trying it! I don't in general approve of stuff which helps people access pirated copies of games, but I think when one has paid for the true EAxis stuff and can't play it properly, it's different. Especially as I paid £19.99 (I think) for the download, whereas I could have got it from Amazon for about £15. And I think to myself, if Amazon can sell it for that (plus free delivery) - what must they have paid EAxis for it? So the profit EAxis make out of me buying the download must be about twice what they make out of selling it to Amazon!
As to having to wait to get it in the stores, don't Amazon.com do a pre-order with guaranteed delivery on the launch date? That's what the UK Amazon does, only of course it's the UK launch date which is always a couple of weeks after the US, and having to wait while everyone is talking about a new EP gets me soooo frustrated!
J. M. Pescado:
I don't see why you're in such a rush to get it, you may as well wait until we get all the issues ironed out.
ZephyrZodiac:
But so much more interesting waiting on tenterhooks for you to come up with the fixes!
dizzy:
Quote from: twooflower on 2007 August 31, 13:33:33
Sadly, I haz crappy satellite internet that limits me to 200 MB a day...
I think we've found your REAL problem. :o
Even on crusty old dial up I could download twice that much.
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