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TS3/TSM: The Pudding / The World Of Pudding / Re: Technical problems with THE HORROR: downloading, installing, and running it
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on: 2009 May 22, 17:35:10
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I am going to post this here since I am not sure where it should go. I was on my isp homepage this morning and thy run scrolling news stories. In the entertainment section they had a story about Sims 3 and there was an acknowledgment from EA about the piracy and they had this to say-
"EA said the pirated version "is a buggy, pre-final" version of the game.
"It's not the full game. Half of the world _ an entire second city _ is missing," said spokeswoman Holly Rockwood in a statement.
Not sure what to make of it but I haven't heard anything else like this yet so there you go.
Thanks, this is what I've been trying to get across. I'm positive the torrent version has problems, both in the crack and the version. The replacement (the crack) for the TS3 file is, in my opinion, dodgy. I could be wrong but only time will tell. We'll all know for sure in a week or two. See other comments about the second city. It was never going to ship with the game, and at this late stage it is too late for EA games to recall all the games (which are probably sitting in the back rooms and warehouses of computer stores) to add it to the game as it is shipped. I think we'd all like to believe that this leaked version wasn't the real one, based on what we've heard about it so far - the bugs, the problems, the flaws, the removal of some of the best aspects of game play, etc. Unfortunately claims that it's not the "real" game are based more on wishful thinking than on the available evidence. The bugginess isn't an argument in support of your point of view. The base game for TS2 WAS this buggy - just ask Pescado, who was the first to find and fix many of those base game bugs. Some of the EPs were even buggier and should never have been released in the state they were when released. Over the last few EPs in particular, EA's playtesting & quality control seemed to consist of: "let's release the game/EP, and we'll find about the bugs when the paying customers find them and tell us." As for RELOADED doing a dodgy crack: you probably aren't aware of the fact that RELOADED have a good reputation in the pirating scene, and I doubt they'd tarnish that reputation by deliberately creating a dodgy crack. It was RELOADED who released the crack for TS2 that disabled or prevented build mode from working. I remember it well. So you are absolutely wrong. I'll give you another example: Godfather PC. The original crack released caused a bug in the game which meant that the player could not get out of the doors in cars or enter cars (can't remember which now). Anyway, the bug was fixed when somebody released a decent crack for the game. |
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TS3/TSM: The Pudding / The World Of Pudding / Re: Technical problems with THE HORROR: downloading, installing, and running it
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on: 2009 May 22, 15:15:13
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I am going to post this here since I am not sure where it should go. I was on my isp homepage this morning and thy run scrolling news stories. In the entertainment section they had a story about Sims 3 and there was an acknowledgment from EA about the piracy and they had this to say-
"EA said the pirated version "is a buggy, pre-final" version of the game.
"It's not the full game. Half of the world _ an entire second city _ is missing," said spokeswoman Holly Rockwood in a statement.
Not sure what to make of it but I haven't heard anything else like this yet so there you go.
Thanks, this is what I've been trying to get across. I'm positive the torrent version has problems, both in the crack and the version. The replacement (the crack) for the TS3 file is, in my opinion, dodgy. I could be wrong but only time will tell. We'll all know for sure in a week or two. |
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TS3/TSM: The Pudding / The World Of Pudding / Re: THE HORROR: The REAL TS3 Scoop As It Unfolds
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on: 2009 May 22, 15:03:03
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Well I'm just wondering, maybe all these bugs, like the speed problem, the graphic glitches, etc. are caused by the crack you're all using. I don't mean the stuff you buy on the street.  The crack that comes with the torrent download is probably suspect and that's why you're all experiencing these bugs in the game. That's a little bit far fetched. A crack changing animations would be a wondrous being. You're wrong. The crack is twice the size of the original TS3 file. Take a look. With the Sims 2, the original crack was bad and affected gameplay. I remember it clearly. Same thing, perhaps. |
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TS3/TSM: The Pudding / The World Of Pudding / Re: THE HORROR: The REAL TS3 Scoop As It Unfolds
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on: 2009 May 22, 09:27:07
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Well I'm just wondering, maybe all these bugs, like the speed problem, the graphic glitches, etc. are caused by the crack you're all using. I don't mean the stuff you buy on the street. The crack that comes with the torrent download is probably suspect and that's why you're all experiencing these bugs in the game. I remember the missing build mode in the crack for Sims 2 when it first appeared on torrent. |
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TS3/TSM: The Pudding / The World Of Pudding / Re: THE HORROR: The REAL TS3 Scoop As It Unfolds
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on: 2009 May 21, 13:48:42
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I played it for some hours, and while I have no issues with the sims, or the gameplay, I do have some concerns regarding the graphics. I have an nvidia 8600 videocard with 512 mb memory and inspite of the fact that all settings were on high and gameplay was smooth, the textures look very blurry and pixelated, especially on close-ups. Even the sims's skins. Also, I noticed that from a normal play camera height, texture details go missing. I made a sim with red and white polka dots shoes and the dots were visible only when I viewed them in extreme close-up. I also have an issue with the dark shadows on the objects. I tried to make *white* towels but the result was more like dirty white towels. And the same thing happened with the curtains, the bedsheets, the leather couch that's also in sims2. And the indoors lightning seems to suffer from the same drawback as the radiance lightning mod for sims2. The objects near the light source glow and appear overexposed while those a few squares away are very dark. Maybe I don't play enough games to make a reasonable comparison of what is realistically achievable in terms of technology, but I find these issues very annoying, especially when we had very beautiful clean textures in Sims2 and the lightning was good even though it was not realistic. Maybe it's an issue with my card, or maybe it's just the way the game renders objects. But if that's the case I don't think it should render objects with lower quality when you're inside the lot. It's very annoying because things seem hazy.
Just wanted to say that I have the same card and the same problem with grey textures that should be white... dunno if it's the game or the card though that does it... but I guess on the game. I know exactly what you mean. Ever play EA's Godfather on the PC? Same kind of hazy pixellated look to the graphics. The blurry textures in Sims 3 remind me of that game. |
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