Why I Have Already Uninstalled The Sims 3

[rainne]

I do not care for uninterruptable Legacy-style play. I get bored with only one family for ages and ages, and I want to play other families.

But when I leave a family happily lounging about on the second day of pregnancy only to return to find that the unborn child is now a TODDLER that I didn't get to name, see born, or ANYTHING, that makes me ANGRY.

After six hours of gameplay, I have uninstalled the sims 3, and I will not be reinstalling it.

Also, be aware, if you bought the digital download from the EA store, it has SecuROM malware DRM on it. Also, there is some evidence that the Download Manager which installs with the disk version may also have SecuROM on it.

Thanks for nothing, EA.

(Oh, there are other reasons, too. Like the unintuitive menus; the uniformly ugly hairstyles for men; the fact that sim customization is not only not as good as we were led to believe, but also not even as good as TS2; the inability to create custom neighborhoods... but coming back to that family to find that child already born was the straw that broke this camel's back.)

Comments

[meoryn]

I haven't played the game myself yet but from what I've read around the net, there is an option to turn that aging thing off so that the families don't all grow while you're off playing another family. I am pretty sure it was on one of the article reviews listed on the most recent entry for Snooty Sims website.

[misterwalnut]

The option is borked. Broken. As useless and abortive as EA's promises to keep malware off the disc. In other words, it doesn't work.

(To be fair, though, there is no securom on the official copy.)

[meoryn]

That option doesn't really affect me either way personally because I've been wanting families to grow up together since the release of Sims 2. But thanks for the heads up anyway.

I had heard there was no securerom but again, that doesn't affect me because I've had securerom installed from another game long before Sims 2 started using it and I've never ever had any problems. Securerom is probably one of those programs that affect certain computers but not others depending on what sort of computer you have and what else you do with it.

[jackalibis]

SecureROM is not (currently) on Sims 3, according to Reclaim Your Game (http://reclaimyourgame.com/). They're going to be keeping an eye on the game concerning patches, purchased shop items, etc.

This is, at least, only on the hard disc that is confirmed. I've heard that on the early release of the download version, SecureROM is on that, but the newer version, it's not. Regardless, Reclaim Your Game has software to help remove SecureROM from any computer.

[chasy]

That really sucks that you hate the game so much! I'm loving it. :-\ But I've read a lot of reviews on TS3 and it seems to be the kind of thing where you'll either LOVE it or you'll HATE it. Not many people feel "in-between"...