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Nite/m4re

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The Sims 3 leak!
« on: May 20, 2009, 08:47:55 pm »

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/18/sims_3_leaked_online/

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The newest addition to Electronic Arts' mega-franchise The Sims has reportedly been leaked online two weeks before the video game's official release.

It certainly didn't take long for EA's The Sims 3, one of the game publisher's flagship titles for 2009, to be shanghaied by interweb pirates. We've identified a number of trackers (that shall remain nameless) purportedly linking to the game torrent, sized somewhere near 5GB.

Although perhaps inevitable these days, the leak is still bad news for EA, which announced back in March that Sims 3 wouldn't carry any online authentication. Only a product key is necessary to activate the game, the company stated.

Awesome. Surprise?
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Re: The Sims 3 leak!
« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2009, 08:48:50 pm »

What I want to know is that if it's any good.
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Re: The Sims 3 leak!
« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2009, 08:50:44 pm »

What I want to know is that if it's any good.

Yep. Me too. Unfortunately I don't have it on hands at the moment.
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Re: The Sims 3 leak!
« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2009, 08:53:05 pm »

Why must you taunt me so, internet? The week after I leave my awesome university connection for my dinky 56k line, this happens. Yeah, sure, I bet I could get it, but by the time I'm done the game would be released.
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Re: The Sims 3 leak!
« Reply #4 on: May 20, 2009, 08:58:57 pm »

Sims 3 was leaked on Sunday or Monday. Novices!
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Re: The Sims 3 leak!
« Reply #5 on: May 20, 2009, 09:00:28 pm »

It's made by EA.

Why would you buy it before getting ahold of the  "demo"?
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Re: The Sims 3 leak!
« Reply #6 on: May 20, 2009, 09:00:35 pm »

Well, it's not that bad. I've spent about 3 hours in it. Mostly, this is Sims 2, but seamless. Well, there're different changes (like reworked personality system or advanced lot system or opportunities system etc.), but the main thing is that you can directly walk with your sim around the town and it will load the locations seamlessly. Pretty neat feel I must say. This game REALLY lacks content. So until the community makes mod tools and starts to create things I think I'll wait, also I've found a few minor bugs already.

I think I'll wait for some official patch and community content and then download/buy it, because for now I have to be busy anyway. I must say, the main thing for me : they are not more hardware-heavy than Sims2, so if you can play Sims2, you can play Sims3 easily.

P.S. It's not demo, everything is playable.
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Re: The Sims 3 leak!
« Reply #7 on: May 20, 2009, 09:03:34 pm »

This game REALLY lacks content.

That's so EA can fill it in with 70 expansion pack released over the next two decades. :P
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Re: The Sims 3 leak!
« Reply #8 on: May 20, 2009, 09:06:51 pm »

Yeah, it's a known thing with Sims 1/2 :D.
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Re: The Sims 3 leak!
« Reply #9 on: May 20, 2009, 09:09:09 pm »

I meant the "demo".
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Re: The Sims 3 leak!
« Reply #10 on: May 20, 2009, 09:11:08 pm »

I meant the "demo".

So you offer me to swim in pool? o_O
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Re: The Sims 3 leak!
« Reply #11 on: May 20, 2009, 09:29:42 pm »

as I mentioned on the Sims 3 thread in DF General Discussion, EA are LYING about their DRM. It requires you to phone home with your serial code to EA, via Securom, every time you launch the game. Not impressed.
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Re: The Sims 3 leak!
« Reply #12 on: May 20, 2009, 11:07:58 pm »

Awesome. Surprise?
Surprise? Where? I've been playing it for a few days now.

B12ers are slow. I might consider buying it when there are a couple expansions out in a pack.

« Last Edit: May 20, 2009, 11:09:30 pm by Soulwynd »
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Re: The Sims 3 leak!
« Reply #13 on: May 20, 2009, 11:19:32 pm »

Why would anyone be surprised it leaked? It was shipped two weeks ago.
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Re: The Sims 3 leak!
« Reply #14 on: May 20, 2009, 11:31:18 pm »

So can we see boobies yet?

Maybe I should wait for the boobies mod.
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