I was playing a student in university and saved several times during the progress. The next day when I was starting up the Sims again she was completely gone.
I then started with a new household (one woman) who grew her family with a cat, husband and 6 children, this worked fine for days, until at a certain moment they moved houses and the second youngest child just disappeared out of the game (out of the household/family tree and out of memories).
This is really making the game unplayable.
I guess the only solution at the moment is to ask for a refund. I mean, such an important mechanic is broken, and regardless of the patch notes 2 and 3 the game is still broken. How sad... The Sims 2 will be forever my favorite game... but this "new" version is just a piece of buggy garbage. And apparently EA can't fix such a thing... weren't they supposed to release it in perfect conditions? or at least repair this atrocious glitch at the very beginning?
