The Sims Resource vs. The Store

"Symb10sis;c-16450489" wrote:
Yeah, I joke about that throughout it. I love to write. My sincere apologies if sharing that writing offends you (or anyone else).

Thanks anyway.

@Symb10sis it's so good to see you back! I thoroughly enjoyed reading your ups and downs in this whole Sim shopping saga! :smiley: Please don't ever apologize for writing from the heart. Besides, this is your thread, you started it, lol, so you can write as much or as little as you want. :wink:

You asked why I choose to go the disc route and avoid 1.69? Well, most of the time I play offline and also, I do not want to have to go through origin whenever I launch. So to avoid origin (at all costs because I find it invasive and annoying) and to be able to play TS3 offline (which I don't think you can do when launching through origin, though I'm not sure), I use discs only, and I'm only patched up to 1.67. If I patch up to 1.69, I will lose the ability to do all of that. Remember, I'm not the technical type, so I found an old post that might explain it better than I can:
http://forums.thesims.com/en_us/discussion/861283/what-do-you-think-of-the-1-69-changes

Yes, the price on that Outdoor Living Stuff pack just keeps climbing higher and higher on amazon. It's ridiculous! That's Ok, though. I decided my Sims can live without that pitcher of refreshing ice cold lemonade, lol. Why oh why couldn't they have at least given us a pitcher of iced tea in the store!!! :angry:

And you're right, I think the used stuff packs they sell are worthless. The only use I can think of, is if you play on discs and already have that stuff pack (or whatever) installed and registered and you buy a new computer and wish to install the stuff pack via a disc(???). Whew! Again, I don't pretend to know what I'm talking about when it comes to all that. I'm just thankful every time I pop my game in and it works! :relieved:

I bought a new computer last Oct so I'm pretty sure it can handle a few more stuff packs, more store content, more worlds, and even a few more expansion packs. But like I said before, I only own one stuff pack and I haven't found any stuff packs that I really really want (the Outdoor Living was the only one that tempted me) so I'm not getting any more of them. I also decided that I am definitely not going to buy any of the three remaining expansion packs that I don't own already.

Hardly anyone posts that much here anymore. It's so refreshing to see someone who still has so much enthusiasm for the game!

I do hope you're able to get some of your goodies installed and start playing TS3 again! :)