Error Code 12

I am not sure it is just a matter of they refuse to fix it. They believe the matter was fixed and settled about the time Highend Loft came out. One of the programmers said he had it fixed. He got full credit that the problem was fixed. His fix was suppost to fix error code 12 and 16. It did fix 16 but code 12 continues the problem is if you speak to a tech he believes the matter is fixed and EA will no longer accept responsibility for the error as it is offically fixed. What I hate is the marketing stragity of you must buy the next game. They have gone back to predatory marketing. If you do not purchase the next game in the cycle, your updates will not work. This happened when they update WA. I did not want to purchase WA and they forced you to by placing updates for WA in the next patch to fix Sims 3. This cycle is happening again with seasons. They took a major hit from the FTC for having these pactices in place. They attempted to correct the matter and then error code 12 and 16 began showing up. Error code 12 and 16 where said to be fixed but now they have gone back to the predatory practices in marketing. I just made a new complant to the FTC about this new practice of them forcing consumers to update to Season because the patches will not be backward compatable. Again. Until they fire the current CEO and Board this will never change and I do not see that happening since a company is based on profits. Until we can release our addiction to Sims. Which is also doubtful since there is no other game on the market that does what Sims does no one that is competing in the simulation field on the life cycle market. The market would disappear if some one would compete with EA.  EA is not a good company nor will they ever be since they are fully profit driven.