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Anonymous
14 years ago

Re: Error Code 12

The thing is: I only got the problem when I installed Late Night and Generations together!!!!

I understand what you're on about. It's SO FRUSTRATING!!!!!! 

There has gotta be a way for me to continue playing! I am NOT just going to give up because of this stupid problem....

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    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Let me see if I can guess what happened you visited China or Egypt you installed those games you saved it ok once or twice then on the next save it gave you an error code12. Then you could not get it to save again even if you deleted the corrupted file. 🙂 Just let me know if I am close on this one.

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    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    That's almost exactly what happened!

    You see I hadn't been playing for 6 months as my dad's computer had been struck by lightning in January and to cut a long story short we only got it fixed in June. So knowing that it'd be working soon I ordered Late Night and Generations. AND THEN IT DIDN'T WORK!!

    It was like those games just triggered it. Before I'd been completely fine and I had been going to China, France and Egypt quite a lot. So...

    And even when I didn't go to any of the places I still got the ErrorCode 12. Suprisingly what happened was that I sent one of my girls to France, she had a superb holiday, she came back and it saved!!! Explain that please?

  • So Error Code 12 is something EA refuses to fix? What a load of, for lack of a cleaner word, manure!  😕mileymad: And if my predictions are correct, you said that it don't work on Windows 7? Great, now it seems that getting an Alienware PC may not do the trick either... 😕mileysad: Please let me know if I am wrong...

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    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    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.

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