I went off on such a rant earlier before I returned the game for a full refund that I was barely making sense so I decided to edit my comment:
This game was a huge disappointment, just as bad as SimCity. Like many others here, I have been playing for over a decade and have purchased every game, ep, stuff pack and a lot of items from the Sims3 store but this? I just felt like I had been completely ripped off.
The game is boring with very little content and almost no world to speak of.
The camera controls are just deplorable.
There is very little for the Sims to do and everything just takes too long.
The game locks up and I have to wait for it to unfreeze when doing anything that involves the keyboard. (no it is not my computer, a powerful gaming pc and I am not the only one)
The developers seem determined to take away as much opportunity for creativity as possible which is sad because most simmers are very creative people.
I was so hoping you wouldn't have kitchens and sims catching fire so easily but alas, my sim can't own any stove at any cooking level without setting herself and her house on fire. That is not entertaining, it is jarring and unnecessary.
You promised we would not need "a persistent online connection" to play, I should have known there was some catch to that wording, when we log in the game wants us to log into origin and it took a while to figure out how to tell it to play offline. You were deliberately misleading.
When I returned the game to Walmart, I offered to bring them a printout of the complaints in this forums and of Origin's promise to refund people who were unhappy with the game. Mine was a retail copy but after calmly explaining the games main issues, glitchy, freezing etc, and EA's lie about the necessity of an online connection, I convinced them to refund the 80 dollars, with tax, I had wasted on it.
You peaked with Sims 3. I am so glad it is still installed on my machine.
EA Staff (Retired)
