I just purchased the game today from Target. I'm from the Seattle area. I am in no way a stranger to how long it takes to install any version of the Sims yet I have never encountered the problem I am having with this version.
I put disk 1 into my computer and followed the prompts to set up an Origin account and moved forward from that point. It opened the installer window thing and began the "copy" process, which took about 3 hours (really) and now it's asked me to insert disk 2, done. For 2 hours now it has sat at 7% of "installing" my DVD drive isn't even making sounds or lights.
5 hours into this and I still can't play it simply because it seems to have stopped installing. In this amount of time I could have installed my Sims 2 and all of the expansion packs that go with it and been playing by now.
Is it normal for it to take this long? Did something happen to make it stop?
