All I can figure is 1) they focus-tested it on people whose worldview I desperately disagree with 2) they decided to make it more of a reality-television modeling game, and cheating is a mainstay of reality television? But they seriously introduced a function that tracks how many people your sim has slept with and punishes them if it's the wrong number. There is a little chart! AUGH.
... For the record I'm the most pissed-off because I had created a lot of little Sim worlds with different family structures from science fiction and now those are broken forever. I could reinstall the base game and reconstruct the saves, but I'm not sure how happy I'm going to be spending any time doing that anymore now that I know that I want to play The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and EA thinks that I should play Desperate Housewives instead.
Really, really good news: I emailed Amazon Digital Downloads immediately stating my problems and asking for my money back if they deauthorized my machine. And they gave me my money back! Yay Amazon!
... If anyone ever creates a flexible, detailed society-creation game that doesn't have a major war component and isn't an MMO, I want to know about it. The two things I don't want in my introvert time are bullets and actual other people :D
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... For the record I'm the most pissed-off because I had created a lot of little Sim worlds with different family structures from science fiction and now those are broken forever. I could reinstall the base game and reconstruct the saves, but I'm not sure how happy I'm going to be spending any time doing that anymore now that I know that I want to play The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and EA thinks that I should play Desperate Housewives instead.
Really, really good news: I emailed Amazon Digital Downloads immediately stating my problems and asking for my money back if they deauthorized my machine. And they gave me my money back! Yay Amazon!
... If anyone ever creates a flexible, detailed society-creation game that doesn't have a major war component and isn't an MMO, I want to know about it. The two things I don't want in my introvert time are bullets and actual other people :D