The Sims 3 specs

On Dec 18, 3:25 am, "kat" <kat.n... DeleteThis @ntlworld.com> wrote:
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> > "Jeanie" <taureanm... DeleteThis @yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> >> Engram wrote:
> >>> The Sims 3 game disk - $AU120 (this is what my local EB Games says
> >>> the release price will be over here)
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> >>> An EP disk - $AU80 (I'm guessing, but at $120 for base game, that's
> >>> probably a pretty good guess for EP price)
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> >>> Having to use up your limited installations to fix what shouldn't be
> >>> broke in the first place - priceless.
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> >>> Thank you Mastercard.
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> >> My God, that's outrageous!  Personally, I hope that this game is a
> >> complete flop because of this limited installation rule.  I'm sure
> >> there will be some way around it, just as there is when installing
> >> Windows. But the very idea that they intend to institute something
> >> like that is enough for me.
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> > It's completely outrageous. I was buying M&G Stuff for myself for
> > Christmas and the sales clerk was also a simmer so we started
> > chatting about the upcoming TS3 and she said that's the pre-release
> > price that's on their computers.
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> Amazon, UK, are asking £29.35, ( full price £39.99 )  which is apparently
> 71.41 ( 97.30 )Aus.dollars.  We could ship it to you a whole lot cheaper!  I
> suspect that price in the shop will drop a bit.

Except that this Has already happened with other games requiring
online registration and using drm;

"This game is not authorized to be played in your geographical area.
it is only authorized to be played in the UK and your ISP adress is in
Australia. Regstration not allowed and not authorized."




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> > I can see them getting badly PR slammed for this game - but probably
> > not straight away. I think they will cover their arses for the
> > initial release and the problems will come later.
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> I'm glad they have apparently backed off on the aging thing.  Now I want to
> make my own neighbourhood.... and install as often as I wish!
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> Except that this Has already happened with other games requiring
> online registration and using drm;
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>  "This game isnot authorizedto be played in your geographical area.
> it is only authorized to be played in the UK and your ISP adress is in
> Australia. Regstration not allowed andnot authorized."
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I forgot to mention that it's actually even worse than that.

What has also happened is that peole who did legally buy such games in
their own country and legally registered it from their own country
were unable to play their games on the very same computer while they
were in another country because the online drm recognized their isp
adress they were calling from was not in the authorized country.

That is, some people registered online in their home country, then
their employer required them to move to another country in order for
them to keep their job and keep making money to support their family,
and they were the unable to play the game they legally bought on the
very same computer that the game was legally registerd on and to,
because the online drm recognized that the isp from the new country
wasn't from the old countty that the games were registered in or
authorized to be used in.

I will NEVER buy anymore PC videogames ever again because of draconian
drm like that.

It was the same game, the same computer, everything legally bought,
just the isp was different since it was a different country they had
to move to due to their employers requiring them to.

And now they were and are unable to play what they legally bought,
legally installed and legally registered on the very same computer it
was legally registered to.