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Post by Non Banjoble Tokens on Jan 24, 2011 22:20:40 GMT -5
Guys, Sims 3 is like $20.00 bucks at Amazon. That's like, cheap. Especially for the Sims. My guess is, EA realized that if you sell the original game at a low price, you can make money on Expansions. Makes sense. Frankly, I'm waiting for Medieval, which looks like the coolest game ever, even if the Magic Based Spin-off always falls flat (Age of Mythology, Lords of Magic.) I liked them. And a Vampire expansion makes sense. They did do a Harry Potter expansion pack. It had a bear in it. $20 isn't cheap to me We should all have a bake sale to help you buy a new copy of Sims 3. Who makes tasty brownies?
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Post by Alex Shelley on Jan 24, 2011 22:27:14 GMT -5
THIS GAME IS SATAN
My mom has the game case, she sent me a photo of the serial number because a friend said that if your game is registered, you can play without the disc (...I'm not sure that's true but dammit I'll try). I wasn't 100% sure if I had registered the game or not, so I figured I'd try. EA said the game wasn't registered but when I put in the serial number it went "NO IT'S INVALID >:U"
So now I'm on a "customer service live chat" trying to figure out how to register my f'n game and the lady takes like five to type "I apologize for this inconvenience." after I explained that I couldn't register. Why won't EA just let me talk to somebody on the phone?!
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Post by Alex Shelley on Jan 24, 2011 22:53:25 GMT -5
This language barrier is brutal. I just had to ask her to clarify the same sentence three times.
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Post by Classy Lady on Jan 24, 2011 22:55:43 GMT -5
THIS GAME IS SATAN My mom has the game case, she sent me a photo of the serial number because a friend said that if your game is registered, you can play without the disc (...I'm not sure that's true but dammit I'll try). I wasn't 100% sure if I had registered the game or not, so I figured I'd try. EA said the game wasn't registered but when I put in the serial number it went "NO IT'S INVALID >:U" So now I'm on a "customer service live chat" trying to figure out how to register my f'n game and the lady takes like five to type "I apologize for this inconvenience." after I explained that I couldn't register. Why won't EA just let me talk to somebody on the phone?! How many times have you installed the game? EA has some antipiracy thing where you can only install your game either 3 or 5 times. I can't remember which of those is correct, but it could be the reason your code wouldn't work. .. and I'm the unemployed one, sigh.
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Post by Alex Shelley on Jan 24, 2011 23:01:06 GMT -5
I only installed it once The lady is saying that the game can only be registered ONCE EVER, and can't be transfered to a new account. I don't think that's true at all. At least I think that's what she's saying, I can't understand half of what she says D: KJSHGEKJSHGES I hate EA sometimes. I really do. I legally bought this game dammit
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Post by Classy Lady on Jan 24, 2011 23:02:58 GMT -5
I only installed it once The lady is saying that the game can only be registered ONCE EVER, and can't be transfered to a new account. I don't think that's true at all. At least I think that's what she's saying, I can't understand half of what she says D: KJSHGEKJSHGES I hate EA sometimes. I really do. I legally bought this game dammit Yeah, you're supposed to be able to install it 3 times, as far as I know. I have no idea what she's on about. I've installed my copy of 3 twice. Had you registered it to another account on the Sims 3 site already? Edit: I can't read. You said you weren't sure. Gah.
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Post by Alex Shelley on Jan 24, 2011 23:07:59 GMT -5
The game is registered but apparently I'm a moron who typed my email address in wrong, and she says that the game can only be registered one time and that she can't just add it to -
HANG ON
I think I made the lady feel bad when I explained (as politely as I could) that I was having trouble understanding her because of the language barrier. She just said that she's going to disable my old serial number and issue me a new one "as an exception".
NOW I FEEL BAD. I FEEL LIKE I MADE HER FEEL BAD. I WANT TO FLY TO INDIA TO HUG HER.
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Post by Alex Shelley on Jan 24, 2011 23:50:07 GMT -5
HA. I got all the issues sorted out and may now play my game without the CD.
IT ONLY TOOK 4 HOURS.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Jan 25, 2011 0:02:07 GMT -5
Yay! Now to play the guitar all day to get that creativity point you need for promotion!
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Post by Alex Shelley on Jan 25, 2011 0:51:29 GMT -5
*eye twitch* I still can't play. The download manage is being a douche.
I HATE COMPUTERS
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Post by Classy Lady on Jan 25, 2011 0:55:00 GMT -5
EA Download Manager is worse than a hernia.
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Post by Alex Shelley on Jan 25, 2011 0:59:10 GMT -5
I saved all my game data and uninstalled the game. Now it's downloading again.
IT'S 0.23% FINISHED.
*grumpy face*
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Jan 25, 2011 1:04:20 GMT -5
This is why I only buy PC games from Steam. No discs, and everything is saved in the Steam cloud.
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Post by Alex Shelley on Jan 25, 2011 1:43:06 GMT -5
When this f***er finally starts working I'm going to make a sim that looks suspiciously like me and marry it to a sim that looks suspiciously like Jake Gyllenhaal.
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Post by @TenaciousBe on Jan 25, 2011 1:57:43 GMT -5
I've never understood needing the CD for a game after you've installed it. Isn't that the point of the stupid computer, that it can hold all those files for you? Grawr. Good luck kicking your computer's ass
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Post by Classy Lady on Jan 25, 2011 2:09:00 GMT -5
When this f***er finally starts working I'm going to make a sim that looks suspiciously like me and marry it to a sim that looks suspiciously like Jake Gyllenhaal. But then where does that put Sim Hawkins?
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Post by Alex Shelley on Jan 25, 2011 2:09:29 GMT -5
It's so that you can't install the game and let somebody else play it at the same time. Or some shit.
It just pisses me off, that's all I know. The anti-piracy measures are insane. When Spore came out with its massively strict antipiracy stuff, it immediately became the most pirated game EVER.
I'm all for preventing people from stealing shit, but they're just not doing it right.
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Post by Alex Shelley on Jan 25, 2011 2:10:35 GMT -5
When this f***er finally starts working I'm going to make a sim that looks suspiciously like me and marry it to a sim that looks suspiciously like Jake Gyllenhaal. But then where does that put Sim Hawkins? I'll have an affair with him. And then I'll cry when I realize that my Gyllenhaal sim and my Hawkins sim have been Woo Hooing behind the Citten sim's back. .......Mmmm, Gyllenhaal on Hawkins action.
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Post by Classy Lady on Jan 25, 2011 2:14:47 GMT -5
See that's why I like Sims 2 more. None of that one family at a time stuff. I can make a house where I'm married to Sim-Ultramantis (If I could make his freakin' mask), play that, and then make a Legacy Challenge in the same neighborhood with Trent Barreta the same day, and nobody pulls any crap like getting married to someone or having kids I don't approve of behind my back.
.. Okay now I'm totally making a Trent Barreta Legacy Challenge.
.. I am so sad.
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Post by Alex Shelley on Jan 25, 2011 2:21:39 GMT -5
You can turn that off on TS3, I think. I never did because I've always been the type to just stick with one family per neighborhood and follow them for 500000 generations. Not a total Legacy Challenge because I break some of the rules, like moving houses, but similar. And then I make them divorce their spouse once they've used them for genetics and turn them gay.
...Everybody is gay in Cittenland.
And now I want to make a Dudebusters house where I just have them wander around and do stupid shit with the time turned off so nobody ages. Hawkins will be there of course.
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