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EA Says The Sims 4 Will Be Coming to the Mac in 2014

Simplicated said:
:rolleyes: Your argument is so flawed. People are whining NOT because they're porting the games to the Mac. People are whining because EA is the worst company on Earth because all they care about is money.
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I thought the prime directive of all companies was to earn more money?
Sure EA go about this a lot less ethically then most. To the point people are revolting against them.
 
Michael Goff said:
Wait.

A company cares just about money? I mean, it's like you're telling me that the main purpose of a company is to make money or something.

Nah, that can't be true. It's just EA.

:rolleyes:
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Oh I love people who are in denial. Of course, companies exist to make money, are you implying that companies can make as much money as they want, even unethically? Almost every EA game you see nowadays is riddled with DLCs (and expansion packs) that are unreasonably priced. They also sell expansion packs that cost as much as a full game.

Just look at the Sims 3, they actually are selling the expansion pack, The Sims 3: Pets, of which the concept has already been implemented in The Sims 2: Pets. If this is not blatant money grabbing, what is it?

Maybe you're rich, which I don't care, but I wouldn't support a company that brazenly steals your money.
 
Simplicated said:
Oh I love people who are in denial. Of course, companies exist to make money, are you implying that companies can make as much money as they want, even unethically? Almost every EA game you see nowadays is riddled with DLCs (and expansion packs) that are unreasonably priced. They also sell expansion packs that cost as much as a full game.

Just look at the Sims 3, they actually are selling the expansion pack, The Sims 3: Pets, of which the concept has already been implemented in The Sims 2: Pets. If this is not blatant money grabbing, what is it?

Maybe you're rich, which I don't care, but I wouldn't support a company that brazenly steals your money.
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A company being unethical? Yes, it is bad. But just about every company out there, even Apple, does unethical things. If we're going to boycott every company that does something wrong (we probably should, really), then we're not going to have any companies.
 
Can't wait to see how bad they mess this one up. Lets just say I will not be preordering it...

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Michael Goff said:
And yet tons of people enjoy those games.

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A company cares just about money? I mean, it's like you're telling me that the main purpose of a company is to make money or something.

Nah, that can't be true. It's just EA.

:rolleyes:
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A company should be in business to proved a service or product. If they do it well they should be reward by making money.
 
I love the sims.

But I just don't trust EA enough to buy it :-(

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Michael Goff said:
A company being unethical? Yes, it is bad. But just about every company out there, even Apple, does unethical things. If we're going to boycott every company that does something wrong (we probably should, really), then we're not going to have any companies.
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True, but after many awful wrongs its probably time to send the company a message.
 
Michael Goff said:
And yet tons of people enjoy those games.

A lot of EA games are fun.

And no, not all whining on the internet is justified. A lot of EA hate isn't.



Wait.

A company cares just about money? I mean, it's like you're telling me that the main purpose of a company is to make money or something.

Nah, that can't be true. It's just EA.

:rolleyes:
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Better companies are led by visionaries who come up with awesome products then leave it to other people to determine how to maximize profits, IE, Apple led by Steve Jobs.

EA is led by businessmen milking a franchise for all it's worth - whether the products are any good or customers are happy don't factor into their equations, and it doesn't really matter because they have a revolving door market - new people continuly enter to replace the old disassatisfied customers.
 
I was just about to moan about always-on-line, DRM crippling. I see you guys are on the ball!
 
If it's like Sim City, you'll be able to have 2 sims living in a wardrobe, and when they try to go to their job they'll spend 20 minutes repeatedly walking into the wall.
 
Always-online, DRM-infested game running in a Windows emulation layer?

Can't wait to buy it! /sarcasm :rolleyes:
 
I hate DRM, but really what I hate about the Sims 3 is that its slow! My rMBP plays it as well as my 4 year old PC does. I gave up on playing it on my Mac, I don't have 40 GBs to dedicate to one game and all of its addons.
 
spazzcat said:
Can't wait to see how bad they mess this one up. Lets just say I will not be preordering it...

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A company should be in business to proved a service or product. If they do it well they should be reward by making money.
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That's a good one.

acorntoy said:
I love the sims.

But I just don't trust EA enough to buy it :-(

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True, but after many awful wrongs its probably time to send the company a message.
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And being named "worst company in America" twice in a row isn't a message? I mean, somehow they're supposedly worse than companies that helped wreck the economy.

ArtOfWarfare said:
Better companies are led by visionaries who come up with awesome products then leave it to other people to determine how to maximize profits, IE, Apple led by Steve Jobs.

EA is led by businessmen milking a franchise for all it's worth - whether the products are any good or customers are happy don't factor into their equations, and it doesn't really matter because they have a revolving door market - new people continuly enter to replace the old disassatisfied customers.
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And they just happen to make a lot of money off it.

Oh, and they happen to need you to buy iPhones every couple of years for.. errr.. engineering reasons! Yes! I mean, Apple does it because they're the good guys.

Stop kidding yourself. No company is a white knight trying to help everyone. If they do it while they make money, then all the better. But don't assume any company is going to put you ahead of profits.
 
Before everyone gets too excited, this is the company that is pushing always on Internet DRM.

I pre-ordered the Sims 5 for the PC (Bootcamp) and was psyched to play it. However, the DRM did nothing but kill the enjoyment for me. Please feel free to read through user comments on Amazon to see what it is like here.


I am afraid the Sims 4 will have the same or worse DRM. :(

-P
 
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lilianeloirinha said:
Besides, to own the entire series (expansions, "stuff packs", and whatnot) one must spend hundreds of pounds (dollars, whatever you use).
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That's one gripe I have the The Sims line. There are so many expansions. And if you ever get a new computer or even a new hard drive/fresh install, you have to install one expansion pack after another. I'd love an all-in-one deal. If there are 4 expansion/stuff packs, make a bundle that you just have to install one of. I know that EA sometimes bundles The Sims and an expansion pack, but there are still a dozen other packs that you need to install individually.
 
Ironic that a company with the word Arts in it's name does nothing but deliver the complete opposite.
 
guzhogi said:
That's one gripe I have the The Sims line. There are so many expansions. And if you ever get a new computer or even a new hard drive/fresh install, you have to install one expansion pack after another. I'd love an all-in-one deal. If there are 4 expansion/stuff packs, make a bundle that you just have to install one of. I know that EA sometimes bundles The Sims and an expansion pack, but there are still a dozen other packs that you need to install individually.
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Something like Premium on bf3 would be good for the sims.
 
Will it charge you in realtime for each wall, texture, item of furniture, item of clothing you use, and will you also get billed quarterly for your sims household bills, electric if you buy them lights, water if you want them to shower or drink, and if you don't pay your taxes the police/fire wont show up if your burgled/on fire , so don't buy them a TV or you have to foot the cable bill.

I am unconvinced ill ever be buying from EA again, going to stick to buying my games from steam, which handily EA don't sell on anymore.

Mass Effect 3 (Turned my RPG into a bad gears of war clone, shoe horned multiplayer in where it wasn't needed), Battlefield 3 (pay to win via unlocks) and the SimCity, always online, Sim-District not sim city off it all spoiled the game.

If it wasn't for the Xbox players of the core EA FPS franchises and the SPorts Franchise that all buy the same game slightly repackaged every year, EA wouldn't make ANY money, would they ?
 
Nightarchaon said:
Will it charge you in realtime for each wall, texture, item of furniture, item of clothing you use, and will you also get billed quarterly for your sims household bills, electric if you buy them lights, water if you want them to shower or drink, and if you don't pay your taxes the police/fire wont show up if your burgled/on fire , so don't buy them a TV or you have to foot the cable bill.

I am unconvinced ill ever be buying from EA again, going to stick to buying my games from steam, which handily EA don't sell on anymore.

Mass Effect 3 (Turned my RPG into a bad gears of war clone, shoe horned multiplayer in where it wasn't needed), Battlefield 3 (pay to win via unlocks) and the SimCity, always online, Sim-District not sim city off it all spoiled the game.

If it wasn't for the Xbox players of the core EA FPS franchises and the SPorts Franchise that all buy the same game slightly repackaged every year, EA wouldn't make ANY money, would they ?
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You're quite right. If the people that enjoyed their product didn't buy it they'd be out of business. As opposed to every other company, that can do quite well without their established fan-bases buying their products.

:rolleyes:
 
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