Really, Are you going to fix this game.
If you read this forum, and you CLAIM you do, then why is there no fix for the mess you have made with seasons?
It appears all mac users are screaming their heads off at you and you do nothing.
Can you at least acknowledge that you have a problem,you know the problem and you are going to send people a fix?
What's wrong with you? Do you just not care at all?
Really, is there anybody out there??
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much like they have for World of Warcraft, at MMO Champion.
This is how businesses fail, they think they don't owe us a fix or an explanation and their customers get fed up and they vote with their feet.
Be patient Seasons JUST came out. They need time to troubleshoot and find a solution, making and fixing software isn't as simple as people on here sometimes seem to think, it takes alot of work and alot of time (believe me when hubby is developing for android i barely can get a hello in. ) I am sure they will fix some of the most game breaking issues fairly soon.
The laughable and offensive notion that EA has communicated with their customer is, without exception is a boldface lie. EA has been known for their lack of communication or lack of customer service.
Stop riding on EA's bull sack and get with the program. EA should be accounted to each and every error that they have displayed here.
So true.
If EA fixed one persons problem, they would be creating one for another player.
They can't satisfy everybody. Besides, Seasons has only been out for, what, not even a week? It's a miracle that only this many people have been complaining.
This issue is sort of revelant:
I got Showtime yesterday, and I was playing the new town. The only people out and about the town were the proprietors and myself. I went to people's house and the sims were frozen. I tried resetsim; didn't work. I couldn't even click on them: When I moused over them the person thing never came up.
Anyway, turned out it was my outdated mods. Just goes to show you if people try to solve their problems before running for help, then EA wouldn't be so bogged down with requests that either make no sense, have already been fixed, are impossible, or it's the players fault, not EA's.
Yeah I can officially say that this was debunked a long time ago. Heck I've had this game on three seperate computers and have experienced glitches on all three, these being unmodded games. In fact the computer that ran it the best was the one that could least handle it and had the most non-EA custom content.
Add in the mods that have fixed glitches, developers who have posted solutions to issues DIRRECTLY taken from people who are not a developer, and well known glitches that can be repeated on ANYONE'S copy of the game and what you said is basically imaginary (Some as old as the base game).
The state the game is at is unacceptible and makes The Sims 3 feel like a Sunken ship where instead of someone trying to fix the holes, because they cannot, they instead keep adding extensions to the ship. The only reason a lot of these issues pass is because they arn't all universal and some require players to go to certain lengths to experience them and thus a casual player of the game wouldn't experience them.
As for people asking
NO! EA is NOT going to fix the game. It isn't going to happen.
It sort of says bad things about a games code if a portion of the people who play it get unstable and often corrupted glitches to the extent that EVEN ATTEMPTING to fix them would actually cause someone else to get a horrific glitch.
I have long since given up the idea that EA will fix the glitch
So much so I can only guess that they can't fix it. That the Sims 3 code is just that shakey. It is one of the reasons why I am looking forward to The Sims 4 so that they can work on a much more stable code that works on more computers.
As well as possibly having more of a budget to the people who make the patches.
yes, this; but also make sure they understand the complaint, the problem, the details, and how you would like it resolved.
They really do listen, but it takes time to turnaround software issues.
And they may test extensively before release, however, that does not mean that they will have every conceivable model of PC and MAC with every conceivable bit of hardware with every possible third party software program installed - or custom content - or mod ...
and also, sometimes they just don't anticipate the way a certain percentage of people play the game.
This is not a big warm and fuzzy 'I love ea' comment. I just work as a software developer and know the drill.
They will want to fix it, and they will want to fix it quickly, but things have to go through a specific cycle (fact gathering, in house confirmation of issues, new development, new testing; making sure that all of the above fits in line with current development and QA cycles, etc.
So while it is EXTREMELY frustrating that there are always bugs in the Sims games, work with them to help resolve the issues (note how Crinrict always creates a rational minded bug thread to track things that are wrong. Keeps major issues in one place for EA.)
EDIT: I am a software developer, but not for EA. Decided to clarify that.
I just wish they hadn't decided to wreck the game of those of us who didn't buy it.
All the people with severe problems who claim to want to boycott the games seem to be mac users. Macs are not gaming computers, why would you buy a mac if you wish to buy it to game? It doesn't make any sense to buy an inferior gaming computer and then complain when it doesn't work properly!
I personally believe 70% of the players who have so many issues is how they run their game. A lot of people don't fully understand what CC can do or if their MODs are screwed up or if their graphics card drivers are out of date or if their computer is just complete crap, the list is endless. I really have never had a major issue since this game came out, I avoid CC, I keep my MODs updated, my graphics card drivers are always up to date, and my specs are up to par, since this game came out I haven't had a serious issue that I can honestly think of.
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This is very true, I know it's common to hear a lot of people bash Mac computers, but it is true. I'm not bashing them, I don't have a problem with them, I just don't like the style or apple for that matter. But they are NOT gaming computers, and I promise if you switched from a Mac to a Dell or Gateway or any other actual gaming computer, you WILL find a HUGE difference, MAC computers were not created to game, MACs are OK for businesses and schools, they are pretty standard, you can't do very much with them, and you can hardly upgrade them or add in RAM or a better graphics card, if you have a computer strictly to game, I really advise that a Mac is a no no for gaming.
Is this a Parody/Satire?
Since you basically went and gone "Other then these issues, I've had no issues".
And about playing games on the mac. I play a lot of games these days. Some are even released from the Mac App Store. Saying that is like saying you shouldn't use adobe photoshop on windows. It's just not true and referring to old times
Beside that. In my family I have enough persons playing on windows who also have been facing issues.
There is no need to be a smart ***, unless you were actually being serious, I meant I haven't had any SERIOUS issues, other than the minor ones that I've had, and I'm sure the rest of the community took it that way. It isn't hard to analyze.
wow.
patches take time, and they are working on it... BUT THEY DONT HAPPEN OVERNIGHT. fixing glitches in a broad, complex, open ended sandbox style game is extremely difficult and time consuming. they have to find the problem, find a solution, then make sure that solution doesnt break something else in the process.
IT HASN'T EVEN BEEN A WEEK! GESH!
I don't need to switch to a Dell or any other PC to see that the game runs better in Windows. I can install Windows on my Mac using Boot Camp to see the difference. And you know what? It's using EXACTLY THE SAME HARDWARE. So, tell me again that my Macs aren't gaming computers. Why do I get exceptional gameplay on my Mac in Windows but not so in OS X? Because the game was written for Windows, not OS X. So it's not the Mac, it's the 'wrapper' that EA decided to use which, by the way, is called Cider. TS1 and TS2 ran beautifully on Macs because they were natively coded for the OS. Amazing the difference that a little piece of proper coding can do isn't it?
Huh? How on earth did I upgrade my husband's MacBook Pro to 16Gb RAM then? Did I perform a miracle? How did I upgrade the RAM in my iMac a couple of years ago? Also a miracle? And how did I put in a bigger hard drive in my other MacBook Pro? Oh wait, that must have been a miracle too. Come to think of it, the 2 graphics cards replacements I've done for friends in their Mac Pros recently, well, they must have been miracles too.
Seriously, do some research before you start banging out the tired old "Macs aren't gaming computers" line. If the game is written natively for the Mac OS, then it's a great gaming machine, just like Windows games run great on errr, Windows machines.
And of course, let's not ignore the most important point here - EA say the game is MAC COMPATIBLE.
They were. Each time, you held up your hands, shouted "Let it be upgraded!" to the heavens, and watched as a beam of light descended upon your Mac and instantly replaced parts.
Sorry, just trying to inject a bit of humor into this. I thought you needed the laugh.
you just proved the point. you installed windows using bootcamp, and the game worked considerably better. that proves that mac is not a gaming system. its not designed for games.