Comments on: New Showtime Details + Social Aspects are Optional

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:44:21 +0000

Well the walkthru with Aaron is this week. They need to go ahead and announce the date and time.

By: Shell

Shell — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:55:05 +0000

Oh wow sounds amazing, I’m excited about the IM’ing, I currently use Xfire to chat with my simming friends, and it is quite buggy, so should be interesting to see how it works, bet it works similar to the IM’ing you can do in Origin.

I like that we can jeer or cheer our friend’s Sims on as well, as well as throw stuff, going to make some interesting pics to share with your friends and tag them in 😛 Add to that, the fact our Sims can be performers, singers etc, and I’m beyond excited lol! Wish Game.co.uk would get it for pre-order already!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 23:08:37 +0000

Since the date for next weeks walkthru with Aaron wasn’t announced today my guess is Monday they will announce it’s going to be happening Thursday.

Hopefully it will reveal more then what the trailer showed and a demo of the new online mode.

By: croemeli

croemeli — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:49:39 +0000

I also am very glad to know the new social features are optional. Though, I am disappointed to know there will be content that will only be available if you use the features (new costumes, props). I know you need incentives for completing achievements but this makes me feel like my style of gameplaying is being punished =(

By: ShortyBoo

ShortyBoo — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:41:54 +0000

Doesn’t their idea of optional, not really optional? Like when the game first came out, I remember unchecking the story progression box, and it not working. Then there’s that option that lets EA spy on what you do in your game. Before AwesomeMod disabled it, you could uncheck it all you wanted, but the game would always end up re-checking it.

Either way, I don’t really care about the social crap. I don’t have any friends who play TS3 and I have no interest of connecting with random people online, either. I don’t like the fact that you either connect with someone or you miss out on content. That’s not really fair to those of us who can’t or won’t use these features.

I’m also not convinced that without the social crap there will be a substantial amount of content left. I’m betting they’ll put in less content because they’re counting the social crap as part of the EP’s content.

By: John-phillip

John-phillip — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:27:11 +0000

I wonder though. it’s great having all the worrisome aspects turned off, but without it, will the expansion have substantial features left?

By: adamc

adamc — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 11:26:24 +0000

thanks 🙂

By: Jeff (Catloverplayer)

Jeff (Catloverplayer) — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 06:06:01 +0000

Someone on the sims 3 forum said you send your sims into other peoples game but you don’t control them. You trust the other person to and then you and them chat to tell you what their doing with your sim.

By: niac1234

niac1234 — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 04:28:48 +0000

Optional makes me happier like all of you. But I’m skeptical of that viruses thing. call me pesSIMmistic but I think someone is going to hack it and plant viruses in everyone’s computers. If anything would be the downfall of the Sims, it would be that.

By: Brue

Brue — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:06:19 +0000

Alright optional makes me much happier now, The question of CC was also addressed so that puts my mind at ease. ^_^

I’ll most likely buy game after all.