I guess it's just natural, they feel like taking a side buying the game and have to defend themselves when people give the game critic, thinking that they are getting critizised themselves.
I saw a great example yesturday, my friend was angry because she got no job and I got one, she went on and on for 30 minutes talking about why she was no slave and that she never wanted the job anyway

Plot twist: The Sims 4 is actually a text based adventure game.

System Requirements are up.

THE SIMS 4 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

REQUIRED: Internet connection required for product activation.

OS: Windows XP (SP3), Windows Vista (SP2), Windows 7 (SP1), Windows 8, or Windows 8.1

PROCESSOR: 1.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, AMD Athlon 64 Dual-Core 4000+ or equivalent (For computers using built-in graphics chipsets, the game requires 2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.0 GHz AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-62 or equivalent)

MEMORY: At least 2 GB RAM

HARD DRIVE: At least 9 GB of free space with at least 1 GB additional space for custom content and saved games

DVD-ROM: DVD ROM drive required for installation only

VIDEO CARD: 128 MB of Video RAM and support for Pixel Shader 3.0. Supported Video Cards: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 or better, ATI Radeon X1300 or better, Intel GMA X4500 or better

SOUND CARD: DirectX 9.0c Compatible

DIRECTX: DirectX 9.0c compatible

INPUT: Keyboard and Mouse

Yeah I lost count of how many times I reported her flame bait posts.

Instead, Original_Sim get perma-banned, and I thought his posts were hilarious.

On second thought, HP why did Original_Sin get banned? And why is it ok for Tuber to keep on trolling this thread?

That doesn't seem to be kind of much Honeywell. Even this old rig will run that.

Let's allow it to run on Windows 2000 while we're at it.

9GB?

Too much for less content.

I just eye-bulged at that figure, too - 9GB of what? They've removed pretty much everything that made the game somewhat recognisable as a Sims title, and fill it with 9GB of emotions? Bro-tastic behaviour? Five neighbourhoods with multiple loading screens and limited lots? Really EA - what the fuck is left in this game that's worth 9GB...

No, it's not. Someone said they were running it on an old lap top last week - I think Lyndsay Pearson. Usually I'm skeptical about the minimum requirements they give but for some reason I think this game really is going to run on less powerful computers -- probably because I'm so unimpressed with the game I think it can't take much to run. I hope so for all of the people planning to buy just because they couldn't play Sims 3 at all on their lower end computers.

Maybe the actuall game will be like 2GB and the rest of 7GB is the "lefttover" of the "Online" component

Generations was.

Digital Spy Interview with Ryan Vaughan

More of the same. We’re giving you all of these features we claim Simmers have always asked for so that’s why you’re not getting what you expect from a Sims game. But strong foundation to sell you more later! And emotions. And weirder.

I assume and hope that in the requirements when they said "intel gma" or better, that they also meant intel hd graphics since it's in the intel family.

Maybe in the next 6 years The Sims 4 will be a complete game with everything we want. See ya later!

I think there is some speculation that the burglar is not included though, due to Grant's tweet about the repo man being borked and too expensive to fix.



Source is here (since I'm not hip with twitter and don't know how to embed stuff): http://simsvip.com/2014/07/20/the-s...nd-guru-tweets/

Reason being that the repo man and burglar function in a similar fashion, both enter the home, perform a swipe animation and something random gets taken. Only difference is that the repo man takes things of a certain value. So if the repo man couldn't be coded in, then it's unlikely they could get a burglar to work too.

I'm sorry, they don't look that different to me. The men's noses are all the same. The women have a different nose, but all of them have the same nose. The bone structure is very similar, if not identical for them all. Frankly, I've seen pictures of Sims 3 sims that looked more different than those. I don't know if they were achieved using custom content or not, though. Actually, this reminds me of looking at sims in the exchange? I think it was called for Sims 2. Many people would find one preset face that they thought was pretty and use it for all their sims. The only differences were hairstyle and color, clothing.

Do you guys think, that no ghosts and burglars will be a new toddlergate? I've got the feeling, that we "complainers" are just to used to cuts right now and it won't provoke more than the usual head-shaking and the others are being so overprotective, that they wouldn't care, if they would cut out The Sims.

I so wanna bitchslap that guy in his fake, lousy, 'awesome' grin...

There is no excuse for Ryan being taken by surprise. Maybe these people should spend more time interacting with their customers at design stage (or all the way through in fact), not wait till the game is a few months from release. The reason people are so loyal to the indie games is their authors tend to maintain a two way relationship all the way through the development and future updating. (That is until they fall under the control of Paradox or something - grrr!)

Pretty much, At this point this game has diveded the sims community for another time (it already did in the sims2/sims3 years) but i don't remember it being this bad really
but yeah there are alot of people who kept saying "i don't play with pools/toddlers/cast ect. so i don't mind it being cut." these people wont change over a buglar or ghost
because "burglars where so annoying, everytime i started playing they would break in and steal my toilet or bed", "i never cared for ghosts, they are just in the way"...

also wow at simguru Grant... I know he isn't a loved guy but it's pretty sad reading those tweets and seeying him actually tweet "We didn't think he added to the game. shutting power? way funnier" ... I saw somebody poke fun about that yesterday/few days ago?
that's really just sad... Its starting to become clear these people need some more comedy classes themselfs if you find falling to death in pee funny, but a repo-man stealing your toilet or a random window cause you didn't pay the bills "not adding to the game"...

Too expensive to fix? What?

We've had a repoman for over a decade. They could probably modify coding from 3 to get it working. If it worked in EVERY OTHER GAME, it should work here.

Does this mean we won't need the disc to play? Like it has a NoCd capability?

This doesn't look too bad... but I never underestimate EA's ability (or other publishers, come to that) to claim a certain level of requirement and then produce a game that barely runs on a machine that exceeds it.

And has anything been said whether other NPCs are in game yet? Maid? Repairman? They are Base Game NPCs always.