Drakron, see the person who asked for an English press release (and that I took the time to quote in my post). I'm not sure what's up with you but step it back just a teeny bit, please.

It doesn't surprise me that different features are being talked about in different countries. Certainly it's frustrating but think of the last two expacs - some things we thought were "true" turned out to not be quite so much once we had the game. Speculation is okay but getting all worked up over it is rather counterproductive.

OMG...loving the TS1 pictures. Brings me back

This sounds amazing! The only problem I have is with the name. It's a bit, um, dull!

I'm not concerned with the name so much, just hoping it turns out to be a worthwhile expansion lol

It could be titled jfrjjrjtrkgjfgtage for all I care. I just want the damn EP to function. As overly excited as I am about this theme, I'm not looking forward to the first major bug and having to wait over a month for the patch. That's really the only catch to The Sims games in my opinion.

First major bug: Disco balls come to life and eat your Sims.

Haha, right? I wouldn't be shocked, let's put it that way.

Second major bug: Evil bartenders create deadly poisionous acid and cause Sims to explode. Oh wait, no that would be cool >:D

Could-be-depressing fact: New hot tubs are just clones of dive wells.

I think so...
I noticed in Riverview that the Newbies son wants to find somewhere more "Pleasant".

I love you.

So I guess there will be penthouses in this EP, but everyone seems to really want apartments too. What's the difference between penthouses and apartments??

Penthouse: Top apartment of a building. Possibly so that the rest of the building is unplayable
Apartment: Any size building with multiple apartments that you choose the size/interior of yourself

A penthouse isn't necessarily an apartment, in the American sense... that is, a housing unit that is rented from a landlord, rather than owned outright.

It's just the top dwelling unit in a skyscraper, generally more desirable than the rest because of the view and therefore likely to be fancier. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penthouse_apartment

In the context of the Sims 3, "having apartments" would imply being able to have more than one household on the same lot... only one of which is controlled at a time. Like in Sims 2 Apartment Life. And presumably also a landlord/rent arrangement.

So you could have a penthouse unit, but if that's the only habitable unit in the building, you don't have multi-family lots. That question has yet to be cleared up.

YES PIANOS AND HOT TUBS!!! i am getting this EP for that reason only. and also cuz i never had nightlife or hot date.. but mainly for pianos and hot tubs. i can't believe they announced and released a video of the new EP already!

Thank you! Our Sims need all the extra money they can get! I still do miss the Butler from Sims 2. That would be another great add to the game someone needs to clean up after the rich Sims besides the maid that stays there for 12 hours and never cleans anything.

Hmm I'm thinking that these "careers" are really just skills that you can make money off of, like tattooing (but with a real skill), I remember that in TS2 you could go out at night and earn some extra bucks playing for tips or being a bartender, they weren't careers though

The storyline is most likely a reboot, which (only in case you didn't already know) means that the writers "restarted" the storyline or are starting all over, so to speak (I've done it with my novels). If that weren't the case, then we wouldn't have modern things in the game. The writers just decided to start over and have Mortimer and Bella as children because if the storyline had continued from Sims 2, they'd be dead from old age. And Lord knows that Mortimer and Bella are a must in the storyline, since they are probably the most popular characters. Plus, Kaylynn is now older than they are when, in reality, she is supposed to be younger according to the Sims 2 storyline. Fictional reboots are quite popular these days and have been for years. Just look at The Nightmare on Elm Street movie from 2010 or the forthcoming Spider Man movie (when it hasn't been a decade yet; stupid, I know). Those are decent examples of reboots. I hope this clears things up.

Saying something is "most likely" something is not clearing a single thing up, all it does is confuse things.

It is not a reboot. Kaylynn is one of only a few inconsistencies that is explained by the supernatural. Don Lothario exists exactly as he did in The Sims 2 due to magic time travel. Who is to say that Kaylynn did not experience something similar?

They took specific effort to tie the games together. They did not abandon everything and start over. They even went so far as to make the Simbots outdated and clunky servo prototypes.

The reason technology matching or better than the other games exists is called the "rule of fun", which states that developers should not be complete idiots if it means it won't be fun. That is to say that they kept that stuff despite the game being 50 years prior because the game would be a little stupid if it didn't have flat screen TVs and laptops and cell phones.

Well, if you want an explanation for the Kaylynn discrepancy, I point out two points:
1. The Kaylynn in TS2 has no fambly tree. There is therefore no way to know that it is the SAME Kaylynn.
2. The Kaylynn in TS3 is old enough to be her mother, really.

Yeah it's possible for 2 people to have the same name/look alike/have a similar personality but since it's something that was planned by EA then it's definitely the same Kaylynn, don't read too much into it....

Apparently they are trying to somewhat merge Nightlife and Apartment Life into one expansion. Most likely the apartment/penthouse part of the expansion won't be nearly as fleshed out as it was in TS2, but it's still a step in the right direction.

This ep actually sounds very familiar to the Urbz: Sims in the City, which had penthouses, nightclubs, bouncers, rep etc.

I'm hoping it's not too much like apartment life. I'm sorry but I couldn't STAND the "groups" In TS2 Apartment Life. They were all over-exaggerated. I just wanted normal people. Aren't real city people normal? I've never walked through Manhatten and seen a bunch of people wearing futuristic jumpsuits.

I agree. If they were going to add fully-functional apartments, they'd market from that angle, knowing so many people want them. Just have to keep on waiting, I guess

Well actually to me it seems like a combination of AL, NL/HD and SS (That is if we actually get apartments and not just penthouses)

But if they halfway make apartments this expansion, will they then bother to make a full expansion to it later? I'm just worried if they might give us penthouses and think that's okay and not develop it further in the future