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The Expansion Pack has problems

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 31 / 49
Date: December 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game immediately upon its release, being an avid Sims gamer. The concept behind the game is great, however, I have never been able to get the Expansion Pack to run without crashing back to the desktop within seconds of starting. The Sims web site claims that some CD drives will not run the Expansion Pack. The Sims web site also contains suggested techniques for getting the game to run. These suggestions do not work and are useless. If the CD drive is in fact the problem, Electronic Arts is not supporting current CD drives and will not patch the program (I was trying to run this on a PIII 500 MHz unit with 128 MB RAM, 40X CD drive, Windows 98, less than one year old). I have also attempted to run the Expansion Pack on other computers with different CD drives and have found the same problem each time. Electronic Arts refused to respond to repeated emails and letters. My experience pretty much ruined my enjoyment of the Sims. Use extreme caution in buying this software.

Read this before you buy!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 23 / 29
Date: October 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

There is a problem with the CD not working on alot of CD drives. You should check on the Sims website to make sure you don't have one of those drives.

Dont buy this, demand respect as a game consumer!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 12
Date: September 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

once, there wasa game called the sims, this game was great, and one of the key features was how easy the company, maxis, made it to make user made objects, skins, walls etc... it was fun. many people loved it and put many hours into it, they made it their very own creation. then comes a expansion pack, sounds good? wrong. If you downloaded any user made objects it simply wont work, its like the quake expansion packs not working if you have a mod installed. the only way to fix this problem is by unistalling the orignal version of the sims, i put MANY hours inbto perfecting the houses and characters in this, and the only way to get my $30 expansion pack to work is by unistalling my current houses that i put a lot of work into. if a company wants to make a game mod freindly, then the official products should work with these modsa installed, this shows me that this product was rushed, and that maxis really doesnt care about the costomer, well if they dont care about their costmers, dont be their costomers until they start making quality products that are worth the money... save youreself a headache and dont buy this peice of cattle dung.

Christian parents beware!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: September 16, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I think it is very important to point out to anybody thinking of purchasing this add on for their child, that this game might not be suitable for a Christian family or children under 18. For example, the game includes a vibrating bed which enables your Sims to shed their clothes, roll around on the bed quite suggestively, and the next thing you know a Sims baby appears. Also, Christian parents might not care for the scary looking grim reaper, voodoo dolls, and crystal balls included in the game either. I am single and Catholic. If I had children interested in software games like this one, I would definitely appreciate being told about the content before I made the mistake of bringing it into my house. Hoped I helped someone here.

Livin'Large

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 11
Date: January 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Can not download due to no serial number was on the cd-rom case.
Unable to find contact to see how to get one.............

It didn't work at all...not even on a brand-new computer

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 12
Date: March 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

When I first played The Sims, I thought it a wonderful game. I was in love with it. So when I received the expansion pack, I was ecstatic!

However, once I installed it, (which was a long process in itself and it also gave an error message) the game would not work. I would start the game, on my brand-new computer, and the game would blank out my screen, then return me to my desktop. I tried over and over, but it was useless.

I then had another problem...the riduculous people at Maxis made it so that in order to uninstall The Sims Livin' Large, you need to uninstall The Sims. This caused me to have to make backups of all my files, then have to reinstall The Sims and put my backups in the game.

All in all, though the game is fun, (I've played it at friend's houses) it is not worth the trouble. Stick to the original.

BAD GAME

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 17
Date: November 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is a bad problem causing game. It is boring

Okay, but Kinda Weird...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: May 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

There are some things that I liked about this expansion pack, and then there are many things that I did not care for. I DID like being able to have the new jobs, more lots, and some of the objects. The things I did NOT like are the weird objects, wallpaper, floors, and the list goes on. I actualy ended up selling this expansion pack to one of my friends, and he kinda likes it. If you want an awsome expansion pack, then you should get House Party. House Party has some things from Livin' Large that I liked, such as the the jobs and lots. I think that Livin' Large is an expansion pack for the Sim player that likes to make weird families, but if you want normal families like I do get House Party.

Not all that

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: January 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The only great thing in the expansion pack is that you have more neighborhoods to work with, which means you can make more houses. (But beware-- you can't call Sims in different neighborhoods). Apart from that, there are some new objects, but most of them are ugly or lame. I say don't waste your money. Oh and the expansion pack puts disgusting roaches in your house TOO OFTEN. I hate having to spray the roach infestation every 5 minutes.

only for Windows 95/98

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 12
Date: November 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I am extremeley disappointed with this game because it will NOT run on Windows 2000 or higher. If you have Windows 95/98, this looks like it could be a really great game. I was really looking forward to playing it. But I spent 2 weeks dealing with techsupport at Electronic Arts and Microsoft, and can't get it to run. I wish EA would stop making their games only compatible with Win 95/98. They said it MIGHT run on XP, but I'm not about to go buy it just to play a game. Don't get any of the other expansion packs either if you have windows 2000, apparently NONE of them are compatible.

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