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Already Returned Expansion for Refund

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 37 / 74
Date: March 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I waited passionately for the day the first expansion would arrive. And after installing the game, I was disappointed with the poor repetitious music replacements, very longer load times, and extreme slow game performanece when trying to maneuver through a dorm. To top it off, my young adult inexplicably died after sitting down to eat in the cafeteria. This all happened in the first few minutes of the game. By the way, the option for "Young adult" is only available if you go to college. The expansion (2 CD's) will alter your save game files and will delete everything (including any downloads you have added) if you uninstall it.

Very, very disappointing expansion, with the price tag of a full game! There's also an advertisement for the next expansion coming this fall which is similar to Hot Date, that allows your sims to go out on the town to nightclubs.

I would be more grateful if they had just fixed the bugs in the main game, and perhaps add pets, like dogs and cats.

University Drops-Out

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 22 / 41
Date: March 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I am a HUGE fan of The Sims. There was no question that I would buy this expansion for The Sims 2. I must say that I thought the price was too high for an expansion, and it comes with an ad for a future expansion. I installed the expansion properly, but my sims can never enter the dorms to actually begin the game. It just sits there and loads forever. I tried it with my system at normal, and also with all my startups disabled. Same result, so we know it is not a background program causing the problem. The manual says I can email tech support, but of course there is no email address in the manual and I could not find it on their website. I read the FAQ's online and tried all their solutions. Nothing. I will not pay long distance charges to call tech support. They were awful, rude and unhelpful last time. My system exceeds the requirements in every way. I have an hp pavillion 724c, with a 2.53 ghz processor, 1 gig of RAM, an ATI All-in-Wonder 9700 Pro and about 380 gigs of free hard drive space. I also have all the latest drivers. My recomendation is not to buy the expansion until they put out patches or solve these problems. With shipping I am out nearly forty bucks for something that doesn't work which isn't even a game, but rather an exapnsion. They obviously did not bother to do enough beta-testing, and put out a product with great flaws. I want so much to use this exapnsion and send my sims to college and all that. I have not requested a refund yet. I still have my hopes that EA will do the honourable thing and make this work. I will NEVER pre-order a Sims 2 expansion again. I will wait until Nightlife is out and the bugs are fixed before buying the next one. See? They know how loyal we SimFanatics are and they took advantage of us.

It might be worth the frustration.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 18 / 41
Date: March 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you are willing to put up with the problems and glitches, the game is worth playing.

Like The Sims 2, this product was released full of bugs and glitches. As a software engineer, I'm well acquainted with the complexity of this product. The graphics are actually pretty amazing. However, the complexity of such graphics has overwhelmed EA Games with problems.
Releasing a software package that is buggy has become an industry way of life. For many years, software companies have sold their product with the attitude "Buy this now, and if there is a problem, we might have a fix". Ultimately, patching and upgrades become necessary. The maturity level of a company, and its ability to test its product, both effect the quality of its merchandise.
EA Games has cheat codes in this game that it will not support. Cheat codes are available in a lot of computer games. Most of the time they add playing flexibility that increases playing satisfaction for many customers.
If you read the limited warranty, you will discover that only the distribution media and the manual are warrantied. EA Games offers the software "AS IS". In other words, EA Games does not offer to guarantee its software!
If you are willing to support a company that does not guarantee its product, buy and play this game.
If you are willing to support a company that embraces poor quality, buy and play this game.
However, I recommend that you wait until the first patch is released before you buy it. This will likely save you a lot of frustration.

I like to play the Sims games. I don't like to reinstall software or tweak my PC configuration all of the time!

TS2UPD

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 17 / 33
Date: March 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have repeatedly tried to install the EP, to no avail. It hangs up at 67% (TS2UPD.exe) and uninstalls. Their BBS indicatres that the problem is prevelant. After a 20 minute hold on a long distance call to tech support, I just gave up. Have been unable to contact them in any form. I purchased the program as a pre-release from Electronic Arts and am refusing to pay for its return. Fortunately, it was paid for by credit card so payment can be witheld. If you decide to buy it before all the bugs are out, buy locally so it can be returned.

Nice idea, bad code.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 17 / 22
Date: August 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

After playing TS2 with the Uni expansion pack since March, I feel future consumers need to be warned:

This expansion pack to the greatest computer game EVER is riddled w/gameplay wrecking bugs that have YET to be addressed by the game's manufacturer despite countless complaints found all over the official site's message boards. A complete lack of communication regarding these well-known bugs/glitches on the part of EA/Maxis has made me and many others loathe to purchase any more products from this company.

It would appear that churning out product, no matter how rushed or flawed, matters more to EA/Maxis than releasing patches that make the game perform as it was purported to.

But one example: University's a great idea, having your sims experience college, cool - except a rampant bug in the game prevents students from graduating! Another prevents a graduated sim from being able to return home without a convoluted workaround. Kind of defeats the purpose, eh?

Amount of time spent playing the game doesn't seem to matter - they can strike at any time.

To date, a list has been compiled on the official website's message board by several game players (many of whom are programmers). The list currently stands at more than 100 known bugs, some that are very minor, but several that can stop gameplay DEAD in its tracks.

Like many, I do not want hacks in my game for any purpose whatsoever. However, I've found that without certain hacks I continually experience gameplay destroying bugs. Fortunately, these unauthorized third party programmers have, of their own generosity, made freely available hack fixes for code errors causing many of these bugs and did so WITHIN WEEKS OF THE GAME'S RELEASE.

But after nearly 6 months, nothing but a few recent sentences from the game's manufacturer - not information, not acknowledgment, not a patch, not a peep. Little else but hype about their next expansion pack. They need to fix the one we've already paid for FIRST.

Do not purchase this expansion pack until a free, stand-alone patch for TS2 University is available from the official website. You will not get your money's worth if you do, sorry. I love this game and am so disappointed in EA/Maxis' treatment of it and of their insanely devoted customer base.

I'm exhausted and disgusted with having to find fixes and workarounds for this game instead of just playing it. Not one more thin dime til I see a free patch.

Wish I could play it...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 32
Date: March 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

So far I am very disappointed. For me, the game was not playable out of the box. I could not enter houses, nor enter lots in the University. I contacted EA to get Tech Support, and got an email back that my graphics drivers needed updated. After a 5 hour download, the game still does not work. I found it hard to believe that my graphics drivers were the problem anyway, because the orginal Sims 2 works perfectly.

Make sure you back up your orginal files! After hours of downloading things and raising my families, I would have been heart-broken to have lost everything.

Even though I haven't been able to play the game yet and give a review of it, I felt compelled to advise: "This could happen to you." If I ever get a chance to play it, I'll consider writing a review around my actual game-play experiences.

way too many bugs!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 19
Date: August 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

the expansion pack isnt bad in itself. but there are many gamestopping bugs and no patch. 129 known bugs.

Bug ridden with no patch in sight...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 12
Date: August 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

EA has let all Simmers down with this game and lack of patch. There are currently 129 *known* bugs in University with no patch in the immediate future.

Do not buy this bug-ridden game that EA has admitted may not have a patch for it until after the release of Nightlife. Don't buy Nightlife either...it'll be just as buggy and you'll have to wait at least another 6 months to get a patch for it.

waste of money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 55
Date: March 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

i bought this game the 1st day it came out and when i got home i tried 2 instal it but it didnt work it just logged off every time and then i tried 2 take it back 2 the store and they said that they couldnt take it back so i wasted like $30 on a game that doesnt even work....and then the next day i told my friend wat happened and she said it did the same thing on her computer and the same thing happened 2 her...so that made us really mad because we couldnt even get our money back so i think its a waste of money

EA RELEASED A WHOLE LOT OF DEFECTED GAMES!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 41
Date: March 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I, like many others, can't even get the game to install itself, even after meticuously following EACH and EVERY suggestion and troubleshooting tips. I wasted HOURS trying to get this damn thing to install itself. I have already returned the first copy and now the second copy has the same problem.

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME, AT LEAST UNTIL A BATCH OF NON-DEFECTED CD'S COMES OUT!!!

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