The problem with these DRM effects is that pirates are not the only ones to suffer from it. EA will now try to use this as a scapegoat to avoid having to provide customer support for bugs. Claiming that anyone who experiences it must be a pirate. GTAIVs drunk mode has taught us that it isn't only the pirates who experience these effects.

Let's be real here, all those PC gamers were going to pirate the game anyways. They aren't really pirating in protest.

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I download whatever I like when I like,lol. Who cares.

But I wouldn't Download the sims for free because all sims games are crap. SIMS SUCKS.

So pirating stuff is now a form of protest? LOL. That's a creative excuse.

SOME People simply not have money !

Ill admit I downloaded this game for my wife so she can try it out. Weve always bought our games but this one seems so... Not complete i want her to try it before she wastes her money.If she likes it we buy it if not... Ill delete it simple as that. I have a steam name with 65 games on it and a few legit off steam games but with pc you dont always get what you pay for.

Too bad it wouldn't reformat the pirates hard drive for them or flood their PC with viruses and malware.

Piracy is theft no matter how you try and justify it. You try and justify it because you want to get rid of the horrible guilty feeling you get from stealing. Some people don't feel the guilt and openly admit to the theft and are, in a weird way, more honest than the thief in denial.

So, out of all the features they, evidently, didn't have time to add to the game, this made the cut. That's sad.

Have any of you actually seen the price of the sims 3 complete collection? its over £200 if not more. Now they have the nerv to charge £60 for the game on PC even tho they don't need to pay Microsoft or Sony royalties and a lot of content that should be included has but cut from the main game. Only dev worth supporting still in EA is Bioware and after ME3 they are on a very slippery slope themselves.

Funny how Warner Brothers have got a few good games coming to PC soon and they only charge £25. This is why I buy my EA games off trusted CD key sellers way cheaper than buying from the publisher who doesn't deserve my £60. Any self respecting PC game publisher doesn't sell there game for more that £35 at the very most, any more is its pure greed.

As a PC and console gamer PC's have many more games to choose to buy and if your game sucks PC gamers will drop it quicker than on any other platform, BF4 is a great example that game died quick to the point no one plays it on PC any more. You all talk as if EA should charge what they like for as little content as they like. My gf has already purchased Sims 4 and after only finding out how much stuff isn't included feels as if EA has ripped her off which is quiet understandable these are the people who would rather pirate the game now they know what its like than continue to fund a publisher who has shown continuously to rip people off.

I'll let y'all in on a pirated game fact. Most pirated games you can't even play online, and the rest even if you do get online it's half a#s little servers with a low amount of players. And I think that is fair.

You want to play online buy it and enjoy, and if you can't afford it, do everything in your power to get the money.

I have never played and never will play a pirated game. That being said EA The only reason why your game is failing is not because of pirating. It's because you don't give a flying f*#k about your customers. Every game series you buy and produce turns from wonderful original ideas, to half-assed attempts that fail right from the very beginning. Most of your costumers enjoyed the create a style and the open world and swimming pools and toddlers. But did you listen to us? No because you don't care. And then you have the balls to blame piracy instead of blaming yourselves. STOP RUINING THE SERIES WE HAVE GROWN UP WITH AND LOVED.