Insimenator.org

Curious... I'm sure (and hoping) that when the Sims 3 comes out, the Sims 2 sites won't fall by the way-side. But, I thought I'd open a post so that myself and others who are head-strong about sticking with Sims 2 are re-assured that they will get the same care and support by these sites that they do now; nothing will change... right?

I'm seeing a lot of people that are insisting on getting Sims 3, but also I'm seeing a lot of people that really don't want to see the hours of gaming and money spent on Sims 2 wasted. So, all in all, it looks like the community has been roughly split in half.

What's to become of Insimenator? Will it be cut in half, or will it be the same - mostly supporting Sims 2? I would hate to see awesome creators just give up on Sims 2. We would surely miss them.

Like I mentioned before. I am sure the Sims 2 world won't die off. I just thought I'd hear it from an InSim Administrator, or Creator, Modifier, etc. Best to hear it from the horse's mouth.

I think that it will be a natural progression to sims 3..Depends on how much CC you can do with sims3 too. Plus I think Sims3 will be bugger than Black Flag test lab, and the 1st customer will be lab rats. 

there'll always be a sims 2 section here. Besides, a lot of it is about the community, the game has become almost incidental in some ways!!

I don't think that sims 2 will fade out as quickly as the original sims did though and I there's a lot of die-hard sims 2 fans out there so I won't be writing the game off that quickly

Im sure as hell sticking to sims 2! (if i get enough dough i might buy sims 3 as well, but im keeping sims 2, too many precious lives to throw away.

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Sims 3 can go straight to the hottest place that you can imagine. I don't want it, I don't care about it. The hype makes it sound like the best thing ever but since I saw the preview shots and read what they intend for the creation of custom content, "No way in absolute hell will I be getting that piece of [CENSORED]!" is exactly what I said to my husband when he offered to buy it for me. Add to that the fact that they've not denied the presence of SecuROM and they'll be teaming with a certain paysite to provide content for a price, and it's not worth touching with Pescado's prehensile beard. I'm gonna hang around for Sims 2, at least as far as my predictable future. :D

I think Paden said it best in terms of how I feel about Sims 3, so yeah ... you can count me as one of the ones who will stick with Sims 2. I have too many shiny nice things in my Sims 2 game to switch to anything else, anyway.

Wow... I think I accidentally started a protest club, lol. See? I'm not alone...

And as for paying for CC? Nah - as you can see my quote down below - I protest that, too.

if I have to pay for cc I storm the place with Pescado, EA games will have a real revolt...

*Hides her picket sign.* Huh?  ;)

Haha, gotcha!

I know I will not give up my sims 2 families!  I love them all too much. So like the OP, I hope the community sticks around for sims 2.

I'm slow to accept change!   I bought The Sims but never played it until Makin' Magic came out.  I bought Sims 2 but never played until Pets came out (boy, talk about walking in on a mess!!).  I'm not really interested in Sims 3 but I'm sure I'll buy it and maybe play it 5 years from now.  I can't give up Sims 2 when we've finally gotten Magic.   :rolleyes:

Yeah, I just realized they got magic not too long ago. Is there an EP or SP that includes the magic for the Sims 2?  I realize it won't be like Sims 1, but it would be cool to add to my game.

I remember asking this awhile ago, but of course, forgot.

I miss Makin' Magic. Man, I loved those duels...

I've gotten my game to the point where my houses don't suck, my sims don't die of hunger, and I can actually relax and enjoy the game, even plot out stories.
Then they want us to drop everything we've got in Sims 2 for some made-over mash-up of it?

No, thank you. Between the Securom, the paysite crap and the entire game's playability issues, it sounds like a piece of crap until modders get hold of it and work it into a playable, enjoyable game.

Unfortunately there's no telling who will be brave enough to do it. It seriously sounds like and looks like EA has turned it into a repeat of SimSocieties, with the Sims in it. That adds up to absolute garbage.

For $50 or more for this game, they'd better offer more than they have right now-and without any strings attached.
But they won't learn until they kill the golden goose with a sledgehammer.

Mary, I like the way you said that. Remind me not to honk around you if you're feeling froggy. :D

And, kinnika, I think the magic came with Apartment Life, not sure because I only play up to Seasons after having to reformat a hard disk due to SecuROM screwing up my game computer after I installed Bon Voyage.

Dangit, lol. The one EP I really didn't want. Oh well (sighs). I love my InSim and Inteen too much to rid of them.

I am so far behind on the Sims 2. There is so much more I can do with it. I only have NL, Uni, and OFB and really look forward to the EP's and SP's up to AL. Especially Pets & Seasons. I hear a lot of great things about those two. So, that's just another reason I'm going to pass on the new game. Too much for me to do with 2.

I'm sticking with Sims 2 also. There are just too many things that I like in Sims 2 that Sims 3 isn't going to have.

I like being able to build onto my houses when the need arises and from what I understand that isn't going to be possible in Sims 3. I really have not been able to find out for sure if we can even build lots in Sims 3. There are other things also but I've pretty much quit looking at the information on Sims 3. All you hear from the camps is that the game is going to be awesome but I really think the creators at those camps are puppets and not really representing the sims community at all.

To me Sims3 will be like Civilazation 3. A lot of show but no go.

As far as suckurom goes. Once you get it off of your system and use the no cd hack (which T$R says is bad mkay?) the game loads faster and it plays faster. I have a lot more memory for other apps to use with the no suckurom version too.

Heck, I just started coming out of lurk mode a couple of months ago on this site. I've actually been coming here for years. I just have a shy streak that kept me out of the forums posting wise. I'm sure not going to stop now

I absolutely agree with everything you said here. My thoughts exactly.

I know some about computers, but not enough to know certain terms like "secuRom". What is that?

Securom is a copy "protection" program made by Sony.  this  (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,9929.0.html) will explain it much better than I ever could.

Edit: Maty seems to be really slow right now so you may have to wait for a while on the link to open. It's worth the wait though.

Hm, well, what Paden said about secuRom kinda worries me.

While I already make my own resorts and have them work fine with my community lot sleep-over mod, I am still very interested in getting Bon Voyage. However, I really wouldn't want what happened to her to happen to me, too...

Well... that's more of a personal choice I guess. I've got all of the EP's and I have never had anything bad like that happen. (knock on wood) I have read some real horror stories from other simmers though.

 I really could not imagine playing my game with out having all of the Expansion Packs now though. I've got way too much money and time invested in this game to just chuck it aside because Eaxis says the next one is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

I work for a var so I know all about the bells and whistles companies market. Sims 3 is just a yugo in a cadillac body if you ask me.

Lol, nicely put. Well, I do know I definitely want Pets, Season's, and god willing Bon Voyage. So, I guess I'll just take the normal precautions and see what happens.

If you want to find out more about SecuROM, check out the PRISM and Reclaim Your Game, there are site buttons on the home page that will take you there.

And by the way, let's not discuss things like no cd hacks, being as they are considered illegal in most countries of the world, m'kay?

Sorry Paden. Won't happen again.

I would have to say I'm definitely with the majority here, and I'll tell you why. I've got well over 3 1/2 years worth of total game time on TS2. I've filled my version Pleasantview with so many different sims that I've LITERALLY run out of room to the point where I'm using sub-hoods to put sims in. That's way to much stuff done, made and played just to start completely from scratch with TS3. And then there's all of the things that Paden said on the previous page, which I'm in total agreement with. As far as TS2 falling into the wayside, I don't see that happening for at least another 4...maybe 5 years. The original game came out in 2005, and here we are in 2009 and people are STILL discovering new ways to play and make the game enjoyable. That's 4 years. It'll take just as much time if not more for TS3 to pick up steam, and it probably won't if they plan on limiting how CC is distributed. And the fact that you'll not be able to import custom meshes into the game pretty much is the sword of Damocles for me as far as ever getting TS3. No custom meshes means TS3 version Classic Pinups, or Thick Madame, or Huge Body Builder, or Momma Lisa...or custom cars, furniture, Hair styles...get where this is going? TS3 is going to be mighty boring. Even if you can explore the whole neighborhood in one shot with no loading, what's the point when everyone is going to have the same template of builds. Yea, you may be able to alter body shapes, but nothing to any extreme realism. (And I simply MUST have my Pin Ups :P)

Bottom line, as long as people continue to make kick ass content for TS2, forums like this will continue to exist well after TS3's release. Hell, I predict people will still be playing 2 when EA announces The Sims 4. I know I'll be one of them. (Let's just hope they don't screw that one up like they're doing #3)

I've only been playing the sims2 for about 14 months now. 13 and a half months ago I stumbled upon this amazing comunity with so many tallented modders, creators and design artists (yes i said artists). Until people like (sorry for any misspelling) squinge, bloom, oneblondemomma, warlokk, marvine, beosboxboy and many, many others that I can't remember right now but you know who you are, get ahold of that game, sims2 is what i'm gonna play for at least the forseeable future. where's the sign-up sheet for pescado's  march upon eaxis???

I'm going to wait a month or so before I buy Sims 3. I was going to pre-order it, but then I thought about Windows Vista and how it was an epic fail. There were so many issues with Vista, it's not even worth upgrading to. I want to see everyone else's reaction to Sims 3 before I buy it, so I can see what some of the kinks are.

Good plan. I'm not going to lie ... I'm kind of excited. But I don't want to be? It's kind of weird. I adore the Sims 2 and if there is no custom content in 3, I don't know if I could really justify getting it. No matter how many customizing options they give us, they can never be as good as what the community comes up with.

I'm so lame though; I'll probably end up buying it the first day. B/c apparently I'm a 5 year old and can't wait to find out how bad it screws up your computer first.  :rolleyes:

Back to the point. Even though I think a lot of people will get the new game, I'm positive that we won't be satisfied aesthetically with what they give us. People will come running back to 2 until we have custom options for 3. Which is good. B/c this community is too awesome to die out.

amen sister i feel the same way. ;D :D 3yay