Piracy really a demo ElectronicArts is getting more and more devious in their marketing, instead of going for good old posters and billboards, it has now come out that the pirated copy of The Sims 3 was in fact released by Electronic Arts themselves, as a secret marketing ploy, according to an interview with EA CEO John Riccitiello.
"You identified our secret marketing campaign!" joked Riccitiello. "That was a very large scale – concentrated on Poland and China – demo program."
Sims 3 Maniacos Over the past few weeks, Sims 3 Manaicos has been experiencing a lot of hacking, which has lead their site to be infected with malware, and now been flagged by Google. I received the following email from the Owner, Marcos, regarding the status of his site:
Hello partners!
I would like to let you know about the serious problem that we've been through.
Since a long time the Sims 3 Maníacos has been under hacker attacks, having some of it pages infected. We were knowing the problem a while ago, but we didn't know it seriousness. The malware has been implanted on our news system and on main pages of the site, in this pages the problem has been resolved, but we didn't expect that they would be on pages that are never visited, what made Google block our site, because the malware was installed more than 90 days. At las, the problem has been solved and none of the pages present any kind and signal of infection, in the moment we are only waiting for Google, to release the site online, to resolve this problem.
Sorry for everything. Marcos -
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www.sims3maniacos.net
Fragland Interview Frangland conducted an interview with Melanie Lam, a producer on The Sims 3 team:
Which is your favorite new feature of The Sims 3? Ooh, there are so many. I think if I have to choose one then I go for the statistics we added to the activities. For example, you can track how many fishes you’ve caught and which breed of fish. If your Sim is athletic you can see how many sit-ups he has done, or how far he’s off of running a marathon, etc.
IGN Guide IGN has started working on their Sims 3 Strategy Guide, and has posted part 1, which consists of a bug guide. The guide identifies problems, bugs and things which appear to be bugs but are actually part of the game. You can check it out onIGN
Sims 3 Website - Interview It appears as though TheSims3.com will be doing community interview in the future, with some of the fansites, as the first interview with UK based site, Sims 3 Website has been posted.
Llamas and Sims: discuss?! Llamas and Sims? Always has been an interesting combination. I'm hoping that one day Llamas will be in the game just like werewolves, vampires, and zombies have! Bella: "Mortimer, have you seen my Llama?"; Mortimer: "Have I seen your Llama in this wide open, Sim infested neighborhood?.. No.".
As you may have noticed, the menu has had a bit of re-structuring, as the quick links for The Sims 3 have now been removed. Additionally, all pages related to the game's development have been removed temporarily, and will be moved to a development page at a later stag for archive purposes.
A new library category has been added, which now includes a section for The Sims 3. To start off with, the first few pages cover topics such as Moodlets, Novel Writing, Fishing and more. Also expect new pages every day (or atleast, every second day). I will post more news at a later stage, once more/all library articles have been posted.
Also, a new cheat page has been added, which includes all The Sims 3 Cheats - this I will be working on at a later stage, to make more comprehensive.
Christmas is Early Aside from the USB flash stick, EA has apparently also shipped plumbob Christmas lights as well, according to EA Singapore, reports Kotaku. These little lights look awesome, and I personally wouldn't mind a set myself!
Charts Wow that didn't take long! Eurogamer now reports that The Sims 3 has made i to the top of the UK charts, just a week after its release!
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