You can report EA for a broken game to steam.

[Kyo]

For those that have bought the game and it does not work at all you can report to steam that the game is broken. Under the ESRB rating there is a little flag icon that allows you to report to steam about things about the game and one of them is a broken/buggy product. While I don't know if this will actually do anything I would assume that if enough people report about it then it might get someone who works at steam to light a fire under the EA employees who work on bug fixes to get them to update faster on this buggy product. There is also the chance that it will not do anything but there is no harm in trying. I hope that the people who have bought the game get a working product in the future. I wish you all the best of luck.

[silis2020]

I hope so too... I have wanted to play this for years. I have tons of complaining in these discussions. I get to the neighborhood screen and it crashes every time. No matter what i do. I have a up to date windows ten. This is the only game out of hundreds i have that i have ever had a problem with.

[Kyo]

I just wanted to give people something a little more contructive then just complaining about the game not working. I don't really think it will help but I am hoping that it will make people feel a little better after getting tricked in buying a game they thought would work. And as I said in my comment there is always a chance that if enough people complain then steam might do something. If people make a big enough complaint then EA might even be forced to give people back their money.

[SamboNZ]

I hope so also.
The way I think about it reasonably is, that if this were almost any other product that we'd purchased and it didn't work properly, we'd have no problem taking it back to the store/seller/vendor to ask for either a refund or a working version.
EA sold this product at full price, stating that it was in working condition as advertised. How this is somehow okay, baffles me.

[Kyo]

Ya I guess thats true I notice the game was buggy and did not trust EA so I got my money back before the 2 hour cut off point. Something I want to bring up with how this came out I hope people are more careful in buying games right off the bat and wait awhile to see how others are handling the games that come out maybe waiting for a few days rather then buying that new triple A title to see if it even works for others.

[Neopatra]

Originally posted by Kyo:

I just wanted to give people something a little more contructive then just complaining about the game not working. I don't really think it will help but I am hoping that it will make people feel a little better after getting tricked in buying a game they thought would work. And as I said in my comment there is always a chance that if enough people complain then steam might do something. If people make a big enough complaint then EA might even be forced to give people back their money.

Am lucky i waited on it I almost brought it. The game should've been polished a bit more before release, its so sad to see a beloved game release then it turn out this way

[Kyo]

Agreed I played this game when it first cam out all those years ago so it is really sad seeing them fall down this bad. Then again they were not the ones to create sims 1 and sims 2 so I guess I should not be surprised that they don't show much care for these classic games.

[Neopatra]

idk why but sims 2 works a bit better, proberly because its a slightly newer game then OG sims. Am just happy to see all the DLC I only owned a few of them it would've been cool to play

[Kyo]

Well I am glad that its working for you I think I will avoid both games for a few months and hope more hot fixes come out for the games before I buy them. Then again since I dislike EA so much I just wait until they are on a massive sale just so I don't have to give them too much money.

[Nightflare75]

the game works for me thankfully, but the 1080p issue remains which is preventing me from enjoying the game. and no word from EA on a fix.

[Neopatra]

Originally posted by Kyo:

Well I am glad that its working for you I think I will avoid both games for a few months and hope more hot fixes come out for the games before I buy them. Then again since I dislike EA so much I just wait until they are on a massive sale just so I don't have to give them too much money.

No i haven't BROUGHT the games because the problems that are somewhat plaguing the games. Am saying sim 2 works a tad bit BETTER then OG sims port