Maxis, Evil company run by the liar Will Wright.

[Cobraroll]

Got the Sims 3 ourselves now, and there's a few things that bug me majorly:

1) IMPOSSIBLE to have more than one family in the same neighbourhood, meaning that you have to have a new 'hood for each family you want to play on. Of course, it can be done, but here's it:
   a) If you have "progress history" enabled, your other sims but the ones you play with will screw their life up
   b) If you disable this, your other sims will still get older even when you're not playing with them. Also, all the NPCs will die eventually.
   c) If you disable aging, the family you're currently playing on won't progress.

2) You can't edit your neighbourhood much, not add anything, but you can screw it up majorly by deleting the important buildings.

[Harvest]

Oh don't worry, everything will be fixed with expansions!

You just have to pay.

[Tranzlater]

The Sims 3 is alright... didn't play on it much though, as I already got so far with the Sims 2.

Here in teh motherland (as Hitler put it...maybe I shouldn't've said that) we have to pay RRP £40 (about $50-$60 these days, since our economy has been shitted on) and for a single expansion, £30!!! WTF!

I do live really near an EA development center though... *plot*

[Harvest]

I'm fairly certain Germans referred to their country as the "Fatherland"

[Tranzlater]

...I'm a Brit