Who is excited about " World Adventures"?

[Pam]

EA released an update to the game yesterday, which I installed.  It's got some nice changes to the game.  But now I'm concerned that it's got problems after reading that post.  I noticed some of those issues myself.  I don't see any recommendations yet on how to fix the problem.

[Metropolis Man]

Pam, EA must be on this already because they've pulled the patch link from this page:

http://www.thesims3.com/game/patches

You might want to just wipe everything and reinstall with no patch and play the waiting game for now.

[igzigpuff]

Wow, this is all so disappointing...I guess I will wait to install my WA EP until they put out a proper patch...

[Metropolis Man]

I don't know if it's the expansion that's the issue. It sounds like the expansion in combination with this latest patch is what's causing problems. But, hopefully there will be answers soon.

[igzigpuff]

Well from what I am reading over on the EA forum the patch is definitely causing allot of trouble, although a few say the game has some trouble too!!??  How they can tell is beyond me  .
Although as always some are saying their game is running fine....sigh    What a quandary. 

[Pam]

Thanks Metro.  I'm going to launch the game now and see how it's doing.  I've never reinstalled a game this large before.  Do you have any tips to get me through it?

[Metropolis Man]

Well, first you'd want to save any families you want to keep. Just throw those files on your desktop. Then, you're safe to completely wipe all Sims 3 content from your hard drive. Just reinstall the vanilla game and the expansion, and then hopefully today or tomorrow EA will release a solid patch.

[Honeymooners]

ACK! I am stuck at work!  4 more hours...  

I think that this is a great time for a public service anouncement.

BACK UP YOUR SIMS BEFORE YOU DOWNLOAD ANYTHING!!!!

unless you don't care about them....

I just don't understand why EA/ Maxis doesn't do a better job testing Sims before they release them.  Do other EA games have these issues?

[Metropolis Man]

I just don't understand why EA/ Maxis doesn't do a better job testing Sims before they release them.  Do other EA games have these issues?

EA/Maxis also put out SimCity 4 and I remember having plenty of issues with that game. But, it's amazing games of their complexity work at all isn't it? I mean, the amount of coding involved must be just beyond belief compared to most computer games.

[Pam]

I've found a temporary workaround for the error 16 while saving issue.  Use "Save As" from the menu instead of "Save" and the error message doesn't appear.  I just tried this and it worked fine.  My game was saved at the point I left it.

Hope this helps!

p.s.  Thanks for the tips, Metro.

[Honeymooners]

EA/Maxis also put out SimCity 4 and I remember having plenty of issues with that game. But, it's amazing games of their complexity work at all isn't it? I mean, the amount of coding involved must be just beyond belief compared to most computer games.

Yeah but think how many volunteer testers they have out there.  I would do it for free and sign a confidentiality clause too.  I am sure a lot of us would!    

[PJSim]

Us here on the west coast are the last to get anything

Not exactly. Where I live the release date is Nov. 20.

Maybe that's a good thing if there are all kinds of problems that needs to be fixed. I can't see any of those forum links, none of them will load. You guys broke the forum!

[Metropolis Man]

I can't see any of those forum links, none of them will load. You guys broke the forum!

You get nothing when you click on the patch link I gave at the top of this page?

[wildredchild]

They disabled the link for the update and the list is missing as well.

[PJSim]

Yeah, I can't get the update list.
And the forum for me is completely dead. It just tries to load for ages and then it gives me some server error.