The Sims 3 - Showtime EP06

[kiko94]

Thanks moderators for re-opening the thread, I will try to polish the first thread with all the info you gave to us guys

To Pre-Order: you can do it at Amazon or via Origin

It is official. It's on EA Sims 3 Site. HERE.



Live the rags to riches story with your Sims while connected to your friends! Experience the rise to stardom as your Sim performs on stage from one venue to the next. And for the first time, The Sims 3 Showtime introduces social features, including Passport, an all-new feature that lets you send your Sims to a friend’s game! There, your Sim can perform at your friend’s venue in front of your friend’s Sims! You will also be able to chat with friends and post messages and screenshots on your friends’ walls.

Your Sims can live the dream as Singers, Performers, Magicians, and DJs. Watch them rise to fame—or go down in flames as they perform for other Sims.
All-new social features: chat with friends, post to their walls, give status updates, and create friends lists.
Send your Sims to a friend’s game and have your friend’s Sim come to your game with the new Simport feature!
Create your own venue! Build a swanky concert hall, a massive stadium, or an indie club. How the stage is built will influence your Sims’ performance and career progression.
Get a bonus venue and stage for your Sims to perform in the Limited Edition!

Video Trailer :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw2SXuHyjLQ

This is what is listed at the TS3 site under News

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SHARE THE STORY OF YOUR SIMS’ RISE TO FAME IN EA’S THE SIMS 3 SHOWTIME!

Live the rags to riches story with your Sims and share these experiences with your friends without ever leaving the game! Experience the rise to stardom as your Sim performs on stage from one venue to the next. For the first time, The Sims 3 Showtime introduces innovative social features such as individual in-game news feeds, live udpates and the ability to send your Sims to a friend’s game! There, your Sim can perform at your friend’s venue in front of their Sims where you will earn rewards  for achieving goals and accomplishing special challenges that can be tracked and shared via in-game social wall posts. Capture and share your Sims' successes, share gameplay techniques, create wishlists and send gifts, search for new friends and share memories through the in-game news feeds or as e-cards as you rise to fame!

For more information, please visit http://thesims.com/showtime, like the game on Facebook or follow us on Twitter®. For more information on The Sims 3, please visit http://www.thesims3.com/.
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Update 08/12: Ea started a new thread by SimGuru , started Here, it has a lot of good info on it !

Edit by Pam:  Here's a quote of the information from SimGuruSnelson on the official Sims 3 Forum.

I’m SimGuruSnelson, aka Sarah Emily Nelson, one of the producers on The Sims 3 Showtime development team. We are very excited to reveal the newest expansion pack this week and have been reading all the activity on the forums. Thank you for all of your comments and questions!

We want to address a few of your questions today, and next week we will follow up with our first in-depth interview with Senior Designer, Aaron Conners. He will delve into more details about the features in The Sims 3 Showtime and answer even more of your questions.

The Sims 3 Showtime provides new careers for your Sims - Singer, Acrobat and Magician. There’s also a fun new skill object, the DJ Booth, which allows your Sims to moonlight as a DJ while your Sim is on their fantastic climb to stardom. You’ll be able to tell all-new stories in the new town of Starlight Shores where your Sims will be able to interact with new neighbors and discover a world full of new houses, objects, venues and custom stages. We are also introducing new social tools and a new achievement system, which you are free to opt in or out of at any time.

One of the new features we’re excited about in The Sims 3 Showtime is the capability of in-game messaging, so that you can communicate with your Simmer friends while you’re playing. If you prefer not to have this connected experience, then it’s easy enough to turn off this messaging.

We’re also adding a new achievement system where players can take on special challenges and as they accomplish each achievement, they will be awarded badges that will be shown off on their new player profile page.

Can you get your Sims to smooch 5 times by Valentine’s Day? Can you get your Sim to sell 50 albums, in the first week of Showtime? Players will have hundreds of achievements to accomplish from day one, but stay tuned as new achievements will be presented to The Sims 3 community even after Showtime is released.

SimPort is another major new connected feature introduced in Showtime. This allows players the ability to send their star Sim performers on tour to perform special shows in their friends’ towns. You can also invite your friends to send their Sims to perform for you. You can customize the stage in your venue with special themed backgrounds, props, lights and special effects before your friend's Sim arrives to make sure their performance is a hit with the other Sims who live in your town.

During the performance you can cheer (or jeer) your friend’s Sim while they perform and even throw stuff on stage—from flowers to rotten lettuce! The last thing you throw will go home with them and end up in their inventory!

SimPort is a complimentary experience that in no way diminishes the stories you can tell about your Sims rise to fame, should you choose not to participate. There are special rewards, however, for those who send their Sims on tour through SimPort, such as unlocking new stage props, backgrounds and costumes to make even more unique stories possible for your Sims. It is Showtime after all!

All of the social tools and associated gameplay is optional. If you want to share your Sims with your friends, that’s great! But, you certainly don’t need to, if it’s just not your thing.

Also, these features are an enhancement and expansion upon many of the online features that you’re likely already using in your The Sims 3 game, such as The Store, Memories, and the Community MyPage. Great care was taken to make sure that the systems are completely secure and adhere to strict privacy and security guidelines. There is no risk that your game will be affected by untested user created content or compromised data that could contain bugs or viruses. Sims who visit your town via SimPort will default to the traits, clothes, and objects that you have locally in your game.

The Sims 3 Showtime is all about performance, with new careers and content that lead players into telling a variety of different stories about their Sims’ rise to fame. The game is loaded with new objects, music, original songs and CAS pieces that give you the options to play in a variety of different ways. You can share those experiences and stories with your friends by posting to their Player Wall, both in-game and on the web, and by sending your Sims to do special performances in their worlds. It’s all up to you!

We want to create new ways for you to play – and play together – but it’s up to you to decide what is the most fun. And remember, you can only share with your friends, and it will be up to you to choose them, and up to you how (or even if) you want to interact with them.

Stay tuned for the designer interview with Aaron Conners next week. Thanks again for keeping the forums active and keep your questions coming. As always, we appreciate your support!

Keep Simming!
SimGuru Snelson

[xFezIsAFreakx]

Yey, it's true! Singing as a skill, singing as a skill!! About time! I can't wait! I think this is gonna be the best EP yet! I've also been looking on some sites and they say that amusement parks may come with the EP! (How awesome would that be?!) But of course, it's just speculation for now.

[KJSinclair]

This thread is so getting shut down lol

I heard this rumor a little while back and if it is true then this expansion pack is going to be the best yet. Singing as a skill will finally round out the million instruments that can be played. Oh I am excited not *rubs my hands with glee*

Kindest Regards
KJ

[thesimslover828]

This thread is so getting shut down lol

Why if there is proof of the EP it won't. There is proof.

[Ricalynn]

It will be locked because there has not been an actual EA announcement.  Probably best to lock it down now.

[alex51299]

I can't wait, I've been hoping for a singing skill forever!

[NeonColors]

Is that magic? Oh that will be so awesome! Karaoke too, oooh.  Honestly magic is the thing I'm most escited for.

[amyrose]

I heard about a few days ago, and to be honest I don't think its real. It's far too similar to Late Night, hasn't been confirmed by EA and the quality of the images 'proving' its existence seem poor.

[NeonColors]

You know what's throwing me off, the Limited Edition in red because it's the ones for Pets.

[jeanamariex3]

Guys, I would wait for an official EA announcement, or at least if the third party website is affiliated with Carl's Sims 3 Guide.

About posting threads announcing new EP's and upcoming items: would a thread posted on the Official Sims 3 Website, that a SimGuru started be acceptable? Don't mean to go too off topic with this.

[Sportsfan]

If this is actually legit then I guess it's another EP I don't care about.

[jeanamariex3]

Sportsfan, I don't think it's legit at all. If this were a real EP, the US would be hearing about it officially before Europe. I find it fishy that Europe is raving about this EP.

Pam? Metro? Could one of you guys lock this thread, please?

[Sportsfan]

Anyways it seems too similar to LN.

I agree with Jeana (a first!). Mods, I think this thread should be locked.

[Seabody]

I agree, because of this line:

These images were found on Origin’s (German) website...

Why would Origin (in Germany, no less, I would've expected America to list it first) have it listed before EA announces it, let alone have images? Plus, what's this iSims that SimsVIP talked about? And only one line is German - "Expansion Pack".

[moonshadow]

I just did some research and apparently Origin EU put those up by mistake.