Ugh
So I was watching some home shows on Hulu today. I felt the need to build a house, or do some landscaping, or something house related. Well since I don’t have a house to do any of those things with, or the funds to create one, naturally I went to dig up the ol’ Sims 2 discs to install the game and expansions and have at it. But could anything be that easy, of course not! I don’t know if it’s Vista’s fault, or EA’s, I’d have to say at this point a little of both. I managed to get the Sims 2 installed, but can’t install any of the expansions. Ok, fine, so I’ll just have less design options for a house, no big deal. So I go to open just the plain ol’ Sims 2 program. Won’t fucking run! I get a window saying there is known issues with this version (Vista 64 bit) of windows. So I do the google thing and after a bit of reading I hear patching the game will solve all the problems of the world the problem. So I download the patch for Sims 2 DVD edition, even though half the errors I got on trying to install the expansions were because the game wouldn’t patch. I try to run the patch, that won’t work either. I do more reading, other people running Vista are happily playing their Sims 2 game while patiently waiting for EA to stop being losers and release the Sims 3 already, haven’t we been waiting long enough!?!? I’ve come to the conclusion that perhaps it’s just Vista 64 bit that is having issues with the Sims 2. I’d love to ask some of those people who are happily playing their game which version of Vista they are running, but judging by some of the things they are saying they are probably too stupid to even know. So here I am, not tired, dying to build a house, and all I have are LEGOs, too bad they are outside in the garage and it’s too late/cold/wet to go outside and get them:/ I plan on digging deeper into this issue tomorrow when I’ve had more time to read and experiment with things. It is possible that half my problems are caused by EA’s ridiculously stupid, out of control copy protection bullshit they are using on all their games. You know, the ones that force people to illegally download disk images of games and use no-cd cracks and all that jazz to actually be able to install and run the fucking things. Bastards. I bought these games, have all the packaging, and the serial numbers, go die in a fire for not letting me pop my disk in and get the game running. Seriously. DIAF! I very badly want to pre-order the Sims 3 collector’s edition, but if I can’t install and run the game without a huge hassle, you can take that 2 GB THE SIMS PLUMBOB™ USB DRIVE and shove it up your ass.