I saw that too and I was really hoping the "ugly" comments were a joke. She didn't look ugly to me. I would've given her different hair and clothes...but that's just my personal taste.

I read a post on the bbs written by someone who got the game early and they claimed the story progression is working as it should. Unfortunately I cannot give you the link, cause I read it a few days ago.

They can't have done a very thorough job, because here is a shortlist of the most serious bugs so far:

*Changing households leads to all kinds of bugs
*Objects and items dissappear for no reason (unless there is also a personality trait that allows mugging and the theft of stuff like garbage)
*Marrying NPC's doesn't work and will cause the household to be deleted
*Removing NPCs is impossible, they will reappear and move back in
*NPCs respawn rather than have children, respawn if killed, and respawn if moved into a household
*Turning story progression off has no effect

One of my female Sims outfits is bugged. Whenever she switches to the pyjama/underwear she appears butt naked and bald. Looks like the barbies my sister used to have after I pulled out all the hair.

Yeah, I actually thought it was quite pretty. But there is no room for niceties at MATY.

On another note, IS STORY PROGRESSION BORKED IN THE FINAL GAME? People at MATY say yes (but nobody over there HAS the final game) but on the bbs forums, Mr Humble says no. If it is borked, does the patch fix it? Surely it would. Surely. They wouldn't make a patch without fixing the big story progression problem... would they? WOULD THEY?

There are some pretty obvious errors in the game, I honestly don't understand how they got through to release, especially considering all the delays. Can only hope that THE patch fixes all of them

Has anyone downloaded the patch with the legit version of the game and can confirm this? Three days to go and I'm going nuts.

Also, I was all excited for the americans to get their game tomorrow, but then I remembered that here in Aus I'm about a day ahead. So it's not really tomorrow, it's more like... tomorrow and a half away. Lame. I was looking forward to screens! As in more screens. Because I don't have enough. Omm nom nom.

No.. it releases tomorrow here... you were right the first time :P

I ordered mine through Amazon.com and did the 'release day delivery' ... so, barring any UPS snafu I should have it tomorrow :yay:

Peace

It's absolutely mind-boggling that they would release the game in this state, and it makes me seriously question what they've been doing since the original release date back in february. Personally I think *very little*. I think they're working to crank out the first expansion in time for christmas. Wait and see! It'll come!

Bugs will always exist, but when they are so obvious like the Story Progression one, I fail to see how they let that one slip by. It's just strange because it's one of the most requested features that was added to the game later on. And all that advertising for the game... jeez. I just hope the patch will get here soon.

Hey everyone~

Not to derail all the patch talk, but I just wanted to give a big THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU to everyone who has contributed all the TS3 info in this thread. I have thoroughly enjoyed looking at all the links posted (still have a few more to go ).

Back on topic - I pray there are no HUGE bugs in the final version, but even if people on other sites are claiming there are, I still won't be able to stop myself from picking up a copy at midnight tonight. And I won't cancel my Amazon preorder for the Collector's Edition, either. (My OCD makes me feel like I need every aspect of The Sims when it comes to bonus material to enjoy it... already have my Target Intro CD pattern code ready to go. )

~phorang3

Heck, even with the bugs I'll have to get it... I'm confident things WILL eventually be patched up, but I am really dismayed at the way they've put this thing out. It just adds another level of insult to the relationship between EAxis and it's increasingly reluctant customers...

I ordered through Amazon, as well, and it says it shipped this morning... hopefully it won't go through any snares!

ahh,,im gettin so excited. i checked my order status at walmart and it said it has been shipped. im hopin i get it by wednesday ., i hope there arent any MAJOR bugs that makes the game unplayable or somethin like that

I just checked mine on Amazon and it says "Shipment #1: Shipping Soon We are preparing these items for shipment and this portion of your order cannot be canceled or changed."

Which I will assume means it's in the process of being shipped out as we speak.

Too bad I have summer class and work tomorrow.

Well I look forward to having some more people to talk to about the game! Feel like I'm the odd one out now, along with the others (un)lucky enough to get their copies early.

kohakuchan, did you order the Collector's Edition? I'm also getting "Shipping Soon", not "Items Shipped on June 1, 2009"...

No, I ordered the standard edition.

What "shipping soon" means to me is that they're in the process of preparing it to leave the warehouse, i.e. it's packed and everything, they just haven't got it in the system and sent it yet. So it very well could go out tonight still. And often I'll get a "order shipped" e-mail that was actually sent a few hours after the package actually entered the system, so it does take a while to update.

I could be wrong. That's just my guess.

ETA: If they do happen to miss the delivery date, BTW, Amazon will refund your shipping fees. Just as a note. (Probably poor consolation if you get your game late -- I know I'll be upset if it doesn't arrive tomorrow -- but just sayin'.)

wow great.

I see, thanks. It's been awhile since I've ordered through Amazon (and I've never preordered a videogame before) so I wasn't 100% sure what the order status meant.

And I just checked my bank account. Amazon charged my card at 10:29 this morning. They don't charge you until they've shipped your order. So... I'm crossing my fingers and hoping their system is behind.

SimGuruRain posted information about Riverview on her blog here: http://www.thesims3.com/mypage/SimGuruRain

Bob Newbie is back, and apparently when we download Riverview we get more country style objects such as a scarecrow. Sounds interesting!

Hmmm... the Gurus seem to be taking the fact that many of us (not me, sniff) have our games early extremely well. Perhaps they too have had an AI improvement?

I wonder what she means about the Skip twice thing? Im guessing it has something to do with Skip Broke.(That is his name right?) Im so glad they have the Broke and Newbie family!

Okay, tons of reviews have been floating around and it is getting rather overwhelming, but I updated the OP with all of them (English ones only of course). This will be the last day because by tomorrow, many people (including myself) will have had the game and we can just answer questions since that will be more specific than company reviews. And plus I had said that I would stop at release date (I know I said release week as well but the OP is long enough). Thanks everyone for reading! I appreciate your support and it was a fun project that lasted very close to a year. The game will finally be out and we can all finally play! Happy Sims 3 Simming!