Saccharine Stuff

Well, I did warn you that the collaboration was for more than Showtime ... wait, was it only yesterday?  The latest rumours point to a Katy Perry themed stuff pack coming soon.  Um, no thanks ... my game is officially a KP-free zone.

Remember Kids ... Katy Is For Life, Not Just For Showtime

It seems the EA collaboration with Katy Perry will extend to multiple games as well as all advertising and marketing of the Sims franchise .... not just Showtime.  So be nice to Katy, everyone.  No little trip to the farm when the cuteness wears off and you can't be bothered taking her out for walkies any more.

After all the assurances about simport being safe and secure (yeah, as safe and secure as the exchange maybe), somehow it still managed to allow cc through to be installed on other simmers' computers.  Cue, fastest patch development in the history of TS3 with a new patch released almost straight away ... only to be withdrawn when it gave away the secrets for the next expansion ... some kind of magic expansion with fairies and werewolves and zombies.  Looks like it might be worth waiting for ... but I bet someone over at EA didn't have the best week.  Oh, and did I mention that the updated launcher was then quarantined by Norton as a suspicious file?  Cue, March Mayhem sale on store items!  Look over here everybody!  Shiny, shiny!

Anyway, now that Showtime is out ... all other expansion and stuff packs are on sale.  And this time about a third of normal price, rather than the usual half price or advertised "buy one, get one free" deal.  So, I picked up TS3 Pets, together with Town Life Stuff and Master Suite Stuff, for a lot less than the basic version of Showtime.  Haven't had a chance to play yet, what with all the loading and testing and patching and testing and disabling the social crap features and testing ... then updating my mods ... but no loading the latest patch just yet. 

It's My Page ...

Nobody knows where my stickers have gone,

Privacy left the same time,

Why do you post on my page,

When it's supposed to be mine?

It's my pa-age, and I'll hide if I want to,

Hide if I want to, hide if I want to,

You would hide too if it happened to you!

Postin' your comments, keep goin' all night

Can't leave me alone for a while,

Now friends of friends have joined in,

I've got no reason to smile.

It's my pa-age, and I'll hide if I want to,

Hide if I want to, hide if I want to,

You would hide too if it happened to you!

Yes, it's EA's my page and it's finally here.  It's like Facebook without the filters ... and the privacy options ... and the organisation.

Before the change, I reduced my friends list to those people I actually know.  But I lasted less than 24 hours of the new format before I deleted everyone on the list ... sorry if this upset anyone.  Most on the list know where to find this blog or can contact me over at Simpletons.  I don't spend much time over at the EA site anyway and don't intend to change that. 

I also made my page private for a while ... then changed the privacy backwards and forwards a few times.  Anyway, I've decided to make it public for now but not allow comments.  Once the Showtime patch arrives, I'm sure my game will be happily posting updates without my knowledge ... so it'll probably switch back to private.  Nobody needs to know how often my Sims visit the toilet ... not even me.