The Last True Sims 2 Expansion is out: Bon Voyage
By Shawn on Thursday, September 13th, 2007 at 1:33 PM PST In Computer, Electronic Arts, Games
EA Games has released what everyone assumed “hoped” would be the last true expansion pack for the Sims 2 series before Sims 3, Bon Voyage. Sure, there will be more Stuff Packs but this is the last time gameplay will be effected. This new expansion introduces vacations into the game, similar to the original Sims series Vacation expansion.
Whisk your Sims away from their everyday routines and take them on exciting trips to three exotic locations! Whether relaxing on a lush tropical island in a luxury suite, camping with the family on a pristine mountaintop, or exploring the culture of the Far East, your Sims will enjoy new activities to relax and rejuvenate them. Send your Sims packing for the trip of a lifetime!
The Sims 2 series has paralleled every Sims expansion pack put out accept for Making Magic. EA claims this will be the last true expansion pack, but will they actually skip the chance to bring Magic to the Sims 2? There are tons of magic and supernatural oriented game mods and skins out on the internet. It would surprise me if EA fails to cash in on this trend, especially with the popularity of magic in movies and literature.
UPDATE: Apparently EA has seen the potential to make more money off the Sims 2 series before they release the next generation of The Sims games. Bon Voyage came out with a notice of another expansion pack for Sims 2; Hobbies. There may be hope for a magical expansion pack after all, if magic isn’t including with Hobbies.
The Sims 2: Bon Voyage details are listed after the break.
The Sims 2 Bon Voyage Features:
- Travel to Three Dream Destinations-Each location offers unique landscapes and local residents, such as the Fire Dancer and Ninja, for your Sims to meet and learn from. Try local cuisine and admire cultural landmarks as your Sims explore these new locales.
- Send Your Sims on Tours-Glass bottom boat rides, adventurous van tours, and other excursions are fun new activities for your Sims, but there may be some surprises in store!
- Buy or Find Unique Items-Shop for unique objects found only on your Sims’ travels, including rare jewelry they can wear or take home as gifts. Stumble upon hidden locations, collect shells on the beach, or dig up treasure.
- Stay at New Travel Accommodations-Splurge on the luxury suite for your Sims or save Simoleons and choose a more cozy lodging. Your Sims will enjoy the comfort of room service, get pampered at the spa, and more.
via Press Release
I know a friend that knows the sims creators email address! Maybe they will come out with a makin magic or superstar. She asked the guy if he can do an expansion pack about hobbies and he said they will work on making that expansion pack.
is castaway for your computer too?
At the beginning of the sims 2 EA said that there will only be 7 expansion packs as there was in the sims and the sims 3 is said to be released late 2008 or early 2009
I dont think The sims3 will come out in 2008/09 because by now they would at least give us one screenshot of it and they will probably delay it. I wish the next EP would be something like The sims2: Crime and Punishment where your sims could commit murders and there would be detectives looking for clues and maybe if they made an EP like this they would be able to conclude an ending to the Bella Goth mystery instead of all the speculating. But hobbies eems cool
my bon voyage wont work
Yes, the Stuff packs are a part of the Sims Franchise, but they are not Expansion packs. Although they both require the original Sims 2 game, they are not the same as Expansion packs. Sorry it took me so long to get back. And as for it being too soon for Sims 3, EA reported that there would be seven expansion packs for the Sims 2. Unless they make a sudden change in their plans, that means that there is only one expansion pack left for Sims 2. And as to the diagram up there, the Stuff packs actually did not come out at the same time as each expansion pack.
Tim… You’re not as smart as you think you are. The diagram isn’t meant to imply the exact time each game/expansion was released. It is a relative model. Get a clue. You were saying that they were separate and that is totally wrong. Shut up if you don’t know what you’re talking about. “the sims 2 stuff packs are not really part of the sims 2 derrrr”
I agree with George. Know what you’re talking about before you type it up. You said Castaway as well as Stuff packs were completely separate from the Sims 2 games and expansion packs. If it requires the Sims 2 base game (which stuff packs do), then there’s nothing separate about it.
EA didn’t “report” anything, the only time they said that 7 EPs were being done was in a chat before the game even game out, things change, it’s not set in stone. Really, learn how to read a simple diagram.
Thanks chrisy.
george you are so full of yourself anyone else agree
Someone who hates george –
I am definately not full of myself. I just can’t stand morons who think they know something, but prove regularly that they really know nothing.
Grow up. I wasn’t begging for someone to agree with me like you are. Classy. Obviously Chrisy is on board with wishing people who posted on here actually knew what they were talking about, not just typing BS that they think they know. It doesn’t exactly take a brain surgeon to be able to do a little research and stop speculating. Nobody knows anything that EA hasn’t come out and said, the rest is just a bunch of people presenting opinions as facts. You’re probably just Tim and you feel defeated, but its okay… just stop being stupid and I’ll be nice.
No problem, George. I feel the exact same way you do!
@someone who hates george: Are you kidding me? Seems like the only one that’s full of themselves is you. I wouldn’t be surprised if you’re actually Tim just mad because you were wrong. How sad are you to ask if anyone agrees with you? That’s pathetic. Obviously you need that reassurance.
I have heard that there is going to be something like the sims 2 on stage comming out is it ture?
coz if it is then its gonna be like the sims superstar and it will be great!!!!!
I swear to God george, I am not someone who hates george. I promise you that. I’m not that much of a dick that I’d get pissed off at some person on the internet enough to do that. If I’m wrong then I’m wrong and if I’m right I’m right, it doesn’t matter enough to me to do that. Sorry if I did sound like a douche earlier though.
and to chrisy-
once again im not someone who hates george but i totally agree with you that its pretty sorry to go on to this write shit about someone and ask if someone else agrees with you.
so to someone who hates george-
shut up.
well tim, if it wasn’t you i appologize.
someone who hates george is just trying to start crap.
what a lowlife
it was me i dont actually hate goerge i just like to shit stir HAHA
i eat poo. the sims 2 eats poo. the sims 3 will eat poo. spore will eat poo. the sims 1 eats poo. my poo has sweetcorn in it. i like poo. do you?
you’re an idiot… you’re not me douchebag
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Wiktionary, the free dictionary.A wiki is a type of computer software that allows users to easily create, edit and link web pages. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites, power community websites, and are increasingly being installed by businesses to provide affordable and effective Intranets or for use in Knowledge Management. Ward Cunningham, developer of the first wiki, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as “the simplest online database that could possibly work”.[1] One of the best-known wikis is Wikipedia.[2]
Contents [hide]
1 History
2 Characteristics
2.1 Editing wiki pages
2.2 Navigation
2.3 Linking and creating pages
2.4 Searching
3 Trust and security
3.1 Controlling changes
3.2 Trustworthiness
3.3 Security
4 Wiki software architecture
5 Wiki communities
6 Wikis and content management systems
7 See also
8 Notes
9 References
10 External links
History
Main article: History of wikis
Wiki Wiki bus at Honolulu International AirportWiki Wiki is a reduplication of wiki, a Hawaiian-language word for fast. The word “wiki” (/wi?ki? wi?ki?/) is a shorter form of wiki wiki. WikiWikiWeb was the first site to be called a wiki.[2], Ward Cunningham started developing WikiWikiWeb in 1994, and installed it on Internet domain c2.com on March 25, 1995. It was named by Cunningham, who remembered a Honolulu International Airport counter employee telling him to take the so-called “Wiki Wiki” Chance RT-52 shuttle bus line that runs between the airport’s terminals. According to Cunningham, “I chose wiki-wiki as an alliterative substitute for ‘quick’ and thereby avoided naming this stuff quick-web.”[3][4].
Cunningham was in part inspired by Apple’s HyperCard. Apple had designed a system allowing users to create virtual “card stacks” supporting links among the various cards. Cunningham developed Vannevar Bush’s ideas by allowing users to “comment on and change one another’s text”.[2][5] In the early 2000s, wikis were increasingly adopted in enterprise as collaborative software. Common uses included project communication, intranets, and documentation, initially for technical users. Today some companies use wikis as their only collaborative software and as a replacement for static intranets. There may be greater use of wikis behind firewalls than on the public Internet.
On March 15, 2007, wiki entered the Oxford English Dictionary Online.[6]
Characteristics
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A wiki enables documents to be written collaboratively, in a simple markup language using a web browser. A single page in a wiki is referred to as a “wiki page”, while the entire body of pages, which are usually highly interconnected via hyperlinks, is “the wiki”. A wiki is essentially a database for creating, browsing and searching information.
A defining characteristic of wiki technology is the ease with which pages can be created and updated. Generally, there is no review before modifications are accepted. Many wikis are open to the general public without the need to register any user account. Sometimes session log-in is requested to acquire a “wiki-signature” cookie for autosigning edits. Many edits, however, can be made in real-time, and appear almost instantaneously online. This can lead to abuse of the system. Private wiki servers require user authentication to edit, sometimes even to read pages.
Editing wiki pages
Traditionally content structure and formatting on wikis is implemented with a simplified markup language, sometimes known as “wikitext”. For example, starting a line of text with an asterisk (”*”) is often used to code an item in a bulleted list. Style and syntax of wikitexts can vary a great deal among wiki implementations, some of which also allow HTML tags.
The reasoning behind this design is that HTML, with its many cryptic tags, is not especially human-readable. The actual text content is hard to read within HTML, making it difficult to edit. Wikis therefore favour plain-text editing with a few simple conventions of wikitext for structure and style.
MediaWiki syntax Equivalent HTML Rendered output
“Take some more tea,” the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.
“I’ve had nothing yet,” Alice replied in an offended tone: “so I can’t take more.”
“You mean you can’t take ”less”,” said the Hatter: “it’s very easy to take ”more” than nothing.” “Take some more tea,” the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.
“I’ve had nothing yet,” Alice replied in an offended tone: “so I can’t take more.”
“You mean you can’t take less,” said the Hatter: “it’s very easy to take more than nothing.”
“Take some more tea,” the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.
“I’ve had nothing yet,” Alice replied in an offended tone: “so I can’t take more.”
“You mean you can’t take less,” said the Hatter: “it’s very easy to take more than nothing.”
(Quotation above from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll)
Although limiting access to HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) of wikis limits user ability to alter the structure and formatting of wiki content, there are some benefits. Limited access to CSS promotes consistency in the look and feel and having JavaScript disabled prevents a user from implementing code, which may limit access for other users.
Increasingly, wikis are making “WYSIWYG” (”What You See Is What You Get”) editing available to users, usually by means of JavaScript or an ActiveX control that translates graphically entered formatting instructions, such as “bold” and “italics”, into the corresponding HTML tags or wikitext. In those implementations, the markup of a newly edited, marked-up version of the page is generated and submitted to the server transparently, and the user is shielded from this technical detail.
Many implementations (for example MediaWiki) allow users to supply an “edit summary” when they edit a page. This is a short piece of text (usually one line) summarizing the changes. It is not inserted into the article, but is stored along with that revision of the page, allowing users to explain what has been done and why; this is similar to a log message when committing changes to a revision control system.
Most wikis keep a record of changes made to wiki pages; often every version of the page is stored. This means that authors can revert to an older version of the page, should it be necessary because a mistake has been made or the page has been vandalised.
Navigation
Within the text of most pages there are usually a large number of hypertext links to other pages. This form of non-linear navigation is more “native” to wiki than structured/formalized navigation schemes. That said, users can also create any number of index or table of contents pages, with hierarchical categorization or whatever form of organization they like. These may be challenging to maintain by hand, as multiple authors create and delete pages in an ad hoc manner. Wikis generally provide one or more ways to categorize or tag pages, to support the maintenance of such index pages.
Most wikis have a backlink feature, an easy way to see what pages link to the page you’re currently on.
It is typical in a wiki to create links to pages that do not yet exist, as a way to invite others to share what they know about a subject new to the wiki.
Linking and creating pages
Links are created using a specific syntax, the so-called “link pattern” (also see CURIE).
Originally, most wikis used CamelCase to name pages and create links. These are produced by capitalizing words in a phrase and removing the spaces between them (the word “CamelCase” is itself an example). While CamelCase makes linking very easy, it also leads to links which are written in a form that deviates from the standard spelling. CamelCase-based wikis are instantly recognizable because they have many links with names such as “TableOfContents” and “BeginnerQuestions”. It is possible for a wiki to render the visible anchor for such links “pretty” by reinserting spaces, and possibly also reverting to lower case. However, this reprocessing of the link to improve the readability of the anchor is limited by the loss of capitalization information caused by CamelCase reversal. For example, “RichardWagner” should be rendered as “Richard Wagner”, whereas “PopularMusic” should be rendered as “popular music”. There is no easy way to determine which capital letters should remain capitalized. As a result, many wikis now have “free linking” using brackets, and some disable CamelCase by default.
Searching
Most wikis offer at least a title search, and sometimes a full-text search. The scalability of the search depends on whether the wiki engine uses a database. Indexed database access is necessary for high speed searches on large wikis. Alternatively, external search engines such as Google can sometimes be used on wikis with limited searching functions in order to obtain more precise results. However, a search engine’s indexes can be very out of date (days, weeks or months) for many websites.
Trust and security
Controlling changes
History comparison reports highlight the changes between two revisions of a page.Wikis are generally designed with the philosophy of making it easy to correct mistakes, rather than making it difficult to make them. Thus, while wikis are very open, they provide a means to verify the validity of recent additions to the body of pages. The most prominent, on almost every wiki, is the “Recent Changes” page—a specific list numbering recent edits, or a list of all the edits made within a given time frame.[7] Some wikis can filter the list to remove minor edits and edits made by automatic importing scripts (”bots”).[7]
From the change log, other functions are accessible in most wikis: the Revision History showing previous page versions; and the diff feature, highlighting the changes between two revisions. Using the Revision History, an editor can view and restore a previous version of the article. The diff feature can be used to decide whether or not this is necessary. A regular wiki user can view the diff of an edit listed on the “Recent Changes” page and, if it is an unacceptable edit, consult the history, restoring a previous revision; this process is more or less streamlined, depending on the wiki software used.[7]
In case unacceptable edits are missed on the “Recent Changes” page, some wiki engines provide additional content control. It can be monitored to ensure that a page, or a set of pages, keeps its quality. A person willing to maintain pages will be warned of modifications to the pages, allowing him or her to verify the validity of new editions quickly.[7]
Trustworthiness
Critics of open-source wiki systems argue that these systems could be easily tampered with; while proponents argue that the community of users can catch malicious content and correct it.[2] Lars Aronsson, a data systems specialist, summarizes the controversy as follows:
“ Most people, when they first learn about the wiki concept, assume that a website that can be edited by anybody would soon be rendered useless by destructive input. It sounds like offering free spray cans next to a grey concrete wall. The only likely outcome would be ugly graffiti and simple tagging, and many artistic efforts would not be long lived. Still, it seems to work very well.[8] ”
Security
The open philosophy of most wikis, allowing anyone to edit content, does not ensure that all editors are well-meaning. Vandalism can be a major problem[citation needed]. In larger wiki sites, such as those run by the Wikimedia Foundation, vandalism can go unnoticed for a period of time. Wikis by their very nature are susceptible to intentional disruption, known as “trolling”. Wikis tend to take a soft security[9] approach to the problem of vandalism; making damage easy to undo rather than attempting to prevent damage. Larger wikis often employ sophisticated methods, such as bots that automatically identify and revert vandalism and JavaScript enhancements that show how many characters have been added in each edit. In this way vandalism can be limited to just “minor vandalism” or “sneaky vandalism”, where the characters added/eliminated are so few that bots don’t identify them and users don’t pay much attention to them.
The amount of vandalism a wiki receives depends on how open the wiki is. For instance, some wikis allow unregistered users, identified by their IP addresses, to edit content, whilst others limit this function to just registered users. What most wikis do is allow IP editing, but privilege registered users with some extra functions to lend them a hand in editing; on most wikis, becoming a registered user is very simple and can be done in seconds, but detains the user from using the new editing functions until either some time passes, as in the English Wikipedia, where registered users must wait for three days after creating an account in order to gain access to the new tool, or until several constructive edits have been made in order to prove the user’s trustworthiness and usefulness on the system, as in the Portuguese Wikipedia, where users require at least 15 constructive edits before authorization to use the added tools. Basically, “closed up” wikis are more secure and reliable but grow slowly, whilst more open wikis grow at a steady rate but result in being an easy target for vandalism. A clear example of this would be that of Wikipedia and Citizendium. The first is extremely open, allowing anyone with a computer and internet access to edit it, making it grow rapidly, whilst the latter requires the users’ real name and a biography of themselves, affecting the growth of the wiki but creating an almost “vandalism-free” ambiance.
Wiki software architecture
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Nearly all wikis are implemented as server software. However, some have been implemented purely on the client-side using Javascript, and some have been built on top of peer-to-peer networks.
Wiki communities
Many wiki communities are private, particularly within enterprises. They are often used as internal documentation for in-house systems and applications. The “open to everyone”, all-encompassing nature of Wikipedia is a significant factor in its growth, while many other wikis are highly specialized.
There also exist WikiNodes which are pages on wikis that describe related wikis. They are usually organized as neighbors and delegates. A neighbor wiki is simply a wiki that may discuss similar content or may otherwise be of interest. A delegate wiki is a wiki that agrees to have certain content delegated to that wiki.
One way of finding a wiki on a specific subject is to follow the wiki-node network from wiki to wiki; another is to take a Wiki “bus tour,” for example: Wikipedia’s Tour Bus Stop. Domain names containing “wiki” are growing in popularity to support specific niches.
For those interested in creating their own wiki, there are many publicly available “wiki farms”, some of which can also make private, password-protected wikis. PeanutButterWiki, Socialtext, Wetpaint, and Wikia are popular examples of such services. For more information, see List of wiki farms. Note that free wiki farms generally contain advertising on every page. For those interested in how to build a successful wiki community, and encourage wiki use, Wikipatterns is a guide to the stages of wiki adoption and a collection of community-building and content-building strategies.
The English-language Wikipedia has the largest user base among all wikis[10] and ranks in the top twenty among all websites in terms of traffic.[11] Other large wikis include the WikiWikiWeb, Memory Alpha, Wikitravel, World66 and Susning.nu, a Swedish-language knowledge base. The largest wikis are listed and updated on Wikimedia’s “meta” wiki.
Wikis and content management systems
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Wikis have shared and encouraged several features with generalized content management systems (CMS), which are used by enterprises and communities-of-practice. Those looking to compare a CMS with an enterprise wiki should consider these basic features:
The name of an article is embedded in the hyperlink.
Articles can be created or edited at anytime by anyone (with certain limitations for protected articles).
Articles are editable through the web browser.
Each article provides one-click access to the history/versioning page, which also supports version differencing (”diff”) and retrieving prior versions.
The most recent additions/modifications of articles can be monitored actively or passively.
Easy revert of changes is possible.
None of these are particular to a wiki, and some have developed independently. Still the concept of a wiki unequivocally refers to this core set of features. Taken together, they fit the generative nature of the Internet, in encouraging each user to help build it.[12] It is yet to be studied whether an enterprise wiki encourages more usage, or leads to more knowledgeable community members, than other content management systems.
See also
Find more information on wiki by searching Wikipedia’s sister projects
Dictionary definitions from Wiktionary
Textbooks from Wikibooks
Quotations from Wikiquote
Source texts from Wikisource
Images and media from Commons
News stories from Wikinews
Learning resources from Wikiversity
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Notes
^ Ward Cunningham’s original description of Wiki.
^ a b c d “wiki”, Encyclopædia Britannica, 2007
^ Cunningham, Ward. Correspondence on the Etymology of Wiki. Retrieved on 2007-03-09.
^ Cunningham, Ward. Wiki History. Retrieved on 2007-03-09.
^ Cunningham, Ward. Wiki Wiki Hyper Card. Retrieved on 2007-03-09.
^ March 2007 new words, OED. Retrieved on 2007-03-16.
^ a b c d Richard Heigl, Markus Glaser, Anja Ebersbach(2006), p.51-54.
^ Richard Heigl, Markus Glaser, Anja Ebersbach(2006), p.10.
^ Soft Security. Retrieved on 2007-03-09.
^ WikiStats by S23. Retrieved on 2007-04-07.
^ Alexa Web Search – Top 500. Retrieved on 2007-04-07.
^ Zittrain, Jonathan. The Generative Internet. Retrieved on 2007-03-09.
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Aigrain, Philippe (2003). The Individual and the Collective in Open Information Communities. Invited talk at the 16th Bled Electronic Commerce Conference, Bled, Slovenia, June 11, 2003.
Aronsson, Lars (2002). Operation of a Large Scale, General Purpose Wiki Website: Experience from susning.nu’s first nine months in service. Paper presented at the 6th International ICCC/IFIP Conference on Electronic Publishing, November 8, 2002, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic.
Benkler, Yochai (2002). Coase’s penguin, or, Linux and The Nature of the Firm. The Yale Law Journal. v.112, n.3, pp.369–446.
Choate, Mark (2006). What makes an enterprise wiki? CMS Watch. April 28, 2006.
Cunningham, Ward and Leuf, Bo (2001): The Wiki Way. Quick Collaboration on the Web. Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-71499-X.
Delacroix, Jérôme (2005): Les wikis, espaces de l’intelligence collective, M2 Editions, Paris, ISBN 2-9520514-4-5.
Ebersbach, Anja, Glaser, Markus and Heigl, Richard (2005): Wiki. Web Collaboration. Springer, ISBN 3-540-25995-3.
Heigl, Richard; Glaser, Markus; Ebersbach Anja (2006): Wiki: web collaboration. Springer, ISBN 3540229396
Jansson, Kurt (2002): “Wikipedia. Die Freie Enzyklopädie.” Lecture at the 19th Chaos Communications Congress (19C3), December 27, 2002 intermot Berlin, Germany.
Klobas, Jane and others (2006): Wikis: Tools for Information Work and Collaboration. Oxford, UK, Chandos Publishing, ISBN 1-84334-179-4.
Lange, Christoph (ed., 2006). Wikis und Blogs – Planen, Einrichten, Verwalten. Computer- und Literaturverlag, ISBN 3-936546-44-4.
Mattison, David (2003). “QuickiWiki, Swiki, TWiki, ZWiki, and the Plone Wars: Wiki as PIM and Collaborative Content Tool.” Searcher: The Magazine for Database Professionals, v. 11, no. 4 (April 2003): 32-48
Möller, Erik (2003). Loud and clear: How Internet media can work. Presentation at the Open Cultures conference, June 5 & 6, 2003 Vienna, Austria.
Möller, Erik (2003). Tanz der Gehirne. Telepolis, May 9–30. Four parts: (i) “Das Wiki-Prinzip”, (ii) “Alle gegen Brockhaus”, (iii) “Diderots Traumtagebuch”, und (iv) “Diesen Artikel bearbeiten”.
Nakisa, Ramin (2003). “Wiki Wiki Wah Wah”. Linux User and Developer v.29, pp.42 sanyodenki
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New Media: Who are the real winners now we’ve all gone Wiki-crazy?, The Independent, June 26, 2006.
Father of Wiki Speaks Out on Community and Collaborative Development, eWeek, March 20, 2006.
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okay i’m still very confused…i need to understand this, sims will NOT be availible for xbox 360? please give me details
anonymous is not me so dont say that youre me
I have heard that there is going to be something like the sims 2 on stage comming out is it ture?
coz if it is then its gonna be like the sims superstar and it will be great!!!!!
I have a question for Harrison. You said “sims 3 is set to be released 2009 along with a film kalled the sims…”. I mean, it seems possible that the Sims 3 would be released in 2009 (although I’m hoping for late 08!), but it also seems extremely unlikely that a movie adaption of The Sims would be made. I mean the game is fun, but I don’t think a life simulator would make for a very good film. I don’t know if you’re being sarcastic or if you’ve actually gotten this information from somewhere. If you have I’d like to maybe see a link?
@Tim
I don’t see how you could have missed this news:
http://www.gamepro.com/news.cfm?article_id=113768
Although no information has been said about the date that I’ve read so I don’t know where Harrison came up with it being released in 2009. It may not have even been started yet.
That’s very strange. That doesn’t seem like a great film idea at all, but maybe it’ll be good. I’ll go see it anyway though. Thanks Chrisy.
i don’t know if someone already said this, i didn’t read all of the comments.
But ok theres obviously a patteren — The sims university something we never had in the sims 1, the sims nightlife = the sims hot date, the sims open for business something we never had either. yadda. it goes on like that, so the hobbies is something we’ve never had. I truley doubt that this hobbies would be the last one, just because the sims 3 (so i’ve read) isn’t even suppose to be coming out till 09. They’ll probably make three more just so we have the complete set up. I thought about house party, and living large how they weren’t in the game. but they are, they’re like the stuff packs. — Making magic was really popular =] not my favorite but popular. I love all of the sims games, the stuff packs for the sims 2 can be fun but they’re like a staller…. something to get you ready for the next game. I really want supastar back. I loved the game i found it the funnest one. And glamour life? i thought that would maybe be it then i ofund out it was a stuff pack. I have no idea how they’ll make the sims three different.. i’ll still buy it probably. i love the sims =o
To Be Honest.
Im a great sim fan I have all the games including sims 1, and everyone says about hoping for a magic expansion pack, when really i thought it was crap!
What is so special about having a magic one anyway?
I think the hobbie expansion pack would be great
@Lauren – No one expects everyone to like everything. It’s a matter of taste and preference. Personally I loved Makin Magic, it was my favorite TS1 EP. What you love other people might think is crap!
The reason I loved Makin Magic is because it added much more variety. Casting spells on other Sims and magic dueling was my favorite things to do.
I definetly agree with Chrisy, Makin Magic was probably the best EP of the first Sims games. If it doesn’t make it into Sims 2, I hope it will appear again in Sims 3.
i thought dat the supastar was the best but i also think dat makin magic was a lil out of place but i do agree with Chrisy dat it it added much more variety.
i hope they do bring supastar out on ts2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
well spank my bum an suck my tits if makin magic dosen’t come back into the sims 2 im going on the game again… messin makinmagic 4ever woo!!
One thing i would LOOOVE to know
is will they ever make “the sims 2 Online” ???
I think that would be there largest money maker
@Gina – That’s one of the dumbest comments I’ve ever read.
@Benjamin – I doubt it. The last one failed miserably. I don’t think enough people would actually buy it, then pay monthly to play it.
@ chrisy, im suprised i did really enjoy it when i played it
i didnt start playing untill six months ago and i loved it
i thought a new one would do very well considering IMVU’s sucess
i unfoutunatly moved and can only have dailup so i cant load it anymore.
I still think they should i would get satalite internet for that.
@Chrisy listen girl you have no right to dis my comment thats how i feel and besides its a fucking joke cant you take one? makinmagic 4ever woo!!
@Gina (aka idiot) – I was talking about the first part of your comment genius:
“well spank my bum an suck my tits”
Those kind of comments make you look like an uneducated moron, then again maybe you are, so if the shoe fits
Those kinds of comments aren’t really appropriate considering a majority of the Sim audience are children that don’t need to be reading stupid crap like that.
And for the record, jokes are usually funny.
@Chrisy listen babe i maybe a bit more in your face than some but i am not an idiot and you have no right to call me an idiot, you dont even know me for all you know i could be a doctor who likes sims just because your a prude who is probably unattractive makes you think you are smarter than us fun loving girls… oh yeah i went there
makinmagic 4ever woo!!
You’re right I don’t know you, but I’m not making assumptions, I’m going by what you gave me sweetheart. You’re just convincing me even more that you’re an idiot because you have to lower yourself into trying to judge who and what I am when I haven’t given you any reason to believe that.
I know you’re not a doctor or anything else that requires an 5th education…..
“because your a prude”
You can’t even use ‘you’re’ properly
. Just because I told you it’s not appropriate here doesn’t make me a prude, there’s a time and place, this isn’t the place. I have enough common sense to not bring it here.
Don’t get mad at me because I’ve got beauty AND brains…..oh yeah I went there
Now go ahead and make another ignorant comment
ok now you are just basicly being a hypocrite saying that you can call me an idiot on what you have seen but i can’t on what i have seen “Those kinds of comments aren’t really appropriate” is what you said so that gives me something to say you are a prude and i am in my final year of uni doing a biology degree actually so if you don’t think that is smart you are the idiot i honestly hate bitches like you who say suff like “Those kinds of comments aren’t really appropriate” i thought i would get a few giggles out of my first comment oh and “brains and beauty” yeah right you seem to think much of yourself don’t you i bet the guys love you… NOT you probably study psychology thinking you are better than men and think that they should do whatever you want now how are you going to get anyone like that me im getting married in january and i nearly forgot makinmagic 4ever woo!!
also ran out of comments you had to use mine “oh yeah I went there”
makinmagic 4ever woo!!
Keep on convincing me sweetheart. You’re doing an EXCELLENT job! I’m not a hypocrite, I wasn’t referring to you calling me a prude, I’m referring to you calling me unattractive.
You in college? Right don’t make me laugh
Just because I don’t think those comments are appropriate here doesn’t mean I don’t anywhere else. Like I said, time and place moron.
Why do you think that I think I’m better than men? My comments to you has nothing to do with men so wtf?
Psychology….nope, sorry but I’m not interested in getting finding out what is wrong with people like you mentally
. Anyways just so you know, I’m a hairstylist, already married to a wonderful man with a child.
Why do you keep saying “makinmagic 4ever woo” do you think that bugs me? Because it doesn’t in the least! I actually agree with you on that! Woooo Makin’ Magic forever YEAH!!!!
I didn’t run out of comments, I was mocking you.
well well we actually have something in common and no im not doing it to annoy you i just want to stress the message and atleast keep a little bit an topic oh yes im in uni not college don’t you read properly and anyway i have given in a big project just today so now i’m going on a night out with my girls now coz its night here in england so while your stuck in your house doing nothing i’ll be out on the town getting pissed oh yeah and makinmagic 4ever woo!!
Pretty much the same thing genius. You go out, have a great time getting drunk and acting a fool, it’s not my thing. Alcoholics tend to look older thyan they really are….not to mention their beer guts.
I’ve got plenty to do so don’t worry about me sweetie. I got a nice 57″ HDTV to watch if I get bored.
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@chrisy its pretty lame that you have to mention
what you own to prove your a better person than us.
@gina stop giving in to her.
This isnt let pick fights forum its about the sims