Hello All -

I think Sims 3 looks AMAZING. I think it looks AWESOME.

Having said that though - I'm STILL in love with Sims 2. I'm also invested about $1000 into it. I've had to replace 8 of my EPs once because I had to have my computer wiped and cleaned and I'd given all of my EPs to my niece who lives out of state. I'm NOT complaining about how much I've paid into the Sims 2, but I'm saying since I've spent that much AND I'm still in love with the game - why rush into Sims 3?

I've said this before and I'll say it again - I plan on staying in the Sims 2 community for a long time. I've noticed that many beloved Sims 2 sites are drying up left and right.........it saddens me. I wish even if the creators didn't want to stick around - that they'd leave their sites or their sites content to people who still love Sims 2. I get attached to things and when I go to old haunts and they're gone it really saddens me.

I've taken the position that UNLESS the forum owner closes me down - I will NEVER just disappear on the Sims 2 community. I'd also like to extend offers to Sims 2 site owners who are THINKING about closing their doors. You can leave your stuff to us and we'll happily house it here for years to come.

Anyhoo........Sims 3 LOOKS AWESOME, but it will be a LONG time before I step through that door.

It's a shame so many site owners are just vanishing. Aren't there sites that specifically archive downloads from defunct sites? Couldn't they try to contact them and preserve their work?

I'm the same way I get attached to old places too and especially the people that frequented them. There are a lot of people I've 'met' online that have vanished over the years and I still wonder what happened to them and how they are. I've had sites or message boards that I've left behind, but I still couldn't bring myself to delete them completely, except when a host quit and deleted them for me.

Hey Em -

There is the Sims Graveyard - but it doesn't seem to be kept up.

I find it really sad because there has been some fabulous and beautiful work over the years in the Simming community and poof it's just gone. Witnessing this many times over - I just have made a firm decision to NEVER disappear like that. I've posted this before - but I mean it - IF one day I do not want to run the site anymore I will give notice. I will also offer the site to someone else IF they want to run it AND honor the members we have by being respectful to them. If no one wants it - I'll just leave it up and check in time to time to make sure everything's still running. THAT is a LONG ways off as I truly feel dedicated now, but I really want it known. I won't be here today and gone without a word Thursday.

I'm so glad you're choosing to stick around too.

Sims Cave is an awesome site with awesome downloads. I use a lot of the model pose boxes and I'm a HUGE fan of the lots offered there.

Hunter, hope you don't mind, but I couldn't see starting my own thread just to say a few quick words about this subject.

For pretty much all the reasons (combined) that everyone has given here regarding purchasing The Sims 3 (eg still love playing and creating for Sims 2, don't like the way the Sims look in TS3, simply have no interest in investing more money on a game when I barely have time enough to play TS2 as it is, etc., etc), I will not be investing in Sims 3.
At least, not anytime in the near future that I can foresee.
And if I am reading correctly that we will not have the tools to create and/or recolor stuff for TS3, well ... one of my greatest joys is being able to do so for TS2. If I didn't have that option, and had to stick mostly with what Maxis offers ... BLEH! No thanks!

I was really bummed awhile back because another favorite site of mine was going to go by the way side due to Sims 3.

As it appears now on Simsewallz front page......

"After I played Sims 3 for several hours, I am already bored.
Some things changed in Sims 2, others did not…
I´m absolutely missing my stylish furniture, hip walls and trendy clothes!
That nevertheless finally is, which brings the play fun and the alternation!
As long as I cannot pimp the frumpy EA-style in Sims 3 into a modern one, it remains in the cabinet - and you will get more DLs for Sims 2 :)"

If you've never checked them out......might I recommend?





......the nails keep getting pounded into the coffin that is Sims 3. They were in a rush to release it and doing so it seems they released a product inferior to Sims 2.

I've never checked that site out. Thank you for sharing the link with us, Hunter.
It's amazing, the negative feedback I'm hearing about Sims 3. And yet, some Simmers are enjoying it quite a bit.
The folks over at The Corner seem to like it so far.

Some of us are hoping Sims 3 is just a passing phase.
I still think the characters look horribly bloated and odd.
They're too weird to look at as far as I'm concerned.

Perhaps Sims 3 is NOT going to be the game/wave of the future after all ... we shall see, won't we?
Either way, I remain uninterested in it.

As a matter of fact, I'm about to install Apartment Life (FINALLY) in my main puter to check it out today.
I'm really looking forward to it, especially since you said you really like what it brings to the game.
My oldest daughter likes AL, too.

I am a newbie but i decided to jump in. I think some of the game play of sims 3 is intriguing. But I too think the sims look bloated and after reading up on meshing and recoloring its much more difficult and not very customizable. So I too will be sticking to Sims 2, There is so much more I want to create, plus my PC wouldnt handle it anyway.

My head is bursting with ideas! I don't know where to start with the meshes. So it goes both ways hun.

Keep 'em comin', lady! I love it!!!

I had Sims 3 installed on my computer for like 5 minutes.

Shouldn't Sims 3 be better than Sims 2? To me a lot of what is great and fun about Sims 2 is not in Sims 3. It is great to play the open neighborhood but the bad points outweigh the good too much to me.

I removed it from my PC and it will sit on a shelf until my husband puts it on Ebay.

Wow Nina - when we were talking the other night I thought you were JOKING about installing it and uninstalling it in the same day!!!