About The Sims 4. *Important*

MariaWalker wrote:Is it going to be in a new thread, or will it be here?

Weenie1 wrote:where did it say that

confiscata wrote:G4TW just said there IS a crack! Maybe we will have game up and running by tommorow or a day after! 

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3DM indeed created a crack, but it's not stable, so we probably won't use it.
The in-game problems you're describing, as well as crashes, are caused by a bad crack.

Kajhiro wrote:I tried the Skidrow crack that the chinese guys made and ... It's SUPER unstable, I really don't recommend it, you'll just get a wrong Idea of the Sims 4, it honestly crash at almost every loading screen ! 

Instead, I couldn't resist and bought it. It's too long to wait for the main game but, you can be sure that I'll be here for the expension packs since they should take less time, I'm just too excited haha !

Carlos wrote:

anonymouse wrote:

Hello Kim,


While I (probably) don't understand that much about the "business"-side of gaming, I guess it partly has to do with logistics: it's generally rather difficult to simply deliver the game (the retail disc ones of course) into all possible countries, at the same time.

Next, the companies - in some cases - might want to choose to focus on particular "markets" first. So sometimes, a game may come out in North America/Europe/East Asia earlier, than in other parts of the world.

Maybe someone else has more elaborate explanations though.

Hi,
Take what I say with a grain of salt.

For many games it does fall under the category of markets.
Some games are "better slated" for certain markets. So they release the game in that market first to test sales and make an estimate of how much they expect to sell in smaller markets.
One of the best examples is nintendo games. Normally, Japan gets the game first because it's market is alot larger when it comes to nintendo consoles, while here in NA it's alot smaller (still big).
- It also can be beneficial because they can hype the product even more with videos and such from the Japanese version (like they do with pokemon).

Another is the xbox. it has done very poor in the past when it comes to sales in Japan, often times, it's release dates are later because they are allocating more money for where they can get the most out of a launch.

Though it doesn't apply to alot of games, another factor is how games are rated and legal issues like licensing, censorship, etc. Sometimes it takes months to get approval, especially for games involving violence, blood, killing, implied/expressed ***, nudity, and controversial stuff.

For games with alot of hype, it usually tends to favor wherever the biggest market is, followed by the smaller markets. They would rather use more funding to focus on those big markets and hyping the product in order to profit more rather than splitting their funds throughout the world, not knowing what to expect from smaller markets. If it bombs in the big market, then there's a big chance the small market won't receive the product (probably why we don't get alot of games ).

Yes, the thing with the markets sounds straightforward. Thanks for the elaborate explanations !

anonymouse wrote:first country plays it, if there's bug, they can patch it, then when it releases in other places it'll sell better.