Two weeks ago Tim started traveling through Europe, and he also went through Amsterdam. From that presentation we then reported Tim had said there were no plans for a patch for the Sims 2 University. This resulted in some heavy discussions (see, for example, this discussion on the BBS). MaxoidKane had already said there would be a reply from Tim about this issue when he got back, and now there is.

In the post, Tim elaborates on what we summarised. The Sims is a very open game, and the bugs that were reported seemed inconsistent and weren't always reproducible, and thus harder to trace back. Maxis hasn't been able to reproduce many problems very well, as many only occur for some players and not all of them. These problems were considered quirks, that Maxis thought didn't affect gameplay too much, and so didn't require a patch.

Through the discussions the team noticed that the fun of the game actually was affected by some of these quirks. The issues of not releasing a patch, and the fact that it's hard to test, were confused (also by us), and resulted in the statement that a patch would be too hard to test. Maxis is now working on finding reproducable and fixable problems, and these will be addressed in a stand-alone patch. Of course Nightlife will also fix known problems.

There is no list of fixes yet, nor a release date for the patch, but of course we'll keep you updated. Tim end with saying that the community is important to Maxis and that they'll continue to listen to them.

Read the entire post for the exact details.