PC.Ign has a 'regular' column about The Sims. Yesterday, part 4 was posted. It's tells a bit about the Unleashed expansion too, and all the problems that come with it. This time, it was up to Rick Halle (SimEnhancer), James Sausville (SimWardrobe) and Chad Authier (7 Deadly Sims) to tell what they think of the expansion packs, the bugs, and more. Here's a quote from Chad:

"'Seems they forgot about us sometimes, and sometimes it's pretty devastating to the community,' he says. 'I mean when Hot Date came out, no user created objects were able to be viewed downtown, until someone from the community not Maxis made a program to fix that problem. But then months later Maxis released a program to do the same thing, but it still isn't up to par with the user-communities version!'"

Sounds like something very typical... They also criticise the way SimCity 4 was addressed to as Sims 4 in an article in the NYTimes (free registration required), to get better sales for The Sims Online. They also mention The Sims 2 in their last bit, which will probably come out next year (a shop assistant told me, ChEeTaH, when I bought Unleashed recently that it'd be May 2003 for The Sims 2). Anyway, for the whole article at IGN, simply click here.