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351. Unofficial Patch for FFS Bug

Written on Sunday 16 April 2006 at 22:40 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The bug reported about yesterday, in Family Fun Stuff, has already been fixed by the community. Although it will make the Family Fun icon disappear on the clothes provided by the pack, it does prevent them from being deleted after you use them. PatchesSim2 has provided the patch on ModTheSims2. Meanwhile an official patch for the pack is still underway. Thanks to Babbelsim and Hiki from the official Dutch site for providing the link.

352. Sims 2 Freecell on Pogo

Written on Sunday 16 April 2006 at 22:35 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Not everybody has the Sims 2 or Family Fun Stuff yet, and for those people there's now a chance to win both on EA Pogo, the online gaming site. You can find a Payday Freecell game in the Card & Board games section there. You can play for free, and if you do so before 24 April you might just win one of the 20 packs of the Sims 2 and the Family Fun Stuff pack. Only residents of the United States (except Rhode Island) and Canada (except Quebec) are allowed to enter, provided that they're 13 years or older. The complete rules can be found on the sweepstake rules page.

353. Commercial Contest Winners

Written on Sunday 16 April 2006 at 22:28 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Several weeks ago Maxis launched a contest in which members of the official site were asked to create a commercial for a business from Open for Business. Winners could receive a brand new nVidia PC, or a video card by the same company. The winners have now been revealed, with pancaketitz8's commercial for WWBTC being the grand prize winner. Second prize winners, the video cards, go to booey4864 (Nutty Ned), m1tchm (Macabre Mart) and Ninhead1011 (Big Jon's). There are also 6 honorable mentions, picked from over 100 entries in total. All videos can be downloaded from the winners page.

354. Family Fun Stuff Bug

Written on Saturday 15 April 2006 at 02:55 by ChEeTaH - 6 comments.

More Family Fun Stuff news, this time specifically for owners of the pack. Not only will they see the icon on the left on their MySims page on the official site, they will also experience a bug with the new clothes. When you use one of the new outfits in Create-A-Sim mode, to dress your Sim, the selected outfit will disappear from the game after restarting it. The Sim (or Sims) will still be wearing the clothes. The outfit will not only disappear from CAS, but also from community lot purchases. The only work-around so far is to give Sims the Family Fun Stuff clothes through purchase on a community lot rather than through CAS. This way, the bug won't occur. If you backed up your user data (neighborhoods, downloads, etc) before installing the Stuff Pack, you can uninstall and reinstall the pack to get the outfits back, but this will mean you lose your progress made since the pack was installed. Maxis is working on a patch, which should solve the problem soon. When exactly the patch will be released is unclear. For more information see MaxoidKane's post on the official BBS. Thanks to SnootySims and Hiki for the tips.

355. Family Fun Stuff Bonus Download

Written on Saturday 15 April 2006 at 02:45 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

For those who don't have the Family Fun Stuff pack yet, there is an option to get it along with an exclusive download. It's been available in some European countries (not the UK) with selected pre-orders, and now - while supplies last - you can get the summer dress shown on the left by purchasing the pack at a local Target store. EA UK has not announced any plans to make the download available in the United Kingdom.

356. Family Fun Stuff Mini-game

Written on Saturday 15 April 2006 at 02:35 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

To celebrate the release of the Family Fun Stuff Pack, Maxis has created a new mini-game on their website. In the game you have to decorate a room using the new family fun items. There's no competition whatsoever, but it can kill some time. All you need to play the game is a web browser, and Flash 8. Play the Room Creator to get a little taste of he pack.

357. Official BBS Spammed [Update]

Written on Monday 10 April 2006 at 00:45 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Regular visitors of the official site's BBS (forums) may notice some downtime today. The reason is that the boards have been "hacked" and were being spammed by an automated robot friday night. Maxis is cleaning up the boards and has thus decided to take the BBS offline until the boards have been cleaned up. When it's brought back, Maxis requests not to post anything off-topic to make it easier to keep the forums spam-free. The Sims 1 BBS is still available, though messages about the downtime of the Sims 2 boards should not be posted there. Maxis has no estimate for when the boards will be back online. Read on for the message the web team sent out as private message to all members of the Sims 2 site.

[Update 11 April 12:47] The BBS is now back up again. Maxis will keep an eye on them to ensure they remain clean and useful. Read More!

358. Family Fun Stuff already Received

Written on Monday 10 April 2006 at 00:38 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

It's not the first time that some people get a Sims expansion pack almost a week before the official release. Just before the weekend, raye1forTS2 (from Switzerland) opened a thread on the official BBS in which she announces that she's already received a copy of the Family Fun Stuff pack, which is to be released next week. Several screenshots of the pack are posted in her Yahoo! Album. Read the thread for more information. Thanks to SnootySims and SimsZone for the links.

359. Family Fun Stuff Producer Mail

Written on Thursday 6 April 2006 at 02:07 by ChEeTaH - 1 comment.

We've had Luc-Mails (Luc Barthelet) and Lucy-Mails (Lucy Bradshaw) for the Sims 2, T-Mails (Tim LeTourneau) for University, Nightlife and Open for Business, H-Mails (Hunter Howe) for Open for Business as well, and this time we have an L-Mail for you about the Family Stuff Pack that will be out on PC later this month. Lyndsay Pearson, Associate Producer for the game, tells what a Stuff pack is, and how it's made. As example the toybox is used. She concludes with a few items that will be in the pack, as well as her own experience with it. Of course plenty of graphics are included, this time containing several sketches and artworks, as well as the odd screenshot. You can see them all below, as well as within the e-mail which is posted in the Read More part (see below). The last screenshot listed right below here wasn't directly included in the e-mail. Read More!

360. Easter Downloads from Maxis

Written on Tuesday 4 April 2006 at 00:56 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

With easter coming along, Maxis has made a few holiday downloads again. An Easter Chick Hat and the Hippity Hoppity Bunny Suit are the first two of what possibly becomes a larger set of Spring downloads (whether it will is currently unknown). Both can be found on the Spring Downloads page. Below are a couple of screenshots and artworks from EA Europe showing the new items.