Categorie: De Sims 3 PC

Na hun preview van Sims 3 enkele dagen geleden (zie dit blogbericht) komt Videogamer nu met een interview met Sims 3 associate producer MJ Chun. Echt veel nieuws over het spel zelf staat er niet in.

Wel worden er nogal wat vragen beantwoord over SecuRom en DRM bij Sims 3. Na alle ophef die er rond dit onderwerp was bij de release van Spore (zie ook mijn Spore Blog) zal ook Sims 3 beveiligd worden tegen kopiëren en komt er misschien een een maximaal aantal keer dat je Sims 3 op een computer zal kunnen installeren:

VideoGamer.com: So what’s the plan for this game?

MC: So because of that we had a strong DRM thing. And then we got such good and such vocal user feedback, so now we’re getting the final pieces together. It’s not going to be the crazy, manage-18-accounts or count-the-number-of-times-you’ve-installed thing. But it is going to have copy-protection.

VideoGamer.com: So will there be limited installs?

MC: Um… [to PR] do you know the answer on that? I used to know that information, and then we changed it. EA subsequently told us there will be a press release about this in the near future. The engineers have been amazing, because to change the DRM strategy this late is something that’s asking a lot of an engineering crew who have already put a lot into it. But they were willing to be flexible, because as gamers themselves they were like, “yeah, it’s a pain in the ass”.

EA verwacht dat ook Sims 3 één van de meeste illegaal gekopieerde games gaat worden en zal daarom deze beveiligingen gaan inbouwen. MJ Chun zegt dat EA / Maxis op later tijdstip met een persbericht zal komen over SecuRom en DRM in Sims 3.

Na hun De Sims 3 preview (zie dit blogbericht) heeft TVG vandaag een interview online gezet met De Sims 3 associate producer MJ Chun en wel op deze pagina van TVG.

TVG: With The Sims 2, something of a modding community was built up with user generated content, but this time around you’re really embracing user created content. Will you have a marketing strategy for that at all, or are you planning to serve up all that sort of content for free?

Yeah, absolutely. For The Sims 2 we did Body Shop, so we released a separate program that allowed players to customise their sims and stuff like that. In The Sims 3 we’re actually incorporating a lot of those tools that we released into the game itself, so you do all of the uploading, sharing and alike in-game. What we would love to do is make it even easier, allowing the player to customise even more. They can then post it to the exchange and see what other people have made but all within our standard, so there’s nothing too graphic – no decapitations.