(PC) Ikea Home Stuff
EA releases many De-Authorization Tools: MySims, Spore, Apartment Life, Ikea and Mansion now available
Mar 31st
I hope EA is considering ditching SecuROM on all of their games. Today, they have made an effort to put one step further in the crusade against SecuROM by issuing De-Authorization tools for many of their games. They now have tools for MySims PC, Spore (actually Spore’s been available for some time), Spore Creature Creator, The Sims 2 Apartment Life, The Sims 2 Ikea Home Stuff and The Sims 2 Mansion and Garden Stuff.
Games released after May 2008 allowed users to authorize up to 5 computers to play the game on at the same time. By using these tools, an authorization slot will be freed up and will let you install the game on another computer. If you want to reauthorize, all you need to do is relaunch the game.
While sure, this isn’t exactly what we wanted, it’s a start. I’d love to see them take effort in removing SecuROM from the game’s exe file, but chances are that would require more effort as they’d have to recompile the game’s code again without the SecuROM program embedded…
Click the box to grab the De-Authorization Tool that you need. I’ll add these to SimPrograms sometime tomorrow – it’s getting late :P
NPD PC Chart for the week ending on August 30, 2008: Sims are back on top!
Sep 9th
The Sims 2 Apartment Life takes home the winning spot for the NPD results from the week of August 24 – 30. They better enjoy it, as Spore will take that spot away from them!
1. The Sims 2 Apartment Life Expansion Pack
2. World of Warcraft: Battle Chest
3. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe
4. World of Warcraft
5. Spore Creature Creator
6. Deadliest Catch: Alaskan Storm
7. World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Expansion Pack
8. The Sims 2 IKEA Home Stuff Expansion Pack
9. Warcraft III Battle Chest
10. Diablo Battle Chest
Courtesy of NPD.
NPD PC Chart for the week ending on August 9, 2008: Warcraft rules them all
Aug 20th
I’ve never been a fan of the Warcraft series, but they are the winners for the NPD results from August 2nd – August 9. They bumped The Sims 2 Double Deluxe from the #1 spot and shifted The Sims 2 Ikea Home Stuff Pack to #9. FreeTime doesn’t even appear on the list anymore…
1. WoW: Battle Chest
2. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe
3. World Of Warcraft
4. Nancy Drew: The Phantom Of Venice
5. Spore Creature Creator
6. Diablo Battle Chest
7. Warcraft III Battle Chest
8. WoW: Burning Crusade
9. The Sims 2 Ikea Home Stuff
10. Call of Duty 4
Source: Kotaku
NPD PC Chart for the week ending on August 2, 2008: Sims are back at #1
Aug 13th
Look like Nancy Drew is starting to lose stem. Either that or The Sims 2 Deluxe sold more copies. For this weeks NPD results, The Sims 2 Deluxe clocks in at the number 1 position. #4 is Spore Creature Creator, #6 is The Sims 2 Ikea Home Stuff and #10 is The Sims 2 FreeTime.
1. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe
2. Nancy Drew: The Phantom of Venice
3. World of Warcraft: Battle Chest
4. Spore Creature Creator
5. World of Warcraft
6. The Sims 2 IKEA Home Stuff Expansion Pack
7. Diablo Battle Chest
8. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
9. World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Expansion Pack
10. The Sims 2 FreeTime Expansion Pack
Source: GamesIndustry
NPD PC Chart for the week ending on July 20, 2008: Nancy Drew tops the charts again
Aug 4th
Man, the Nancy Drew game is a beast, it’s doing quite well taking the #1 spot again for the second week in a row. The next couple of games are those from Maxis. We have The Sims 2 Double Deluxe coming in #2 as well as The Sims 2 Ikea Home Stuff in #3. Shockingly, Spore Creature Creator comes in at #5. I’d figure it would be higher since it is only $10.
1. Nancy Drew: The Phantom of Venice
2. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe
3. The Sims 2: IKEA Home Stuff Expansion
4. World of Warcraft: Battle Chest
5. Spore Creature Creator
6. Diablo Battle Chest
7. World of Warcraft
8. World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Expansion Pack
9. Civilization IV
10. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Courtesy of NPD.
A very bad The Sims 2 IKEA Home Stuff review
Jul 25th
Talk about brutal…GamesRadar is a tad upset with The Sims 2 Ikea Home Stuff pack. In their review (I’m not sure if it should even be called a review…) they rated the game with a big fat 3 out of 10. They even state under what they hate as “Kill Me Now”.
Myself? I don’t know anything about Ikea, but the designs of the objects look extremely nice. I don’t think it deserves such a low rating…
NPD PC Chart for the week ending on July 12, 2008: Nancy Drew tops Maxis’ games?!?!
Jul 25th
I don’t understand…Maxis has been dominating the NPD charts for ages with their games…sure, there are some other games that become #1 for a brief moment…but a Nancy Drew game? That’s unheard of! Maybe there was a miscount…or perhaps the company that produced the game bought a ton of copies for themselves…yeah…that’s it.
1. Nancy Drew: The Phantom Of Venice
2. Spore Creature Creator
3. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe
4. Diablo Battle Chest
5. The Sims 2 IKEA Home Stuff
6. WoW: Battle Chest
7. World Of Warcraft
8. The Sims 2 Freetime
9. WoW: The Burning Crusade
10. Call of Duty 4
Source: Kotaku
NPD PC Chart for the week ending on July 5, 2008
Jul 16th
I cannot believe that the Spore Creature Creator took #3. I thought many were tired of EA milking The Sims franchise…I guess this proves me wrong!
- The Sims 2 IKEA Home Stuff Expansion Pack
- Diablo Battle Chest
- Spore Creature Creator
- The Sims 2 Double Deluxe
- World of Warcraft: Battle Chest
- World of Warcraft
- Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures
- World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Expansion Pack
- The Sims 2 Free Time Expansion Pack
- Warcraft III Battle Chest
Source: Destructoid
NPD PC Chart for the week ending on June 28, 2008: EA, EA and…oh yeah, EA.
Jul 9th
The sales data of US PC games has been published for the week ending on June 28. Take a huge guess on what came in #1.
1) Spore Creature Creator – EA
2) The Sims 2: IKEA Home Stuff Expansion – EA
3) The Sims 2 Double Deluxe – EA
4) World Of Warcraft Battle Chest– Vivendi
5) Age Of Conan – Eidos
6) World Of Warcraft – Vivendi
7) The Sims 2: Freetime Expansion – EA
The Sims 2: Kitchen and Bathroom Stuff – EA
9) Call Of Duty 4 – Activision
10) Diablo Battle Chest – Vivendi
Source: PCRetail
Gamepyre reviews The Sims 2 Ikea Home Stuff
Jul 9th
For example, I have no complaints in the actual stuff department. All the objects are rendered beautifully, and with the exception of the bathroom and the kitchen, you can decorate an entire house using just IKEA products. As a matter of fact, all three houses featured in the screenshots only use IKEA stuff (minus the bathroom and kitchen). The only exception to my design was the outside decorations like the white picket fence, and the stone driveway featured with one of the houses.
Honestly, I think that the only reason we do not see any kitchen or bathroom appliances in the IKEA expansion pack is because the Sims 2 already has a kitchen and bathroom expansion pack and EA doesn’t want the sales of that pack to go down. The only problem with the graphics is the 55 wall paint and flooring designs. In my opinion, about 75% of them are for the lack of a better word, lame. But there are a few in the 55 that are worth applying to your home. You be the judge. However, considering that until this expansion pack I was not aware of IKEA, my taste in decoration is probably not that good.
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