I stopped buying EA games around the time Sims 2 was out. I still play the original Sims on occasion (but it does crash from time to time). Annoying DRM, unfixed bugs (one of the more notorious ones is from one of the expansions from the original game. A few patches and several expansions later, it still wasn't fixed), and crashes without any error messages (making it difficult if not impossible to diagnose) are just some of the problems I have with EA products. The company's focus is not to make games, but to milk consumers from as much money as possible
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"Tongue tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I" - Pink Floyd
(and then the tower cleared me for take off)