Dear EA...

I know that the forum does not make you any money. I know that technically you do not have to provide us with any kind of community experience whatsoever but COME ON! The forum has been broken for months now. Is it REALLY that difficult to just spare one of your technical guys to fix the damn thing?

If I'm not being white-screened when I try to post a comment or hell even read a thread I'm getting a mass of code, forum headers without forums or being forced to log myself in when I only want to view the forum for a few seconds and thus cannot be bothered to log myself in (not to mention your stupid site keeps logging me out in the first place ¬¬) - OK you probably implimented the latter to fix the problem with the anonymous trolls but that was a problem that your techie web guys created in the first place. Fix the initial problem, don't add another irritant.

I know there are much more important things in the world than having a working forum but seriously, your forum is like a giant advertisement for how unstable and broken your damn game is. Prove me wrong EA. Prove me wrong.

Regards
Dark.

FORTY-SEVEN - WTF LAUNCHER

Right. That is it. I have had enough. My computer is a fragile enough creature as it is with its random reboots and failure to find its DVD drive. I do not need you making it worse.

You know who you are.

Damn launcher...

Unsurprisingly this happens a lot. In fact virtually every time I enter the launcher and no matter which one it is I get the same result.

It will open (eventually) and I'll upload whatever I wanted to upload (I have long since stopped using the launcher to load the game itself - that was a disaster the last time I tried). All seems to go well until I go to close it.

WITHOUT FAIL it will freeze on me. A lot of the time this just means I have to end task about a dozen times before the thing decides that yes it finally will close (you are at my command, not the other way around damnit! You close when I say, not when you bloody feel like it!).

Then there are the days when it just wants to be a total bitch; like as pictured below.

As you can see the launcher did not just freeze itself. It froze my AIM chat (name blanked because she wasn't online at the time - not sure how she'd feel about her username being publically broadcast) and it froze IE. Somehow it also managed to confuse my task manager into thinking that I had two versions of Blogger open when in reality (as you can blatantly see) I did not.

WTF launcher!?

This is the reason why I don't upload as much as I used to. I still enjoy creating sims but getting them uploaded is such a damn hassle these days. My launcher has never worked properly but ever since I put Ambitions on I've been reduced to enduring meltdowns like these.

EA - your launcher right now is acting like a damn virus on my computer. You produce complex games on a regular basis, how did you manage to fuck up something as simple as the TS3 launcher?

UGH! *raaaage*

Edit: Conveniently it had closed by the time I screencapped this. It's stealthy virus ways concealing it until the next time it wants to piss me off.

I wasn't using AIM. I was signed on yes but the person I was talking/connected to had already signed off. I was just finishing up a few things on Blogger after my sim had uploaded. I closed the launcher and then it froze everything I had running. A few more minutes and I'd have rebooted but I didn't want to lose the screencap.