i think SmugFrog is right (about the 'if you give us cash , you could have THIS *holds up decent item compared to basic item allready in game* neato')
we allready know that this version will be stripped of anything more than basic value.
it has no toddlers
no pools
no customiseability (baring the things they want us to buy later)
no Modability (early sugestions report that there will be little to no way the modding community can alter or generaly even improve the game)
no hard to use (apparently were all too stupid nowadays to even use sliders) systems to modify a sims appearance
no (again, were too dumb to use sliders or even tools now..) complex house building tools
no basements
no more than 3 floors (i think that was the number given)
it was designed as a freemium 32bit (maybe even browser only) online only game that they had to about face halfway through becasue of the bad publicity that SimCity got
we allready know that we are restricted to the old sims 1 style loading screen when you want to move outside your house area. that we only get a small neighbourhood. i think we are limited to 3 famly plots we can control. that sims who are not under your active control will age up while you are playing...that we likely will only be able to have one hood period.
and since it seems to be a standard, that more than half the content was stripped out to sell allready, as 'premium' quality content we will have to buy. the same will go with each sucsessive expansion (though they might reduce that to 1 third of the stuff left out to be sold if we are lucky)
and lets not forget all the content that will be in the expansions but were supposed to be in the base game. but that seems to be normal for the sims now aswell.
assuming they ever get around to making it for consoles (they currently say they are only releasing to pc)i might get it. but otherwise, i am definately sticking to sims1 and 2 (with a little 3) because i have most everything i want for that, and apart from the actual disks, everything else was free from the community.
thats the problem. the *comminuty* have to fix the things they break. with no modability, no community fixes. this ones not likely to last on pc (at least, not among the dedicated simers, mostly on the folks that just make celbs and then humiliate them)