Agree with Carl's choice

This is so surprising...I mean, it's a popular game, it's gonna be pirated like hell obviously. Same as Spore last year, same as Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3 soon. It's not like anyone expected it to be any different, with or without leak

I love EA PR spin...it lacks a city...because that city is a downloadable add-on...it's obviously gonna lack it

If a game is pirated 20% then of course a game that sells more will have a higher number of pirates. 20% of 1 million is 200,000. 20% of 10 million is 2 million. so no duh that it's the most pirated game. The Sims series is one of the biggest names in gaming.

There is no difference between core and casual. The "casual" of now will be the core of tomorrow. As the "core" of now was the casual of yesteryears.

Pirating has always been around and always will be around. Companies survived piracy back then. They will survive piracy now. The only difference is now they can track piracy, but it's been pretty much the same since gaming started.

haha Zexen, if you think Blizzard will allow their games to be pirated in the same manner you are sourly mistaken. Blizzard handles their system as well, if not better, than Steam when it comes to online gaming.

Not to defend pirates, but EA has a tendency to milk the living fuck out of games.

Some of the Sims 2 expansions don't add a hell of alot to the game, but are still $20 full expansions.

In order to get the Sims 2 with all of the expansions, you will spend about 200 or so dollars.

That's a bit over the top imho.

Just put these games on Wii/360/PS3 and that should help the problem. PC gaming's demise lately is due mostly to piracy. It's harder to pirate console games, so just put them on there instead.

no it isnt... I can get games for every console on the market but the PS3. It is not hard at all. Heck I used to rent games at Blockbuster and copy the games. Of course I stopped because torrenting is so much cheaper. 

Also the Sims 3 will be a million seller at about 2 am when the game is on store shelves. There is zero doubt that half of the ones who pirated the game will get the game because there is no DRM. And when prices are cut some of the others will eventually purchase the game. What would help though is releasing the game on Steam. Instant solution with a massive userbase.

Piracy only affects games try to screw with gamers with worthless DRM like SecuROM. It serves EA right to have had Spore downloaded so much.

And if you think pirates won't bypass anything that Blizzard puts, then you're too. That doesn't mean that D3 and SC2 won't be the best selling PC games of the year (they will), but if you don't think they'll be pirated like hell...well, you need to know more about the scene. Yes, SC2 will be the best selling game ever in South Korea. Yes, probably Blizzard will add some kind of online registration so as to play online, but if you don't think it still make the game heavily pirated, well, think again

And? What's you point?! Those games will still sell millions and millions.

Why do you think more and more developers are coming to PC? It's because even though there's alot of piracy, the games are still selling and enjoying success.

What does this have to do with the Internet? As I recall it, people were quite efficient at pirating stuff before the Internet became popular.