Ikea Furniture to be Featured in The Sims
Ikea Furniture to be Featured in The Sims
May 19, 2008
Soon, when you condemn your Sims character to death by locking it in a doorless room with only a VR headset and an espresso machine, you'll at least be able to provide a nice Ikea chair for the unfortunate Sim to collapse upon.
That news comes by way of the International Herald Tribune, which reports that Electronic Arts, publisher of The Sims, has reached an agreement with Ikea to feature the Scandinavian houseware retailer's furniture as virtual items in The Sims. The IHT reports that players will be able to purchase an Ikea "stuff pack" for about twenty bucks and then import the virtual items into their game.
EA's Nancy Smith, president of The Sims franchise, credited fans of the series, who demanded more realistic virtual items, as a driving force in getting the Ikea deal done:
Because we have such a direct relationship with our players, the players help shape the product strategy.
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Posted 11/22/09 at 12:06am
JDKJ: You should get Phil McCraken to help you spackle those banisters.
JDKJ: You should get Phil McCraken to help you spackle those banisters.
Posted 11/21/09 at 11:57pm
ZippyDSMlee: Oh in the pirate hunter article I need my song ieda heckled DS,JD,Beemon sic im !!!
ZippyDSMlee: Oh in the pirate hunter article I need my song ieda heckled DS,JD,Beemon sic im !!!
Posted 11/21/09 at 11:56pm
ZippyDSMlee: JD:no I am tried from prepping the banisters for painting , worked on them from 12 to 4 and 6 to 8...after I got back from the store...got up early got ready...blah...been up all day..I need a nap...
ZippyDSMlee: JD:no I am tried from prepping the banisters for painting , worked on them from 12 to 4 and 6 to 8...after I got back from the store...got up early got ready...blah...been up all day..I need a nap...
Posted 11/21/09 at 11:42pm
JDKJ: No. You gonna stay up late tonight soldering?
JDKJ: No. You gonna stay up late tonight soldering?
Posted 11/21/09 at 11:41pm
ZippyDSMlee: JDKJ:Don't you mean Mctite?
ZippyDSMlee: JDKJ:Don't you mean Mctite?
Posted 11/21/09 at 11:33pm
JDKJ: @Zip: Neil, Bob, and Lik McTaint. The McTaint brothers. LOL!!!
JDKJ: @Zip: Neil, Bob, and Lik McTaint. The McTaint brothers. LOL!!!
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:44pm
Flamespeak: I still think military personell, killing other military personell, on a military complex should be handled by military courts.
Flamespeak: I still think military personell, killing other military personell, on a military complex should be handled by military courts.
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:43pm
Flamespeak: I could see this a mixture of the two charges rather than just one or the other.
Flamespeak: I could see this a mixture of the two charges rather than just one or the other.
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:43pm
Flamespeak: I think this was mainly a person who snapped, but evidence is showing he definitely had strong inlinations to islamic-extremism.
Flamespeak: I think this was mainly a person who snapped, but evidence is showing he definitely had strong inlinations to islamic-extremism.
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:41pm
Flamespeak: People are trying to claim that Hasan's actions were not terrorism. I don't jump on the 'terror train' like others, however
Flamespeak: People are trying to claim that Hasan's actions were not terrorism. I don't jump on the 'terror train' like others, however
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:38pm
mentor07825: Britain certainly does deserve it! And the French! God damn it, it was a hand ball!!!
mentor07825: Britain certainly does deserve it! And the French! God damn it, it was a hand ball!!!
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:34pm
ZippyDSMlee: mentor07825:Well Brittan dose deserve it....
ZippyDSMlee: mentor07825:Well Brittan dose deserve it....
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:33pm
ZippyDSMlee: Alyric:I don;t hasliburton having to pay back billoins... don;t you love it when the rich roll over the goverment without a care?
ZippyDSMlee: Alyric:I don;t hasliburton having to pay back billoins... don;t you love it when the rich roll over the goverment without a care?
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:32pm
mentor07825: I say we nuke the whales, for the benefit of both mankind and the environment.
mentor07825: I say we nuke the whales, for the benefit of both mankind and the environment.
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:28pm
Austin_Lewis: I say we try Al Gore too. I always said he was in on the racket.
Austin_Lewis: I say we try Al Gore too. I always said he was in on the racket.
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:16pm
Alyric: The leaked information proves these organizations knowingly defrauded governments (i.e., taxpayers) out of billions of dollars. Yet there will probably never be a trial.
Alyric: The leaked information proves these organizations knowingly defrauded governments (i.e., taxpayers) out of billions of dollars. Yet there will probably never be a trial.
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:15pm
Flamespeak: working on other things makes me angry. I might have had a jet pack by now. :p
Flamespeak: working on other things makes me angry. I might have had a jet pack by now. :p
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:14pm
Flamespeak: Just thinking of all the time and manpower wasted to try and make things emit less CO2 emmision that could have been spent
Flamespeak: Just thinking of all the time and manpower wasted to try and make things emit less CO2 emmision that could have been spent
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:07pm
Alyric: @Zip: FYI, the construction of solar panels puts out more pollution than any form of energy production. To say nothing of the toxic components of the panels that cannot be recycled.
Alyric: @Zip: FYI, the construction of solar panels puts out more pollution than any form of energy production. To say nothing of the toxic components of the panels that cannot be recycled.
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:04pm
ZippyDSMlee: I know I know not the point.
ZippyDSMlee: I know I know not the point.
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I'm going to assume you wanted us to point out the irony of EA talking about a "direct relationship" with people they assume are criminals. Other than that, why is this on here?
$20 for furnature DLC?
This must be EA's way of fundraising dough for the 33 million additional shares it'll need to acquire a majority stake in Take Two.
Andrew Eisen
While the "Stuff" pack is available as DLC, each stuff pack (of which there has been an HMV edition, as well as numerous, non "sponsored" iterations) is also available in the brick and mortars.
I think The Sims fanbase, whom will sometimes spending monthly fees on fan made creations and websites, have definitely opened the door for EA to make these incremental, item only releases another way to score a little extra cash.
So What level of mechanical skill will it take for the Sims to assemble this furniture?
E. Zachary Knight
www.editorialgames.com
That's what I was wondering. I'm really hoping that the building (and potential of failed assembly) will be part of the Stuff Pack. But considering the protection of the brand, IKEA has probably vetoed the possibility for a sim to get frustrated and trash their home assembly furniture.
Actually, since a lot of Sims furniture looks like it came from Ikea anyway, I'm quite surprised they did not do this sooner.
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Because we have such a direct relationship with our advertising deparment, the ingame advertisments help shape the product strategy
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-- mostly harmless
I flipped through catalogs and wondered: What kind of dining set defines me as a person?
It's just, when you buy furniture, you tell yourself, that's it. That's the last sofa I'm gonna need. Whatever else happens, I've got that sofa problem handled.
Home was a condo on the fifteenth floor of a filing cabinet for widows and young professionals. The walls were solid concrete. A foot of concrete is important when your next-door neighbor lets their hearing aid go and have to watch game-shows at full volume. Or when a volcanic blast of debris that used to be your furniture and personal effects blows out of your floor-to-ceiling windows and sails flaming into the night. I suppose these things happen.
Wow, that's obscure. But totally funny.
E. Zachary Knight
www.editorialgames.com
You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying strings of computer code as everyone else. :D
So does this mean you can have your Sim now trap themselves inside a room by building too much IKEA furniture? Not to mention, will your Sim have to contact the IKEA consumer help line when they're missing a screw in the box?
-Loudspeaker
"Volume helps to get a point across but sharp teeth are better."
So, wait, you pay $20 of real money to import advertisements to your game?
Hold your breath on that one.
The only idiots excited about these stuff packs are the knuckleheads that pay some mouthbreather to download their poorly modeled and textured garbage. Hopefully these people will soon learn that they shouldn't be paying for this stuff. Either that or just boycott The Sims 3. The game is going to be garbage anyway.
Paying for advertisements?
Sounds like a great idea!
"Because we have such a direct relationship with our players, the players help shape the product strategy."
That's why you shut down every goodgame development studio and rape their franchises?
Anyway, I guess the funny advertisements for the made up items are now a thing of the past.
-kurisu7885
I don't mind advertising when it doesn't feel intrusive, but to pay for an advertisement is rediculous. This just goes to show that EA (as a company, I have a friend who works for them, and is a relatively nice guy) is just one of those companies that are content on churning out mediocre things instead of really pushing the artistic envelope.
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It is ridiculas how EA is making all these pointless expanison packs and making money. I think their should have been only 6 expanison packs has a lot of the packs look like they could have been combined together. That is why i don't by EA products anymore just because I'm sick of this crap. EA used to be good back in the 90's and up to 2003, Now they have been dishing out crap with the occasional gem like My Sims which was ironically made by the now closed EA Japan. We need to fight this crap and stop it otherwise it will ruin the industry
Well that's an interesting union, let's give them credit for that, Ikea is a notorious furniture brand although I find it difficult to understand it's strategy. We are talking here about virtual packs, not real pieces of furniture. Either how, I am refurnishing my house anyways so this new feature could give me few good ideas as I am about to replace my vessel sinks, I am really curious about those virtual items.
Office Furniture has always been one of my primary interests in the furniture business and I'm really curiuous what are they going to send to the market this time.
I remember staying up late at my friends house playing Sims when if first came out. I would never sleep if I played it again now that IKEA furniture is available. What a great idea!
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