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 12/22/09 at 05:40pm
ZippyDSMlee: Morality ends and becomes despotism(or hectoring) the moment you remove a choice from an adult..
ZippyDSMlee: Morality ends and becomes despotism(or hectoring) the moment you remove a choice from an adult..
Posted 12/22/09 at 05:07pm
Valdearg: Meh, I've always believed that Morality was in the eye of the beholder. As long as you aren't harming someone else in the process, you should be able to view whatever you want, when it comes to art.
Valdearg: Meh, I've always believed that Morality was in the eye of the beholder. As long as you aren't harming someone else in the process, you should be able to view whatever you want, when it comes to art.
Posted 12/22/09 at 04:47pm
ZippyDSMlee: for soemones vision of perfection , IE what the morally high try to place upon others....
ZippyDSMlee: for soemones vision of perfection , IE what the morally high try to place upon others....
Posted 12/22/09 at 04:47pm
magic_taco: @Zippy,I understood what you said, It was just something else...cause i assume I was going to get a reaction over the cnn post i mentioned.
magic_taco: @Zippy,I understood what you said, It was just something else...cause i assume I was going to get a reaction over the cnn post i mentioned.
Posted 12/22/09 at 04:45pm
ZippyDSMlee: magic_taco:breath deeply and think for moment, if precived bland and antiseptic normality is forced onto everything then what is truly normal(the contracts of what we mostly see as normal) is casted aside,
ZippyDSMlee: magic_taco:breath deeply and think for moment, if precived bland and antiseptic normality is forced onto everything then what is truly normal(the contracts of what we mostly see as normal) is casted aside,
Posted 12/22/09 at 04:44pm
Valdearg: @Gelly, I may have missed that comment. As long as you consider banning as going too far, you will find no argument from me.
Valdearg: @Gelly, I may have missed that comment. As long as you consider banning as going too far, you will find no argument from me.
Posted 12/22/09 at 04:39pm
gellymatos: Vald: You're right. Though I said "consider" banning would be going to far.
gellymatos: Vald: You're right. Though I said "consider" banning would be going to far.
Posted 12/22/09 at 04:35pm
magic_taco: @Zippy, Huh?
magic_taco: @Zippy, Huh?
Posted 12/22/09 at 04:27pm
ZippyDSMlee: If normality must be thrusted upon everything then normal is not normal anymore.....
ZippyDSMlee: If normality must be thrusted upon everything then normal is not normal anymore.....
Posted 12/22/09 at 04:27pm
magic_taco: CNN headline prime news is talking about that 14-old gamer issue.
magic_taco: CNN headline prime news is talking about that 14-old gamer issue.
Posted 12/22/09 at 04:26pm
Valdearg: @Gelly: I was referring to the original game. How can you call for the original rapelay game to be banned?
Valdearg: @Gelly: I was referring to the original game. How can you call for the original rapelay game to be banned?
Posted 12/22/09 at 04:26pm
ZippyDSMlee: gellymatos:even if it was a rape based game would you want it baned?
ZippyDSMlee: gellymatos:even if it was a rape based game would you want it baned?
Posted 12/22/09 at 04:23pm
gellymatos: I posted my apology on the article's page. Again, my bad, I misread it.
gellymatos: I posted my apology on the article's page. Again, my bad, I misread it.
Posted 12/22/09 at 04:21pm
ZippyDSMlee: it just shows the sillyness of banning.
ZippyDSMlee: it just shows the sillyness of banning.
Posted 12/22/09 at 04:21pm
ZippyDSMlee: Vlag:kinda silly to ban a game that no longer has rape in it 0-o
ZippyDSMlee: Vlag:kinda silly to ban a game that no longer has rape in it 0-o
Posted 12/22/09 at 04:16pm
Valdearg: Also, I'd like to point out that Pokemon, apparently, is recognized by the spellchecker. I find that awesome.
Valdearg: Also, I'd like to point out that Pokemon, apparently, is recognized by the spellchecker. I find that awesome.
Posted 12/22/09 at 04:14pm
Valdearg: @Gellymatos: How can you call for the banning of a game? That's no better than those people who call for the Banning of GTA or Pokemon.
Valdearg: @Gellymatos: How can you call for the banning of a game? That's no better than those people who call for the Banning of GTA or Pokemon.
Posted 12/22/09 at 01:37pm
PHX Corp: I'm getting sick and Tired of the Media violence = Violence BS, We know That some games are not for Children, No need to brow beat it even more
PHX Corp: I'm getting sick and Tired of the Media violence = Violence BS, We know That some games are not for Children, No need to brow beat it even more
Posted 12/22/09 at 01:32pm
Valdearg: Why is it that the closer I get to my Christmas Vacation from work, the farther away it seems to get?? This day is just DRAGGING along.. Just 15 work hours left until I'm off until January 4th..
Valdearg: Why is it that the closer I get to my Christmas Vacation from work, the farther away it seems to get?? This day is just DRAGGING along.. Just 15 work hours left until I'm off until January 4th..
Posted 12/22/09 at 12:22pm
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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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