http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=16664 As much as I am leaping for joy at the thought that i'll be able to play the Sims 3 without switching to Mac OS X or Windows, I have a question: 1. How would they know if the game works or not if it doesn't come out till July??? Also, I find it a bit of an oddity that The Sims 3 will work under Wine straight away when its predecessor has been out for nearly five years and still doesnt.
Wormboy wrote:> Note: As the game is not out yet, therefore cannot be purchased, this is technically not piracy.Yes it is, unless company itself distributing this version of their game for free.
This version is incomplete, according to EA its extremely buggy and has a good portion of the game missing, so no, it is not the full game therefore it is not piracy because it is not the real thing.
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Wormboy <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> This version is incomplete, according to EA its extremely buggy and has a good portion of the game missing, so ?no, it is not the full game therefore it is not piracy because it is not the real thing.I hope you never considered being a lawyer as a profession. Though, to be honest, copyright law varies by country, and is further complicated (in nearly every country) by the Berne convention. In the US and many other countries, simply writing software makes it copyrighted. -- -Austin
Wormboy wrote:> Also, I find it a bit of an oddity that The Sims 3 will work under Wine > straight away when its predecessor has been out for nearly five years and > still doesnt.Sims3 isn't a new version of Sims2, it's a new game. Obviously EA have got better at writing software in the five years since they wrote Sims2... :)
Ok, perhaps I phrased that wrongly. Yes, technically it is piracy, a better way to put it would be that its not stealing since you'd still have to buy it to play the real thing. I downloaded the leaked Beta but i'm going to go buy it tomorrow when it comes out, yeah I live in Europe so we always get stuff a bit later than the yanks :/.