Maxis Announces The Sims 2 Holiday Edition For PC

Fantastic!! Now all I want for Christmas is snow in both Baltimores (Maryland and Simmyland.)

 

I can't wait. I looked at them last night, and they are really cute!

 

On the official site, ppl where saying that it is going to cost around $30Au, at the moment NL costs that much here (at Target) so there is no way I'm gonna pay that much for a few extras....

 

Sylla's right, they are selling the new version of the base game with the holiday package for less than we paid for the original game. Those of us that purchased the game when it was released will have to pay ep price for the holiday pack and 12 of the 40 items will be available for free on the official site. Do you think that if we waited until after the holidays the holiday package will drop drastically in price?

 

Good thinking. I don't think I'll get that pack if it's that much. I was thinking the extras pack would be cheaper ...

If I'm lucky my daughter won't find out about it. She loves holidays.

 

I'm pretty sure the booster pack will only be sold for a limited time. Because we're getting it over the internet, they can stop selling it whenever they want (most likely as soon as the holiday season is over).

If you're even thinking you want to get it, do it while it's available, or you'll have to rely on pirated objects which isn't good for the community.

 

I went to the EA games site and preordered the party pack. $14.99, and no shipping cost because of a coupon. If there are 40 items that's about 37.5 cents per item. Couldn't help myself.

 

Is it ready to ship? If you get it soon then you can tell all of us if it's worth it.

As I understand it, 12 of those items will be/are available for download on the official site. The Christmas tree, mennora, etc. So it's really about 41 or 42 cents per item.

I am curious about the New Year's party and Santa Claus though. I don't really decorate my sims' world for holidays but if the animations open up new things for modders and meshers, I might be willing to buy it.

 

Um, $14.99/28 is 53c, Zy.

For that sort of money I would expect at least one or two actual objects with interactions. The Christmas tree and all the other objects already available on the exchange are decorative only. In my view this pack is being marketed strictly for players who want the whole Krimble deal but by confining it to online retailing they are avoiding uncomfortable issues arising from certain deranged extremist religious/political correctness merchants

 

Yes, got to avoid those.

I talked to my hubby and he said we could get it if it wasn't outrageously expensive. It's mostly for the kid. She loves Christmas! (And we're not even Christian LOL ... she's a Santa-ist. That's Santa-ist, NOT Satanist.)

I think I can swing $15.

 

OK, it's .53535 (etc.) cents for each of the 28 items. After thinking about it this morning I realized that I spend a lot more than that at Christmas time on wreaths and colored lightbulbs and greens, not to mention the tree. Yeesh, $14.99 is a drop in the bucket as far as I'm concerned. Do I have to decorate around my house? Yes, because the family came here for Christmas dinner last year and the year before and they're all big on decorating their houses. My daughter will be coming this Christmas, and she has the Sims2 game, too, so naturally my sims have to decorate their houses for her visit. (It's a slow day at work and, yes, I'm goofin' off a little.)

 

*oops* That'll cure me of doing division in the dark on scratch paper without my glasses. (Have you all figured out that I read the forums while drinking my first cup of coffee? I vaguely remember promising I wouldn't post while undercaffeinated. I should stick to that.)

Well...I love santa! He still comes to my house because I say so. Easter Bunny still comes, too. My dog guards the stockings waiting for them to fill. He snoops through the packages. He's ecstatic over baskets and tissue paper. He loves hunting for liver treat filled eggs while my grown kids fight over finding theirs. The easter bunny hides the baskets now. It requires clues or a map to locate them. My 21 year old drove all night to get home so she could search for hers. Holidays require a little magic to make them fun otherwise they simply become a chore.

 

The EA.com store gave me a coupon number toward the shipping costs when I looked at the product. It's a preorder coupon (SIMS2HLDYFS) and applies to standard shipping to the US and Canada.

You say "which". Was there another one? Not that it matters now.

 

Following the links above I don't even get a chance to pre-order anyway ... I guess EA is still wondering how much the UK market will bear, money-wise before setting a price. It would be £8.50 at the current exchange rate (which undervalues the dollar by some few percent). However in strict market terms a price like £9.99 is preferable cos it looks neat in retail marketspeak. However 10 quid is far too much, a more attractive price would be £7.99 because it has that magic quality of leaving enough change out of a 10 spot to matter (enough to buy 2 items off a McD's 99p menu for example) and thus compares with $14.99 which leaves a similar amount of change out of a 20 dollar bill. I will wait to see what transpires ...

 

It looks like we won't have to order the Party Pack in the UK, looks like it will be available in stores. Also, it seems like the Holiday Edition won't be available over here.

In the UK it will be known as the Christmas Party Pack. More info: http://thesims2.uk.ea.com/content.php?i=36

 

LOL duh ... I wish I'd thought of checking the ea.uk site ...

What would you consider a 'best' price, Chris?