# The Sims 2 in less than a week! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 11, 2004, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sims-2-in-less-than-a-week/264041 "2004-09-11T15:25:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sims-2-in-less-than-a-week/264041/21 "2004-09-15T14:19:16Z")
**lee** , you’re playing already? I’m jealous! 😛 I can’t get EB to pick up the phone but I’m about to head over there. Then I just have to see about getting out of work for the rest of the day. 😃 Of course it’ll probably be some time next week before you check back with the boards to even read this. 😉 Have fun and wish the rest of us luck trying to get ours! And if you do come up for air, keep us updated on anything good. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sims-2-in-less-than-a-week/264041/22 "2004-09-15T14:43:37Z")
The bad news: It crashed a few times. The not so bad news: The crashes were quick and clean and grew less frequent as I played. Save often. It does not take as long to load. The video is awsome and smoooth. It is not as hard as I feared. I can’t wait for them to have a baby. ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sims-2-in-less-than-a-week/264041/23 "2004-09-15T14:50:44Z")
I am SO jelous right now. Damn you [amazon.co.uk](http://amazon.co.uk)! Where is my game?! ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sims-2-in-less-than-a-week/264041/24 "2004-09-15T16:03:48Z")
I have my copy! 😃 I’m at work right now where I have to pay bills and eat lunch. Then hopefully I’m out of here! Wow…four disks! :eek: I _will_ be deleting some stuff of the hard drive. Hang in there, **AngelicGemma**. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sims-2-in-less-than-a-week/264041/25 "2004-09-15T16:17:11Z")
> [@harmless](#): > > I have my copy! 😃 > I’m at work right now where I have to pay bills and eat lunch. > Then hopefully I’m out of here! > Wow…four disks! :eek: > I _will_ be deleting some stuff of the hard drive. > Hang in there, **AngelicGemma**. 😉 You _aswell_? My copy isn’t even in the post yet. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sims-2-in-less-than-a-week/264041/26 "2004-09-15T16:34:12Z")
EB Games called to let me know my copy was in. I’ll pick it up as soon as my husband gets home with the truck. I told him yesterday that I was planning to meet him at the truck and yank him out before he even got a chance to put the truck in park. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sims-2-in-less-than-a-week/264041/27 "2004-09-15T16:36:03Z")
Someone explain to me why I forked over extra money to Amazon for express shipping when they haven’t even shipped it yet? (But of course, it’s “Soon to ship” so I can’t just cancel it and go buy a friggin copy.) I’m so jealous. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sims-2-in-less-than-a-week/264041/28 "2004-09-15T17:56:18Z")
Payday Friday. Payday Friday. EBGames. Missisauga Square One. Payday Friday. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sims-2-in-less-than-a-week/264041/29 "2004-09-15T18:20:35Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Payday Friday. Payday Friday. My payday was Monday. 😛 > [@harmless](#): > > I _will_ be deleting some stuff of the hard drive. I’ve already removed the first Sims and gave all my Sims stuff to my SO and still bought a new hard drive. All I had were a pair of 40s and they were pretty much full; my total space has now tripled. ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sims-2-in-less-than-a-week/264041/30 "2004-09-15T19:18:40Z")
> [@Jeff Olsen](#): > > My payday was Monday. :pI’ve already removed the first Sims and gave all my Sims stuff to my SO and still bought a new hard drive. All I had were a pair of 40s and they were pretty much full; my total space has now tripled. I removed The Sims first off too. It went from 3.6 gigs free space to 18.46. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sims-2-in-less-than-a-week/264041/31 "2004-09-15T19:45:27Z")
Don’t forget to defrag. My harddrive really needed it. Fortunately I have over 200 GB of hard drive space. I moved my backup of my music to the new hd so I did not have to remove my Sims or the back up of my Sims. I want to go back and compare. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sims-2-in-less-than-a-week/264041/32 "2004-09-15T21:48:26Z")
Just occured to me… How many people who ordered the DVD edition already have it? That’s what I’m waiting on, and I’m thinking that might explain the slight delay. ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2004, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sims-2-in-less-than-a-week/264041/33 "2004-09-16T00:05:49Z")
I have the DVD edition. I picked mine up this afternoon at EB Games. I’ve been playing for about an hour and a half now. ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2004, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sims-2-in-less-than-a-week/264041/34 "2004-09-18T17:48:26Z")
Got my copy on Friday. Yay! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2004, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sims-2-in-less-than-a-week/264041/35 "2004-09-18T18:42:11Z")
Got mine! Last night, EB Games, Eaton Centre, downtown. 😃 As I posted in the [other thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=276110), I’m very impressed. I stuck most of the game on my D drive, but it still wanted to stuff about 300 megs on the C. That made the C a little tight, so I removed the Java SDK, Maya PLE, and Descent 3. I’ll reinstall those later. Now to make sure that Dirk Dreamer doesn’t miss school again… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sims-2-in-less-than-a-week/264041/36 "2004-09-19T03:15:17Z")
Mine’s on it’s way! Stupid Amazon won’t ship software overseas, so I had to have it delivered to my parents and then ask them to forward it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sims-2-in-less-than-a-week/264041.md?page=1)