Umm, where in Australia? Being a resident of said country and having never encoutered such a system, let alone heard of it. Even our very own Federal Government employees are not subjected to such tracking and recording. Please reference your claim.
The difference between this Sims and the original is not really just the prettiness, albeit that being the angle EA has been pushing all along. The important difference is the focus of the gameplay, back in the day we attended to our little friends needs, like food, bathing and sleep. Now they do that mostly for themselves (to a certain extent) and we can focus this time on their wants. Each sim has an aspiration that is decided at teenagerhood, and they have to spend their life trying to achieve the various goals attached to this aspiration. It's a completely different focus and I can bet you plenty of people are going to be disappointed.
Also, I beleive that there are plans for another oroginal Sims expansion pack, then after that the prices for the packs will quickly decline. Maybe you'll even see them in the discount bin in 3-4 years time.
These things are teeny tiny and could easily be placed in the stitching of a T-shirt where you couldn't find it. The smalest ones i know of are as small as a grain of rice.
My real problem with this RFID stuff is marketers targeting advertising at me by checking who i am, what i'm wearing and where i bought my lunch from. AFIAK, a conventional welder will generate a bunch of frequencies to make the tag become active and also enough EMP to "burn that baby", so to speak.
They'll never able to track or annoy me by my socks or my milkshake!
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Umm, where in Australia? Being a resident of said country and having never encoutered such a system, let alone heard of it. Even our very own Federal Government employees are not subjected to such tracking and recording. Please reference your claim.
The difference between this Sims and the original is not really just the prettiness, albeit that being the angle EA has been pushing all along. The important difference is the focus of the gameplay, back in the day we attended to our little friends needs, like food, bathing and sleep. Now they do that mostly for themselves (to a certain extent) and we can focus this time on their wants. Each sim has an aspiration that is decided at teenagerhood, and they have to spend their life trying to achieve the various goals attached to this aspiration. It's a completely different focus and I can bet you plenty of people are going to be disappointed. Also, I beleive that there are plans for another oroginal Sims expansion pack, then after that the prices for the packs will quickly decline. Maybe you'll even see them in the discount bin in 3-4 years time.
These things are teeny tiny and could easily be placed in the stitching of a T-shirt where you couldn't find it. The smalest ones i know of are as small as a grain of rice.
My real problem with this RFID stuff is marketers targeting advertising at me by checking who i am, what i'm wearing and where i bought my lunch from. AFIAK, a conventional welder will generate a bunch of frequencies to make the tag become active and also enough EMP to "burn that baby", so to speak. They'll never able to track or annoy me by my socks or my milkshake!