Sims 3

Criterion A
On June second Sims 3 will come out and it is expected to be even more popular that previous models of Sims. Right now EA games is doing a lot of advertising for Sims 3. For example in New York City there are ads all over the place on billboards and on sides of buildings. EA and everyone one interested are very excited but there is a major ethical problem with Sims 3. The Ethical Issue is Intellectual Property.

Sims3 is violating Intellectual Property because when you are playing Sims 3 you can create people, designs of wallpapers, houses and interiors to houses. Then what happens is if you want you can post what you made up online so that people can see what you made. But while it is up online people can take what you made and start playing with it as if its their own. which to kids who are playing the game seem normal but in reality the kids taking the work of other is stealking, and it should not be allowed on a major computer game that is getting ready to be produced.

The people responsible for this problem are the creators of Sims3 but also the people who run the websites. The Creators of

Criterion B
Sims for the most part always works the same as all of the other Sims games, a disk that you put into your computer and it runs from the CD-ROM drive. Another major difference from the previous Sims games is that Sims 3 lets the user create more, to the people, to the house. The game is a lot more creative. The creativity is positive for most people, but it does have a down side that most people are not aware of and that is, when you post you new people or new houses up online anyone can use them so people are stealing your intellectual property.


Criterion C
The impact of this on society at large is that, that people who play this game so mainly kids ideas will be taken. This is a bad impact because kids do not understand that people are stealing from them, and vice verse, they could be stealing from other people as well. This not only is a negative impact because people are stealing from other people but also because, kids, who will be the primary users of the game, are learning that it is OK to use whats put up online. That is bad because what is put up on line the kids will think that its OK to take.

Another impact on society that Sims 3 will have is that since Sims 3 is a better game, the kids playing it will enjoy it more. This is a problem because like the problem presented above the kids who really get into playing it will look online for cheats, and now new living areas and or new people. so not only will these kid be spending even more time in front of the computer but they will be also stealing information from other kids.

Criterion D
A solution to this problem would be to keep Sims 3 the same. Keep it with the same new features that allow the user to be more creative. But instead of posting functioning Sims people, and Sims houses up online, don't allow them to post what the user has created up online. If they did that then there would be no violation of intellectual property because there would be no chance for intellectual property to get stolen. An advantage to this would be that no one could easily steal the Sims, and the property's that the users created anymore. and a Disadvantage would be that if people really do like the Sims that the person created then they could still steal the work if they re-did all of the work on their own, but that is still stealing so as a result people should not be able to post anything up online.

Another solution to this problem would be to not have the new features that allow the user to be more creative but keep the features that are new with the game that do not let the user create thing but the features that just are new with the playing of the game. This would solve the problem because, there no longer be the need to post what people created up on line. They wouldn't want to because there would not be that feature anymore. Also, if they got rid of that feature that allowed the user to create things then people could focus on just playing the game, and not focus on what everything looks like, just playing, and improving the people goals. The disadvantages to this would be that people who like creating this would not like the game because there would be nothing for them to create. An advantage would be that there would be no intellectual property stolen anymore.

Criteron E
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April 14 2009



http://www.gamedaily.com/games/the-sims-3/pc/game-features/dont-download-the-sims-3-demo/
April 14 2009


http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2009/03/30/the-sims-3-wont-feature-invasive-copy-protection-used-on-spore/
april 14 2009


http://www.gameindustry.com/ih/item.asp?id=2283
5-11-09


http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/thesims3/news.html?sid=6209804
5-17-09