WARNING! Sims 3 Harry Potter Wizarding World/Hogwarts Wizarding World/Hogwarts Forever/Whatever Other Name This Steaming Turd Comes Out As ... AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE!
We’ve noticed just in time for Halloween the umpteen variations of a number of these walking abortions from CAW have reappeared.
Time for a little history lesson.
Way back in 2013, an arseturnip from Oporto called Wisteriabrayan (aka Wisteriabryan aka HogwartsArchitect aka Hogwartsarchitet!) announced to the world they were recreating Hogwarts and Hogsmeade with absolutely everything in it, and weren’t going to allow such silly things as never having made a Simming world before or game resource limits get in their way.
(What is it about new CAW makers that they always want to start with a 2048 x 2048 land instead of the smallest like anyone normal with two braincells to rub together?)
It came out on the EA forum to mass EWMAHGAWDS, which quickly coughed and died the moment anyone tried to actually play it ...
Sounds a familiar tale, Sims 3 veterans?
After months of complaints being ignored, he reappeared proffering the world once again the following March in a ‘fixed’ version.
His modus operandi largely followed the same pattern as before, lots of selective shots, plus accompanying video, lots of big lick promises about how awesome it was ...
... but never any actual shots - never mind videos - of game play testing, a large warning flag to experienced Simmers.
Which was hardly surprising, because, contrary to his claims, Hogwarts Forever remained the same old big buggy mess ... and it was NEVER fixed.
This was one of those times when people being ‘nice’ to a creator instead of giving them some ‘tough love’ led to lots of people being miserable.
The f**ker was 150 MB in size, took forever to load up in game (when it actually did ...), never mind the farrago of attempting to access the individual lots.
What ought to have been a warning flag in itself was someone from Texas called Vssdgames had attempted much the same way back in 2010 and it had also ended in tears.
At 82 MB it was the same old buggy mess, only smaller, but perhaps the warning ought to have been noticed at the time.
Oh! That’s reassuring!
Of course, with EA and the Simgurus having no shame in using Simmers as Beta testers for their glitched products, perhaps it should have come as no surprise that some felt no qualms about doing the same with their own offal.
There’s been umpteen ‘remakes’ of this which have done the rounds, but the same old problems arise - too much crammed into a flawed concept to begin with.
(And to be perfectly blunt the Hogwarts always look like someone made them with a shoebox and some old cardboard tubes from kitchen and toilet rolls.).
Read our lips, bumnuggets - you can have a wonderfully detailed Hogsmeade type gaming world. You can have, maybe, a wonderfully detailed Hogwarts Castle and estate type world - provided it is made by an experienced game builder and lot creator with some sympathy for the poor bastards who will trustingly download it (personally we think people are not being realistic considering the limitations of Sims 3, but never mind ...).
YOU CANNOT HAVE BOTH - PERIOD!
Trying to cram too much into too small a space is a great way of creating lots of little digital timebombs on lots ready to crash the unsuspecting Simmer’s game and crush their enthusiasm. It’s more than a matter of wasting people’s time. It’s the sort of selfish, irresponsible behaviour which drives people out of the community to seek their fun elsewhere.
