I went to my Circuit City at 11 AM Sunday. They refused to honor the $39.99 price plus gift card on both the CD and DVD versions. They wanted me to pay $49.99. They refused to combine the $10.00 off coupon and give me the gift card. I spoke with the manager and he would not budge. Safe to say, I walked out of the store without the game and then PM'ed it to WalMart for $39.99

I'm sorry you guys are having such a hard time. Try contacting Circuit City's VIPs directly (not just via email; it'll probably go straight in the garbage). Let them know how you feel about their deceptive advertising:

Circuit City Stores, Inc.
Customer Service
9950 Mayland Drive
Richmond, VA 23233

Corporate Headquarters
804-527-4000

Customer Service
800 843-2489

TheDealMaker has an excellent thread with advice on how to file a proper complaint

here.

Wishful said:For someone who has the game, what do you think of it?

its alright. a 1-3 scale, with 3 being excellent, 1 sucks--I give it a 2. it cost me $38 and today was the first day where i thought, man, I could have bought some CDs instead.

the objects that they start you out with is so little...i mean, you can see the expansion packs already being created for it. I downloaded an alienware computer--which was nicely rendered and detailed. but that was the onluy thing available from maxis website on this time.

the good--wow, graphics are nice. I prefer bright, cheerful colors--this game has it in spades. Some A.I. stupidity but at least I don't have to tell them to go pee every time.

Wishful said:For someone who has the game, what do you think of it?

To me it's an excellent game. It has made me lose sleep and has interfered with my school work. But I was also addicted to the original Sims game. Getting this one is like upping my addiction a notch or 2. And I admit I used the motherlode cheat many times to give my sims millions of dollars, and then I focued on the inevitable love triangle. 3 children were taken away, including one I adopted. They wouldn't let me adopt any more after that, even though I had originally called them to see if they would *take* the kids I (err.. my sim) was about to have. Instead they sent my sim a daughter, which they eventually took away due to neglect, along with the twins she gave birth to. The man in my sim house has kids with 2 different women who are also living there, one of whom is his wife. But I digress...

The graphics are better than the original, but it seems like there are waaaay too few objects available. The aging aspect is neato, since it's a real pain to keep after those babies and toddlers. The teenage boy living in my sim house entered adulthood as a "pathetic parasite" or something like that. He had failed a few grades in school and had a low-paying job that he had only gone to a few days.

Things I didn't see that I wanted were pets and an elevator. The ability to have a 4-story house is sweet (or maybe it's 5), but there weren't enough objects for me to fill up all the floors. And as far as I can tell you still can't have an indoor pool

There are some bugs I've found already, specifically action bugs (my sims often stop doing everything until I manually delete the next action they're scheduled to do), and in the house I was building there was a hole in all of the floors that I could't get rid of, but I admit that could somehow be user error.

If you like the original Sims, you'll undoubtedly like the newer version. Just make sure your pc can handle it. Mine lags big time. I've got a P4 1.8 mhz with 512 mb ram and something like 128 mb video memory.

you have to compleatly install the game to the hard drive. 2.8gb plus and additional 350mb for user files. the DVD/CD after instalition is just for copy protection.

jdl1527 said:hey hey hey this is my 100th post!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nope, by that post, it's 101st one, not 100th