More than ten years later, this game is still comically broken and buggy - even more so than Sims 3, which I didn't think possible. EA should be ashamed of releasing something so glitchy and continually failing to patch it after this long.
They will keep releasing garbage like this knowing their diehard fans, myself included, will gobble it up like the saps we are. They will also rely on modders to fix their PoS work. Such is life in the modern gaming industry. Shameful!