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University Drops-Out I am a HUGE fan of The Sims. There was no question that I would buy this expansion for The Sims 2. I must say that I thought the price was too high for an expansion, and it comes with an ad for a future expansion. I installed the expansion properly, but my sims can never enter the dorms to actually begin the game. It just sits there and loads forever. I tried it with my system at normal, and also with all my startups disabled. Same result, so we know it is not a background program causing the problem. The manual says I can email tech support, but of course there is no email address in the manual and I could not find it on their website. I read the FAQ's online and tried all their solutions. Nothing. I will not pay long distance charges to call tech support. They were awful, rude and unhelpful last time. My system exceeds the requirements in every way. I have an hp pavillion 724c, with a 2.53 ghz processor, 1 gig of RAM, an ATI All-in-Wonder 9700 Pro and about 380 gigs of free hard drive space. I also have all the latest drivers. My recomendation is not to buy the expansion until they put out patches or solve these problems. With shipping I am out nearly forty bucks for something that doesn't work which isn't even a game, but rather an exapnsion. They obviously did not bother to do enough beta-testing, and put out a product with great flaws. I want so much to use this exapnsion and send my sims to college and all that. I have not requested a refund yet. I still have my hopes that EA will do the honourable thing and make this work. I will NEVER pre-order a Sims 2 expansion again. I will wait until Nightlife is out and the bugs are fixed before buying the next one. See? They know how loyal we SimFanatics are and they took advantage of us.