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Re: HOW TO UNINSTALL LEGACY EDITION AFTER SEEING I HAVE A 64 BIT??

@VelvetKitteh

I get why you are upset over a game you really love, believe me I do ☹️ But there are a number of things you should consider:

1. Your Mac is 10 years old and has served you admirably and with devotion. But it is now old and not capable of supporting newer technology. I can't imagine there are many 10 year old Windows machines out there that can still run the game.
2. Apple class any Mac older than 6 as vintage and unsupported.
3. No, you won't get a refund and I think it would be unreasonable to expect one. You can still play the game you bought as it is required to be installed for the Legacy Edition to work. You cannot however install any more content.
4. The Gallery is not part of the base game, it is an additional free online feature provided by Maxis/EA.
5. Apple have decided to drop support for OpenGL and move to Metal which has pretty much forced EA into this update and providing the Legacy Edition for those whose Macs don't support Metal.

I think it's time for you to be realistic and accept that your Mac is a wonderful machine still but is an old lady now. I mean that in the nicest way, it's always sad when Macs get old and aren't capable anymore.

6 Replies

  • VelvetKitteh's avatar
    VelvetKitteh
    6 years ago

    Thank you, sorry was a bit angry and hormonal yesterday and obviously got carried away! Just re-reading what I said makes me giggle as it's all absurd gibberish.

    Thank you so much for everything and responding, and yes it's old, it used to be my mums about 2 years ago but despite my dad being an IT manager and getting partially broken/old laptops for free, I doubt I'll be able to get a new one in the future which is upsetting. I probably will have to save for a long time to afford a new one! But it's not a big priority right now.
    Anyway, I keep going off on a tangent...

    to sum up the whole situation, I will try to play with it how it is but probably will not enjoy it so will find something else to waste time with! I feel awful for those with Windows' who have a 32bit computer as even if it's new, they will lose the full sims game and that's really upsetting. 
    I love the way you called my Mac an old lady! Very true, and now I think she's worthy of being called 'Dorris'. 

  • trixiaiketix's avatar
    trixiaiketix
    6 years ago

    I had the same problem so I upgraded my 10.10.5(?) to El Capitan so I could delete Legacy. After realising I had no idea how to do so, I did the following:

    1. Open origin
    2. Go to your game details
    3. There'll be an option 'Launch options', click edit
    4. 'When launching this game' > Choose Sims 4 instead of the Legacy Edition
  • Kool4kidz's avatar
    Kool4kidz
    6 years ago
    @trixiaiketix i dont have the option of 'launch options', i have an option of 'advanced launch options' under 'game properties'. However this only gives me my language choice and 'Command line arguments'. I am on a mac which does not need the legacy edition, i just accidentally downloaded it. and i am VERY desperate to get it off, thanks 🙂
  • I am the same, it wont let me download the sims legacy edition but cant change it back to sims 4 normal and wont let me buy it