Who's still playing the Sims 1 from time to time?

"TxrdlyPxxp;15389893" wrote:

"Sel;15387860" wrote:

i know it's controversial, but since it doesn't directly harm EA financially (cause you could only buy used copies from ts1 if you wanted to have it legally, plus the original copies tend to have more problems than the downloaded all-in-one game) i think it's a bit of a grey area. i totally understand if you feel uncomfortable around that tho.

It's not a gray area though. The only gray area is if you own the game on CD and you download something where you don't need the disk. Tons of computers these days don't have disk drives. In that case it's probably a gray area.

But if you don't own a copy of the game, and you download it, there's no gray area. It's illegal. It doesn't matter if there's financial harm in it or not.

And talking about doing it on a site that's run by the company you're stealing from is not a good idea. Sure EA is most likely to do nothing about it, because that would cost them money and time and it's not worth it. But it's still not the smartest idea.

You left out the other option...
If you own the game and download it. Playing with the disk is not the issue for some of us. We couldn't install from the disks. The CD crack you are referring to would be absolutely useless.
Paying $39.95 for the base game and $29.95/per EP back the early 2000's means you've already paid for the game. EA got their money.

EA won't do anything about it because they stopped making profit on it YEARS ago. Nobody cares. It's the equivalent of finding it by the dumpster. TS2 has reached the same mile marker.
Now, TS3 is still raking in the profits for them via digital download. If TS1 and TS2 were available for sales via digital download through them, that would be a completely different scenario.

At this point, EA can twist this into something positive. If people can get their hands on this game and they come here to talk about it, they can try to persuade people to purchase the newer iterations. ;)