"kwanzaabot;c-17876816" wrote:"SimSpock;c-17876497" wrote:"kwanzaabot;c-17876391" wrote:"SimSpock;c-17876238" wrote:"bixters;c-17875918" wrote:
YES PLEASE!!
....And the Sims 1. They should remaster Sims 1 & 2 and sell them.
They'd make a lot of money from them, because a lot of people played them when they were younger, and would pay to play them again.
It doesn't really make sense why they're not available to buy...is EA afraid of the competition? :D
Honestly, yes I do think that. I think that EA doesn't want any of its current game user base to be able to play TS2, unless they already have an old CD-based copy and can get it working. Too many people would complain that TS4 is just a graphically upgraded and otherwise strictly inferior product to TS2. I don't think they mind the TS3 / TS4 comparison, because the open world of TS3 makes direct comparisons difficult. That wouldn't be the case with TS2.
That's not me hating on TS4 -- I have it and like it. It's just me being honest about assessing the quality of the closed world TS2 game against the quality of its decade later closed world TS4 cousin.
If that was true The Sims 3 would've been taken off Origin too. It doesn't hold water.
You didn't read my comment very carefully. I stated that I don't think that they mind the TS3 comparison, because it's open world. My conclusion may be wrong, but the logic itself isn't.
You people put too much stock in open world.
If open world was this amazing feature that made TS3 a totally different game to TS4, then surely that would be the kind of competition EA would want to avoid.
The fact of the matter is they don't have TS2 on Origin because it's old. That's it. That's the only reason. It's nearly 20 years old.
They'll stop selling Sims 3 in ten years, too.
"Oldeseadogge;c-17876626" wrote:
Lucky me. I have TS2, disk version, complete and running just fine on an ancient PC. I got UC for my Win 10 PC however many years ago after explaining to the rep that all my attempts to install my disk version were unsuccessful. He gave me UC as he could verify my disk ownership. Said something about there is enough difference in the installation code between disks and UC so that the former won't install properly on Win 10. Had the same issues with Vista and WIn 7-8. Can't guarantee they will still be nice if you own disks, but might be worth a try.
Add me to the list. The game is too good with too much potential to be ignored.
"ClarionOfJoy;c-17881378" wrote:"WaytoomanyUIDs;c-17881371" wrote:
Its not my experience, many have experienced worse gameplay on more modern machines. The causes of Sims 3's issues are many and complicated and not all respond well to brute force.
All the EA worlds have issues, you just have to read the description of what she fixed and all are helped by using Ellacharmed's fixes, or fixing them yourself, like you did
Also, nowhere did I say Sims 4 is a better game than Sims 3. Although it does do vampires and toddlers better (apart from the lack of strollers and the high chair issue).
Who said you had to ever use brute force? You'd just break something, lol! Maybe that's why they're having problems - they're fixing it the wrong way! Also the majority of TS3 players who do have the recent models of computers have managed to make the transition just fine. So if most people were able to work it out, then maybe it's not the game - it's the person!
Like I said, I only fixed Isla Paradiso. I never fixed or replaced the other EA worlds with Ellacharmed's versions because I never needed to. None of the others lagged or had any other problems when I played them. So it was a big surprise when I learned that they were supposed to be problematic. I just never really come across them. *Shrug* Anyway, EA worlds are just a small part now of the whole collection. There are literally hundreds of other worlds now, that have better routing and less bugs because their creators had more time to test them. So if you don't want to even bother with the fixes, you've got a ton of other worlds to play. Whereas with TS4 - that 20 or little neighborhoods is all they've got.
I never played the vampires and toddlers in TS4 so I don't really miss that in TS3. In light of everything else it has which is so much more than TS4, I'm pretty happy with the vampires and toddlers in TS3. Also if I ever feel like changing them up, I can always add mods to make them different or enhanced if I want.
