"Cinebar;c-17790301" wrote:
They don't offer it anymore because they don't want to support it anymore in case it breaks or bugs out or whatever. They need the space on servers to offer answers how to fix your games on more current games like TS3 and TS4. If TS2 was still selling as much as TS3, they might want more server space and dedicated person to fixing problems in the games (I mean crashes, tech stuff etc.) but since TS3 still sells as much as TS4 packs, sometimes, then I guess they need to have customer support work on any tech crashes and the canned responses of how to fix those things in TS3 rather than waste money on telling people how to do those canned responses for TS2.
I have a hard time accepting that as a logical reason for them not to offer it, considering what a mess Sims4 was and still remains, and the groundswell of new interest that Sims2 is attracting from people who either really miss core gameplay that made the franchise famous in the first place, or else have never experienced it but are hearing about it now from youtubers who are turning onto it now and liking it better than Sims4.
It wouldn't take that much effort to make the game an easy turnaround of money for little effort since most of the game development was done a long time ago by other people, yet they could still sell it for $49 and have people lining up to buy, if by buying we don't have to research and seek out solutions to PC compatibility and graphics issues.
Affording server space is a no brainer when you can make money from something you didn't actually have to spend money in the first place, to develop. The initial investment was already paid for and then some, and any continuing profits from it are almost pure gravy.
