"emmaning;13535005" wrote:
"Seera1024;13534748" wrote:
"Simasaurus09;13534321" wrote:
"WinMacSims3;13480097" wrote:
So I guess you can still contact EA and prove you own The Sims 2 to get The Sims 2 UC. Seems nice there's hope for Windows users. This can get confusing since the giveaway ended on August 1, 2014 and nothing on the forums mentions you can still get The Sims 2, also that the game isn't on Origin. What's worse is that The Sims 2 Super Collection is available on sale but it's only on a Mac which can be annoying as most people outside the Mac Forums likely don't have a Mac. TS2 isn't the only game that has this problem.
Command and Conquer: Generals can also be purchased on the Mac but there's no equivalent Windows version on sale although this is offset by the fact EA still sells a collection that includes this and other C&C games on Windows.
I'm not sure why they are still helping out people. They could just tell people "tough cookies". Maybe they don't want to advertise that you can do this because it's more work. :/
For a game that's not supported anymore, I'm still glad they want to help out those who did purchase TS2 at some point. I wonder if this same thing would work if someone had a Sims 1 code. I know I do somewhere in storage.
It's a positive move to do so.
They figure enough people will be more willing to spend money on EA games if they give them the entire Sims 2 suite for free, to warrant giving it to free to everyone.
It's like grocery stores always seem to have the soda on sale. They lose money on the soda. But it gets people into the store to buy other things. Giving Sims 2 away via Origin gets people to download Origin who may not use Origin. And they may in turn, buy more games that they see on Origin.
As for Sims 1, it never had an digital version, not even for the complete collection. I'm not sure they would be able to easily give a Sims 1 version online. But who knows.
It's simple for ea. It's a little warmup excercise of barely anything. Take a sims original complete collection disc, extract the files from it to a new location, make sure the files are correct, add a simple installer and boom there's your digital sims original completed copy. Not a bad idea actually... I might just purchase it myself and transfer it myself too.... Simple matter right?
That assumes they still have the files. With Sims 1 being so old and there not having been any digital version of the game, they may not have the files. And they may not be willing to spend money on the collection to just give it away.
They had digital versions of most if not all of the games due to their multi-packs with Sims 2. So it was just a matter of combining them into one package and making sure everything was patched.
