Decided to install sims 3 today

@FairyGodMother - Just to clarify in case I was misunderstood, it's not that your Mac won't recognize a CD/DVD drive. It's that it won't authenticate the TS3 discs in particular any longer. If you wish to have an external optical drive for other purposes in the future, such as to install something else or watch a movie on a DVD, then that should be fine and the drives really don't cost very much.

If you are staying on El Capitan, then the upcoming Catalina release and the doomsday end of 32-bit apps, etc. will not affect you at all. At least not until it's time to buy a new Mac some day, then things get a bit more challenging.

hi guys

so after starting Origin again to play sims 4, it found my sims 3 directory and tried to repair but download kept failing, so i re-installed Origin and the repair appears to have worked. so sometime soon i'll give things another try. :)

btw did you guys see the new paralives video on twitter? click and drag lot size creation. OMG
cant wait til that game releases. and it uses unity which also has me excited. there is a game company that i cant mention here because of the kiddies that uses unity and the character creator options are the best i ever seen, as well as the characters themselves. i always hoped the sims would someday reach that level of customization but i doubt it. i just hope paralives can achieve something close to it. man, cant wait to see what that game becomes.

@MiSFiT203 interesting. I started learning Unity a few years ago but haven't touched it for about 3 years now. It seems I'd rather paint pictures and sing than learn another computer program. As for games, I don't have Origin installed so I can't get to most of my games that are all available through Origin. This means Sims 3 is it for me. I will probably stop playing games if it stops working on my computer.

I hope you are able to make your game work for your fun and enjoyment. Happy Simming

@MiSFiT203 I'm still playing my Sims 3 and making videos for YouTube with stories from my games and tutorials for fixing some of the problems that come up.

The YouTube side of it keeps me busy now and I've been watching lots of art videos. Plus a few others - no gaming videos though.

I'm not done with the game yet either so I hope it keeps running for a really long time.

I have Sims 4 base game but it bored me so much I couldn't see any addons to it would make it less boring and I spent so much on Sims 3 I didn't want to spend any more on a half done and partially working game. Since they chose not to fix so many of the problems with Sims 3 I couldn't expect they'd change their ways with Sims 4 so decided not to keep feeding them my money. I use mods and CC now to give me more variety in my games and to fix the problems I feel I need to have fixed.

Hi @MiSFiT203

Glad you managed to repair your game and will be able to try again with 3 at some future date :)

@Karritz

This cracked me up when i read it "I started learning Unity a few years ago but haven't touched it for about 3 years now. It seems I'd rather paint pictures and sing than learn another computer program" Exactly! :)

thanks @SPARKY1922

@Karritz couldnt agree with you more, i bought the sims 4 base game and a few packs early on, but felt the same as you, to me there is just no hope for that game. the only thing great about that game aside from create a sim is the way they drum up excitement for each new pack, but what good is pre-release excitement for a forth coming pack when there is nothing more exciting than 2 fun days of gameplay then the euphoria wares off and you realize its still the same old boring game with a few more shiny objects. they give away lots of free stuff now in updates to keep people distracted but nothing makes the game any better.

@SPARKY1922 I'm glad you are entertained by my priorities. Lately I've been spending my money on art supplies. I now have a big box of coloured pencils and about 30 markers and have been learning to use them. Also still working on my videos. Went back to choir last night too. It's all looking good for now.

@misfit12 i like to avoid the hype if possible. Since I don't have Origin installed I haven't been able to update my Sims 4 game for about 2 years. I really don't miss it.

@Karritz

Wonderful I am pleased you are doing so well and getting back to doing other activities clearly enjoy as well :)

@Surreal yeah looks really cool so far, and thanks.

just lost about an hour of gameplay on sims 3 cause my game ate my video card settings recently and i was to lazy to look up how to fix it back at the time and then forgot about it. was geting all kinds of long stretchy blocky things and then i tried going to the future and game locked up. guess i need to add my video card again next time. lol

@Karritz no update in 2 years? awe but you missed last months super ugly rebrand update. lol

finally saw it yesterday, ewe lol


ok guess im done screwing up the sims 3 for today, time for some Netflix

@thuggishsplicer I don't install them at once neither. I start out with the worlds, then the compilations and so on. But as I usually buy a new computer every two or three years, things have to be downloaded from the store. For example, the items I have downloaded to my PC shows up as small boxes on my laptop. I wonder if I'm the only one, and I especially worry about when they'll shut down the store for good...