"Damienf519;c-17267369" wrote:
"igazor;c-17267350" wrote:
I had no idea that they were going to do that. Seriously why haven't they fixed the few remaining Sims 3 bugs yet, if they were planning on doing that?
None of us did. Even the helpers on EA's Answers.HQ board were until today telling Mac players that the game will not be playable on the new macOS. But it's possible they are under a non-disclosure agreement over there so they may not have been able to say anything until the formal announcement.
But if they are doing what we think they are doing, they are re-arranging the program executable files though Origin for Mac to allow the game program to run on the new OS and hopefully along the way get it to recognize certain processor/graphics card combos that have been very stubborn to work with on the Mac side. These things would require working from outside of the game files. They aren't, as far as we know, really going
into the game files to fix or change the way the game works once it is loaded up and running. This is all then program file management, not game development/bug fixes.
At least that's what they did with Patch 1.69 on Origin for Windows. The game files themselves between 1.67 and 1.69 are exactly the same except for their internal build numbers. If the waffles were going to burn, the adults never return from their free vacation thus ruining the ongoing game save, or if the male sim's career outfit was going to include pigtails tied with ribbons or they appear to always be naked after getting out of the shower on 1.67, those did not in any way change with 1.69.
If nothing else, this announcement is proof that there is at least one beating heart and a set of ears listening to what's going on over there and should spawn hope that there are no plans at all to "pull the plug" on this game for those who have been worried about such a thing happening. Expending all that effort into keeping it working on the Mac side only to discontinue it a short while later would make no sense at all. :)
