The Sims 1 & 2 Get Modern Updates and a Re-Release, But Sims 3 Gets Nothing

Dqrkful  Not to defend EA, but Sims 1 was far more unplayable on current hardware than Sims 3 is.  The latter actually runs out of the box, maybe not always that well, but it does start and load and (usually) manage to stay running without crashing for a while.  Also, the game isn't "full price" and hasn't been for a while.  Expansions were originally more than $20 U.S., and when on sale, EPs and SPs are $8-10.

I'm saying if 1 and 2 gets updates why not 3?

Dqrkful  My guess is because Sims 1 and 2 needed updates to be viable products again, and Sims 3 does not.  EA is still selling it as-is, so why spend the dev time and money (now) to update it?

Just because EA can still sell The Sims 3 'as-is' doesn't mean it wouldn’t benefit from updates. The game has major performance issues, even on modern hardware, and mods are doing what EA won’t. If they’re still making money from it, why not invest a little to make it run better? It would keep players happy and likely boost sales in the long run.

Just my opinion, but it would probably take releasing a 64 bit version of the game.  I'm down for that, but unless Microsoft stops all support for 32 bit OS then it's not likely to happen.  I'm sure people would flock to Sims 3 if that was the case and they would probably lose more sales of sims 4 than they would get from sims 3.

Maybe they are working on Sims3, but its not ready yet?    I mean, they did provide the Alder Lake CPU patch, and they didn't have to.   I have to admit I'm shocked they updated Sims and Sims2, though.  What a surprise!

puzzlezaddictwhat do you mean that Sims 3 doesn't need an update? It's unplayable without nraas mods etc.

koTTak98  It's not literally unplayable, just far from ideal, without NRaas mods.  The original Sims 1 is literally unplayable on many modern computers.  The original Sims 2 has a graphical glitch that makes the game effectively unplayable right from the start.  Sims 3 crashes some, occasionally a lot, but it's not at the same level as the others.