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New Novice

3 months ago

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

So EA updates The Sims 1 and 2 to run on modern hardware, fixes bugs, and now re-releases them for $30 (plus a Sims 4 kit, because of course they had to throw that in). Meanwhile, The Sims 3 one of t...

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puzzlezaddict

Hero+

3 months ago

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.