Re: the sims 3 (64-bit & metal) release

It's not that simple, @OliverBones. As I've talked about here, the challenge ahead is not a simple one for a number of reasons, two of the major ones is that The Sims 3 was not built to be native to the Mac in the first place and TS3 (and all its expansions) are complicated pieces of software, so naturally, it's going to take a while. I'm not exactly sure how they're porting it over (if they're writing a fully native app in Objective-C or something similar or they're using some other library, which would be a stupid idea but I know full well that sometimes technical decisions are made by those who aren't equipped to make them. Not to mention, there's still testing to be done, further debugging, etc. So, naturally, things take longer to fix/refactor than originally expected.

For all I know, they could be in the weeds fixing something or rather that they thought would be a much simpler fix.

Sure, you can tell me that my cynical thoughts that with all the DLC and microtransactions and what not, my speculation that EA is able to pump money out of TS3 players for years to come and, thus has a profit motive to get this game fixed, is unfounded or untrue. And maybe I am wrong. Probably not about this, but stranger things have happened. 

In short, you're asking for something they aren't able to give at this point. Be patient. They'll update us when they're able to. They know how eagerly people are waiting for this.

I am just going to be honest here. EA is a huge company and have probably done things like this before. So I am just wondering how it is currently taking them over six months to update something which they have probably had at least some experience doing it before.

To answer your question, @1345annie, it's likely because TS3 wasn't built properly the first time over but instead, was released as a port using a piece of software that was abandoned by its developer years ago? In all likelihood, TS4 is a lot more stable and crashes a lot less than TS3 because it was built native for the Mac. So while there are lessons learned from maintaining TS4 for the Mac all these years and upgrading it to be 64-bit compatible, it doesn't underestimate the challenge that this wasn't built properly the first time around and as a result, a lot of technical debt accumulated. Technical debt that, in all likelihood, they're paying back right now.

i love the sims and i want play it forever

Tried to post this three times today, but it kept disappearing for some reason; I had to put down what I wrote on a Google Docs link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G3ZAMM4GQK8JY6QN-EYauOpzNz2gKRMqr3gbWQkINiE/edit?usp=sharing

So, I read through your post @johnchau95 and here's my response:

Here's the thing though, EA never made an explicit promise to update SimCity 2013 to 64-bit and considering that there hasn't been an update in a long time, I think it's reasonable to consider it as abandoned as Neverwinter Nights 2. The tragic reality is that any piece of software you buy lives on borrowed time. It's not just games but even more mundane things like e-mail clients (RIP Sparrow and Flock). However, EA has promised to update TS3 and we've heard from the EA staff twice about this and as recently as this week (or was it last week?), @MaxisJoe has come on here and let everyone know that progress is still happening on the game. Not only that but EA has worked on making TS4 64-bit and they delivered on that promise... albeit, late.

While it would be nice to see older (and abandoned) games enter the FOSS world once the developers decide not to update them anymore, tragically, that isn't going to happen. And it's not good. Some of my favourite games (Neverwinter Nights 2 and Keepsake are two examples) have been lost to the sands of time and are nearly unplayable on the Mac without some serious workarounds. 

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