Cross-Platform DLC Transfers for The Sims 4
Dear Reader, As a dedicated Sim player for over 18 years, I genuinely love and enjoy the game. While I've occasionally been frustrated by some updates (or the lack thereof), nothing has been more...
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As a loyal simmer , I agree with you 100% , I play across PlayStation , Xbox and pc . My PC isn’t strong enough to run the sims how I would like so I mostly stay on console but it’s so frustrating having some packs on Xbox , some packs on ps4 but yet the same account linked across all 3 that I can’t access through each other smh !
luenskifreeman, I understand it is frustrating for you. The EA account is just a requirement of all EA games. The EA account just recognizes the game is owned on a specific platform. If you attempt to access it on a different platform, it can't convert it. The formats of the game is very different, depending on platform which is why it can not be transferred between different branded consoles or PC/Mac. If you owned a Mac, it would transfer to PC because the formats are the same. My gaming computer from 2016 is able to run the game smoothly and it is quite old now. Was the computer you tried running the game on not built for gaming?
I play on Xbox and PlayStation so it’s more so console frustration . I feel like consoles get left out on a lot of. If Mac’s and PC can transfer , consoles should be able to transfer as well !
luenskifreeman, The PC and Mac are just computers. They have basically the same hardware. Macs also have an application to run the Windows operating system, so that may be the reason it can be transferred via computers. When the game originally launched in 2014, it was PC only. It became a digital only purchase for Mac in 2015, so it took a few months to make it happen on both. The reason they are interchangeable is most likely because Mac have the application to read things usually made for Windows operating system.
EA had to create a seperate team to convert a 3 year old (at that time) game to work on consoles. It isn't as simple as you believe. The game had to be basically remade using different developer tools from Xbox and Playstation respectively and realeased in 2017. Each console has a different operating system, which do not communicate with one another. That is the best explanation I can give without being too technical. It is why you can transfer between similar console platforms but not to different platforms. This also explains why the computer platform can get patches faster, as the approval process isn't needed. Right now, they do have to run it through for approval with each console platform.
I get that it might be complicated, but there should still be a solution. Something like a unique code or account-based identifier when you purchase a pack or add-on. That way, if you log into the same EA account on another platform, it can verify that you already own it and let you download it without paying again. It would have to be user-specific and unshareable so people can’t just pass it around, but it would at least stop loyal players from having to buy the same expensive content multiple times. I love The Sims it’s literally my whole childhood and I’d love to be able to play it with my kids someday. But I’m not paying $600+ again just to have the same content on a different console while using the same account. At this point the game is old and the base game is free, so making people rebuy everything across platforms just feels greedy and ridiculous. If full cross-platform ownership isn’t possible because of store rules, then at least offer a heavily discounted upgrade for people who already own the packs on the same EA account. The system could verify that you purchased it before and charge a small fee or something just to cover the platform’s cut.
That way players aren’t forced to rebuy the exact same $40 content multiple times just to play on another console. It would still give the platform its share while not punishing loyal players who’ve already spent hundreds on the game.
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