@puzzlezaddict, I am sure that you can find plenty of topics supporting your claim as I could maybe find many supporting mine had I wanted to waste my life keeping arguing with you .
Anyway , I took a look at a few pages that Google threw me at a search , and I think that the discussion on the following page rather well mirrors the situation on hand here with you where different people makes different claims , so I find it a real waste of time to try to make you stop second guessing my experiences on a PC system that I ran years ago and that you have absolutely no knowledge of (same goes for you second guessing anyone's present computer system and software configurations ability to run a The Sims 3 game - you not knowing what they have and what the configuration is) :
The sims 4 plays better than sims 3 :
https://forums.thesims.com/en_us/discussion/913952/the-sims-4-plays-better-than-sims-3
Also you presume to have the right to expect that the 'general' user / customer should spend an extra ordinary amount of time doing all sorts of stuff (and modifications) that EA should have done - if it should be done at all - I read the page and people list all sorts of 'rules' they want kept to get the game to run stable , including but not limited to : All saves have a separate folder , only installing additional store content and custom content as needed and what not...
I mean seriously what load of '*' to have to keep arguing about when anyone reasonable would see that I am right and that the game were impossible to keep running under the circumstances given and back then....
@DanishLighthouse, I also had a very bad experience with TS3. I still loved the game because it was a Sims game, but I was disappointed in it compared to TS2 (which is still my favorite version of the Sims! 🥳) . I have a much better experience with TS4 🙌 compared to TS3! I had every TS3 EP and SP. It ended up being pretty much unplayable, and only the fact that I love the Sims and that I'm pretty stubborn did I continue to "play" TS3. If you can call it playing by the end with all the expansions and stuff packs. 😢 I did more reading than playing when I "played" TS3. 😞
However, I don't find this a rip off on EA's part. Some people were able to play it and they really love it. I did get some enjoyment from the game; it was just difficult to do so. My computer was probably mid-range. So, I was happy that TS4 was not an open world, and it still perplexes me why people are so angry that it isn't. 🤔 I'd rather have a few short loading screens than wait for 20-40 min for my game to decide to run (if it doesn't completely stop). The only thing I thought was a rip off was the TS3 Store! 😬 I'm so glad that is gone! 🙌
But keep in mind I'm not as tech savvy as it sounds like you are or as @puzzlezaddict is! 😳 I could probably get TS3 to run decently on my computer now, but I've soured on the expierince and would rather play TS4. 🙂
As for bundles, those weren't even offered to TS4 until right after I finally had gotten all of the packs that were available at that point! 😞 So I never got the discounts some of you later people have gotten. ☹️ But I did get some SPs on sale , they were just separate. 😇
@PugLove888 wrote:However, I don't find this a rip off on EA's part. Some people were able to play it and they really love it. I did get some enjoyment from the game; it was just difficult to do so. My computer was probably mid-range. So, I was happy that TS4 was not an open world, and it still perplexes me why people are so angry that it isn't. 🤔 I'd rather have a few short loading screens than wait for 20-40 min for my game to decide to run (if it doesn't completely stop). The only thing I thought was a rip off was the TS3 Store! 😬 I'm so glad that is gone! 🙌
Thank you very much for the kind and well balanced answer. Your personal opinions are only fair even though you do not 'feel ripped off' which I must confess that I do because that EA support promised me that buying the The Sims 3 would solve the problems that I had with the The Sims 2 which it obviously did not. (Also our personal opinions *of course* are related to our personal experiences which again of course varies....)
Come to think of it then EA support at some point also claimed that I had to buy another PC with specs like this or that to fix then problems with the The Sims 3 , which I of course did (video editor software editor company Pinnacle Systems also often blamed the PC back then so I were used to it) but when I bought a PC that clearly fulfilled the specs - including the OS - then that *OF COURSE* did not solve the problem either , but this is about 6 years back I think and a lot of this were communication over the phone so I would have to rely on fragments of memory popping up from time to time to reconstruct it all
You write that you do not consider yourself as tech savvy as some others, but in my opinion then then one that can see their own limitation is so much wiser than the 'know it all'. I used to spend a lot of time fixing peoples computer problems of which some were hardware related and some were software related and I were considered to be very good at fixing stuff for people and some had the attitude that I fix anything. But only a total idiot will think that they can fix everything when it comes to PC related problems. Even the manufactures of hardware , games and software can not or will not fix everything. I have been in direct contact with more very well known companies over the years and have even been forced by one company to ship a motherboard to Taiwan (or China ?) to have a serious BIOS related OS level hard disc controller problem related to file copying fixed only to be told that they did not intend to fix the problem once they finally were willing to recognize that they actually had the problem.
Nobody can fix everything , and in the PC 'world' especially it is a great problem that so much is not documented and so much important information about 'stuff' is either not available to others than manufactures or it will take like forever to gain a high enough level of understanding of enough for it to matter in connection with fixing something that is normally 'beyond your control' which lets face it most of the stuff that we use are in the sense of having been made or how it is made or put together - if you know what I mean....
Anyway , like you I much prefer less of something that actually works rather than plenty that does not... , On that note , then I just read this article about the Sims 4 : https://www.thegamer.com/sims-4-dlc-plan-schedule-ruining-game/ (I think that EA should concentrate on making stuff that works rather than too much that does not! or has problems)(I personally am experiencing a bug at the moment where harvestables vanishes from inventory when saving the game , ref : inventory: [OPEN] Harvestables disappearing from sims' inventory and chest inventory (Daemonten)
Have a very nice day , thank you :-)
