Re: [ARCHIVED] Legacy Edition: No Gallery/ Packs not appearing
nerdsonneptune wrote:
- what a lot of you don’t realise is that, for us, high tech computers are simply unavailable to us due to our economic background. What EA have done is ostracise all of those who have a lower income and simply cannot afford a fancy computer. It’s disgusting, unethical and unfair. Sims is, and always has been, a game for everyone.
Lets stay at "fancy computers".
I don't know what kind of computer you use, a Mac or a PC.
For Mac, the Legacy edition was necessary because Apples new OS is not supporting 32bit applications any longer and it also only supports Apples new graphic API Metal.
So without the Legacy edition, provided by EA free of charge, people on really old Macs would not be able to play the game anymore.
And that is how it works normal in the computer world.
You can't keep up? Bad luck, bye bye.
EA prevented that for a lot of people, as said, free of charge.
I used the words "really old" on purpose here, because some Macs as old as 2012 do support Metal and so the standard edition of The Sims 4.
On PC it is even easier.
As long you have a 64bit Widows OS that is at least Windows 7 (That was released in 2009) and a PC that matches the Minimum system requirements for the Standard edition (who is only different in the amount of RAM you need, 2GB Legacy and 4GB Standard edition), you still can play the standard edition.
Any PC that matches the TS4 minimum system requirements that was build in the last 10 years supports 64bit Windows, and any 32bit key of Windows will also work for a 64bit version.
So, it hardly requires "fancy computers" to still play the Standard edition.
