Complaint, Dropping Mac Users
Maxis you give a three day notice MAC users (Lion10.7) should not update their games on Oct. 3rd or they will no longer be able to play their owned packs. To never update their games again. I'm disap...
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That note specified that the users will get updates via their Origin client. I can guarantee you that they had plenty of warnings about the upcoming drop of support for TS4 on their OS.
I can't say how well the notifications are for PC as I am on a Mac. I can guarantee that the warnings are more than adequate on Macs. If anything, they're a bit overeager even from the OS itself as well as Origin.
I agree that the forum is a good source of information about packs, release dates etc, but "most people"? Maybe that was true before but most people go to a search engine, which may or may not lead them here. (My 12yo daughter who's a Simmer has never been on the forums. She does a search and finds her answers elsewhere. Or honestly, short of the game crashing, ignores them. But that's another debate entirely)
I can't say how well the notifications are for PC as I am on a Mac. I can guarantee that the warnings are more than adequate on Macs. If anything, they're a bit overeager even from the OS itself as well as Origin.
I agree that the forum is a good source of information about packs, release dates etc, but "most people"? Maybe that was true before but most people go to a search engine, which may or may not lead them here. (My 12yo daughter who's a Simmer has never been on the forums. She does a search and finds her answers elsewhere. Or honestly, short of the game crashing, ignores them. But that's another debate entirely)
