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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"Sk8rblaze;c-17266098" wrote:
Mac OS X Lion was one of the operating systems that they announced would no longer be supported with the upcoming update that would drop 32-bit support.
Not true.
The drop in 32-bit support for the game is only applicable to Windows users. In the same update Maxis are dropping support for non-Metal Macs. It is the upcoming version of macOS, 10.15 Catalina, that drops support for 32-bit apps. The game has always been 64-bit for Mac, ever since it was released in February 2015, apart from one tiny little niggling file called ActivationUI which is 32-bit. This 32-bit file is causing the game to not run in Catalina. It was fixed in the April patch but subsequently had to be rolled back because it broke the game........ for Lion users. I suspect this is what has been implemented again in this upcoming patch. Hopefully support for Lion may be added to the Legacy edition.
@Cinebar
It would have been nice to have more warning but if people running Lion are not aware and update their game I'm sure they will get online and look for answers. They will then find that all they have to do to get playing again is update their version of macOS to a later version. Macs that cannot be updated past Lion do not have hardware that meets the minimum system requirements, they are typically 10-11 year old machines.
