Complaint, Dropping Mac Users

"Cinebar;c-17267722" wrote:

"Cynna;c-17267353" wrote:

"Sk8rblaze;c-17267316" wrote:


From how EA explained it, the game would receive a patch and then become the legacy edition.

Yeah, that's what I figured. Anyone who is no longer able to update their game will automatically own the "Legacy" edition. It's a nice name for those who will be left behind if for some reason they can't upgrade.

Is this the first iteration of The Sims series that is dropping the OSes of MACs and PCs? Like dropping the MAC version noted in this topic and dropping Windows 32bit etc. I don't ever recall any of the other games actually dropping an OS in mid stream of production. Of course there were upates and announcements to be able to play newer packs sometimes, the player would need to have a better machine hardware, such as shaders, processors and or video cards to take advantage of a newer packs shading and or processor requirements, but I think this game is the first game I can recall that goes around dropping the OS of a MAC or a PC after the consumer has bought into the idea they can play the game since their OS was listed in 2014 etc. as being supported. Odd set of business ethics.

ETA: As TS4 continues, I wonder if at some point they say hey kids!, we are dropping XP, Windows 8, Windows 7, etc. after the fact those were the operating systems they claimed would play the series. (not just 32 bit) But if at some point they get cut out, too.

They actually physically stopped supporting XP a good long time ago (like back in 2016 maybe? It was a while ago, I'm trying to find the announcement for it but my google-fu is failing me, there was a lot of activity about it on the forum at the time, and Microsoft themselves stopped supporting XP back in 2014. XP came out in 2001 it was a good system but it's almost 20 years old no one should honestly be trying to use it anymore anyway). I think you can still play on it but they don't actually focus on anything to make sure the game continues to run on it so eventually it probably will stop working for people the way that newer systems can no longer play Sims 1 or 2 without you being lucky or having to jump through hoops to get it to work.

It's seems a bit much to expect a company to spend time and effort and money on making sure their game runs on system that the company that MADE the actual system hasn't supported it in a good long time. Everyone wants the game to grow and improve and this is just part of being able to do that.