Dude, if you frequented the Mac forums back in the day what I said is a fact. For mac players specifically, yes, but it was a common issue with long forums dedicated to the issue. The game was literally unplayable for 2 years for a significant section of the playerbase that purchased those packs, no one could get refunds and EA was blaming the wrapper they used (as they didn't properly convert it, just used a wrapper system by another company), and the wrapper company was blaming EA. Nothing got solved.
Literally just googled it to make sure I wasn't making it up, and one of the most upvoted advice to someone advising someone on Mac crashes is 'it's best to just get windows or get bootcamp and run windows to play it'.
These are all facts.
Do I concede for windows players the issues were significantly less? Oh heck yeah. But if you look at respected reviewers like Gita on Kotaku, even Windows players had a lot of buggy issues. And I concede that my ranking of Sims 3 at the bottom is purely subjective, due to my experiences, not an objective evaluation based purely on content.
Like I said- the ideas were fantastic, and as a supernatural player I am still waiting for the Sims 4 to step up like the sims 3 did. But oh god the sims 3 store that had so much fantastic content outside of packs and on the store, worse than stuff packs 100% because wow way to separate and divvy up for money. And oh lord the game was about unplayable without the storyprogression mods. And something is profoundly broken if the game itself says you have to uninstall some expansion packs for best performance. That's.... objectively messed up there. Is there any other game that does that? Actually curious.
You might rank Lucky Palms highly, but as a Sims 2 player I was bitter as all plum that I had to buy these amazing worlds separate and they didn't come with additional gameplay, just some fancy items.
I say this as someone who truly enjoys Sims 3 when I can actually play it. And that is a big 'when'. Currently my laptop can't handle it. The supernatural's were great, the vacation worlds were amazing, and the design tool was to die for. It also introduced a more in depth CAS even if the pudding face sims make me cringe without ALL the default replacements.
The point of my post was we all have our preferences based on our experiences. I don't need to add a disclaimer all over the place about it being based on my opinion for that to be evident?
