What the heck?

"MidnightAura;c-16997729" wrote:
I don't think they should be praised for giving up supporting the game mid way through its cycle and giving people the Legacy Edition.

How kind of them to allow people to play their game they may have spent up to £500 on! Soo generous.

I can play the sims 1-3 without EA. In fact patch 1.69 is not liked by many, many sims 3 simmers. I still play off disc.

I mean those games were made in 32bit computers. You can still play what you payed for with TS4, you just won't be able to play newer DLC which will require the game to access more memory. Would you rather the game crash every time you access one of the newer worlds past StrangerVille?

TS4 is now a 5 year old game and it's life cycle as an iteration is not over yet. In the past this would be it's last year. The fact that they are cutting off support for 32 bits makes every sense if the game is to continue. Just as if they'd make a new game now it would likely not support 32 bit computers. Making this change means this game will likely have support for much longer.

"alejandro15039;c-16997412" wrote:
I think it's the best decision they made for this game, I hated that they were "worried" about low end pc's, that's one of the main reasons the game has so many bugs, I hope this leads us to better packs.

I agree with this ^

well honestly as a player i see nothing wrong with this pretty sure my actual pc will be able to handle the sims4 64 bits is the the softwear use now for games so i honestly see no point in complaining

I wonder if this means an acknowledgement that you do need proper equipment to run a game like this. From my perspective that simply isn’t a bad thing.

It sold on being able to run on your Grandma's computer... if it can't anymore then it seems reasonable it should be ending for the "New Age" computers.

What's bad is that there are no more Updates for older computers. People can still play the game but they don't get any more support. :sadness:

"Writin_Reg;c-16997748" wrote:

"MidnightAura;c-16997729" wrote:
I don't think they should be praised for giving up supporting the game mid way through its cycle and giving people the Legacy Edition.

How kind of them to allow people to play their game they may have spent up to £500 on! Soo generous.

I can play the sims 1-3 without EA. In fact patch 1.69 is not liked by many, many sims 3 simmers. I still play off disc.

So you believe it is great not to have security updates or get your video card updated if you have a Nvidia card or one of the others who can't get updates for their 32 bit system and this game any more?

I still have the disks as well - I just prefer going through Origin - and Window 10 Home does not play the Sims 1 disk at all.

Since the last update patch for Sims 3 - I have not experienced any problem using Sims 3. But to each there own. I just would never consider encouraging someone to play an unsecure pc on the net - unless they never go anywhere on the net but play the sims and even that I also would not encourage. But hey - that's me, apparently not you.

At least EA is making sure they can use the game they spent all that money on - when not every company does that. As I said I can show you hundreds of dollar of disks I can't play for that very reason - many companies do not make it possible.

It’s nothing to do with security, that’s a separate issue.

I’m not impacted. Both our PCs are high end gaming PCs built for gaming with specs way higher than the sims 4.

I choose to run the sims 3 on patch 1.67 as I don’t believe EA should be running their programme in the background whilst I play my game. I don’t need their programme. Unfortunately I do for sims 2 since they tied it to origin. But I run the sims 1 and 3 with no problems on Windows 10 with no support from EA.

My point you have completely missed is EA isn’t some generous being by allowing people to play with their content - so they should! People paid for that content! And giving EA don’t have a great reputation for patching their games adequately with many bugs still persisting after many months and patches, I can’t help but think the Legacy edition will be left in a right mess. But hey, it’s history repeating itself. Look at the sims 3.

Edit to add- where the heck have I encouraged anyone to play on an unsecure Pc? Oh wait, I haven’t.

I accept EA have their reasons. But, as I have said, do I think the legacy version will be a great version with no bugs? Hell no.

Do I think it’s generous of them to allow people to play with content they have purchased? No, sorry.

At first without knowing the reason behind the change I was shocked at what EA/Maxis did, but upon reading more I believe EA/Maxis may be justified on this one being there were forces outside of thier company that was the driving forces behind the change and sadly some folks may be affected by it. I now see it as an good thing and at the same time I feel for others that may not be able to make the upgrade as fast as others. However the writing was on the wall that 64 bit was becoming more dominant as other companies embraced it. OSes can influence changes sooner or later as seen.

"Rflong7;c-16997920" wrote:
It sold on being able to run on your Grandma's computer...

It also sold on it being "Smarter Sims"...

Why does anyone believe anything they promise anymore?

"@GemSixx;c-16998003" wrote:

"Rflong7;c-16997920" wrote:
It sold on being able to run on your Grandma's computer...

It also sold on it being "Smarter Sims"...

Why does anyone believe anything they promise anymore?

Many people believe these Sims are smarter. :lol:
Also, New People.

This isnt a big deal at all.