"Camkat;c-17424074" wrote:
For me it's a lot of reasons.
Private servers or games then? Yeah... That MIGHT work, but if you follow EA Help on twitter and see that most games their servers are down and broken dang near every weekend, I have zero trust that they could get it to work for the sims. I have no desire to be like the Fifa and Battlefield fans who can't play their games during peak times, when people have time off to actually want to play their game that they've paid for.
Maybe when people mention private servers they mean LAN (local area server), which is located on one of the players computer who then invites his friends to join. Main advantages: you do not rely on the company's servers and you have total control on who has access your server. Main issues: it requires a very good internet connection and to be a little tech savvy, as you have to deactivate your firewall.
