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9 years ago

The Sims 1 Complete Collection on Origin

Recently I've purchased The Sims 1 Complete Collection and I got really upset when I realized tha EA is being so neglect with the most successfull game that became this franchise so big.

I tried to register the game in my Origin Account, and as I imagined, the serial was not valid. So I started a chat in US Origin (I'm brazilian) and asked for help to register the game in my account.

In the begining I thought I would be successfull in this process, until the moment when the clerk said that the registration wouldn't be possible because the game is very old. I answered saying that Origin owns older games than The Sims 1 (SimCity 2000, Theme Hospital...), and the clerk was unable to explain the availablity of these games.

So then, I started observing my game and I realized that it was produced in 2008. I notified the clerk about this, about Sims 2 also. I got lots of criteria about the fact that "The Sims Complete Collection is too old", until the clerk guided me to create a topic in Origin forum about this question to call attention of the developers. Instantly I looked for it to find answers about my issue.

After I searched topics in forum, I thought about what the clerk has told me "all attention of the developers" e asked him about it. He said that a post in the forum could convince (or not) the developers to provide The Sims 1 in Origin.

He also offered me The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection (I already own this one), saying that it was better than TS1. I thought a little disrispect, once my first question was about how to register The Sims Complete Collection in my account.

After 3 hours chatting trying to understand why the game will not be available on Origin to date, I concluded what was mentioned at the beginning of the publication.

Since now... I'm a big fan of The Sims series and I am REALLY disapointed about the way EA treats this classic game that gave birth to everything we have today. :'(

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  • Honestly, I am curious as to why they won't rerelease it- i think they should, and i never played the original sims 1but know about the lore of bella goth and everything. Even with other old that (EA related or not!) i think should be rereleased and remastered for newer machines. Some play for nostalic purposes, some play because they miss the games. Even too, EA can make money off of people who play TS4, TS3, TS2 and have them try TS1.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    3 years ago
    "Sunflowergal227;c-18079578" wrote:
    Honestly, I am curious as to why they won't rerelease it- i think they should, and i never played the original sims 1but know about the lore of bella goth and everything. Even with other old that (EA related or not!) i think should be rereleased and remastered for newer machines. Some play for nostalic purposes, some play because they miss the games. Even too, EA can make money off of people who play TS4, TS3, TS2 and have them try TS1.


    What is the reason why you can't play the Sims 1? Are you on Mac?
  • "simmerorigin;c-18079585" wrote:
    "Sunflowergal227;c-18079578" wrote:
    Honestly, I am curious as to why they won't rerelease it- i think they should, and i never played the original sims 1but know about the lore of bella goth and everything. Even with other old that (EA related or not!) i think should be rereleased and remastered for newer machines. Some play for nostalic purposes, some play because they miss the games. Even too, EA can make money off of people who play TS4, TS3, TS2 and have them try TS1.


    What is the reason why you can't play the Sims 1? Are you on Mac?


    I wasn't talking about The Sims 1-- i was saying that this company and other companies (from games like barbie's dective, barbie's riding club, The sims 1, and other games: should be rereleased because some may play for nostaligic purposes. I would play TS1 tho.
  • I would definitly buy the sims 1 collection if they made it available to play on new computers. Sims 2 & 3 are the ones I play, would be sweet to be able to mess around with the original game that started it all.

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