The Sims Complete Collection on Origin

@vctrmsqt , EA made the decision to sunset the Sims 2 Ultimate Collection in October 2018. https://answers.ea.com/t5/Other-The-Sims-Games/Ending-code-support-for-The-Sims-2-Ultimate-Collection/m-p/7101525#M15431. I am simply passing along information for other players who may or may not know this information and helping people to install and run their games. Or troubleshoot issues.

I always make sure to advise people that both The Sims (original game) and The Sims 2 are only available for purchase in CD/DVD form and that to play the game requires an external disk drive which aren't that expensive in the long run. You can still find copies on Amazon, E-Bay, your local game store that sells used copies of the game and thrift stores. I do not advocate nor does EA pirating the game. Even if it a sunset game. And you can (once you install the game) create a disk image on your computer to play the game without lugging around the disk drive. 

EA is aware of the Community wanting both the original and Sims 2 to be remastered and made digital on Origin. Not only myself, but the Community Managers who oversee all the forums here on AHQ and the Official Forums have passed on the concerns of the players to the Devs who are the ones who make the decisions. There are hundreds if not thousands of posts both here and on the Official Forums asking for the game to be digital.

I'm afraid we will have to agree to disagree as they say. You can purchase the external disk drive or not. That is your choice. That is the easiest and best solution at this time if you want to play the game.

To be honest, it is a lot more complicated than just reposting the game on Origin. To remaster the game (which is over 20 years old at this point), requires the devs to review the code, look at how Windows operates today as opposed to 20 years ago, see what has changed to get the game to run properly in Windows 10, and to update information on newer processors, video cards and other computer components which the game accesses. It requires a lot of time, money and effort to remaster a 20 year old game and EA has chosen to spend their manpower and resources elsewhere. If you'd like to see how complicated a remaster of an older game is, I suggest reading this post in the Mac section about the remaster of Sims 3 for the Mac. https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-Mac/the-sims-3-64-bit-amp-metal-release/td-p/8631090. With Covid-19 and having to work from home, it has become very difficult for many games (not only from EA) to meet original deadlines.