What The Sims 3 Does Better- Carl's Guide

"Simburian;c-17666131" wrote:
If Sims 3 was given a complete makeover in 64bit, with all modern uses of screen sizes, video cards catered for it could be a great hit again as it had very good ideas, too great to work with 4G memory.

If they ever did that, I know I would never load TS4 up again. And, I think that EA would fear that would happen with a lot of other players too. That the old TS3 players would go back to that game and never buy any more packs for TS4 nor move on to TS5. Keeping it a broken rage inducing laggy mess is a way to force players to abandon it.

If EA was smart tho (which we already know they are NOT) they would actually remaster it, include some things from TS4 that they're so proud of, update it to 64 bits, give it a little facelift with the sims themselves and rebrand it to something like "TS3 Re-Imagined - The Next Generation".

And, I'm pretty positive people are setting themselves up for severe disappointment regarding the 64 bit MAC version update because they think it will also include a 64 bit update to PC. The only reason why they are updating it is because people who have purchased the game and packs who updated their MAC can't play a game they purchased. People on PCs can still run the game, it runs like c-rap for some, but it still runs on windows operating systems.

I know there's been tweets and posts on Reddit showing conversations people have had with EA Customer Service Reps regarding the update and the person said it was coming to both PC and MAC but I'm not sure if that's really the case.

The post from MaxisJoe back in June was on the EA Help Site MAC Technical Forum and he did not state anything regarding the 64 bit update including a PC update.

MaxisJoe

Hey macOS The Sims 3 players!

Just popping in to give my monthly update to you. First is the tl;dr version:

Yes, we're still working on it
Yes, we're adapting to work-from-home. I can't say that this is a core factor in things not going as fast as we'd like, but it sure isn't helping.
Yep, that switch to ARM processors is exciting. Like all macOS developers, we're frantically assessing what this means to us and our games.

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-Mac/the-sims-3-64-bit-amp-metal-release/m-p/9257271#M7664