EA has done it again. They just released Sims 1 and 2 Legacy Collection on Steam, and it’s nothing but a Shameless IP flip. Many players who are really passionate about old games have played Sims 1 and 2 and even Sims 3 on PC on Windows 11, even up to this day. It’s a little bit more challenging because they are all on discs and you have to install them and use compatibility settings and all that stuff. But at least they run. The Legacy Collection that they released on Steam Just a Week Ago, it doesn’t work. It doesn’t launch, crashes constantly, there is no user interface scaling so on Modern computers, nothing gets any larger. I have an ultrawide 34401440 monitor and it is absolutely microscopic…

So you have to ask yourself, why would they release this game again, if they didn’t do anything to it? They literally didn’t develop anything. They didn’t make it work on Windows 11, they didn’t up the interface, they didn’t provide new graphics. So what is it? It’s a Shameless asset flip. EA flexing their intellectual property in hopes that passionate fans will bite and purchase a game that doesn’t work

Sad these scams are legal

  • andros_rex@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    The release is broken. There are several complaints that folks aren’t even able to get the game to launch. Considering that it isn’t a remaster or remake, just the same game with a copyright update, that’s ridiculous.

    The Sims 2 + all expansions was available for free on Origin for years until it was removed. Most fans already have that version, and most modding guides are going to assume that version. One wonders if the community launcher will even work with the new releases - or mod compatibility. The Sims 1 has been considered abandonware for a while and I imagine most who want to play it already acquired a copy online.

    • SolidShake@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      The issue is probably denuvo related. Or people can’t get it to run because they pirated it not know it has denuvo and are trying to playing off as a bad launch lmao.