EA releases another shameless IP flip with Sims 1/2 Legacy

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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.

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The product does work. Wdym? Lots of people got it and are playing it.

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Why would they even add Denuvo to a 30 year old game anyway...

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Money. They released it again because it will give them more money.

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The denuvo note on steam was a mistake, it doesn't have it and the note was removed

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The alternative is the game stays unavailable, people like you will bitch either way.

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Funnily enough, the Sims 2 shipped with SecureROM which really pissed the community off then. A literal root kit which could interfere with legitimate software. I get a desire for anti piracy measures - but the game was offered for free officially for like 5+ years.

I distantly remember a guy who was dying of cancer, but kept up an absolute tirade against EA. There was so much ill will then, it would be funny if they made the same mistake.

The Sims series is itself a story of how fucking shit EA is. Killing Maxis, driving off the original creators… even in Sims 2 days you had the IKEA and H&M expansion packs - ads that you paid for (even if tbh the furniture and clothes are good). Sims 3 had features stripped and added back in expansion packs. Getting all of the expansions is ridiculously expensive and running all of them at the same time will wreck your game. Sims 3 also started putting micro transaction ads into your fucking build/buy mode.

Sims 4 shipped without toddlers and every expansion pack seems to have made the game actively worse. The base game is so bare that it isn’t worth playing, but the expansions and stuff are often released entirely broken, and then never fixed. “Wedding Stories” was so disastrous even the Pollyanna YouTubers were pissed.

And now - folks realizing that there is nothing to be had in the new garbage game, that the Sims 5/Project Renee is never going to come out (or be some kind of mobile shit) - they try an easy cash grab of rereleasing two games with zero improvements and even more broken. When the Sims 2 had been legally available for free for the better part of a decade and you could download and install a Sims 1 iso in less time than I’ve spent writing this comment.

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Thanks for informing me. I heard that through other people on reddit and here as well.

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As a (almost) lifelong TS2 fan, even I would be hard pressed to pay what they're charging.

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They didn't, the listing was wrong and has been updated

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There are a lot of bugs that crash the game. It's barely functional for most. Just look at the Steam reviews.

These games were free before, and with a community patch were still playable. This rerelease somehow got a worse patch than the community patch and costs 40 bucks.

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The games were free for a long time, and a community patch made them work. That was a significantly better deal than having to pony up 40 bucks for an EA patch that's barely functional.

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I distantly remember a guy who was dying of cancer, but kept up an absolute tirade against EA. There was so much ill will then, it would be funny if they made the same mistake.

I don't know if you are talking about Total Biscuit, but you've reminded me of Total Biscuit.

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The alternative would've been putting actual effort into making a legacy collection run on modern systems.

Nobody complained about Star Wars Battlefront until its legacy collection came out and worked like garbage.

Nobody complained about The Sims until its legacy collection came out and... I'm sure you get the idea.

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The Game doesn't even have Denuvo, what are you talking?

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I filter my reviews for over 10 hours on steam

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Was playing Sims 2 last night. Managed to make a family but didn't get far enough to buy a house because the game crashed.

Went to sleep.

Today I'll be scouring the internet for the real reason people play Sims 2. Ya... You know why.

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You lose out on the reviews of people who tap out after a couple hours of constant crashing and bugs.

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But I also lose out on fake reviews like " game" or " ea" which is A LOT of fucking people. I also skip out on "no one will see this so I'm gay" or whatever. People use steam reviews as a social media app now to get likes and awards. It's fucking trash

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EA releases another shameless IP flip with Sims 1/2 Legacy