The Sims & The Sims 2 Legacy Collections - Official Reveal Trailer

[cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca]

So if I'm reading these right, these are the same as downloading from an abandoned website but they've added drm? Uhhh I'll pass.

[lostwanderer@lemmynsfw.com]

It just seems like an unnecessary headache, configuring Wine tends to be a mixed bag situation, at times it simply works and other times not so much. I don't know if I want to pay EA for the privilege to develop a headache because Wine is being precocious and annoying. Honestly, the Denuvo implementation killed my interest fast, I don't buy games with that anti-tamper software embedded in it, unless it can be turned off like in Steam's Easy Anti-Cheat. Thank you for the suggestion!

[zerohora@lemmy.ml]

EA... EA never changes

[essence_of_meh@lemmy.world]

I wasn't trying to imply anything else to be clear, just wanted to mention that their app on its own doesn't mean it won't work. I completely agree otherwise.

[essence_of_meh@lemmy.world]

Both games did get some compatibility fixes but for the most part yeah.

[lost_my_mind@lemmy.world]

What about the pizza hut content? 99% of people don't even REMEMBER the pizza hut stuff!

[skullgrid@lemmy.world]

they used flat ass dialog popups and fucking comic sans for the text

[essence_of_meh@lemmy.world]

Here's what EA has to say about this.

The Sims:

• The Sims Livin’ Large
• The Sims House Party
• The Sims Hot Date
• The Sims Vacation
• The Sims Unleashed
• The Sims Superstar
• The Sims Makin’ Magic

The Sims 2:

• The Sims 2: University
• The Sims 2: Nightlife
• The Sims 2: Open for Business
• The Sims 2: Pets
• The Sims 2: Bon Voyage
• The Sims 2: Seasons
• The Sims 2: FreeTime
• The Sims 2: Apartment Life
• The Sims 2: Holiday Party Pack
• The Sims 2: Family Fun Stuff
• The Sims 2: Glamour Life Stuff
• The Sims 2: Happy Holiday Stuff
• The Sims 2: Celebration! Stuff
• The Sims 2: H&M Fashion Stuff
• The Sims 2: Teen Style Stuff
• The Sims 2: Kitchen & Bath Interior Design Stuff
• The Sims 2: Mansion & Garden Stuff

[mr_madafaka@lemmy.ml]

you might want to update this page
https://steamcommunity.com/app/3314060/discussions/0/594013679434946419/

[lostwanderer@lemmynsfw.com]

You're fine, I was just stating my own opinion. As it's true, if I didn't have such an intolerance to certain barriers to entry...I could get this game to work easily. As weirdly enough, I will spend more than 10 minutes looking for obscure repositories to add to my distro to make something work (like Vintage Story, I needed an older Fedora 39 repo of .NET 7 to make the game run) even if a Flatpak exists. ROFL

I'm just a silly sausage, I took zero offense...If anything, my initial comment was too speedy and needed more consideration before posting it!

[essence_of_meh@lemmy.world]

It's all good, I didn't take your reply as a negative. It would be awesome if we could play anything with zero issues but we can't always be this lucky I'm afraid (though I'm all for heckling big corps about DRM).

[dinckelman@lemmy.world]

No standalone expansions, missing some expansion packs, no visual improvements, no UI scaling, no modern settings, has mandatory EA App and Denuvo integration, and they want 20 dollars for EACH?

I'm good

[peffse@lemmy.world]

none of those are DLC

[peffse@lemmy.world]

Nonono, you misunderstand. They want $30 for allowing you to play The Sims 2.

[lostwanderer@lemmynsfw.com]

As long as we consistently don't buy their intentionally compromised products...It's been shown that companies will relent. Like Sony did recently with their PSN requirements for certain games, as the hostile feedback was hurting sales. I will continue to heckle those big corps myself, until they kowtow! It's a boss battle, but they only have so much HP, Chip Damage is a successful strategy.

[essence_of_meh@lemmy.world]

That's a fair point. I should've gone with the "packs" wording EA used, I guess.

[peffse@lemmy.world]

ooh, do you have any details? I don't think I heard about this one.

[jackbydev@programming.dev]

As a casual sims enjoyer, it genuinely does feel like they're salty people liked Sims 3 more than Sims 4 and won't release an "everything" version of it.

[brsrklf@jlai.lu]

I still have the Sims 2 Ultimate Collection from the time they ended up giving it to everyone who'd claim it for a few days.

They haven't removed it from the app... yet. Not taking any chances, I'm re-downloading it on my current PC right now.

[essence_of_meh@lemmy.world]

I don't think they'll remove the Ultimate Collection from people's libraries. The main incentive to buy is... well, the ability to buy the games and the improved compatibility with modern systems - UC doesn't really affect the main demographic, i.e. people who aren't interested or knowledgeable enough to fix those issues on their own.