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Additional notes:

  • Both games have all the DLC (bar the IKEA collection for TS2 from I believe).
  • Both games have the Denuvo DRM for some reason so keep that in mind if you’re worried about it.
    Seems to be a false alarm, EA removed any mention of Denuvo from the store pages.
  • The Sims 1 will still run at its original resolution, but will now scale pixels to make better use of larger monitors while preserving the look and layout of the game.
  • Old save files and mods are compatible with this version of the game (TS for sure according to the help page, I’m not certain about TS2).
  • yeehaw@lemmy.caEnglish
    16·
    5 hours ago

    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.

  • dinckel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    4 hours ago

    No standalone expansions, missing some expansion packs, no visual improvements, no UI scaling, no modern settings, and they want 20 dollars for EACH?

    I’m good

  • LostWanderer@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    12·
    5 hours ago

    Edit: Yes, I could use Lutris to launch EA app and verify this game. I know it’s lazy of me, but these little unnecessary barriers are annoying; I will just save my money and spend it on a game that opts to not use them like EA is wont to do. As the company can’t help itself, as it is trying to emulate the success of Steam but falling on its face.

    Happy The Sims 1 and The Sims 2 remaster day, regardless, as EA listened to The Sims community at least!

    • Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      6 hours ago

      EA App does work through Wine so that itself isn’t a death sentence. Dunno about it mixed with Denuvo though.

        • Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          3·
          5 hours ago

          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.

          • LostWanderer@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
            3·
            4 hours ago

            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 in order 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.worldOPEnglish
              2·
              4 hours ago

              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).

              • LostWanderer@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
                2·
                4 hours ago

                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.

  • Peffse@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    5 hours ago

    I keep seeing “have all DLC” but they seem to be conflating Expansion/Stuff Packs with actual Downloadable Content.

    Does The Sims 1 contain all the Maxis website stuff? Is the downloadable Elle Woods no longer lost media?

    Does the Sims 2 include all the downloadables from The Exchange? The downloads from Sims Store? The downloadable pre-order bonuses? The downloadable Christmas pack?

        • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          3 hours ago

          So you bought a real physical pizza at pizza hut. Printed on every box at the time was a code. You went to pizza huts website, put in the code, and the page allowed you to download a file. When double clicked, the file modified your sims installation.

          So now when you played the sims, before your sim could order a pizza for $40. But now there was another option. “Order the Bigfoot from Pizza Hut.” Which cost $19.99 + sims tax $0.01"

          The sims tax was because in real life the BigFoot was $19.99, and they wanted to advertise this, but the game wasn’t programmed to handle decimals in sims 1 money.

          Then when your pizza was delivered, it had the same properties as the regular pizza to your sims hunger. But the box was a rectangular box, and made to look like the real thing, which was rectagular box with square slices. The pizza delivery guy was wearing a pizza hut uniform.

          And if your sim holds a $40 pizza, the slices are triangle. If they hold a bigfoot pizza slice, they were square.

          And the other difference was the $40 pizza, your driver took like 20 seconds to arrive (which was like 40 minutes in game time). A pizza hut driver showed up instantly (which still meant like 10 minutes in game time).

          Now here’s the coolest part. The Bigfoot pizza was created by pizza huts senior director of marketing. But you know him better by name as Reggie Fils-Aimé.

          I can’t find any evidence that Reggie also was reaponsible for the sims content…but…come on. He created the BigFoot pizza. This content was just marketing for the BigFoot. It’s Reggie. Hkw is this NOT his idea, right?

    • Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      5 hours ago

      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
  • brsrklf@jlai.luEnglish
    1·
    4 hours ago

    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.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      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.

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
    1·
    4 hours ago

    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.

  • SolidShake@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    5 hours ago

    I’ve tried to like these games so much since the first one came out back in the day. I’ve played all of them, multiple times but can never go last one hour. I don’t get it. I should like these games!