April 2020
April 2020
Also, I definitely believe the The Sims team is currently working from home. After all, SimGuruFrost has noted that we should be hearing something very soon about upcoming content for The .... Additionally, it appears that EA is near the end of completing one of the next expansion packs for the Sims 4, so I sincerely doubt things are going to wind down too terribly because of COVID-19. If anything, it might be a hiccup.
Not to mention, I'm seriously thinking about buying up the remaining Stuff Packs I DON'T have for TS3 once TS3 is updated and I'm hunting down a copy of Katy Perry's Sweet Treats to add to my Origin library. In short, this could seriously revitalize their ability to make money off content that pretty much has already been produced. Hell, if it weren't so buggy before Catalina, I'd probably STILL be playing The Sims 3 and I'm super stoked at the notion of being able to play this again.
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Samee @VeroniqueBellamy! Katy Perry's Sweet Treat is a nightmare finding, no luck til' now cause EA revoked it from the market – only physical copies are available.
April 2020
Sims3 Is my favorite sims and I want to be able to play it on my mac but I've learned that its not compatible with Catalina, which really sucks. Im wondering if EA will ever make Sims3 compatible with these devices or if they just don't find it worth it to make it accessible.
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... They already are, @laureng910. Give them some time to do so.
Currently, the technology that EA/Maxis used to make The Sims 3 compatible with Mac in the first place is a porting library called "Cider". EA announced their usage of it back in 2007. However, there are some key problems with this approach. Namely:
Naturally, this will take some time. It's my hope that the end result is a more MacOS-native The Sims 3 experience that will be much more stable than the Sims 3 was back when it was just a Cider port.
April 2020
Wow! Phenomenal and detailed explanation! Thank you for that. If all this is the case, then the delay makes sense. I just downloaded sims4 because I just want to play sims so bad, but just as I remembered when I first played it a couple of years ago...it sucks. The sims3 spoiled me with its open-world concept and I can't except anything less. If for some reason they're unable to make sims3 playable for mac, I really hope they at least plan on making sims5 open-world whenever it comes out in the future. Again, thank you for the info you provided!
April 2020
April 2020
Okay, so an example of a problem I had as a developer that relates to the 64-bit/32-bit question to help people illustrate it. Back in 2014, I was working for this small web dev company and I was responsible for maintaining existing projects. On one, it seemed like they had a problem that was vexing the team. You see, the CAPTCHA on this particularly old-looking website was broken. How it was generated was using a random number generator and then converting it to base64 (which is the numbers 0-9, and capital and lowercase letters of the English library, which two additional characters "/" and "+"). Now, because my company moved the script from one server with one architecture to another, this changed how PHP handled the data type. I fixed it by changing the data type.
A lot of the random stuff that happens in The Sims and across the content packs relies on a lot of data types. Not to mention, there should be some testing to make sure things work, considering this is being billed as one last hoorah for Mac Simmers for a game that has been largely abandoned for The Sims 4. It makes sense that if they're doing this, they may as well want to make sure things work right. Because, if someone reads through any one of the guides BlueBellFlora has written about the various ailments The Sims 3 seems to have with being on Mac, from how difficult it is to do a clean uninstall/install, troubleshooting issues, etc, it would probably scare most non-technically minded people away. Not to mention, the last time I had The Sims 3 installed on my Mac, I couldn't grab any of the stuff I bought on The Sims 3's DLC store.
April 2020
This excites me!!! I miss Sims 3
April 2020
Me too, @Mikala01. Me too.