A shame The Sims 3 isn't a Sims game.

[Pancakes11]

Considering they're celebrating The sims franchise as a whole I find it strange that The Sims 3 isn't even mentioned in the birthday celebration page and isn't being updated to run easily on modern hardware. (Windows11 to be specific) The only reason I can think for them not to include Sims 3 in the celebration and not mention it anywhere is because in their eyes The Sims 3 isn't a Sims game.

[Bird]

to be fair, I think they're not including it because it's still being sold well? sims 1 and 2 were no longer digitally available and were their biggest succeses.

[Pancakes11]

Originally posted by Bird:

to be fair, I think they're not including it because it's still being sold well? sims 1 and 2 were no longer digitally available and were their biggest succeses.

I feel like if your game is selling well you'd want to add it to sale page so that the people buying it would have an easier time finding it while looking at all the other Sims games on the sale page. You'd probably want to add the dlc for the sims 3 to boost those sales too.

[LordChaos]

Originally posted by Pancakes11:

Originally posted by Bird:

to be fair, I think they're not including it because it's still being sold well? sims 1 and 2 were no longer digitally available and were their biggest succeses.

I feel like if your game is selling well you'd want to add it to sale page so that the people buying it would have an easier time finding it while looking at all the other Sims games on the sale page. You'd probably want to add the dlc for the sims 3 to boost those sales too.

Its EA we're talking about. If they really cared, we'd have the Sims 1 and 2 collection for only 20 dollars and have a huge discount on the Sims 3 game and DLC. But Sims 3 is still available and still cost around 300 dollars with all its DLCs.

[Pancakes11]

Originally posted by LordChaos:

But Sims 3 is still available and still cost around 300 dollars with all its DLCs.

Still available to buy but doesn't work on Windows 11 without workarounds. My point in starting this thread isn't that Sims 3 is some long forgotten Sims game that isn't available anymore like 1 and 2 have been but that they're treating 3 like it doesn't exist. Like it doesn't have issues that could be patched and fixed like the other sims games have had to get them working on newer systems. Sims 3 shouldn't be forgotten in a celebration of 25 years of Sims.

[LordChaos]

Originally posted by Pancakes11:

Originally posted by LordChaos:

But Sims 3 is still available and still cost around 300 dollars with all its DLCs.

Still available to buy but doesn't work on Windows 11 without workarounds. My point in starting this thread isn't that Sims 3 is some long forgotten Sims game that isn't available anymore like 1 and 2 have been but that they're treating 3 like it doesn't exist. Like it doesn't have issues that could be patched and fixed like the other sims games have had to get them working on newer systems. Sims 3 shouldn't be forgotten in a celebration of 25 years of Sims.

Honestly I have a theory that EA doesnt want anyone to know that Sims 3 has a lot more content than Sims 4 and all of its DLC and "kits" combined, so theyre trying not to bring awareness to it.

[Zalym]

Originally posted by LordChaos:

Honestly I have a theory that EA doesnt want anyone to know that Sims 3 has a lot more content than Sims 4 and all of its DLC and "kits" combined, so theyre trying not to bring awareness to it.

This is the answer. The Sims 4 was bare bones at launch even by EA Sims' "rehash the DLC from scratch instead of starting great and getting better" standards. They've been nickle and diming ever since with painfully poor results.

It is at least 1,380 USD to buy every pack (at full price) for Sims 4.

Or you can (if you don't have Win 11, which will be only a few people very soon) have the Sims 3 with far more meaningful content (and some real gnarly bugs too without outside mods/fixes) at your fingertips for far less, but still egregiously too much, money. They don't want that.

[Rainbow Jeremy]

Originally posted by LordChaos:

Honestly I have a theory that EA doesnt want anyone to know that Sims 3 has a lot more content than Sims 4 and all of its DLC and "kits" combined, so theyre trying not to bring awareness to it.

I would think this but for the fact 2 almost has more content as well and they rereleased that. Although with Sims 3 and the store it's like enough content that buying everything is ~$7000 IIRC. Not that you need 99% of the content to enjoy the game. I just wish they would rerelease 3 with a 64-bit port so that it runs well because it's the best IMO. That free roam mechanic and constant town progress changed everything and 4 just walked it back to how 2 worked and I'd rather play 2 if I'm on that 'ruleset.'

[Darling_Dahlia]

Sims 3 is easily my least favorite Sims game of all time. As of now, only the base game launches, and I have all expansion packs.

[Teknikah]

They did push a patch out for Sims 3 recently to allow it to run on newer systems instead of just instantly CTD.
They didn't do any further fixes but I can at least play it now which is great. I have no other mods installed for it and it doesn't crash very often for me. If it does it's usually when I zoom out into the "world map" so I always try and save before I do this just in case.

I do think this update might have only been on the EA App version of the game though which is a shame... And no update for Sims Medieval which has the exact same issue. That still CTDs if you try and launch it with a modern CPU.

[Foulcher]

Sims 3 is bland like 4
It’s already a game by the fake Maxis

Plus it is crappy, empty and ugly

The two real and only iconic PC Sims are 1 and 2