Denuvo for 20 year-old games??
Edit:
No denuvo and EA app https://steamcommunity.com/app/3314060/discussions/0/594013679434946419/
this post was submitted on 31 Jan 2025
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Yup, apparently so.
EA... EA never changes
Why would that matter? Pirate the original if you want. Denuvo barely effects performance. That claim is so over exaggerated.
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.
Both games did get some compatibility fixes but for the most part yeah.
Right?
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!
EA App does work through Wine so that itself isn't a death sentence. Dunno about it mixed with Denuvo though.
I haven't had issues with Denuvo on Linux thus far. It's been a non factor.
Good to know, so these might be playable as well.
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
Nonono, you misunderstand. They want $30 for allowing you to play The Sims 2.
Well, isn't that just great
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?
What about the pizza hut content? 99% of people don't even REMEMBER the pizza hut stuff!
ooh, do you have any details? I don't think I heard about this one.
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?
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
none of those are DLC
That's a fair point. I should've gone with the "packs" wording EA used, I guess.
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.
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.
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.
they used flat ass dialog popups and fucking comic sans for the text
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!