The Sims is celebrating its 25th anniversary, but rereleases of the popular Sims titles have been met with mixed reviews and heavy criticism due to a lack of changes and bugs.
Released on Jan. 31 to coincide with the 25th anniversary of The Sims franchise, The Sims and The Sims 2 Legacy packs, which released on the EA App and Steam, have been struck with negative reviews and criticism across social media.
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Bugs Spoil Sims 25th Anniversary Rereleases
The most common bugs from Sims players appears to be crashes related to launching the game and resolution issues – for one The Sims, a now 25 year old game, doesn’t have support for modern resolutions. The Sims 2 is a similar case, causing issues for both players with multiple monitors and modern graphics cards.
Beyond this, there are graphical errors such as highly pixilated textures, bad lighting, lighting errors, and other game-breaking bugs.
The culprit appears to be simple – These are 100% rereleases of the original, rather than remakes or remasters. EA appears to have just repacked the games (with a 25th Anniversary bumper on the front) and sent them out.
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Even the long loading times (something we remember from the original Sims 2 when you had a of the expansions) have managed to be ported over, despite the games often being installed on SSDs with modern hardware.
Ironically, for dedicated Sims 1 & 2 players who have stuck with these version for years, mods and bug fixes have kept them playing. But with a modern rerelease, many expected more updated resolutions.
Beyond this, there’s some missing packs (in particular the IKEA pack from Sims 2) likely due to licencing issues.
All in all it’s a poor showing for a beloved franchise – but EA states that help is on the way. In a post on the A forums, the publisher promised updates to help with the issues – but offered no fixes for the bugs.
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