The Sims And Sims 2 Legacy Editions Are Full Of Bugs, According To Players

The Sims franchise is popping 25 this yr, and EA has re-released each The Sims and The Sims 2 as part of the celebration. Legacy editions of each video games (and all their DLC packs) had been launched final week.

A extra accessible option to play the video games that fashioned the inspiration of The Sims franchise is one thing players have wanted for a long time. However sadly, neither re-released sport seems to be operating significantly effectively, and gamers are operating into bugs and different points.

Early iterations of The Sims had been rather a lot different–and arguably, much more challenging–than the fashionable Sims 4 expertise, however the points gamers are operating into with the re-releases have much less to do with gameplay variations and extra to do with bugs EA clearly didn’t intend to be part of the expertise. Issues vary from graphics points to the sport not loading in any way. The Sims subreddit and its official boards are overflowing with posts and comments about problems gamers are encountering with The Sims Legacy Version and The Sims 2 Legacy Version. One participant even famous they could not get a refund on Steam because their Sims 4 playtime had been added to their Legacy Edition playtime, making the Legacy Version unable to be refunded.

In response to the outcry, EA has released a statement addressing the issues gamers are going through.

“Sul Sul, Simmers!” a neighborhood supervisor wrote on the official Sims forum. “We acknowledge some followers are at present experiencing varied points with The Sims: Legacy Assortment and The Sims 2: Legacy Assortment. We’re at present investigating these points and hope to have extra info on fixes quickly.”

The neighborhood supervisor added that gamers reporting bugs ought to embrace screenshots, video footage, dxdiags, and vulkaninfo.exe files (for The Sims 1) if doable, as that may help EA in resolving the assorted points with each video games.