So I was on Discover University's page on Origin and got a pop-up notification that says "Minimum requirements have been updated. Please check below for more details." To my surprise, unlike a few previous expansions, Discover University does not require a 64-bit OS to play it, and it also supports some very old OSs like Windows XP (18 year old) and Windows Vista (12 year old).
I then checked the minimum requirements for a few previously 64-bit only packs like Cats & Dogs. Apparently they also no longer require 64-bit.
Legacy Edition was originally planned for June but was postponed to "later this year." Looks like they're going to continue supporting both 32-bit and 64-bit.
Do you think Legacy Edition is canceled altogether, or is it being delayed to the next year?
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So yeah, I think it's just been delayed for next year.
They wouldn't delay something that would last for 2 years. They probably cancelled, as the effort of releasing the legacy edition can be put on new content or in Sims 5.
just because of pack themes they have lined up being very significant to The Sims series
since we basically got Island, Magic and University theme after that announcement
edit: apparently it was time
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They said in 2018 that there would be content for another 3 years so 2021.
If they do another 2 expansions and 2 game packs next year and announce Sims 5 in like September, then they can have one/two last expansion/game pack in 2021.
Basically the end of Sims 4 could be just over a year away, thats 4-6 more game/expansion packs, what is the point of ending supports for systems now and letting people miss out on some of the best and final packs.
They are being suspiciously quiet about the reason for not ending the support...
Only macOS version need to be updated.
Maybe it's delayed and will be released with TS3 Catalina update in 2020.
@EA_Mai should know the answer.
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The Sims 4 General Discussioni really be surprise to see plumbots back, only this year we get 3 occults. maybe the futuristic theme be more time travel theme, go to the past and the future.
Legacy Edition is indeed coming alongside with the next patch after all.
I'd say they're definitely committed to making more content for TS4 for years to come. Otherwise they wouldn't change the minimum requirements this late in the game's lifespan.
I was really confused as well as I saw that it would require metal.
I wonder if they’re delaying the 32 bit removal though (or cancelling that aspect) because surely if they were releasing Uni for 64 bit only they would have said something about it, so people on 32bit didn’t pre order by mistake.
I reckon they’ll release a Legacy edition for non-Metal macs but keep 32bit players active and just say they may have gameplay issues like they have since C&D.
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There are plenty of reasons. It’s time to move on and upgrade, 32-bit is old and outdated.
I'm not sure if they are enough to influence this choice.
We should get the answer soon, only 2 months left in 2019.
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The Sims 4 General DiscussionThat’s how business works. And most computers made in the last few years are 64bit. So either way you’ll have to upgrade eventually as support is dropped for 32-bit across the board.
Technology has a funny way of advancing as time goes on. Its never stagnant and you cant expect it to. Probably in <10 years 64-bit will be considered obsolete and we'll be moving on to 128-bit or whatever.
Definitely not. 64-bit is overkill for what we need, both now and in the foreseeable future.
2^32 bits = 4 GB
2^64 bits = 17,179,869,184 GB
We moved from 32-bit to 64-bit because 4GB memory simply isn't enough. It will be a long, long, long time before 17 billion GB memory isn't enough.
Yes, it's not in a near future.
40 years ago , the computers had 4 KB of memory, now we need 1,000,000 times more.
Maybe the future AI / androids will need a ton of memory, 17 exabytes won't be enough.
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The Sims 4 General DiscussionKeep in mind that the increase has been slowing down in the last decade or so.
Even if we need more than 17 EB, there is no telling that we could viably make this much memory in a consumer computing device. There’s a physical limitation involved. We’re able to make higher density DRAM chips by shrinking down the process node (the latest memory modules are made on 10-nanometer class processes), but you could only shrink it so small.
"For PC, a 64 bit operation system will now be a requirement. Since Cats & Dogs the requirements do list 64 bit already but in reality it was still possible to play the expansions on 32 bit as well (unsupported). For the upcoming packs this will no longer be the case. If you don’t have a 64 bit operating system, the pack will not run. If you already preordered the pack, I suggest to cancel that or consider an upgrade to 64 bit. All information can be found here: Maxis drops support for 32 bit operating systems and Non-Metal Mac OS machines"