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Avoid buying sims 4 for Mac or sims 3
Xavi09
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I'm sorry but I have to say this.... I've been a die hard fan sence sims came out. What gets me mad is that the sims creators say that we fans are important to them little do they know a lot of us are mad because we aren't able to play these games probably half simmers are still struggling to play these games and yet they keep coming out with more EPs and SP and let mac users disappointed because we always have errors and all that lagginess etc etc i can go on how crappy it plays on the macs. If they cared about us like they say they do they will make sure that the sims 4 will play on Mac computers with no issue like the pcs. Being for the reason of a "cider" issue we mac users have all these problems being able to successfully play these games. EA doesn't care about us THEY ONLY CARE ABOUT ARE MONEY ! that is probably why more expansion packs keep coming out. Because it all has to do WITH MONEY! ey trick us into thinking just because its for Mac too that it will play fine but it doesn't they just want your money and he rest they don't care. As long as they getting money nothing else matters.
if they decide to have this same issue with macs for sims 4 I'm sorry as much as I love the sims series I'm going have to give up searching for my computer I love macs to much to go back to pcs. when they start giving a s*%# about us mac users then they can get all my money. And people who are buying sims with Mac don't because its not gonna work at all it may work for awhile but it will eventually crash. EA NEEDS TO STOP BEING GREEDY AND START CARING ABOUT US TOO.
PS. AVOID PURCAHSING SIMS 4 IF YOU ARE GONNA USE IT ON YOUR MAC ITS A SHAME HOW EA DON'T CARE ABOUT US MAC USERS. IF YOU BUY IT FOR MAC IF THEY DON'T FIX THIS ISSUE OF A "CIDER" ISSUE DON'T KEEP GIVING ALL THAT MONEY YOU WORKED HARD FOR TO THEM BECAUSE THEY COME OUT WIH ALL THESE EXPANSION PACKS SO IT CAN RUIN YOUR COMPUTER OR MAKE YOU BUY ANOTHHER COMPUTER OR SELL YOU SOMETHING THAT ISN'T FULLY COMPATIBLE IT OLAYS BUT IT LACKS. IM NOT MAKING THST SAME MISTSKE I HAVE TO RETURN A IMAC 27 THST I ORDERED ONLINE BECAUSE I DID MY RESEARCH IM GRTTING MY MONEY BACK AND IM NOT BUYING SIMS 4 UNLESS ITS NOT A FRAUD TO GET MY MONEY!!!!!!!!
PSS. domt waist your money on something that won't work on your Mac its sad really how money is the only thing that is important to them when we are the only reason why the sims is such a huge success. don't waist your time with sims and macs cause its not gonna work hopefully they change there ways for this new one otherwise if not stay away keep your money EA doesn't deserve it.
if they decide to have this same issue with macs for sims 4 I'm sorry as much as I love the sims series I'm going have to give up searching for my computer I love macs to much to go back to pcs. when they start giving a s*%# about us mac users then they can get all my money. And people who are buying sims with Mac don't because its not gonna work at all it may work for awhile but it will eventually crash. EA NEEDS TO STOP BEING GREEDY AND START CARING ABOUT US TOO.
PS. AVOID PURCAHSING SIMS 4 IF YOU ARE GONNA USE IT ON YOUR MAC ITS A SHAME HOW EA DON'T CARE ABOUT US MAC USERS. IF YOU BUY IT FOR MAC IF THEY DON'T FIX THIS ISSUE OF A "CIDER" ISSUE DON'T KEEP GIVING ALL THAT MONEY YOU WORKED HARD FOR TO THEM BECAUSE THEY COME OUT WIH ALL THESE EXPANSION PACKS SO IT CAN RUIN YOUR COMPUTER OR MAKE YOU BUY ANOTHHER COMPUTER OR SELL YOU SOMETHING THAT ISN'T FULLY COMPATIBLE IT OLAYS BUT IT LACKS. IM NOT MAKING THST SAME MISTSKE I HAVE TO RETURN A IMAC 27 THST I ORDERED ONLINE BECAUSE I DID MY RESEARCH IM GRTTING MY MONEY BACK AND IM NOT BUYING SIMS 4 UNLESS ITS NOT A FRAUD TO GET MY MONEY!!!!!!!!
PSS. domt waist your money on something that won't work on your Mac its sad really how money is the only thing that is important to them when we are the only reason why the sims is such a huge success. don't waist your time with sims and macs cause its not gonna work hopefully they change there ways for this new one otherwise if not stay away keep your money EA doesn't deserve it.
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The Sims 3 was the first version of the game which EA made for Mac too. This game seems to have given a lot of problems on Windows computers too. (In my opinion EA was too ambitious when they included the huge open neighborhood with simultaneous aging everywhere.) So I am not convinced that it didn't work as well on Mac as it did under Windows.
Anyway a lot of Mac owners use Boot Camp to be able to run Windows games too.
To the OP, I can't comment on sims 4 as we haven't got any information on it. But for sims 3 I would suggest running Windows 7 via bootcamp. It works so much better then.
Anyway it is difficult for EA to solve all such compatibility problems.
If u DNT like the same subject on new threads why bother comment on it? I'm just trying to figure out what to do u don't have to be rude!
There won't be no way of telling until they tell us but I'm not going to get my hopes up I'm just returning my computer and I'm just going to have to be patient. I do hope the sims 4 is 100% good with macs u are right macs are popular now but the thing is I don't think EA cares.
EA makes games for platforms where they sell well. Before the Sims 3 EA didn't want to make them for Mac at all and let Aspyr make them instead if Aspyr wanted to. But with Cider it probably became too easy for EA to make them too and the Mac had become a little more popular than earlier. So EA decided to make the Mac versions of Sims 3 and its expansions themselves. The same is the case with the Sims 4.
Still people usually don't choose Mac if games are their main interest. (Mac is usually chosen by people working with graphics or who are just big Apple fans because they like the iPhone, the iPod and/or the iPad.) So even though Apple has attempted to promote the Mac as a gaming computer too it has been hard for the game companies to sell enough copies of Mac games to make a profit.
Nearly all Mac games are still ported from Windows which makes it unattractive to buy a Mac for gaming. Sure you can play Windows games too through Boot Camp. But why should we buy a Mac computer just to play Windows games?
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What your saying may be true tht it may work fine with the macs the sims 4 but that wont come out till next year and I need a computer. but we all don't know anything about the sims 4 all we know is that the sims 4 creators said they are trying to get he ts4 to work for everyone so maybe they working on it for the macs too I do hope so but I can't keep this computer and risk the chance of it releasing and find out its not gonna work. Like I've told u a few times already I only have 15 days to return it back. and risking to keep it just to find out if it is likely to be compatible with macs with no issues is the most stupid thing anybody can do.we probably won't even know even when they reveal it at gamescom. Or will they? Idk but it sure will have many of us mac users minds In peace if we knew sooner. But anyways I would consider using boot camp on my imac but I'm so afraid of breaking the imac and I end up loosing all that money I spent
"Repeatedly through the history of the Macintosh, Apple have attempted to market the platform for gaming.
In April 1999, Steve Jobs gave an interview with the UK-based Arcade magazine to promote the PowerPC G3-based computers Apple were selling with then new ATI Rage 128 graphics cards, and describing how Apple was "trying to build the best gaming platform in the world so developers are attracted to write for it" and "trying to leapfrog the PC industry".[4]"
But the problem has always been that Mac only had about 10% of the market and that only relatively few Mac owners had any interest in buying big expensive games. So Apple's attempts to promote the Mac as a gaming computer have always failed. (Apple is still trying though.)
The minimum specs for Sims 3 on Mac seem to have been released in the beginning of June 2009 just before the game also was released according to http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-Sims-3-Requirements-for-Apple-Fans-113280.shtml
I don't think that EA actually knows the minimum specs yet because they have not even started testing the game on other types of hardware than their own.
Thank you for that info it kind of helped me decide what to do. I think I want to keep it the imac ill bring the desktop to best buy geek squad so they can install boot camp and windows what ever on it...I know it will be pricey but....ima invest 200 now
All of the Intel Mac's come preloaded with bootcamp, all you need is a copy of whatever Windows OS you are going to install and the bootcamp tool lets you split up your hard drive storage space.
I'm sorry but no. Just no. Apple should not have to create something to keep Mac users satisfied. EA should.
I can't speak for myself, because my Mac has been performing wonderfully with Sims (Jinx me now), but it does seem like Mac users have a horrible time with TS3. And if the Sims 4 creates problems, EA has made a horrible marketing mistake.
I hope that they've realized the trouble so many Mac users have. Because they can't go down the Cider road again. I don't care if it takes longer as long as it means Sims 4 will run exactly like it will on Windows. (unless it would run better then Windows.
And, yeah. Sims 4 needs to be playable on Mac.
"TransGaming Technologies has developed a product called Cider which is a popular method among publishers to port games to Mac[citation needed]. Cider's engine enables publishers and developers to target Mac OS X. It shares much of the same core technology as TransGaming's Linux Portability Engine, Cedega. Public reception of games ported with Cider is mixed, due to inconsistency of performance between titles; because of this, “Ciderized” games are neither seen as the work of cross-platform development, nor as native, optimized ports. Electronic Arts announced their return to the Mac, publishing various titles simultaneously on both Windows and Mac, using Cider.[8]"
Without Cider EA would probably not have made the Sims 3 for Mac at all but instead let Aspyr make the ports to Mac as they did with the Sims 2 and its EPs.
It's not that hard -- all they have to do is have a Mac native version. They did that for SimCity when they found that the Cider emulator couldn't handle it.
For Sims 1 and Sims 2, they contracted with another game company, Aspyr, to code the game for Macs. We had to wait an extra 6 months before we got the EPs, and we never got the last two (FreeTime and Apartment Life) and most of the stuff packs, but the games were playable and enjoyable. But EA decided they didn't want to have to share the profits with anyone, and figured with Cider they didn't have to.
I'm not likely to get Sims 4 if there's not a Mac native version -- I had so many issues with Sims 3 on the Mac side that I installed a Windows partition with Boot Camp on my new iMac, and my Sims games run like a dream. I'd rather not have to keep booting into Windows though just to play a game.
Fun must be always -- Tomas Hertl (San Jose Sharks hockey player)
I thought you meant the year, but I guess you were talking about the price. Depends how old it is -- I have Windows 7 on the iMac I got last year (my old one died the day before Pets came out, oddly enough). You might want to check the Apple website and make sure Boot Camp supports Windows 8, or if it only goes up to Win7. (I've heard some players reporting issues with Sims 3 and Win8 as well.)
Here's the best resource for Boot Camp questions:
http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/
And Bluebell Flora has a great tutorial on the forums: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/579888.page#9340628
Fun must be always -- Tomas Hertl (San Jose Sharks hockey player)