EA has done it again. They just released Sims 1 and 2 Legacy Collection on Steam, and it's nothing but a Shameless IP flip. Many players who are really passionate about old games have played Sims 1 and 2 and even Sims 3 on PC on Windows 11, even up to this day. It's a little bit more challenging because they are all on discs and you have to install them and use compatibility settings and all that stuff. But at least they run. The Legacy Collection that they released on Steam Just a Week Ago, it doesn't work. It doesn't launch, crashes constantly, there is no user interface scaling so on Modern computers, nothing gets any larger. I have an ultrawide 34401440 monitor and it is absolutely microscopic....

So you have to ask yourself, why would they release this game again, if they didn't do anything to it? They literally didn't develop anything. They didn't make it work on Windows 11, they didn't up the interface, they didn't provide new graphics. So what is it? It's a Shameless asset flip. EA flexing their intellectual property in hopes that passionate fans will bite and purchase a game that doesn't work

Sad these scams are legal

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[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Has anyone here tried these?

https://github.com/voicemxil/TS-Starter-Pack

https://github.com/voicemxil/TS2-Starter-Pack

[–] DuckWrangler9000@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, I've used both on Windows 11. Unfortunately, does nothing for the User Interface size. But that's exactly what I had to do to get the original games to run before this shameless flip.

[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 1 points 1 day ago

I wonder if the Clean UI mod would help with your issue. Have you tried just adjusting your resolution though? I've heard 720p is the optimal resolution to avoid various bugs