According to a recent announcement on social media, Electronic Arts is discontinuingThe Sims 4: Legacy Editionnext month. Since 2019, players wishing to runThe Sims 4on older Mac and PC operating systems could only do so via the Legacy Edition, a version of the game designed to run on unsupported OSs with some limitations. According to EA, those players will now have to upgrade their OS or get a new device if they wish to keep playing.Released back in 2014,The Sims 4has been through countless updates, patches, and expansions in its long lifespan. Technical issues, bugs, and incomplete or missing features have plagued the game throughout this time, and even nowThe Sims 4fans are still clamoring for fixesto a number of longstanding problems. In 2019, EA announced that the game would no longer be supported on computers running Non-Metal macOS and 32-bit PC OS.The Sims 4: Legacy Editionwas released at the same time to allow fans with those systems to continue playingThe Sims 4.RELATED:How to Download The Sims 4 for FreeEA announced on Monday that, from December 12th 2022 onwards,The Sims 4: Legacy Editionwill no longer be available. Fans using the Legacy Editionwill need to upgrade their OS or install the game on a new device in order to continue playing, otherwise they will be unable to accessThe Sims 4. Any save files from the Legacy Edition will be still be accessible to players who upgrade their systems, although fan-made custom content andmods forThe Sims 4: Legacy Edition"may not be compatible with the full version of the game," according to EA.
It has not been made clear, in either the announcement on Twitter nor the EA Help article linked in that post, why the Legacy Edition is being discontinued. The EA Help article even includes a section with the heading “Why is this happening?”, but that question went unanswered in that section and the article at large. As the team behindThe Simsseems to bebusy designingThe Sims 5at the moment, it is possible that EA no longer considered supportingThe Sims 4: Legacy Editionto be worth the effort.
This announcement certainly comes as a disappointment to fans using the Legacy Edition to continue enjoyingThe Sims 4on older devices, and many fans responding to the announcement on Twitter expressed confusion and annoyance at the unexplained decision by EA to discontinue the service.Fans ofThe Simsbeing annoyed with EAis hardly a new phenomenon though, and the death of the Legacy Edition is unlikely to be a deal-breaker for diehard Simmers.
The Sims 4is available on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
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