{"id":1215195,"date":"2025-02-07T18:02:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T23:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1215195"},"modified":"2025-02-07T18:02:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T23:02:43","slug":"the-sims-re-release-shows-whats-wrong-with-big-publishers-and-single-player-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1215195","title":{"rendered":"The Sims re-release shows what\u2019s wrong with big publishers and single-player games"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>It&#8217;s the year 2000 all over again, because I&#8217;ve just spent the past week playing <em>The Sims<\/em>, a game that could have had a resurgent zeitgeist moment if only EA, the infamous game publisher, had put enough effort in.<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, EA re-released two of its most legendary games: <em>The Sims<\/em> and <em>The Sims 2<\/em>. Dubbed the &#8220;The Legacy Collection,&#8221; these could not even be called remasters. EA just put the original games on Steam with some minor patches to make them a little more likely to work on some modern machines.<\/p>\n<p>The emphasis of that sentence should be on the word &#8220;some.&#8221; Forums and Reddit threads were flooded with players saying the game either wouldn&#8217;t launch at all, crashed shortly after launch, or had debilitating graphical issues. (Patches have been happening, but there&#8217;s work to be done yet.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2025\/02\/the-sims-re-release-shows-whats-wrong-with-big-publishers-and-single-player-games\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2025\/02\/the-sims-re-release-shows-whats-wrong-with-big-publishers-and-single-player-games\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the year 2000 all over again, because I&#8217;ve just spent the past week playing The Sims, a game that could have had a resurgent zeitgeist moment if only EA, the infamous game publisher, had put enough effort in. A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1215195\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1215195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1215195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1215195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1215195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1215195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}