Summary
The Sims Legacy Collectionis still suffering from crashing problems and technical issues after EA released the game’s latest update on February 20. Although some major problems have been fixed,The Sims Legacy Collectionappears to be far from the idealSimsgame that some fans hoped for.
Simsfans were very excited when EA announced thatThe SimsandThe Sims 2would be released again asThe Sims Legacy CollectionandThe Sims 2 Legacy Collection, which include the base games and their respective DLC content. The community’s response aftertheSims Legacy Collectiongames were releasedwas not as enthusiastic, however. Many players were reporting issues on Steam, including game crashes, corrupted saves, visual glitches, and progression bugs to name a few. Multiple updates were released after the game’s launch on January 31, but there still seem to be plenty of issues that have gone unaddressed.
Following the release of the game’s fourth update, fans went to theSteam forum postcontaining the patch notes and voiced their frustrations aboutThe Sims Legacy Collection’spersistent issues. Some players are still unable to load DLC, and the 16:9 aspect ratio doesn’t appear to work in certain instances. In addition, some players are reporting UI scaling issues in 1080p, which greatly affects legibility for in-game text. Although fans are happy that some crashing issues were fixed, others are experiencing strange issues after loading into the game, including whole neighborhoods being empty without houses.
The Sims Legacy Collection is Still Broken for Players After the February 20 Update
Overall,reception surroundingThe Sims Legacy Collectioncontinues to be mixed after the game’s latest update, with many fans making their opinions known about what has or has not been fixed on the Steam forum. According to the patch notes, EA is aware that there are issues that are currently being investigated, so it’s likely that more updates and bug fixes will arrive in the near future. There’s no guarantee that every issue will be fixed immediately, and EA encourages players to continue leaving feedback in the Steam forum and officialSimsforum.
The Sims Legacy CollectionandThe Sims 2 Legacy Collectionare available on Steam for $19.99 and $29.99 respectively. Although ports and remasters have been released around these price points, the bugs and issues involving bothSims Legacy Collectiontitles have encouraged heavy scrutiny of the price. Some fans in the forums would like EA to put more effort into ensuring futureSimsreleases, such asa potentialThe Sims 3 Legacy Collection, are up to par with what fans expect from remasters.
The Sims
Created by Will Wright and Maxis, and published by EA, The Sims is a long-running series of life simulation games with sandbox gameplay. Players create Sims and control every aspect of their lives, from the houses they live in to the jobs they work.
