I’m not sure about the sims 1, but my original copies of 2 and 3 work fine for me in wine on linux, so if you’re on windows maybe you would be able to run your copy using boxedwine? Also maybe running the normal version of wine in WSL could work

I mean yeah but why would anyone want to pay more for a new digital copy of a game instead of just buying a used physical copy? I mean I guess maybe if you didn’t have an optical drive, but I bet a usb optical drive and an original copy would be cheaper than the new digital version

Does Windows not run the originals anymore? My original copy of the Sims 2 works perfectly fine in Wine so it’s not like it depends on some weird online service or something

I mean yeah but you don’t need an expensive computer to play games. In the mid 2010s I spent loads of time playing games on my ~$200 something Asus netbook, and more recently I was using an old Dell Precision from 2011 I got for $25 and put a $75 GPU into from like 2018 until 2023.

I guess maybe the difference is that people who don’t buy expensive consoles or computers also don’t buy expensive games. For the most part I don’t buy things unless they have a sale for like under $30, so even though I’ve bought a lot of games I’ve probably paid less total money for games than the average console player.

Huh, I’m kind of surprised that’s a new thing. I would assume way more people own computers than consoles in modern times so you would think that would always mean more sales

I think the current microsoft version of solitaire has microtransactions and ads so is actually significantly worse

It’s so dumb because it would be so easy for them to use a business model people don’t hate since it’s a genuinely good game but they just won’t. If they charged like $20 for the base game and maybe like $5 each for the DLCs I would probably buy the game and a few DLCs, but all the DLCs are so expensive that my options are either play the base game for free or pirate all the DLC for free, so either way EA gets no money out of someone who would otherwise have been a paying customer

Does acer make any good products at this point? Every one I’ve seen has seemed not very nice

Yes, but they have made a lot of progress in that time. I’ve been following it since the final alpha and it’s been coming along very nicely and is genuinely already really close to being usable for me. All it’s missing is good multi monitor support and a little bit better web browser

My favorite is probably Haiku because it has in my opinion the best floating window manager in the world and just overall feels really good to use. Once it develops further I would genuinely consider using it as my main OS on my laptop. I’ll probably always keep a Linux distribution on my desktop for games though.

(Also your explanation for using windows is a little weird. Minecraft Java works just as well on linux as on windows and you can use bedrock edition with mcpelauncher and it works pretty well. I’ve literally never used anything not linux based as my main OS and I haven’t had anything I actually wanted to play not work since like 5 years ago)

I don’t even care about the DLC, I just want slightly less insane DRM. I can’t play the sims 4 right now because of a server outage despite the game already being on my computer. Why do they even need DRM for a free game?

I was talking about them saying “I’d like to see some risc come back onto the market”, I know RISC-V is a different architecture

Arm is a risc architecture. The original acronym was Acorn Risc Machine

Also there are several really good open source games which are obviously microtransaction free. OpenTTD from this list is an example and Osu!lazer and SuperTuxKart also come to mind