Digital downloads on Mac?
Incognito:
Would it be completely selfish of me to re-hijack this thread to ask, once again, if there are ANY other solutions? Namely some magical way to convert Sims downloaded games to work on a Mac? Or some sort of fantastic fairy dust I can sprinkle over everything to make the world a better place?
I saw some sort of half assed tutorial on how to convert downloads, but these were games downloaded from Digitalriver or something along those lines, and without being able to install Origin, there's no way I can get the files onto my Macbook in the first place.
unknownlUser:
Quote from: Incognito on 2012 March 29, 20:57:12
purchased a Macbook Pro and I'm looking forward to playing Sims on a capable machine.
Funny that. Made my day!
Skadi:
Arr the games, install onto the mac, realise they run like molasses due to crappy code and not having any sort of mac optimisation, install windows and then use the arred editions to play. Leave origin completely out of it.
Eeyore:
Quote from: Skadi on 2012 March 30, 05:11:44
install onto the mac, realise they run like molasses
I'm afraid you'll find this ^ to be true. I use Boot Camp for games only -- although on an iMac as I'm not a big gamer and don't need my games to travel.
Motoki:
I admit to being utterly ignorant in the way of the Cult of Jobs, but if there's one company I dislike more than Apple it would probably be Electronic Arts so for the shits and grins I searched a bit on this.
If you pull up EA's default Sims 3 page (at least the default for me) it lists versions as "Platform: PC, PC Download, Mac" but if you pull up the Sims 3 page for the Asia region it shows something interesting "Platform: PC Download, PC, Mac Download, Mac".
I wonder if there may be some way to trick EA into thinking you are in another region. I still think Arrring it is way less hassle though. As long as you don't care about all that social network sending your sims on tour with your friends shit, then you aren't really losing anything by Arrring it because you paid for it.
I suppose there is the principle of wanting EA to do right by their customers but I would not hold my breath on that one.
I have had to Arrr shit I legitimately bought from EA before myself, like the time the Dragon Age Origins servers got Alzheimer's and forgot that I owned all the DLC and wouldn't let me load my savegames that were saved with them. It's EA. Shit happens. Assume the worst and do what you have to do to use the software you rightfully own.
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