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So I have a cancerous arrow story, the true story of my EA adventures.

>Use to be able to play sims 3 on a older macintosh computer
>Macintosh gaming hue hue hue
>Some time passes and computers change.
>As Macs become newer, older games cannot be played because of compatibility problems
>Have Mother's old-new shit computer
>Get Steam and Mac Game Store
>"Oh look, Sims 3 is being sold on the Mac Game store."
>"And it is compatible! Yes."
>Go to play Sims 3
>Error
>"Okay, I'll uninstall and reinstall it."
>Takes 3 long grueling hours
>"Yes, now I can play--"
>Error
>Deep sigh and contact EA customer support.
>Oh boi.
>First guy is nice and all and tells me to do a 'Manuel uninstall' and do so.
>Another 3 hours and the game no longer errors.
>"Yes! Now to wait for this Black screen to turn into a the logo and for the game to load and then I can play my Sims 3."
>45 minutes pass, the game had no loaded. Fucking games.
>Tell guy, he is confused too and I have to DL it through Origin for another attempt.
>Another 3 hours, takes all night. I've spent a entire day Downloading Sims 3.
>Same Black Screen crash.
>During that time, he disconnected and reconnected to someone else.
>Pissed off and tell them good night and go to sleep.
>I awake next morning for EA Customer Support 3: Electric Bangaloo
>New guy, tell him my problem, and he tells me to go to system preferences and turn off some stuff.
>"Once you restart your computer, then uninstall and reinstall the game and see if it works."
>"Kay."
>Trust Ea
>I have been bamboozled
>Nothing happens, contact again. Decide to do some research.
>Sims 3 works through something called Cider which doesn't no longer work well with Macs, and EA is far to busy to bother fixing their game for Mac users. I assume it's my hybrid CD rom which is problematic.
>"Well, since there are positive reviews this will surely mean that the downloadable version of this game will work for my Macintosh, surely."
>Contact EA, nice guy gives me discount.
>Buy Sims 3
>I am not a clever man.
>"I have downloaded this game over 6 times. Surely this will work, for EA---"
>Same crash.
>I am a broken man.
>Go to EA demanding they give me my money back
>"Sims 3 works on macs C:"
>"Then why is it not working on my computer."
>EA doesn't want to fix their problematic shit so they give me my 18 dollars back.
>I have done the impossible.
>I got a refund from EA Games.
>I have beaten all vidya games.

i don understan,
why buy a download version if you already downloaded the thing via origin

Macintosh Game History times.

Macintosh games that were made before DLing them became more common, most games came in the form of a hybrid type called WIN-MAC. These games were specially made to not only be played on Macintosh but also could be made to play on windows as well, a kind of a hybrid type which could allow Mac users like myself to play the games. . .since game companies didn't often make Mac-only games often.

Most of the CDs became obsolete for two reasons;
1) Mac software updates, but games do not.
2) Many don't want to take the time or energy to make games for a gaming minority.

While we Mac Users do have Bootcamp, my CD I thought was obsolete and that is why I bought to DL version.

Origin, like Steam, allows me to add games to a library which are not bought on it. Since I had already a Sims 3, I added it to my Origin Library. When that didn't work, I thought buying their Downloaded version would work since you know. . .they are selling the game to Mac users.

I was wrong.

So Very wrong.

Apparently its just the same game using Cider shit, which makes the game crash anyway when playing on a Mac.

Do you understand you have avoided all this calvary if you have used a windows computer in first place?

Since macs stopped using PowerPc architecture, turned out to be just regular pc's with OSX and a fancy apple logo on them.

I work with the tools passed down to me by my parents.

I quite literally get their older and better Macs when christmas comes around when they get new computers for themselves.

. . . .

. . . .

I miss my PowerPC.