Hi everyone. Do you know how to get some visibility for this petition that proposes remaking The Sims 3 in 64-bit?

https://chng.it/dnqgvYwRqG

Sorry, no.

To be honest, I'd rather EA kept their fingers from Sims3. Judging from what they did with the TS1 and TS2 Legacy editions, that would be a good thing.

Why what happened? I'm not informed

Check out this thread.

https://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=689408

And the report on stealing a modder's work who fixed the shadows issue.

https://modthesims.info/showthread....599#post5987599

I wouldn't want anything that is a download. I'm all disk, and cut strings to EA. If they put out disks, at a reasonable price (insert EA execs laughing hysterically), I'd think about it.

Yeah, I own The Sims 3 on retail and I highly doubt EA's gonna release something like the Super Patch for people using the retail version—I think what they'd instead do is tell us to register our retail copies of the base game and expansions to the EA App and use the EA App versions. I mean, they already have not done so with the fix for Alder Lake processors. We still have to use LazyDuchess' fix for the retail version.
What I care more for honestly is just how poorly optimized the game is. I have found things like queries for the role manager introduced in the Showtime update running every tick. The camera is also controlled on the script side and not the engine side, which is why it gets stuck even when we can see things like the Plumbob, fires, and water still animated.

I think our best hope for a well-optimized, 64-bit version of The Sims 3 is for the community to make a source port of it, which is basically an open source rewrite of the game that still requires the original game's assets (meaning each user still has to own the game). There already are projects of that type for The Sims 1 (Simitone) and The Sims 2 (OpenTS2).

Keep on keeping on and dreaming the dream. EA revesting TS3 isn't going to happen unless there is enough financial incentive for them to repackage it and sell it again for 80+ USD.

Unfortunately, i don't know how to do that, or else i would have started an iniciative on recreating the engine and making it open source.

In addition to all of the excellent points above, the game being in 64-bit is just not the cure-all some players believe it would be.
Allowing the game to run rampant with memory would introduce as many problems as it would solve without a serious rewrite of the core - which we already know EA don't care to do, because we already have 64 bit TS3 on Mac and it's the most broken version of the game available.