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The game is a classic, but quality is an ongoing issue.

The steam game has not been patched to work with newer CPUs and needs a work around.

Note the "online disclaimer." There is additional content that is only available if you link your online account with your key. I've never actually been able to do that - my keys are supposedly already registered to another account and online support was no help.

Since coming back to the game, I find the load time is greatly improved on a newer computer - when I originally played it took about 30 mins to load.

There are lots of items and worlds that are purchasable by microtransactions. Some might find the advertisements intrusive. Thankfully, there are mods that have equivalent content.

The DLC seems to contain more content than in the sims 4 e.g. supernatural includes multiple occult types instead of being spread out amongst multiple packs. I quite enjoyed into the future.

I've played this game for years, and have finally given up on it. The game won't run without constant lag and interruptions. I've tried mods to help with function, played without townies, disabled memories, everything I can think of to lower load time, and all it did was break immersion. I tried to move to Sims 4, but I don't want to put hundreds of dollars into another game for features that should already be included! Literally thousands of hours and I wish I hadn't wasted my time and money. Don't buy this game, or any others in this franchise.