This review is from: The Sims 3 [Mac Download] (Software Download)
I have never reviewed an item on Amazon, but my experience was so different from the other two listed here that I had to put in my two cents. I’ve wanted the Sims 3 since it came out, but my old Mac’s video card wasn’t up to the job. As soon as my new Macbook Pro was up and running, I went looking for a copy I could download. Since these reviews scared me off Amazon a bit, I tried another site first, but it just sent me in circles and I never got the game. Finally, I decided that Amazon was my only choice for immediate download, and decided to risk it. And you know what? It worked perfectly. Absolutely perfectly. A 5GB game downloaded in 1.5 hours, it installed flawlessly, and I’ve been playing it ever since, like the good little Sims addict I am. FYI, I’m on a Macbook Pro, 2.3 GHz, 4GB of memory and an Intel 3000 video card.
As for the game itself, I find it a great jump up from Sims 2, though it’s very similar. This one has fewer loading screens and the world is definitely a bit more detailed. I’m trying to resist buying all the expansion packs right away, but I somehow doubt I’ll succeed.
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This review is from: The Sims 3 [Mac Download] (Software Download)
I downloaded Sims 3.
It was my 1st time buying a game online off amazon to download.
I downloaded it and then it asked me for the CD-key/Activation Key.
I was not given it in an email so I was searching around my emails from amazon. Amazon should have given instructions to you on where to locate it at first.
I did manage to find the Activ./Key which would be in your account under your purchases for recent things or whatever and the cd-key will be in the description of your purchase history.
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This review is from: The Sims 3 [Mac Download] (Software Download)
The Sims 3 is exactly what I expected it to be, a childish but fun game involving an open world scenario where there is only an end goal if you want one. Graphics are fairly good for an older stylized game and the music is definitely better than expected.
There has been a lot of concern with this particular Mac download version of the game from Amazon, so I documented my experience below to hopefully give others a baseline to compare too.
INSTALL EXPERIENCE
Specs on my machine: — MacBook Pro 15-inch, Mid 2010
Downloaded The Sims 3 for MAC from Amazon on September 6th, 2011. Download took about 1 hour and 30 minutes to complete.
The entire install process went through without a problem, the Amazon game downloading software unpackaged the .DMG automatically and all I had to do was double click the install icon.
Once I had entered my license number it then took about 1 minute to install the game. I then launched it from my Applications folder.
It started immediately and asked if I wanted to download the update that was released on September 1st, 2011: [...] which I did and the update download took about 10 minutes and it installed in another 5 minutes.
The game started itself and asked if I wanted to download and install another update, which I did. Downloaded in 20 seconds and installed in 30 seconds.
Finally the I was able to launch the game and it works spectacularly on my machine.
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Worked great,
I have never reviewed an item on Amazon, but my experience was so different from the other two listed here that I had to put in my two cents. I’ve wanted the Sims 3 since it came out, but my old Mac’s video card wasn’t up to the job. As soon as my new Macbook Pro was up and running, I went looking for a copy I could download. Since these reviews scared me off Amazon a bit, I tried another site first, but it just sent me in circles and I never got the game. Finally, I decided that Amazon was my only choice for immediate download, and decided to risk it. And you know what? It worked perfectly. Absolutely perfectly. A 5GB game downloaded in 1.5 hours, it installed flawlessly, and I’ve been playing it ever since, like the good little Sims addict I am. FYI, I’m on a Macbook Pro, 2.3 GHz, 4GB of memory and an Intel 3000 video card.
As for the game itself, I find it a great jump up from Sims 2, though it’s very similar. This one has fewer loading screens and the world is definitely a bit more detailed. I’m trying to resist buying all the expansion packs right away, but I somehow doubt I’ll succeed.
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|Downloaded easy – CD Key was slight problem,
I downloaded Sims 3.
It was my 1st time buying a game online off amazon to download.
I downloaded it and then it asked me for the CD-key/Activation Key.
I was not given it in an email so I was searching around my emails from amazon. Amazon should have given instructions to you on where to locate it at first.
I did manage to find the Activ./Key which would be in your account under your purchases for recent things or whatever and the cd-key will be in the description of your purchase history.
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|Exactly what I expected, and that’s fine by me.,
The Sims 3 is exactly what I expected it to be, a childish but fun game involving an open world scenario where there is only an end goal if you want one. Graphics are fairly good for an older stylized game and the music is definitely better than expected.
There has been a lot of concern with this particular Mac download version of the game from Amazon, so I documented my experience below to hopefully give others a baseline to compare too.
INSTALL EXPERIENCE
Specs on my machine:
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MacBook Pro
15-inch, Mid 2010
2.8 GHz Intel Core i7
8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 512 MB
160 GB Intel SSD
Mac OS X Lion 10.7.1
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Downloaded The Sims 3 for MAC from Amazon on September 6th, 2011. Download took about 1 hour and 30 minutes to complete.
The entire install process went through without a problem, the Amazon game downloading software unpackaged the .DMG automatically and all I had to do was double click the install icon.
Once I had entered my license number it then took about 1 minute to install the game. I then launched it from my Applications folder.
It started immediately and asked if I wanted to download the update that was released on September 1st, 2011: [...] which I did and the update download took about 10 minutes and it installed in another 5 minutes.
The game started itself and asked if I wanted to download and install another update, which I did. Downloaded in 20 seconds and installed in 30 seconds.
Finally the I was able to launch the game and it works spectacularly on my machine.
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