{"id":71547,"date":"2014-08-25T18:00:27","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=71547"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:31:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:31:26","slug":"sim-city-4-deluxe-edition-on-origin-is-unpatchable-and-incompatible-with-popular-mods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/sim-city-4-deluxe-edition-on-origin-is-unpatchable-and-incompatible-with-popular-mods\/","title":{"rendered":"Sim City 4 Deluxe edition on Origin is unpatchable and incompatible with popular mods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you buy <a href=\"http:\/\/simcity-4-deluxe.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sim City 4 Deluxe Edition<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/ea-origin.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Origin<\/a>\u2013\u00a0one of a number of digital stores selling the game\u2013 you will get a version which is apparently <strong>un-patchable<\/strong>, and incompatible with mods. Sim City 4 Deluxe Edition is over a decade old, but remains popular and has an active community of players.<\/p>\n<p>Modder <strong>TarkusSC4<\/strong> has written about the problem, and explains how the Origin version of the game is 1.1.610. Due to differences in this version, compared to the later version (1.1.641) sold by other vendors like <a href=\"http:\/\/steam.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steam<\/a> and GamersGate, it cannot be patched and will not work with popular mods like the &#8216;Network Addon Mod&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>This means that as well as being locked out of lots of community made add-ons and mods, the Origin version <strong>cannot even be updated with patches<\/strong> that developer Maxis itself released, including basic fixes to the game.<\/p>\n<p>According to comments on Reddit, Origin was selling a more current version of the game at least up until a year ago, and it&#8217;s not clear why that has changed.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a title=\"Reddit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Games\/comments\/2ehzvs\/origin_is_selling_an_unpatched_and_unpatchable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reddit<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"The Sims 4 will avoid controversial 'real life tragedies'\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/the-sims-4-will-avoid-controversial-real-life-tragedies\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Sims 4 will avoid controversial &#8216;real life tragedies&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"SimCity offline mode finally ready\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/simcity-offline-mode-finally-ready\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SimCity offline mode finally ready<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Citybound could be the SimCity you always wanted\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/citybound-could-be-the-simcity-you-always-wanted\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Citybound could be the SimCity you always wanted<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The best PC games for... playing with the family\" href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/the-best-pc-games-for-family\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The best PC games for&#8230; playing with the family<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>Follow Jonathan on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonathanriggall\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@jonathanriggall<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you buy Sim City 4 Deluxe Edition from Origin\u2013\u00a0one of a number of digital stores selling the game\u2013 you will get a version which is apparently un-patchable, and incompatible with mods. Sim City 4 Deluxe Edition is over a decade old, but remains popular and has an active community of players. Modder TarkusSC4 has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/sim-city-4-deluxe-edition-on-origin-is-unpatchable-and-incompatible-with-popular-mods\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sim City 4 Deluxe edition on Origin is unpatchable and incompatible with popular mods&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-71547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330289,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71547\/revisions\/330289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71547"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=71547"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=71547"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=71547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}