
Furthermore, EA just invested a lot of time and effort into creating a 64-bit version of Sims 3 for macOS, and it wouldn't make any sense to pull the plug on the game so soon afterwards. Packs are bought through Origin (or Steam, or on disc), not the store, and that's also been true for a very long time. I don't know what the store has to do with any of this. You can still buy SimPoints through Origin, which is easily found with a cursory search: There's always a "not interested? buy game X" button below the EA Play There's no obvious indication the Sims 3 Store is shutting down, just that it's not being maintained as well as hoped, which has been true for several years. You can also buy a copy of Sims 3 without an EA Play subscription while Origin advertises the sub much more prominently than the standalone Sims 3 purchase, that's true for very new games too, and typical of any company that offers a subscription service. Disgusting business practices from the most exploitative gaming company in the You can run Sims 3 right off the disc too if your base game disc was manufactured prior to September 2012. Basically anyone who looks at their computer wrong is at risk of not being able to play their own Sims 3 game on their own Origin account. 10,000+ search results for people who are unable to enter their codes, often of games they bought new. They should be absolutely ashamed that their page is filled with thousands of innocent people, many of whom are children, that they have taken advantage of. According to EA you may as well have not bought their product and hey from now on I'll take that advice. Nevermind that it was purchased in cash, played off a disc years before Origin existed.


Then, go to enter the code one day, and lo-and-behold it's 'already redeemed'.Ĭustomer support is absolutely useless, repetitively asking for outdated information like proof of purchase for a game from 12 years ago. But it turns out you can be the original owner of a game, purchased many years ago, ever had only one Origin account, and have never entered the code before. I don't know what I expected from a * company like EA.

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