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Anonymous
13 years ago
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Ok, so can't play Supernatural without a disc.

So I bought Supernatural back in October, installed it on my computer and I did it with the disc. I played it fine for a couple of months. I haven't played since 2013 started, and I wanted to go and play today and it says that I need the disc to play.... which I lost pretty much after I installed it.

Can someone help me? I want to be able to play, darnit. I didn't see any options on how to install it from the website without having to buy it again so it wouldn't require the disc. The base game I bought online, but not Supernatural. I'm getting really annoyed.

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    I don't think it's right that I had to pay all that money for a game, and now I can't even play it just because I can't find the disc.

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    13 years ago

    You can download the game throught the Origin Client which you can download here: http://origin.com/download. Log in the client, if you've registered the games at thesims3.com, the games should already be availble for download.  You will need to uninstall the DVD version first though.


    If you didn't, you should be able to redeem the codes.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    I have the origin client, and Supernatural won't show up through it, and I can't redeem the code without the disc. :/

    It's been registered on the website, but it wouldn't let me download through it, it says I have to buy it. I already tried troubleshooting with both of those.

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    13 years ago

    Did you loose the key as well ?

    You can check your registry if the game is still installed on what the key was.

    See this thread for details: http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-3/FAQ-Lost-and-broken-DVDs-and-missing-serial-codes-What-to-do/td-p/14230/

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    If all fails, you need to contact customer support. They are the only ones that can help you with the game not showing up in Origin.

    They can be found here: https://help.ea.com/contact-us

    Choose a category, a game and a platform for the contact options to show up.

    If live chat is gray, change your country to US and make sure you're on US Business hours. It might also gray because they're very busy. Try later.

    See this post if you have trouble with the site: http://sims3.crinrict.com/en/2012/10/how-to-contact-ea.html

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    It's worked so far! Thanks so much. I got the code in Origin, although, it's not opening, but that's probably because of my computer... I often have to restart it to make the Sims work, especially if I already had the program opened.  I'll restart it in a bit though. But thanks so much for your help. 🙂 Now to hope that it works from there! Heh.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Anddddd... it's going back to  No game disc found! Please insert disc before proceeding. :/

    I went through Origin too.

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    13 years ago

    DId you install all EPs via Origin, uninstalling the disk versions first ? Which DVD does it want ?

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