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joeygates27
5 years ago

Have Sims on Origin: Want to use my Steam Client: How do I link my account?

The existing instructions that I've found on here to link my Steam and origin accounts are outdated.  Now, if I go to Steam and find an EA game, instead of hitting "Play" and then letting the game i...
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joeygates27
5 years ago
@puzzlezaddict Some other info. My steam install did not have the majority of the content. It had all of the dlc checked. Further, even my origin install would not work. I had to Uninstall the steam version and tell Origin to install again. All the files were already there so it just took a few seconds. They did not make this work well at all.
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puzzlezaddict
Hero+
5 years ago

@joeygates27  No, they really did not.  That's one of several reasons I suggest that people might want to reconsider before switching to a joint Origin/Steam install.  It's all kinds of awkward and often doesn't work properly no matter what people do.  It's too bad, this could have been a great opportunity.  I say that as someone who owns Sims 3 through Steam and happily uses that version rather than the one from Origin.

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