Did The Sims 3 Store Give Away Barnacle Bay For Free?

When I started playing again at the end of last August, I came across Barnacle Bay: http://store.thesims3.com/barnacleBay.html?categoryId=12642&section=UpSell and it was a free download. I just assumed at the time that I had bought it previously and due to changing computers, I had lost it somehow. It still doesn't show up on My Page as being owned, though.

ETA: @igazor, that's probably it. One of my games was a Limited Edition; remember getting a thumb drive with a green Plumbob attached. It was before Origin, around 2009/10.

I remember that promotion...

Back when I was trying to keep my collection all on disk I had planned on going to Gamestop for the release of Seasons at midnight like I had done before. I was sad about passing up the promotion but I wanted the physical copy more. For whatever reason I came home empty handed. Very impatient so I bought it digitally via Origin when I got home and by this time the pre order was over. Missed my chance for a free world. Went full digital after that and I paid for Barnacle Bay sadly.

Do you have to have Origin to download BB for free? If so, I pass, but if not (my game and all eps are disc-based, and I refuse to update to the patch that ties the game to Origin), it could be fun. Thanks!

"girlwhocriedtaylor;14517038" wrote:
Is it still up for free download? If so, could someone link it to me, as I can't seem to find it?

If you go to thesims3.com store, click on worlds, then Barnacle Bay. It still says download from what I see. I don't know if it will be the same on yours.

Guess it's not free for everyone. Only option i have is to buy it, and for some reason it doesn't say "Barnacle Bay", it says "Complete Barnacle Bay Adventure".

"u2020bullet;14518447" wrote:
Guess it's not free for everyone. Only option i have is to buy it, and for some reason it doesn't say "Barnacle Bay", it says "Complete Barnacle Bay Adventure".

When Barnacle Bay was first released it was called Barnacle Bay. I got it then.

Apparently there were issues with it but I don't know what they were.

It was the first world they made after Sunset Valley and Riverview.

Then somewhat later they rereleased Barnacle Bay and added a set and two staircases that were not with the original Barnacle Bay. I already owned that set but couldn't get the stair cases without buying Complete Barnacle Bay. I thought about it but decided it was a lot to pay to just get two staircases.

I had already paid for the original Barnacle Bay and the set that comes with the new Complete Barnacle Bay.

I couldn't get the new Complete Barnacle Bay for free.

Then a couple of years after it was released I noticed I could download it. So I did and got the two staircases.

The option to download the original Barnacle Bay is no longer available.

I really don't know which version of BB I have (I bought a download code for it a long time ago really cheap off Amazon) because whenever I buy a world that way it never shows on the store page that I own it, but only appears in my Purchase History as having been bought. I do know the file name for the one I have is BarnacleBayRetailSet.Sims3Pack but don't know if they changed the name when they did that update to it.

In my Purchase History I have the link to the original version of the world without the two staircases. But I can download the Complete Barnacle Bay from the Store page so that's what I do.

Okay, I looked again and in my Purchase History it does say "Complete Barnacle Bay" so I probably have the version with the stairs then. I installed so much store content a few months ago that sometimes I don't even know what came with what. I'd been looking for a particular something the other day I was pretty sure I bought and as it turned out I did buy it but somehow missed it in the downloading. That store is a menace I tell you. ;)

"GoldenBuffy;14522375" wrote:
Man, it would have been nice to have gotten it for free! Oh, well! :D

When I found the code for $6 I figured that was about as close as I would get to free. I have a rule about this stuff which is to never pay more than what I think it's worth, and in this case considering they can pump out unlimited copies of the same work by uploading it to a server (which of course has maintenance costs, so not discounting that) $6 was just about right.

For further clarification I do actually have those Barnacle stairs. I was using the launcher and clicked into the installed content and they were showing there.

I got it too, for free!