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

Same for me, not free. Oh well, that's OK. I recently bought Monte Vista and Hidden Springs and haven't played them nearly enough! :smile:

If I remember correctly it was a way of apologizing for a mess up, I think it was Seasons or Island Paradise. The Us got Barnacle Bay for free. Entirity of Europe got free simpoints.

The reason anyone else might not have it is because I think only those places were heavily effected.

Or maybe it was because they had to Cancel one of the Island Paradise live broadcasts, I honestly don't remember.

I feel like @Cinebar would know as she was very active during the time, I know it was several years ago.

"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.

Man, it would have been nice to have gotten it for free! Oh, well! :D

Forum weirdness is causing me to make a terrible mess of things so see the below comment.

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.

@Estmel Here's the thread!

I got it too, for free!