EA you are violating your own terms

"faytheful;15281603" wrote:

"Karritz;15281573" wrote:
I am one of the unusual people who did actually read most of the agreement when I purchased most of my games. As a result, when I purchased Sims 4 base game, I saw Sims 3 disks on sale at greatly reduced prices in local stores I purchased all of the Sims 3 disks I needed to cover the digital download packs I had for Sims 3.

I think the people in the shop thought I was a little bonkers at the time but I said I didn't trust EA to leave Sims 3 alone as they have reserved the right to do what they like to it at any time.

Since I wanted to be able to continue to play the game I had purchased in the manner it was played when I first purchased it, I was prepared to spend a little bit of money then to put my mind at rest.

If I have issues with Origin at some later date I'll remove it from my computer.

At this stage I haven't launched Origin for several months and probably won't launch it again unless I'm off line as I don't want to have unexpected updates forced on me. Especially if those updates change the way I play Sims 3.

I've got several games that require Origin to launch them, including Sims 4. I'm prepared to abandon all of them permanently if that is what I have to do to keep Sims 3 installed in its original format.

It's nice you had the foresight to plan ahead. I did too for a while but while looking through my games, last night noticed there were 2 stuff packs I didn't have & researched them. I learned they were good packs, so I decided to buy them.
Therein lies my downfall. I really didn't do anything wrong. Just got the bright (not so bright) idea to buy 2 stuff packs.
Maybe this happened to me so others can realize it could happen to them; & maybe they will prepare themselves.
I did notice today the games on disk are not easy to find anymore and after thoughtful contemplation, realized EA is steering everyone
toward digital downloads. Sims 4 is already there. So when EA server goes down, people won't be able to play their games. It will affect
Sims 3 players too because when they force people to upgrade Origin, the game won't start without it unless you never upgrade Origin.
If you want to play Sims 4 you have to upgrade Origin. See where its going ?
So its great you planned ahead & hope it gives you many playing hours & enjoyment.

edit: and that's the reason why I have two different Sims games on 2 different computers. One has Origin fully updated
& I was able to install the 2 stuff packs on that of course. But that computer has Origin fully updated because it has Sims 4 on it.
But the main computer I play Sims 3 on, I wasn't able to install them on it, because I wanted to keep Sims 3 game intact & didn't patch it to 1.69.
So now there is division. Where we were always able to have more than one Sims game on one computer now we have
to separate them.
I don't want to be in a position where EA servers goes down & I can't play my game.

This keeps confusing me. You keep saying this, to one degree or another, and I'm trying to understand it. Please explain what you mean. Maybe simmers here can help you because simply going to patch 1.69 shouldn't effect how you play your game, only having to have origin and what has to load.