EA you are violating your own terms
If you have not updated your game past 1.67 don't buy anymore stuff packs or sets for Sims 3. EA is forcing update if you do. I bought 2 stuff packs and was not able to install them unless I updated...
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"Jude525;c-16509856" wrote:
Okay, I ended up here following up on a friend's question. It's June 2018. But I've been running 1.67 from a full disc installation since January 2017. In all this time I have never had Origin do more than whine a little about wanting to update my game. I won't uninstall Origin because I own several other games on it, including TS4.
Don't get me wrong, Origin can be a bother and a bully. I'm just saying that once I switched to a disc install and told Origin to leave TS3 alone, it has not interfered. My biggest motivation at the time was not 1.69 v 1.67, that wasn't an issue for me. It was that every time the Origin engine got an update, which seems to happen at least monthly, my game would get wonky for at least a week. Sometimes refusing to load.
Finally, I've done several re-installs over the past year (I'm still learning to manage CC safely) and all I do is:
1: Install base game
2: run super-patcher
3: install all packs
4: install store content
5: play
Throughout the install process different packs will flash update warnings, but the super-patch has already taken care of it all and in the end it is all set. I've certainly never taken the time to run the game after every pack was installed. I own every pack and, for me, that would just be insane.
After that I'm fine. Until I hit my first piece of bad CC and have to track it down. I've just started using CC Magic, so maybe I've finally got that under control.
But Patch 1.69 did not change the game files (except for their internal build numbers to drive the then five, now six Core Mods out there in common usage crazy) or the way in which the game plays at all. All that 1.69 does is force the Origin tie-in requirement and provide the often unstable Pack Chooser part of the Launcher. When someone says they do not care for or they wish to avoid 1.69, Origin annoyances, instability, and the Pack Chooser are exactly what we are talking about because the patch has no other real impact on the game.
Not everyone has a base game disc manufactured before Sept 2012 or all of their EP/SPs on disc to begin with so they would have fewer choices in the matter. Your install sequence is a good one for 1.67 and glad that it works well for you. :)
