STEAM SALE!! April 2021

@SimplyJen and @ZeeGee, thanks for the help, I have the store worlds already. I'm tempted to get this for my husbands pc. (He's not a fan of origin) and a lot of the time I'm playing on his rig rather than mine. I talked of doing it last year but didn't get round to it.
But I have a little bit of store content and that was my concern about switching.

@paradiseplanet welcome to the sims 3! I hope you enjoy it!

2 hours passed and I didn't even know it. Still trying to get the camera controls to work though. In that span of 2 hours I played chess at a park, ate out at a diner and met an alien, saw multiple people freak out at a random pregnant woman going to burst at the summer festival and dropped my snow-cone to take the random pregnant stranger to the hospital (even though she was driving), and got my toilet stolen by a burglar.

Hi there, I'm new to sims and TS3...

No one is going to believe that, igazor! :angry:

Okay, right. Let me start again. I'm already fully vested in the Steam version of everything so the entire on sale page is greyed out for me except for one item. I never did pick up the Movie Stuff SP. Do I want it? Even after all this time, I'm having difficulty convincing myself that I need it though at $4.99 (USD), or on the Bundle I'm being offered for $3.99, it's pretty difficult to keep ignoring.

@igazor, I think you need it :p You could turn Appaloosa Plains into a true Wild West town and makes saloons for your Sims to get into bar fights!

I must ask, if I was to buy a Steam game, could I play it? All my Sims 3 games are digital downloads and are tied into Origin.

"plushtrap_107;c-16322496" wrote:
@igazor, I think you need it :p You could turn Appaloosa Plains into a true Wild West town and makes saloons for your Sims to get into bar fights!

I must ask, if I was to buy a Steam game, could I play it? All my Sims 3 games are digital downloads and are tied into Origin.

I believe you can but you hsve to uninstall the sims 3 from your pc first off. I’m tempted to do the same although my collection is installed on disc (but still sadly tied to origin through 1.69) >:)

"plushtrap_107;c-16322496" wrote:
I must ask, if I was to buy a Steam game, could I play it? All my Sims 3 games are digital downloads and are tied into Origin.

You have two choices.

First Way:
If you want to stay on Origin or Origin/disc, you could install the Steam client software, purchase the base game (again) on Steam, and then the packs you really wanted. You don't have to and in fact shouldn't install any of it, beyond the Steam client program itself. The base game purchase is required by Steam before they will sell you the EP/SPs.

With the purchase of each pack, Steam also throws in an Origin code at no extra charge. So you could then redeem the pack codes on Origin and install the Origin versions from there. As a bonus, if you register the redundant base game (and WA) on the TS3 site, you should still get 1,000 TS3 Store Points for each one.

Second Way:
Set aside your TS3 user game folder for safekeeping, repurchase the base game and all the packs you want on Steam, uninstall the game, clean registry, install the Steam version, and say hello again to Patch 1.67.

Note that either way only works on Windows because Steam does not carry TS3 for Mac and they won't sell it through the Mac version of the Steam client program although they will sell you TS3 that way, it won't do you any good. The Origin codes will not be provided until you log in on a system running Windows and the Windows Steam client program.

"igazor;c-16322504" wrote:

"plushtrap_107;c-16322496" wrote:
I must ask, if I was to buy a Steam game, could I play it? All my Sims 3 games are digital downloads and are tied into Origin.

You have two choices.

First Way:
If you want to stay on Origin or Origin/disc, you could install the Steam client software, purchase the base game (again) on Steam, and then the packs you really wanted. You don't have to and in fact shouldn't install any of it, beyond the Steam client program itself. The base game purchase is required by Steam before they will sell you the EP/SPs.

With the purchase of each pack, Steam also throws in an Origin code at no extra charge. So you could then redeem the pack codes on Origin. As a bonus, if you register the redundant base game (and WA) on the TS3 site, you should still get 1,000 TS3 Store Points for each one.

Second Way:
Set aside your TS3 user game folder for safekeeping, repurchase everything on Steam, uninstall the game, clean registry, install the Steam version, and say hello again to Patch 1.67.

Note that either way only works on Windows because Steam does not even carry TS3 for Mac.

Apologies for de railing slightly Op but Igazor you used to have patch 1.69 I’m sure you said, can I ask what made you change to steam? In a similar predicament.

I still haven’t re installed all my games from disc to 1.67 because I freely admit I’m not computer literate and I’m wary about deleting things from the registry.

@MidnightAura - Yes, I landed on 1.69 back when I still had one previously Origin purchased EP to install (ITF) and by the time I got around to that it was too late to do the install any other way. The same thing would have happened if/when I get a new computer although that wasn't in the short-term plans at the time. I gave 1.69 a run for a full year and couldn't find a single thing I liked about it, all the Origin/Launcher tie-in did was annoy me and play hide and seek with my EPs occasionally. The Pack Chooser feature was also more of an annoyance than a help to me.

So in a prior Steam sale much like this one last summer, I repurchased everything (except the Movie Stuff SP that I never had anyway) at 75-80% off and switched platforms. It's not that 1.69 outright broke everything for me on a routine everyday basis and I'm glad that I got to experience what everyone else has so I can understand what they are talking about when it comes to support, but I have to say that I am still happy with the decision to move off of it.

@MidnightAura, I don't think I can :( My Sims 3 is just an Origin code, not a CD. Thanks for helping though :)

@igazor, thanks for helping too :) That's a shame you have to buy Sims 3 on Steam first :( Oh well, I thought that the offers were too good to be true :p

I just thought I'd ask on behalf of my mate, what happens if you have the original Sims 3 CD, updated to patch 1.67? Do you need need to buy a Sims 3 digital download on Steam to buy the expansions?

"igazor;c-16322513" wrote:
@MidnightAura - Yes, I landed on 1.69 back when still had one previously Origin purchased EP to install (ITF) and by the time I got around to that it was too late to do the install any other way. The same thing would have happened if/when I get a new computer although that wasn't in the short-term plans at the time. I gave 1.69 a run for a full year and couldn't find a single thing I liked about it, all the Origin/Launcher tie-in did was annoy me and play hide and seek with my EPs occasionally. The Pack Chooser feature was also more of an annoyance than a help to me.

So in a prior Steam sale much like this one last summer, I repurchased everything (except the Movie Stuff SP that I never had anyway) at 75-80% off and switched platforms. It's not that 1.69 outright broke everything for me on a routine everyday basis and I'm glad that I got to experience what everyone else has so I can understand what they are talking about when it comes to support, but I have to say that I am still happy with the decision to move off of it.

I feel you, that's my annoyance with the launcher. I'm getting annoyed by it randomly removing packs at will.

Very tempted to switch to steam although I'm not sure I would handle not having all my content off the bat. My base game is pre 2012 and I have all the discs but I'm scared of messing up the process along the way!