Which do you use to run your Sims 3 game?

Heck, I even have some of the store worlds in disk form. Thats how much I looove disks :p

I used to run through Steam, but then started buying EPs at Origin sales. I've thought about moving over to Steam again, but even at $5 a pop, repurchasing all the Origin EPs and SPs I own would not be that cheap for me. And it would mean reinstalling the game and probably downloading and reinstalling all my Store content. Origin install, even with 1.69, just isn't that troublesome enough to motive me to move back to Steam. It would be nice to skip the launcher though. :)

Actually it is both Origin and disks. The problem is, that I'm still missing an EP and one stuff pack that refuses to download through Origin, so be careful!

Origin though I would prefer steam.

Steam :mrgreen:.

I've gone all routes. I miss my discs most of all. Origin and I are not friends lol, so I really don't miss it. I like steam though.

I didn't install everything in my game from disks. Some of them were by download from Origin, before they changed it so you can have to play through Origin. That is something I will never do. So to make sure it would never be necessary, no matter what, I re-bought everything on disk that I'd previously bought by download, including a disk copy of the 2009 base game. I started playing in 2012, with Amazon downloads of the base game, Generations, Ambitions, and High End Loft, so I didn't even have a disk of the base game itself, until I bought the starter pack on sale to get Late Night, for less than I could buy it for on download from Origin. It was expensive, but it was worth it.

Through disks, on patch 1.67.

I like being able to choose which expansion to use without having to install, desinstall.

I don't like Origin telling me how many hours I played. 0.o

Through disks. I hated my game running via origin!

Bought the basegame 2014, started playing 2016, started to add EP:s successively 2017. This is the only iteration I have played.
Am a little curious about CAW but as I understand it it will need Origin to work, but that client seems to be a little unappreciated. If it is possible without inciting too much negativity it would be interesting to know why and why not simmers prefer Origin/Steam/discs.

My own reasons for using steam is just habit, having bought other games from there; and was not even aware of Origins existence. Steam always works well for other games, not that I have a ton though. With Sims 3 it is a bordercase, when problems arose with the install both Steam and EA meant the responsibility was on the other part and I had to find out everything for myself. (It works now).