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Proteus-846
13 years ago
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If I buy a Sims 3 Expansion Pack in Origin as a Download, can I play with out a disc even though the base game uses a disc?

I own the Sims 3 in disc form from when it first came out, but I don't have any Expansion Packs. If I purchase one digitally in Origin, can I play the game without a disc? Right now, I can only play ...
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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    since it installs locally to your hard drive, you shouldn't need the CD unless you want to make a clean re-install or something. Keep it handy (and the serial code) but your downloads should run normally inside the original Sims game. 

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Anonymous
13 years ago
I have disk versions and digital versions of the expansion packs. When playing the digital copies I just had my sims game disk that I last installed and it worked fine. You dont even need a disk at all though because it installs it onto your hardrive.
  • Proteus-846's avatar
    Proteus-846
    13 years ago
    So if I buy an Expansion Pack as a download, I won't need my disc anymore? (I'll still keep it obviously, but I don't want to bring it with me all the time)
    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      13 years ago

      since it installs locally to your hard drive, you shouldn't need the CD unless you want to make a clean re-install or something. Keep it handy (and the serial code) but your downloads should run normally inside the original Sims game. 

      • Smeagol2008's avatar
        Smeagol2008
        13 years ago

        excuse me... i dont think u understand unless i dont understand haha

        so your saying the sims 3 even without expansion packs you can play the game without the disk?   thats not so true at all... if u only have the sims 3 without expansion packs.. You Still Need The Disk to load the game out but u can take the disk oout after its loaded...

        hes wondering if he buys an expansion pack from origin will he therefore still need the original sims 3 cd to still be able to run the game???

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    9 years ago

    So if I buy the Sims 3 starter pack online and download the rest on disk will it still work?? because I lost the main Sims 3 Disk but have everything else...

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