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Proteus-846
12 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
    12 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
12 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.
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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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