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graceymanors's avatar
3 years ago

Launcher is saying I don't own my store items?

I just swapped from using origin over to steam as the games were on sale.

And I'm reinstalling my store items in a fresh clean folder on the steam version.

The launcher keeps telling me that I don't own a lot of my store items, even though its the same account.

I already tried clearing IE's cache and my pc's cache.

Support was no help.

I attached a photo of the message.

I never had this issue until I went to Steam.

And the store pages keep giving me "OOPS site is down."

46 Replies

  • graceymanors's avatar
    graceymanors
    Legend
    3 years ago

    So for anyone interested who might have my issue.

    The agent said

    "So I just got this case investigated by the concerned team and am happy to tell you that you’ve nothing to worry about, looks like a few other players have reported this issue as well, however, the good news here is that the studio is already aware of it and is already working on a fix, it’s getting rectified as we speak, thanks for your patience on this one and again do not worry we got your back on this one."

  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    Hero+
    3 years ago

    @graceymanors  Sorry to say it, but the support rep just told you that to get you off the line, so to speak.  This is a very common response to issues they don't know how to fix, many of which are issues they absolutely should be able to address.  I can almost guarantee you that no one at EA is working on this problem, and your account won't be fixed unless a support rep does it manually.

    So if you want this issue addressed, you'll need to find a support rep that actually understands the problem.

  • graceymanors's avatar
    graceymanors
    Legend
    3 years ago

    I tried two more agent sand they told me the same thing. This is the problem I keep getting agents who won't help.

  • graceymanors's avatar
    graceymanors
    Legend
    3 years ago

    Now the agent is telling me the sims 3 store is not compatible with steam. He says "You can not own sims 3 store items, if you have steam"

    This is their response.
    "Autumn, the Sims 3 is an EA website, it cannot recognize the game on Steam if you do not link your Steam to EA. You can use the Sims 3 website with the same credentials of your Origin account where you had the games on EA previously."

    I don't know if this is true or not. But the purpose of buying on steam was to get origin off my PC.

  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    Hero+
    3 years ago

    @graceymanors  It's not true and has never been true.  Like many other players, I have a Steam install and use my store content all the time.

    Rather than going back and forth with support on this, please wait a couple days for a response, here, from someone from EA.  I'm going to try to see if there's anything else that can be done, by you or support.

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