Re: Do Sims 3 Stuff Packs Not Reward SimPoints When Registered?

@RandomBuzziness and @StarryMight  It's... kind of complicated.  Some special versions of packs (Limited Editions or similar) granted points, and some people got those special versions without knowing it, maybe because EA sold a batch of those keys to Amazon or something.

Separately, there was an infrequent but obvious glitch in the store where someone might be able to click the Redeem Points button several times in a row and receive points each time.  I think the last time I heard of this happening was around a year and a half ago.  And some of the people who had this happen had just registered a bunch of packs at once, so they thought they got points for all or most of the packs.  But other people registered only one code and got 3k or 4k points, so for them at least, it was clearly a glitch.

When I bought all EPs and four SPs on Steam (didn't want to deal with patch 1.69) almost two years ago, I registered them on the store site right away.  I checked after inputting  each code, and I only got points for the base game and World Adventures.  Almost all the players who post about it these days report the same thing.  So aside from a few lucky exceptions, it's pretty clear that this is how the points giveaway is supposed to work.

As an aside, points were 50% off during the holiday sale last winter.  I have no idea if they'll do that again, but it's worth checking back in a couple of weeks.

@StarryMightOrigin, yes. I also remembered this morning that I bought a store world bundle with Hidden Springs and Monte Vista so some of my Sim Points might have come from registering those. These are not the store worlds I referred to in my first post, I also have Aurora Skies (my personal favorite), Midnight Hollow, and Sunlit Tides.

I don't want to get too far off topic but I wish EA would bring back the store world concept for TS4. Like a full 20-ish lot world with a small amount of Build/Buy and CAS items to go with whatever locale they chose, but not with all the new game-play features like a full EP. If they were reasonably priced I love to add new TS4 worlds to build and play in.

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@puzzlezaddict  @StarryMight  Yeah you guys are right, it might just be an Origin vs. Steam thing.

@RandomBuzziness and @StarryMight  No one's going to mind if you go off topic here; in fact, I doubt anyone will even notice.

@StarryMightI wouldn't mind seeing another free world like Newcrest as their way of saying sorry for putting me through all those bugs in the Nov 12 patch! xDDD

@puzzlezaddict  What? You mean not everyone reads the TS3 forums anymore? ;-D I bought all those Sims 3 EP's from different retail sources, ie Amazon, Walmart, etc., over a span of about 18 months, so who knows where those Sim Point deals came from. They could have easily been limited or special versions without me noticing.