Re: 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?

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???

If you download the base game and your expansions from Origin (which you should be able to do once you registered your games) you won't need the disc anymore to play.

I have the base game, Night Life and Loft Stuff through Origin (thanks Humble Bundle!). Can I still install other EPs from disc and play through Origin?

you can do both i have disks and digital downloads of the games  so if for example your next gameyou buy is seasons disk you install it and play from the disk OR if you want you redeem the code on origin and download the digital version of your game instead

Excellent! Thanks for the info!

im confused... so if i buy the download i dont get a cd in the mail it goes staight into my computer?

I have to re-install all my sims i got the disk of TS3 and 2 expansions with it but what stops me from re-installing it all is that i have many, many expansions i bought as a download from origin. and i dont want to loose them. can you help?

If you have the base game installed then just insert the disk to install the pack once installed then hit play( leave the disk in)

@minaakbari The DRM used for TS3 was (notice I say was) confusing. For the pc when TS3 was released the DRM was SecuROM and SafeDisc. SecuROM had an install limit and SafeDisc required the latest released to market pack DISC in the optical drive to run the game. If the pack was the download version you didn't need the disc (obviously) and the game would start w/o a disc in the optical drive. When Windows 10 and El Capitan was released they do not support SecuROM and SafeDisc and if you added a pack to the game you then needed to change the DRM to Origin. I for one never liked SecuROM because it was considered a rootkit and now you don't need a disc to play. I am not sure how the mac handles the DRM. When you redeem the base game in Origin (if you haven't already) Origin will update the game to version 1.69 which will remove/disable SecuROM and Safedisc. Origin is the new DRM.