I've activated 16 digit code.
today I went to the humble bundle page to get the 20 digit code and activating the game again followed the instruction. But the game code on my Origin client didn't update.
Mines worse. I got the 20 digit activation code by going to the Info of Sims 3 in my games but that is now an invalid product code.
I just want to say, I only ever had BF 3 direct through Origin prior this. I have never had so much trouble getting a game working before. Fair enough, this is for charity and I am thankful but at the same time, this is a charity PR exercise that has seriously backfired.
The origin client rebooted my PC, consistently crashed. I reinstalled it. Even that was a drama. It was going to take 1 hr to just download the Originthin setup direct from EA. I ended up downloading the latest version of the Origin client from a 3rd party site. That worked. I then still got the download looping so I had to search the wonderful EA forums again (after waiting 1 hr for an online customer support chat who had no idea and told me to just reinstall the client) and use a different INI file.
Finally got Sims 3 downloaded and it installed without any help from me.
And now I cannot go Online with the game due to the 20 digit product code, (which was automatically known by the product) now being invalid.
I cannot use the "Solved" instructions to fix this because when I get to the bit to enter my HB 16 digit code, that's been used.
Furthermore, I was downloading DS3 last night, went to bed, wokeup to an Origin client that had frozen again. I had to kill the process to get it going again.
Origin is a Joke!!!!!
Solved. Read in another thread to go back to the original HB email 'Your Humble Bundle order is ready"
And follow your unique link and you will now have a new valid 20 digit product code. Then go to the Sims site to register there. It worked!!!
