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!!!
