Sims 3 and expansion one register one not
I had Sims 3 and the Ambisions expansion for a while I stopped playing so I uninstalled them from my computer. When I tryed to reinstall Sims 3 it keep giving me an error and I couldn't register it because someone already had, I don't know who because I've had it sense it was first bought. Anyways I ended up buying a used disk off of ebay, but once I had it installed my Ambisions gave me the same error, that I was able to register, but I don't know if I can still use it. So that's my question can I use my registered Ambisions expansion without the disk, with a unregisterd Sims 3 disk?
Well, to answer your question: It heavily depends on the base game version you have.
If you have the version that requires Origin, you will need to register that in order to play at all. If it works without that, the expansion don't really care if they are registered or not. You won't be able to get the download version though.
This post tells you which cover is which version: http://sims3.crinrict.com/en/2014/02/sims-3-base-game-versions.html