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6 years ago

Do I need to repurchase Sims 4 and all other DLC packs on Steam?

I knew EA is planning to move Sims 4 from Origin to Steam, and I knew they already did it with Battlefield. However, as many Battlefield players complained, they had to REPURCHASE the game on Steam to play it, I wonder if that would be the same case for Sims 4?

P.S.:I own the Sims 4 Deluxe, 7 expansion packs, 5 game packs and 2 stuff packs, which adds up to a few hundreds dollars, and no I am not willing to pay it again just to play it on Steam. If that would be the case, I would rather abandon Sims 4 and move to other games.

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12 Replies

puzzlezaddict
Hero+
5 years ago
@sray9714 Did you ever purchase any Sims 4 content from Steam, or get an EA Play subcription from Steam? You definitely don't need to buy any Sims 4 content through Steam; Origin still hosts and sells the game on its own. I'm curious exactly how you get to the point where you're redirected to Steam; if you see some kind of error message, please post a screenshot.

You can also try buying on origin.com rather than in-game or through the Origin app. Your content will show in your Origin game library regardless.
almoushilarious
4 years ago
I can see one possible benefit to moving it over onto steam, and that is the modding community... do you know how much easier it is to just click subscribe... and the mod installs itself flawlessly on a majority of steam games... for the sims 4 you have to download each file and depending on what is modified, you have to place certain files in certain locations and if its wrong, it can crash the game and cause total chaos on the files possibly corrupting them, if steam did what they do for other game modding where you just click subscribe, it could do all the compatibility testing more easily and you would not have to manually drag and drop the modded files, possibly saving hours of manual labor.