Sims 4 Pop-Up Sale Glitch
Hello, I logged into a Pop-Up Sale where the stuff packs are listed at 50% off. When I click the buy now - it takes me to Steam where they are only 25% off and on Origin they aren't on sale at all. ...
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@puzzlezaddictHi there, @Pandorax4 is completely correct. The Pop Up sale you're referring to which ended on Feb 9 had sales on Expansion and Game Packs, but no Stuff packs at all were for sale. I was close to buying a few packs in Steam for the 25% off/ 7.49 price, which began about the time the Exp packs/ Game packs Origin sale ended. I own Sims 4 through Origin, Xbox and Steam, but now play through Steam. We're able for the PC version, as long as we own the base game in Steam to buy our DLC wherever is cheapest (Steam, Origin, or stores selling DLC codes like Amazon, only XBOX is separate) and it installs to our game.
I can confirm this was an entirely new sale, which specifically has 50% the Stuff packs branded all over in game including banners on the Gallery circle icons that states 50%. This is still active now and has been active for the past couple days. I thought maybe it was in preparation for the Lunar New Year Sale and now there are some items on Sale in Origin, but not the Stuff packs. But it remains in game when you click Buy Now it links us to Steam and adds it to our cart for 7.49. I indeed cleared cache multiple times the past couple of days for Origin, the Sims folders including spotlight cache, etc. and even the 'download cache' in Steam.
The main difference is that the 4.99 price is incentivizing me to pretty much buy the remaining stuff packs I was missing versus planning to hold off until the anniversary sale like they had last year. I contacted Steam support and all I got back was we don't price match. I've responded to them now and said wasn't looking for matching, but we are just trying to understand where this sale is meant to be on which site. Thanks!
I'm getting the exact same thing. its been like that since at least 2 nights ago. I actually found one stuff pack that was actually 50% off (tiny living) which I was able to purchase through steam for the correct price. This is super frustrating and honestly feels a bit skeezy.
Oh thank you so much for confirming the price worked for Tiny Living. I had actually sprung for it a couple weeks ago at full price so couldn’t confirm it. Mainly it shows the packs I am missing. When you bought it, was it through the Steam app itself or clicking the advertised link in game where it takes you to the cart and adds it? It would be so helpful to confirm this link bridge was intended for the Steam store. For awhile I was wondering if they somehow meant for the links to direct us to the Origin store (Origin browser site or EA since normally we can’t view the store with TS4 open).
I agree with you on the skeezy feeling. I went from feeling so thankful that they did sales so soon after the holiday sales, which is what got me to buy a few packs to give TS4 a chance after being away from the pc version of a Sims game for so long. I got into it so much, I was ready to buy more when a sale hit so you can use more gallery items as intended etc. Then this whole thing and the lack of ability to find much posting about it anywhere is a sucky feeling. Especially getting the response from Steam support like I’m trying to get a price match, when I’m just trying to take them up on their direct offer that’s screaming at us all over the in-game links. Someone at EA and the Steam team at EA had to implement it for it to show up. Help your faithful simmers out EA.
Still no update on this - and it is still appearing on my end as they are still on for 50% but not in Steam where it is showing only 25% off. Any update on when this is to be fixed or to at least have someone comment on it?
Not sure why this thread got moved either - I placed this in the technical glitch forum because it is just that and it got moved to general discussions.
