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Kenz1eK1ng
Seasoned Newcomer
14 hours ago

Transferring Game Packs

Hello, I have recently bought a laptop and have began playing sims 4 on said laptop. I have been a console player (xbox series x) player for 8 years now and have accumulated around 75% of the packs on the sims 4. Since moving onto my laptop every so often I realised how bland the game is without my packs so I have tried everything to move them onto my laptop. I have looked through steam and EA to regain my game packs but realised I would need to repurchase them. I have contacted EA support a fair few times and have 2 different responses on this problem.

I was originally told that I will need to redownload my packs onto the xbox cloud in order to get them but the sims 4 isn't available unless you have game pass ultimate (which is £22 a month) but I have game pass essential so I don't want to upgrade. I then contacted a week later when I had free time explaining what I was told previously only to be told that EA can't put my game packs onto the xbox cloud gaming but they could transfer them into my steam account instead. I told them to proceed with this option but because I was using a different email the request couldn't be fulfilled unless I change the request onto the email I would like to use. I then signed onto my wanted email account and the EA help was refusing to connect me to an advisor to continue my appeal.

This whole situation is confusing me and I just want my beloved game packs on my laptop to make the game more enjoyable rather than repaying hundreds just to replace them. I hope you guys understand what is happening and could give me ideas to the situation.

Thank you (:

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  • sim-scifiguy's avatar
    sim-scifiguy
    Seasoned Hotshot
    12 hours ago

    I'm not sure what conversations you have been having with whom, but people have asked many times and the answer is you can't transfer from Xbox (or any console) to PC (or Mac) nor vice versa. These are all different formats and EA does not support any sort of trade in or conversion to switch from one to another. Your only option is to repurchase the packs you want for PC. You can buy them from anyone that sells them though, and there are a number of legit online stores that sell heavily discounted packs all the time.