Do I need Origin?

[Prince of Thieves]

I'm planing on buying this game on Steam because Origin has offically driven me up the wall. If I buy this game on Steam, do I need Origin?

[Vanitas]

No, you won't need Origin in order to play Sims 3... Don't sorry... What's more you will be able to download content and register codes in Sims 3 page.

[Prince of Thieves]

Okay. Slowly buying all Sims 3 expansion packs it is then. Bye Origin, nice seeing you.

[susannag]

Nope, you won't need Origin. You won't get pushed to 1.69, either.

[Prince of Thieves]

Good news all around. Just begun buying a few expansion packs. Gonna wait for next sale to buy more. Someone ought to tell EA that their Origin program is a flop.

[susannag]

It was the first strike against Sims 4 for me, that's for sure.

[Prince of Thieves]

I thought Sims 4 was squandered potential maybe it will get better with more expansion packs I dunno. When they released their Create a Sim demo, I was like “you couldn’t have created the ability to upload a photo into the game and generate a Sim from that?”

[lPaladinl]

I wouldn't be playing Sims 3 if it required Origin.

That said, you're missing out on the Katy Perry DLC, since you cannot buy it on Steam.

That may or may not be a bad thing. Kinda depends if you reeeeaaally like Katy Perry stuff.

[Prince of Thieves]

Nah didn’t like the Katy Perry dlc all that much.

[susannag]

I wouldn't be playing Sims 3 if it were Origin-only, either.

[dano]

DONT BUY THIS GAME ITS BOGUS! I JUST GOT THIS GAME AND MY DANG KEY WILL NOT DISAPEAR AND I CANNOT EVEN SIGN INTO ONLINE CONTENT! NOT WORTH THE 20.0

[ZaggRukk]

Originally posted by dano:

DONT BUY THIS GAME ITS BOGUS! I JUST GOT THIS GAME AND MY DANG KEY WILL NOT DISAPEAR AND I CANNOT EVEN SIGN INTO ONLINE CONTENT! NOT WORTH THE 20.0

The window that pops up deisplaying your registration key has a box that you can check to have it never pop up again. You can still get to your keys at a later time if you need. And as far as not logging in. . . .If you're talking about the game menu not logging in, that is a login for the sims 3 website, not steam. So, you need an account through that website to access the online stuff and to register your games/dlc (with the aforementioned keys). It's simple and easy! On a side note, the website login procedure is somewhat buggy. It uses cookies through Internet Explorer to log into the sims3 website. So, if you don't have IE or never use it, it won't always let you log in. This doesn't restrict you from playing the game or logging into the website from anywhere other than through the game.

[bikethor]

Sometimes I like sims 3 on origin, not steam.

I have both ..

Options are good .