someone said earlier (a page or so back) about how they stopped buying expansions for s3 because of needing origin.
i havent installed origin and i have most of the packs now.
the trick is to have the original first edition of the sims3.
if you bought the newer one from last year, that one will insist on installing origin, and no way no how. it wont budge.
i have most of the expacs, but i buy them ether on sale (my local sainsburys had a couple of them for a tenner last year)
or i get them from my local indipendant /CEX / charity shop.
yeah thats right. they end up in the charity shops (thrift stores, for you USA users)
sims 1 packs started turning up near the middle of sims2 lifespan, and now even the sims 3 packs are appearing in them (tho few and rare, the sims 2 ones are starting to appear a LOT more now)
i stopped at seasons, mainly because i wasnt sure about the origin requirement. im going to wait for anything new to appear in the shops on the cheap, and then try it. not wasting cash on new.
(if you are wondering, you start with telling it not to install the EADM (the old version of origin) and then when it gets to the packs that say install origin, you say the same thing, no ' DO NOT WANT '
its worked for me so far, with a bit of help from the noCD mod i just tells the game not to look for the disk, nothing more lol) and having no access to the net on that pc, and making a shortcut to the .exe so i can bypass the launcher. you dont need it at all unless you want to install sims3pack files. then you just grab patches you might have missed from the patches scrolls...those are usualy early ones like for world adventures and the one that came out right after that)
sims 4 is going to still make them a critt-ton of money. why? because of the sheeple.
those people that spend tons of cash on the EAstore stuff (ya know, all that stuff that they ripped out of each expansion to feed you a drop at a time)
they wont use any custom content but EAs (and maybe the sims resource lmao at the stuf they have) and likely never even consider using free CC thats fan made
(the best place for fan stuff that is free, is mod the sims, hands down. fixes and patches and hell, they even came up with posebox's for storytellers. a lot of stuff that ended up in sims 2 and 3 expansion packs were ahem, *inspired* by the mods there. echo's farmable crops...the spiral staircases...)
and yeah, we will see the toddlers again, but in the sims4 version of generations (so glad i never bought that, like i need some invisible friend stalker in my game) which adds lots of interactions for your kids. and the pools, well they will be back in the sun and fun type pack, where they give you hot-tubs back again....but not swimming in the sea, thats for the holiday themed expac, where you get sunburn and spontaniously combusting sims (again lol).
we will probably also see one supernatural type race choice per pack, maybe we will see plantsims back again....and of course the vamps and the werewolfs casue we got to have the little tween's fave boys again....
yeah, i will still stick to sims 1,2 and 3....and mine are more fun becasue of free CC....my s1 has multiple past time hoods (roman and medievil and old japanese are my faves) and my s2 is half zombie apocolypse (get a special mod set from mod the sims to help you simulate it better lol) and half medievil/roman too. if you like past time stuff, check out the medievil smithy site, such wonders they have ^^ even a full greek party set for your own recreation of 300