Sims 3 Pets Steam

[Kanisha Dezarn]

Ipurchased and play sims4 and dlc thru EA app. Recently with EA giving away free pets stuff, I clicked it on Steam and the free pets dlc has been added to my Steam and EA app library list, but whenever I hit the Ea pp download button, it just times out and refuses to install.

On the EA app it states, that the pets dlc is managed by steam, but I had previously bagged the luxe dlc thru steam and it successfully installed using EA app. So why cant this free pets stuff not install?

Incidentally, I managed to get all my steam games relisted and reinstated on EA app and have tested them. Even the Steam based Desert Luxe Sims4 dlc has been enabled and payable in sims4 when launched thru EA app!! Titanfall also launches! Huzzah!

@_WindowsUser1_ I'm not sure how you managed to install Desert Luxe (if that's what you mean) through the EA App when you owned it through Steam. Normally, any content you own through Steam has to be downloaded into a Steam install.

If that doesn't work, your other two options are to temporarily unlink your Steam and EA accounts, just long enough to claim MFPS in the App; or to contact EA customer support and have the Steam version of MFPS removed from your account.

Looked thru steam purchase history to remove my first pets from steam and nothing is listed. Maybe its not listed on steam because the dlc has not been activated yet? There is nothing to remove from steam Library, in order to re-add to EA app. Yet on ea app the free pets game stuff is listed on manage dlc, but using Steam and gives a download button.

As for Desert Luxe kit, that was bagged free from Steam on Nov 30 2020, and I was able to download thru EA app no problem. ^^^See above pic as proof. Havent got a clue why, but it is there, downloaded and installed on EA app, and I always launch Sims ONLY thru EA app. The sims is never launched nor installed thru Steam (apart from sims3, which runs fine)

Just now I attempted to unlink my steam and EA accounts. Was I successful? Of course not. EA requires an email authentication pass code. Yet EA fails to send the verification email code. Even spammed the button and checked the Junk folder....nothing. I guess with all things EA, this will get dragged out for the next couple of day and nothing will get resolved.

Why does EA make my blood boil? EA, will not send out a verification code to the email address. I cannot unlink any of my various accounts with their EAcapp, I cannot download games thru EAcapp, I cannot manually delete a game from the EA app, I cannot add a free dlc from their EA store to my EA account, and to cap it off, sims 4 gonna run and run.

Ok so after requesting many verfication codes, and waiting 15 minutes for either one to show in the email, after some considerably long time, I somehow managed to unlink the steam and EA app. I then launched Ea app and the steam sims4 dlc was still listed in the ea app. Umm ok then...

After which I went back to steam and had a deep dive, and was able to removed the free sims pet dlc form my steam account. Huzzah! Upon revisting EA app, I was able to add the free pets dlc to EA account. A successful three hours of a wasted Friday!!

@_WindowsUser1_ I don't know anything about troubleshooting Titanfall, but I'd suggest uninstalling the EA App with Revo Uninstaller (the free version is fine) and reinstalling it. If that doesn't help, you'll probably need to reinstall Titanfall.

Yes, I am getting it, too, at the moment. Probably because Steam website is overloaded at the moment, Autumn Sale just started and people are massively grinding nomination tasks for badge, claiming daily sticker, exploring store for discounted games, etc...

I personally just took this one, I don't have any other Sims 4 DLC, just base game which is F2P. Error passed, claiming now works smoothly, at least it did for me and few others who also confirmed it in this thread.

Currently giving an error message, but the whole Steam store is bugging out right now so it's to be expected.

The more interesting thing about this DLC is that it seems to require another DLC in order to work, so it's DLC for a DLC... I'm not all that surprised that it's EA the one company doing stuff like that.

I imagine the error will get sorted out in the next few hours, it's probably related to the steam sale since a lot of stuff is currently failing to load for me.

But to me this reads as a strategy to get people to buy the other DLC, as in we get one for free so we're motivated to buy the "base" DLC in order to access it. It's kinda clever, and kinda evil.

I mean you're not wrong, it's a shitty tactic by ea again. Nothing they'll ever say or do will justify the whole cost of this game, it's around $1000 for the complete game, and even on sale it's still like $400 at least. Yeah, f2p games looked good at first, and then we pay for it by getting incomplete pieces of crap, and to actually get the working full product we have to pay 15x more than we would've normally paid for the game. Of course I agree it's shitty, but I don't see who would stop it. It brings valve as well a ton of money just for cashing in on their % share of the $1000 vs $60, and so it does to every other company, and then you also have other things like in game purchases and stuff of the sort.

I should probably clarify that I'm not against the idea of having a free to play base game and selling the extras, I see it as a perfectly fine business model as long as it's done in a transparent way. And that's kinda my gripe with how EA is doing this, I'm not gonna complain too much about getting a freebie but the idea of DLC that requires another DLC to work properly is pretty much indefensible from a design perspective, if you are the one developing the DLC and you rather sell it as two pieces of content then split it in such a way that the consumer can freely choose if they want both or just one of them, building the two pieces so the player feels like they simply can't fully enjoy one without having the other is plain old manipulation, and that's harder to justify.

In my opinion if you want more money either make more content or raise the prices, don't play mind games with the playerbase.

Either way I still don't like their dlc model, it's way beyond anything reasonable, and at least if each $30 pack included a few hundred or thousand items it would feel more reasonable, but they lack in variety and options always. It's like the go on a random 3d model site, pay $100 for a bunch of $3 models and then resell them to users as a dlc for $30 cashing in on millions that way.

I don't know what to say about that, I haven't played the game nor am I particularly interested in playing it so I quite simply lack the necessary knowledge to argue any further about the specifics of this particular case. I must admit that I took the reviews at face value and ran with the admittedly scarce info provided by them, so there's a good chance that I was mislead and chose to believe it simply because of how many times EA has pulled questionable moves in the past, maybe they're being sincere this time and I'm just showing my prejudice.

At the end of the day my main issue with this is that the concept itself of DLC for DLC is a dick move whichever way you look at it because there's no reasonable excuse for it at the design level, if the same company has control over both the base product and the add-ons being developed for said base product then they should be able to design them in a way that avoids pointlessly stacked add-ons when they could most likely run in parallel. To me this sounds as scummy as when a phone maker stops including a headphone jack in their line of phones and instead sells you a dongle to connect the headphones through the USB port, they're making the user experience worse just so they can make it more expensive in a roundabout way.

My 1st pets is controversial for literally being dlc for the cats & dogs EP. it released shortly after with items that likely was meant to be in the EP but wasn't ready for the deadline.

Its not just some outfits for the cats and dogs, its also a few pet related items that just don't function fully unless you own cats & dogs

I mean to EA's defense here, I wouldn't expect said items to work without pets either because what's going to trigger them, ghosts? Unless I misunderstand and you can elaborate for me a little as to what kind of items were supposed to work fully but don't.

the rat/hamster/small rodent is all variants of one gameplay items. the SP itself's entire controversy comes from it releasing like a week or so after the pack and pretty much feeling like the extras of ep was just put into a stuff pack. The requirement to have C&D to fully use the pack did affect console players from getting the pack at all unless they had the ep

I was gonna say! I noticed this late after I already claimed it on Steam, but useful for those not using it from Steam. Sadly, I don't think consoles would qualify, since given the nature of things and the C&D DLC itself, cannot be obtained standalone without C&D coming with it.

(I had thought I would try to make it overlap in case I switch from Steam for whatever reason that may be. Apparently the license is not removable from my end, and because the EA app detects it, I can't claim it there either. Stuck with Steam. Oh well)

You'll just get some bonus outfits if you have the cats and dogs dlc. So basically without the cats and dogs dlc you only have access to like 50% of this free dlc, because I mean you'd have no cats and dogs to put your outfits on.

I had to use the Steam app on my laptop to make it work. The browser login wasn't sufficient and always led to the message "An error was encountered while processing your request". Previously I only had the base game.

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