Sims 2 is being retired, EA to give owners a free Ultimate Collection upgrade

That is actually nice from EA. They are getting better as a company..

Nice, then I might better register my key too.

here me too. I also own a megaluxe edition, not working with origin. Talked to EA Support and they gave me a new key and now i have it on origin. Hope soon we get that complete edition :D

Thank you Quemical ! :D

They just registered my retail version too. Was lucky, the game advisor was really very nice too.

Great. Once my intetnet is back, I'll chat to Origin support. Got a disc somewhere.

Did you folks all do this via phone or their chat support service? My sister has Sims 2 on disc and is obsessed with the series, so if we can get hers set up on Origin, that'd be great.

Too bad I don't have it. :( By the way, would they know if the key I used has been redeemed?

I'd have to look, but I'm pretty sure the Sims 2 I have is the Double Deluxe one so this doesn't do me anything.

Even still, this is pretty cool of them.

next months on the house - sims 2

Almost convinced myself I didn't actually own a copy of Sims 2 until I finally found it in my pile of old games lol. A pretty great deal for me since I grabbed the game used a year ago and hadn't played it yet because I wanted to buy some expansions first. Support was surprisingly easy to deal with via the live chat. I just had to wait ~30 minutes first due to all the other people redeeming Sims 2 keys =p

Got The Sims 2 retail at the day one, almost 10 years ago. fucking good old times.

how can i contact the assistance, avoiding the telephone? thanks.

yes, i have an origin account

Just great, website is working bad again, didn't post my message. What I said is, for every step forward EA makes, they then make 3 steps back. It's a matter of time before they fuck up big time again, wait and see, mark my words.

Game advisor was really nice. Thank OP for alerting me to this awesome thing that was happening. :D

can't play with win 8....

bumping this as i think more people might enjoy this.
also if you bought the sims 2 back in the day(i bought it around 2005) you can talk to ea support to get it on your origin library(they will give you the double deluxe edition at the moment but at the 22nd of july it will be upgraded to the ultimate collection

So... Anyone know where I can buy a digital copy of this today? Haha

Thanks for the heads up. I'm going to try this with my retail copy too.

(I'll try to remember to do it at home, and hope I can find the game.)

Edit: Had a bit of a problem because for some reason my security question was in Chinese. Got that sorted out and activated login verification. The code I got was for the ultimate collection.

I better wait to pirate the sims 2. I want to pirate the ultimate collection. Yay, free game.

Well, fuck, I already own every expansion pack...
(I'm a huge Sims fan)

But wasn't the Sims 2 retired a while ago?

For reasons unknown I got the Ultimate Collection right away. Not going to complain. :3

Huh, nice. I got a retail copy, I'll be doing that later then. Thanks for the head up.

I contacted EA about adding my copy of The Sims 2 Deluxe (not Double Deluxe) which I purchased back in 2008. I still even had the receipt! They gave me a new key, as my old one said "invalid", and it was for the Ultimate Edition. Almost 12 GB later I have it all. Mods still seem to work for the most part too.

A lot of people seem to have hate for EA but I have never had a problem with them. The support staff is very friendly and fast once you finally are able to chat with one of them. I don't know of any other company who would be so generous when retiring a classic game.

What did some of you say to support to receive the key? I have a copy of Sims 2 sitting in front of me.

I found my cd key from the original 4 disc release, contacted the support and they added the game straight away. It was really easy, and the support person was incrediblybfriendly. New-found respect for them.

Thanks for this.

I bought retail copies of The Sims 2, University, Nightlife and Open for Business back in the day. No longer had the actual discs (long story), but still had my old keys in a text file and they went ahead and hooked me up with the UC.