EA Giving The Sims 2 Away for Free on Origin, Along With All 18 Expansions

Luckily, you can STILL get all the add-ons!

You must have The Sims 2 though.

Go to origin, and contact them via chat and let them know you own the sims 2, missed the date and really want the expansion packs.

They'll ask you to verify that you own a copy of the sims 2 by having you upload a photo of the copy you own and then they'll give you the code and add it to your library on Origin.

Just did this 2 days ago.

Sucks that EA is no longer supporting the Sims 2. You'd think they'd somehow release a patch to make Sims 2 compatible for Windows 8 or 8.1, but instead they ignored us and continued to make Sims 3 and Sims 4 that PROBABLY won't even work on Windows 8 anyway. I have the original hard copies of the Sims 2 and most of the expansions leading up to Bon Voyage. I've installed them and tried to find some sort of assistance in getting these games to work, but nothing helped. My game loaded up fine, but it would crash within like, less than 5 minutes of me entering a Sim's house. It sucks.

It would have been nice to get Apartment Life for free, since I've seen many beautiful custom homes using that expansion pack. But since my games won't work with my OS anymore, I guess it doesn't matter anyway. Too bad my PC died, it had Windows 7 and my games worked flawlessly on that OS. I wish I could go back to my PC just to play Sims 2 again. Sad.

"EA contacted Sims 2 owners recently, informing them of the news and offering a free upgrade to the newly created The Sims 2: Ultimate Collection."

I was never contacted and have now missed the deadline :( gutted

I downloades and press the play button since two days without turns off my pc and nothing happens. Anyone know haw can I fix it?

*I got installed the sims 3, that is the trouble?

I was so happy when I heard about this. Originally, it was just going to be for the people who already owned The Sims 2, which I could understand, but I was hoping they'd be generous and give it to anyone who wanted it.

I've really been enjoying it since I downloaded it. :D

how do I download it?

I was super happy that I could play this! I was even happy to sit through the long download wait! I get to the part where you actually make your sim, and it crashes. I try again thinking it's just being a little weird since it was my first time playing, crashes in the exact same spot. I see that other people are having this problem, and some people are running it just fine! Is there any way I can fix this? I'd really appreciate some help. :( I have windows 8 if that's something. PLEASE HELP D:

It says we have to backup and uninstall The Sims 2 but what about the expansion packs? Do we have to uninstall all of the expansion packs too? And if so, would we need to save anything from those exp. pack files?

I downloaded it but it will not play when I press play nothing happens I get a time icon as if it is working but then it goes away has anyone had this problem how can I fix it

I wish they would leave the exchange up. That's my only complaint. Thanks for this. I never got Apartment Life and by the time I wanted it, people were charging $70 for it.

Would Love to know why I download a game my daughter sees and gets all excited for and then it doesn't work EA refuses to help on the phone because they have stopped support and here I am with an upset daughter and 13gb of Bandwidth used up.. Win7 pro gaming system, but the Sims 2 UC launches threw one of the expansions .exe's not a main game I get a EA logo (NOT IMPRESSED) a cut screen and 20 minutes of a locked screen with the music and the mouse working but nothing else. My daughter upset and me wondering why I bother with EA anymore.. any solutions.

It's better than paying $60 for the feature incomplete game that will be sims 4.

Can't say no to this. There's like a crazy number of hours of entertainment here for no money at all.

<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> If you seriously consider that to be true you clearly haven't been paying attention to this industry at all. If you absolute have to pick out on company I'd say Activision is far more hurtful considering that they seem unwilling to take any chances at all and stick to one or two massive franchises.

ROFLMAO, OMG, I feel for all of you that purchased the game and all the expansions...

Oh wait, I did that too.

Oh well DX

Done and done.

<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> I'm not an EA employee. I would gladly accept a job with them if they offered one though.

I feel like a cheap prostitute, taking gifts from people I don't like. Oh well...

that a nice move from EA,they may still be hope

Give me Sims 1 with all expansions, and i'd be happy. Sims went downhill from the original.

Doesn't work. EA's heart might be in the right place, but they still shot themselves in the foot.

I'm running it in compatibility mode because i'm on windows 8, but it still won't allow me to create a family, it crashes as soon as I attempt to create a character.

Where do you find the game to download after putting the code in ? ty

Dang i have a mac and it doesn't work on macs ._.

need help my sims freezes at the title screen I waited 20 mins for it to load and nothing happened

This is yet another reason why EA is a great company that cares about their fans. Who else would give you the ultimate edition of a legendary game like this?