EA Sims 2 Store

DermalCut · EA Sims 2 Store

Today EA opened up their new Sims 2 Store (http://thesims2store.ea.com) where you can by single objects or collections for Sims2 that are taken out of the expansion packs and the stuff packs.
Login works with standard EA account or EA Store account.
Upon first login 6 downloads are offered for free, 2 of which have not been released before in a stuff pack or expansion pack. These are a comfy chair (The Recalcitrant Recliner by Decorama Designs) and a formal dress (Green and Yellow Velvet Dress with Silver Lock) for adult females.
There are about a dozen further exclusive objects which can be bought for about 75-100 SimPoints each (500 SimPoints are 5$) and also about a dozen clothings for 75 SimPoints each. As they must be paid for, sharing them would be illegal, I suppose.
At the moments only US-American credit cards are accepted as payment, but possibilities for Europe will be prepared.

As the Recliner and the Dress mentioned above are free (you just need to login for free and can drag them into your EA downloadmanager), I suppose it is not illegal to share them.

So here they are, both in one rar-file.
http://www.mediafire.com/?zm5dwadbxjz

Paladin

Wow...

We both posted this news at the *exact* same time.

Thanks for uploading the downloads.
Personally I'd be interested to see if they work within someone's game in the manner that you've uploaded them.
Just if they do, it would make them far too easy to distribute for free.
Which is not the sort of thing that EA would overlook.

So can anyone let us know if they work in your game without downloading them via the EA Download Manager?

DermalCut

I will try it, perhaps this evening, if I find the time.

I was surprised to find that my EA Downloadmanager installed a "Sims 2 Store Edition" without my doing something first (I did not even enter any financial data).
The two Item were than saved as packages in Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2 Store Edition.
I just copied them out of it.
Don't know why it happened, suppose the Downloadmanager didn't detect my British Sims2 Game which was installed from 4 CDs (1st edition!)

Paladin

Perhaps that's by design to help prevent the easy distribution of objects.

DermalCut

So, I just started my game and looked in the CAS. Took me a while to find it, as it is not marked with a custom star but with the logo of one of the stuff packs (orange circle with light green crystal, why that would be I don't know, perhaps it was created for a Stuff Pack but not included).
Nicely done dress, new mesh, the described silver lock is not painted on but a separate little thing attached to the figure.
The recliner was easier to find. It looks also quite nice and comes in 3 recolours.

rednotdead

When I registered I got 6 free items
http://thesims2store.ea.com/produ...goryId=10727&categoryId=10658

will upload them if needed

DermalCut

You can get 6, but 4 of them are already included in the Expansion Packs and the Stuff Packs. As I have them all, I saw no point in downloading these 4.

I'd be more interested in the other Exclusives that they sell, but there is no possibility for Europeans at the moment.

Havoc

Sadly the European like me can't buy the Art Deco & Cubic exclusive collections.

US/Canada only Sad

Paladin

DermalCut

Ah, that explains it.

But that is only on the dress, the recliner has a normal custom star.

Paladin

Does it?
Mine doesn't have a custom star on it at all.

Havoc

Because you install them manually, but when you use the EA Download Manager, it install them automatically in the good folder !

holy armadillos

EA store items, if available, always the first ones on the pages?

XS

I expect it's only a matter of time before these objects are freely available to download....

Hehehe.

Edit: Found 26 out of 32 within minutes of posting this. HA!
Edit 2: 10 minutes later, I have all 32. Very Happy

Chickadee

So how did you do it??? Smile

XS

I'm waiting on whether the admin forbid illegal links before I post them.

Wouldn't be fair if I ban links from my site and post them here straight afterwards.

Tae

Most of the hairs there have fiveheads anyway.

I got the hair from the same place XS got the object, I think.

I interest in the new cloth meshes more than other things there.

Paladin

Aroenai

There is discussion about the ea store content at more awesome than you, and seeing how that site is mentioned a lot over here anyway, it should be a safe bet.

Personally I don't think charging $79.25 plus tax (added it up myself) is justifiable for ONLY the exclusives. It doesn't even add up to a complete stuff pack, which would be $19.99 otherwise.