Sims 3 Christmas give away??

whitmartinez

Last year around Christmas there was something they were giving away free each day till Christmas. I was wondering if anybody knew if they were doing that again.

Karritz

No idea but I'm pretty sure there won't be anything.

igazor

Not even a free lump of coal? I guess we've all been very bad this year...

5782341b77vl

During gameplay one of my friends mentioned an EA Giveaway Dec 19 - 31

whitmartinez

I'll keep my eyes open then

Gwaeri

As far as I'm aware, there should be a giveaway starting from the 19th December. I saw an advertisement pertaining to that on The Sims 3 website, but am unable to find it now. If I can dig up a link, I'll be sure to post it.

Karritz

RuYina wrote: »

As far as I'm aware, there should be a giveaway starting from the 19th December. I saw an advertisement pertaining to that on The Sims 3 website, but am unable to find it now. If I can dig up a link, I'll be sure to post it.

Is that ad for 2014 or is it an old ad for last year that they haven't taken down yet?

They've been rolling all the old ads for last year including announcing a new world being released in December. But further investigation revealed the new world was Roaring Heights and all the other new Sims 3 stuff being announced was all old ads for 2013 that they haven't taken down. So I'm not getting excited about any ads for new stuff to be released for Christmas this year.

igazor

It's been very nice of EA to keep wishing me a Happy Valentine's Day pretty consistently for the past eleven months...

Gwaeri

@Karritz, it could well have been an ad from last year. I'm sorry I can't offer more info on it.

lisasc360

They only thing I found about them giving away free stuff from the 19th-31st is from last year when they did that. They haven't made an announcement for anything this year and I doubt that they will.
http://www.thesims3.com/community/news.html?selMonth=11&selYear=2013

Gwaeri

That explains it! Thank you @lisasc360. Sorry for the misinformation!

lisasc360

You're welcome @RuYina. It happens to the best of us... It would be nice if they did that again and we can only hope for it...

5782341b77vl

Even if it was last year's ad, why would they bring it back up this year? To not have the giveaway would be false advertisement. I'm really hoping it's an oversight (the year part) and they do the giveaway.

Karritz

They've been showing last year's ads on Sims 3 site since Sims 4 was released. They don't seem to care about false advertising. I suspect it is their way of telling us Sims 3 isn't worth them spending any time on stopping these outdated ads. It's like they don't spend time on fixing bugs in their games either.

lisasc360

They didn't bring it back up as the old store news is just recycling from last year. The only thing on the news page on the old site right now is SGBChick posting about the problems on the My Page when people couldn't write on their walls.

Jessa_Dakkar

Ugh, I would so love a sale. The make-me-an-offer thing ONLY shows me the things I don't have in my game because I really don't like them. I swear it knows what I want and shows me everything but. The daily deal when I catch it isn't anything to jump up and down about either. So much left to get!

Please EA, show us a little love?

lisamwitt

I saw something today about Sims 4 Christmas stuff for free, but the Sims 3 site is dying the same slow death as the Sims 2 site. First, the forums go read only, then ads and news stop being updated. After awhile the exchange will close. Links to different parts of the site will no longer be valid. Then the store will close. After a few more years you won't even be able to find cached pages anymore.

TheSimDion

lisamwitt wrote: »

I saw something today about Sims 4 Christmas stuff for free, but the Sims 3 site is dying the same slow death as the Sims 2 site. First, the forums go read only, then ads and news stop being updated. After awhile the exchange will close. Links to different parts of the site will no longer be valid. Then the store will close. After a few more years you won't even be able to find cached pages anymore.

You just made me soo depressed...