August 2014
So, recently I have decided to register SimCity Societies and Destinations expansion, and I contacted EA Help to have them register my codes. But, when they registered it, I got SIMCITY SOCIETIES Origin Retrofit and SIMCITY SOCIETIES DESTINATIONS Origin Retrofit. Both of those cannot be downloaded, as apparently, they aren't yet released. Is anyone else having this problem, and will it be fixed?
August 2014
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October 2016
I don't know how to solve the issue, but when I did the same thing, I got SIMCITY SOCIETIES DESTINATIONS Origin Retrofit, along with sim city societies, and sim city societies: destinations. The last two match the version. I have that came in my SimCity box My only issue is that it uses the same installers that the disc version uses, and is not updated. when I clicked update in the games launcher, I got a 404 error in the browser window that opened up. EA shut down the site for the games updates. even the links on another EA site that were supposedly supposed to bring me to the games site are broken.
where do I get the US patches for the game. I know at least four patches were released and are not included with the downloaded files.
version downloaded by origin 10: 1.00
highest patch version : 1.04.243
I don't know what this retrofit version is. is it an unreleased version?
October 2016 - last edited October 2016
Apparently, I may have goofed in my last post. I found the original EA patch site for sim city Societies and sim city Societies: destinations thanks to archive.org. there was not other way of finding out this info, because I could not find it posted elsewhere. also the original site was taken down by EA quite a while ago now. but the information I found is this: If you have both the game and its expansion (destinations), then you do not need the patches. according to the site, the patches are included as part of the destinations install process. but if you only have the base game, then you need all the patches, which are not included in the origin version
January 2017
Did you find the solution of this problem? I also have this problem.