How do I play the Sims 4 offline with the EA app?

[OmegaSmileyFace]

It really is unacceptable that there's no way to play this almost-entirely-offline single-player game which is entirely downloaded onto my computer without using the internet to log in first. I bought The Sims 4 years ago because I remember playing 3 on trips when I—like many potential customers—had no internet access. I have enjoyed playing offline for those years, but I can't do that anymore because logging in requires internet access (even though my computer is supposed to KEEP me logged in). I can't imagine how tempting it must be now for people with limited internet access to just pirate the game so they can play it locally.

This needs to be fixed.

[BumblebeeCat9]

@OmegaSmileyFace Yes!!!
Hey Ea, the offline play mode doesn’t work. I don’t wanna play online cause i don’t want my game to update (the update is game breaking). I went briefly online to go offline. The game doesn’t open at all.

[jason2878]

Great job EA just a way to screw people over can't play the game offline  and no help from what you a wast of money time.

[Demonicmickey]

Has a solution to the problem been found? I messaged EA two weeks ago and still haven't gotten a reply back. I haven't been able to play The Sims since EA forced me to update to their app and get rid of Origin, and that was a month ago. It doesn't matter how many times I put it in offline mode, it always tells me that I have to sign in online in order to play offline. It's really frustrating and I'm beginning to wonder if there's an alternative to playing The Sims without the EA app. 

[silver9899]

I presume this hasn't been fixed? Sigh. Currently having Internet problems and experiencing this issue. What's the point of a game that needs the Internet just to load?! It's ridiculous! At least with origin it would open the main bit and give you the option to play offline if you were having problems. Ea app doesn't even load up! Frustrating to say the least... 

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[TheTwentyfists]

This has still not been fixed. Absolutely ridiculous, boneheaded decisions all across this app's implementation, of which this has been the most frustrating so far.

[PandaBeing]

As many, I am having internet issues and I cannot log into the EA app and thus can't play the Sims. First time in my life since Sims 1 this has happened to me. This is totally unacceptable! 

[emelton07]

@EA_Leeuw How do you play it if you don't have the ability to go online at all?

[Kitaniwilliams]

I’m having a similar issue except I went offline and when I tired to load my game it said the license was expired and to go online to renew the license, but how can I do that if my Wi-Fi is down ? Im experiencing outages and they don’t know when my Wi-Fi will be back up 

[RoseOfDecember]

I also have this problem, what we want is to be able to enter our game without logging into the EA App, because I already had a problem and I was without internet for a week, so I was unable to play for a week.
Which is absurd, because if I bought all the games, I have the right to play even without logging into the app.