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

by politieke
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Re: How do I play the Sims 4 offline with the EA app?

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At one point maybe 20 years ago I had nothing but EA games.  At one point I had Sims 2, Sims 3, Sims 4, BF 1942, BF Vietnam, and BF 2 and played all of them 7 days a week.  Then came BF 3, that I hated, because it took all the fun out of it.  So I just kept playing BF2.  Eventually EA put their foot down, said no more of that, go buy and play BF4.  Hated that one too.  

Played Sims 2 and Sims 3 for a while, Sims 4 was the ultimate for a few years.  Now it is unplayable.  Stupid game requires updates monthly, sometimes even weekly, all of them break the game and ruin my mods that took lots of work to install.  After the 10th time reinstalling my mods, the x-packs, and even the game when it acts dodgy, I just gave up, what's the use?  EA you seem hell-bent on making us play THEIR games THEIR way and for no apparent reason.  I'm not surprised at all that now EA is a purveyor of great big batches of games that no one wants.  EA seems to have a corporate culture that is, if not actively hostile to their own customers, then one that totally ignores them. 

 

EA, you went from make art to making crap, from customer-friendly to customer-hostile, and from making desirable and fun games, to making unimaginative, dull garbage filled games filled with bugs, glitches that require constant updates that break the game over and over.  IDK if and when you'll come out with Sims 5, (since after destroying all fun factor in the Battlefield series, it is the only title of yours I could possibly be interested in).  But judging from how Sims 4 plays now (when it plays at all), how much can I even expect from any new EA game?  I thought "updates" were supposed to make games better, not worse, but that's exactly what Sims 4 does now, with every weekly update that breaks the game yet again.   

After Sims 1 I bought 2, 3, and 4 the day they came out and price be damned, I wanted to play and see how much the game improved ASAP because that's what the developers had achieved with every sequel game.  But now even if/when you release Sims 5 I am going to wait a year before a buying decision.  Given the continuing downward trend in EA's game development, and barely concealed antagonism towards their own customer base, this time I'll let others be your test players.  

 

This is a plea to anybody at EA in charge who has the influence and who might be reading this, that I hope you have the business acumen to reverse course from the slow death spiral of a (formerly excellent) game development studio.  And if you won't, or can't do this, then I have to tell you that I am surely not alone in having no desire to own even one more over-complicated, glitchy, PITA games we have been getting from EA for the last ten years.  

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

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This may have been true but now ea app wont start if i ternet is down.. account cant be found error

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

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What do you do when there are no three lines? Just the home, library and my games. Is there another way to force it offline?

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

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you can try if you are on mac, assuming? you go up  on the top bar and put your cursor over account and you’ll see go offline! Standard smile

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

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Same issues - While traveling I wanted to play the game, but was not able to - I was at a location with little to no internet service and was not able to even open the app so I can switch it to offline mode. There seems to be no forethought on how that was designed. Very frustrating. I was forced to use EA app from Origin on my mac - and I have only had problems - app and game loading issues - I get the message "Things are taking longer than usual to load up. Hang tight while we try to solve the problem" each time I open the EA app.

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

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@AvaFawnGamer Exactly, when it was origin I could open it and play it whenever. I haven’t had WiFi since Friday (it’s tuesday now) and have played sims somehow until this point yet now I’m unable to open the app at all, it’s extremely annoying.
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How do I complain about offline usage?

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I want to complain about offline usage. The app is refusing to let me play my own game, and I assume it wants me to sign in. As of right now, my Wi-Fi isn’t working, and since the app can’t load the login, it doesn’t let me play the game.

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

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Only problem is there are no three dots anywhere I cannot find where to put it in offline mode 

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

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super disappointed that the team behind sims 4 has gone so low as to lock players out of the game if their internet is out. This is primarily a single player game anyways, this just makes me want to never play the sims again.

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

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I found out I had this issue last week when our Internet went out for four days.  For four days I couldn't play a game that I spent over 1000$ on.  This is not acceptable.

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