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Cant play online
wow, I am able to stream HBO direct to my PS 5I am unable to play college football 25 or grand theft auto auto auto auto auto five I am getting the runaround from Sony and from EA. I did a lot of troubleshooting already. My Internet connection is personally fine and everything was working just yesterday and for the past year and now all of a sudden it’s not.5Views0likes0CommentsIssue with buying UFC 5 PS5
Hi, I used the trial version that lasted through the weekend. I have EA Play. I wanted to buy the game, but it’s not possible. When I enter the game, it displays a message saying that to keep my current progress, I need to buy the game. I click “Buy EA Sports UFC 5” and I get a message saying “You already own this item.” If I try from the PlayStation store, either from the console or the app, I get the message “Something went wrong.” Error code: CE-112987-8. help please39Views1like1CommentOpinion on New Forums
It may just be unpopular opinion, but I find these new forums to be painstakingly difficult to read ,(text is tiny, and colors are blinding), follow thread, my hand hurts from scrolling through hundreds of post I already read since day one to get to current. Newest somehow works but requires a lot waiting of leg work too. Is it just me. Have I been put on a delay? It wont let me post to threads all the time for just no good reason. Notifications are not as clear and prompt as last forum. While I think it may need kinks worked out, I myself may have to take to another forum. I may check in periodically to see if they have improved it, but for now, I can't. Let me know is anyone if experiencing the same or if it's just me.leucosiax2 days agoSeasoned Hotshot2.5KViews71likes101CommentsDoes anyone actually think these forums are an improvement?
I honestly just don't see it, it's a big mess and I have to click many times to even see the newest comments on a thread. It's just a huge downgrade to me compared to the old Sims forums which where so much easier to navigate. It just makes me far less interested to really engage here. It just seems even worse than Discord. Maybe I'm getting old but I honestly feel like social media is often getting less social due to "improvements"thefirsttemplar2 days agoRising Traveler115Views9likes4CommentsNew Sims Forum Feedback
Hi! This is for the team at EA who are hopefully picking up on feedback and looking to constantly improve these new forums. What I’d like to stress, and ask for from all us lovely Simmers, is that this isn’t a place for being overly negative, aggressive or angry towards the team or specific staff. I’ve seen quite a few reactions that are just that and if we want to improve things, while we don’t have to be overly positive either, we need to be constructive at least. Having been a member of the original Sims forums and the newer rendition in recent years, I think it’s fair to say what keeps the forums running is the sense of community. So a few things I think that would help this would be: customisation for profiles - avatars, signatures, adding social media links or blogs/websites so we can find each other elsewhere. Paying specific attention to each rendition of the game, the Sims 3 community is massive and has been around a lot longer. So please consider us when making changes! I can see the sims 4 forum/threads already have plenty more tags and options than ours do as well as sub forums that we haven’t been able to keep. We have a whole community of storytellers that benefitted from the stories and legacies subforum and whether the game is 15 years old or not it deserves to live on. Changes to the formatting of threads and replies. I’ve noticed it is already hiding multiple replies under a “show more” filter which limits conversation. Also nesting replies is confusing, the original board style was much easier to navigate and chat on, which is what these forums are all about. As already highlighted, changing the automatic filtering by likes to newest would make it feel more relevant and conversational as a quick fix in the mean time. I personally miss being able to bookmark threads, especially since the sims 3 forums have lost our sub forums and all the migrated ones are in the franchise discussion (please rectify this!). I can’t navigate to what I want to read and am losing track of what I’ve chatted on unless I get notified. Could we also have a list of the rankings just out of interest? I have no idea what a traveler is but apparently I am one 😂 As always, super grateful to the team for taking feedback on board and looking forward to improvements and developments as they come! Happy Simming! LizzieLizzielilyy3 days agoSeasoned Veteran1.7KViews23likes110CommentsNecroposting not good - so why do the forum advertise 5 years old threads?
When in a thread I get a list of "related posts" to the right. Typically, those posts will be 5 or 7 years old. Recently I commenting in one of them, a thread about graveyards that I thought was highlighted this way due to the new pack. Old thread but very relevant these days thanks to the upcoming Life & Death pack. The result was that the thread got closed because it was considered necroposting. So - WHY do the forum list all those old threads if we can not post on them? My suggestion is that threads that are too old for commenting on, are automatically set to "read only" and NOT advertised as a "hey, come check out this necro-thread". Or, ther could at least be a gravestone/grim or similar symbol indicating the read-only status. I've been on all TS forums for 24(?) years (which is actually a quarter of a century!), but I still do not know what exact age makes a thread too old. A symbol or read-only status would be of great help.Simmerville5 days agoSeasoned Veteran74Views6likes5CommentsNew Forum Oddity
Well, here's a new weirdness I have never seen before... I tried to click Like on a post and instead got a pop up of a brief user profile as if I had hovered over a random user's name or avatar (a random user who, as far as I could tell, had nothing to do with the post I was trying to Like). (I keep saying I'm walking away from these forums, but there are a few people and threads that pull me back.)luciusstorm6 days agoSeasoned Veteran16Views2likes0CommentsShow more button
When I click the Show more button when reading a thread, it reloads the page and then brings me back at the top of the page and then I need to scroll back down and find where I was and continue reading. Can you please make it so it just loads the next batch of posts without reloading the whole page? It's getting very tedious to read this way especially with all the nested replies and no pagination.crocobaura6 days agoSeasoned Ace134Views13likes8CommentsFixing the new forums images
Hi simmers. It is Melanie aka mcrudd here. I have joined the new forums and is looking around. I am very lost at the moment, I can see that a lot of my threads did manage to come over, although the only way I can find them is via my profile page, I am unable to locate them via the new menus. I also noted that all of my images are broken, I am not too bothered about the gameplay screenshots, but all my mods and baby clothes photo's are gone too. It does also not seem to be a clickable link for you guys to click on, so I have no idea how to fix all this. I am postop at home, had surgery 5 days ago so am a little loopy at the moment, but would love to fix and understand the new forums before the release of the new pack so that I can test all my mods and so forth for you guys like I used too. I would appreciate any input, help, advice you have for me on when and how to fix this, and what you guys have managed to figure out and so on. I am a new spectator that joined 16 years ago ;)Solvedmcrudd6 days agoSeasoned Adventurer228Views6likes13CommentsFEEDBACK ON FORUM
On your "Update to the Forums" post it said: Site Performance: In recent weeks we’ve seen site performance is not consistently at the level it should be. "Sometimes pages wouldn’t load, errors like “community not found” and “internal server error” would appear, or folks couldn’t log in"We’ve been working behind the scenes to identify what’s been happening, andwe believe one of the main causes of this has been found and addressed this week. As ever, if you are encountering such issues, please let us know. Well I'm here to let you know that it is most definitely NOT FIXED! I have the Sims 4 Forum bookmarked: This is the Bookmark URL I've saved When I tried to access the forum today using that saved Bookmark, 2 things happened: 1 - It took me to another's profile about their Badges (Lili824 is NOT me!) I feel like that's a breach of privacy when I'm taken to someone else's profile! 2 - When I tried go Log in I got the "Couldn't Authenticate" message AGAIN. I'm, so confused by why this particular website has so many issues and not one single other website has them. I should not be logged out unless I log out myself. This is not a bank/personal information website that would time out due to privacy issues. The other forum never logged me out unless there was an update with the site or my personal PC. So, why does this one have that issue? I should not have to clear my "cache" in order to make YOUR website work. I don't have to do that for any other website. Why should I be inconvenienced by clearing the cache and browsing history from all of my other saved sites just to make YOUR site function correctly? That's NOT acceptable!!Chicklet453687 days agoNew Traveler81Views6likes7CommentsIdea For New Post Alert/View
I'm hoping and wondering if we could get something where we can see on topics when a new post is made in the yellow area I would want it to say, New Post by person name and time passed Also would be cool if the message count indicator was highlighted a color too or something18Views0likes1CommentCan't Post in Stories
I have not been able to post my updates in stories. I keep getting a message I've exceeded my maximum and to try again later. At least the update I was trying to post is there. (if I hit reply on the last published update, that is.) It has been suggested to me, that if I used codes-links at all, that those could be the problem. I used them three times. Twice in What Happened In Your Game Today?, thread, to let other players know I had posted updates to my story, (in Creative Corner and then a third one in WHIYGT? to let them know I had gone back to Creative Corner, since I wasn't able to find my own posts. Oi! My intention was to remove the code-links on those three posts, hoping this would clear the problem. However, I scrolled through the WHIYGT? thread and they appear to be hopelessly buried. I'm at my wit's end. I am now posting over at Sim Creatives. I will pop over here now and again, just to keep in touch, but I'm reallythat unhappy with how these threads work. I can't even bring myself to call them forums. More like random Post-it notes in which you're entirely lucky should you stumble across one of your own. Yes, I understand that this site is still undergoing construction, but a simple pardon our dust, won't cut it for me. They are unusable as things stand. My updates are stacking up and only being allowed to post one a day, will take a bit of time. And that's when I'm able to publish! So, unless this matter can be cleaned up, I have no other choice when it comes to sharing my stories.GalacticGal16 days agoSeasoned Ace37Views1like2Comments- catloverplayer17 days agoSeasoned Veteran25Views0likes1Comment
Start a Discussion Issue
Well, hopefully this works...lol! I tried to start a new discussion over in The Sims 4 Creative Corner area of the new forums to get a "You've exceeded the maximum number of posts you can publish. Try again later." pop-up. Tried each day since the new forums was live and received that message. Not sure what I am doing wrong, if I am doing anything wrong. Also screen capped it and added it as an attachment. :) Appreciate any help.Solved127Views0likes11Comments[Sims 3 forum] Cannot make post, then gets told limit is reached.
So I tried to make a post in a thread in the Sims 3 forum, and the post wasn't made. So, of course, I tried to post it again, only to get this message. It is now the second time I encounter this error when trying to make a lengthy post. Now listen, the Sims community is in large part made up of people who use the game for storytelling purposes, and as such we will often make lengthy posts. I don't know if its the lenghty posts themselves that make this happen or what it is, but it just looks like this forum was created without in the slightest bit taking the Sims community into account.... In particular the Sims 3 community, you couldn't even give us sub-forums.... (holds up picket sign, shouts angrily) Edit: The health of these forums is clearly not good. I have tried several times now to make the post, and it won't let me. Yet, the post is stored so I don't have to rewrite it, which is good. Also, when logged out sometimes it fails to recognize my user, and I've had a few instances where the forum itself just won't load, getting a couple of different versions of a "This page can't be found error". as well as threads not loading and only giving me top blue bar and then a white page. Maybe it will be better tomorrow....Sprottenham20 days agoSeasoned Adventurer62Views1like4Comments