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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 please39Views1like1CommentDoes 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"thefirsttemplar4 days agoRising Traveler115Views9likes4CommentsNew 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 Veteran16Views2likes0CommentsNecroposting 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.Simmerville6 days agoSeasoned Veteran74Views6likes5CommentsFEEDBACK 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!!Chicklet4536810 days agoNew Traveler81Views6likes7Comments- catloverplayer17 days agoSeasoned Veteran25Views0likes1Comment
Can'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.GalacticGal18 days agoSeasoned Ace37Views1like2CommentsIdea 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 something18Views0likes1CommentDisappearing pictures
So, new feedback... over the last couple of days I've noticed that the icons for the various forum sections have been disappearing. Today, the pictures in my story post disappeared for about thirty minutes. Oddly, they didn't show the little "broken picture like" icon. They just weren't there at all... and then they came back. So that's... odd.luciusstorm21 days agoSeasoned Veteran23Views1like1CommentI like the page view for boards!
I’ve been quite negative about various aspects of the forum design so far, but I just wanted to provide some positive feedback and say that I really like the page view for boards, where you click on the bolded number of posts at the top of the board! It’s so much less cluttered, and you can see many more discussions at once by scrolling down the page. And then more discussions by clicking on the next page. I think it would be a great improvement if this page view could be set to be the default for each board. And also if each thread could be displayed in the same way. Might that be possible one day (soon)?FreddyFox123423 days agoSeasoned Hotshot17Views2likes0CommentsForums
Who's with me when I say that I wish EACG would go back to the old forums? This new format is a pain in the **bleep** as far as I'm concerned and should NOT be active. The old forums were easy to get to and easier to read and find what you wanted.Player_6s4tr9m724 days agoSeasoned Novice32Views1like0CommentsText gets highlighted and deleted while typing
Every so often when I'm typing in a reply, the last several words I typed will be suddenly highlighted then immediately deleted. "Undo" doesn't replace the deleted text. When I try to re-type the text I deleted, sometimes the same thing happens again after the same letter of the same word, and sometimes not. It could be that it's being triggered by some particular combination of letters or words, so if I don't use exactly the same wording it doesn't happen? not sure about that. This happens once or twice in every forum browsing session (twice in the last 15 minutes). This doesn't happen on any other site I visit, or in word processing or other software, so I know it isn't just user error. What's going on? Is it some sort of filter detection? Using Safari on a Macbook Promightyspritesims25 days agoNew Hotshot19Views0likes2CommentsSims 4 general discussion is at the bottom of the list?
Since a few days the sims 4 general discussion subforum is appearing at the bottom of the list with subforums? Is this by design or a glitch? It is tedious to always have to scroll to the bottom. I assumed general discussion was the main section of the forum. Or is the main purpose of this forum to report technical issues and not to talk about the game?atreya3327 days agoSeasoned Veteran87Views3likes4Comments