KEEP EA IN OFFLINE MODE!!!
So I do not have internet access at home, and I used to play sims all day. Now I can't even play my sims, I'm just lucky to have hotspot on my phone to be able to at least start it up, which is limit...
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EA_Darko
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Community ManagerHey @weepingdelilah once you have opened the EA app while online you can set the EA app to offline.
Darko
- @EA_Darko I have the same problem as weepingdelilah, and have tried to set EA in offline mode. It doesn't work. Usually after I close out of the game, I get an error message that "an error of an unresolvable nature has occurred" and I am prompted to login again. It also doesn't save my login info even though I have checked the box to remember it. It's frustrating because I don't have wifi at home and have to use my phone as a hotspot and sometimes I don't have enough cell service for that to work. If I knew this would happen I would not have updated the game or installed EA app.
this is also happening to me. it’s upsetting at this point ☹️. sometimes I only get to connect to wifi once a week. pls update if you find a fix or the problem resolves.
Sorry, but no. I'm sure most of us keep getting the "an error of an unresolvable nature has occurred" too after about 15 min. Currently, "offline mode" is a lie.
It's not an error, or a bug, if it's happening to nearly everyone. It's a design feature, which I can't even say is bad design, given that it's probably doing exactly what EA wants, while being rooted in a misguided company policy of loving DRMs.
DRMs do nothing to stop misuse of software, it's just, plain and simple, a hostile approach to the actual customers. Very unfortunate company mindset.- @EA_Darko "That is the worst reply in the history of replies, maybe ever." - Ronald Crump
That's a terrible solution and entirely misses the point of having an offline mode. People make big assumptions about what kind of internet and mobile access people have these days. I live in a rural area and the internet is frequently spotty (which is ironic given if you cross into the next county, you have literally THE BEST internet in the country), so asking me to have internet every time I start the app is a slap to the face. I am fortunate to have a smart phone that I can turn into a hotspot for like... 5 seconds, but what if I didn't have that?
@EA_Darko Stop it. You know this doesn't work and you know people want to be able to LAUNCH the games they paid good money for offline. Not everyone has access to the internet 24/7, not everyone wants to sign in literally every single time they want to play their game! Give us an actual solution or more and more people are just going to pirate games in order to be able to access them offline (REMINDER, THESE ARE GAMES PEOPLE PAY ACTUAL REAL LIFE MONEY FOR!).
Having same issue. I have a steam deck with windows 10 with EAFC24 installed via steam.
steam is in offline mode, but can’t launch EAFC24 because it tied to EA app. I did the steps you outlined last week and now it won’t work.
Setting the app to "offline" is only marginally successful. I had a few spare minutes so I thought I would play a little but instead I had to spend the time connecting to the internet and resetting my password so I can play offline. I thought it was fixed a while back but today proved me wrong. This has been asked before but here it is again: WHY SHOULD WE HAVE TO GO ONLINE TO TELL THE SYSTEM WE WANT TO PLAY OFFLINE? It makes zero sense and Origin did not require it. I should be able to start my computer and play anything I have installed any time I want without going online...ever. The only thing Origin did that was inconvenient was push an update on the rare occasion I did connect to the internet. The EA app is about as far from consumer friendly as it can be.
Having this same issue right now. My Internet region is under maintenance and I can't play any of my games offline because this ludicrous EA app requires to be online to access the offline mode. Whose brilliant design was this? Hundreds of dollars spent on your games and I can't access them when I want to? Unbelievable.
Y'all seriously need to fix this.
Agreed. For single player games it does seem pointless, and the implementation well, you said it!
You keep telling everyone we can switch to “offline” while online. The whole point is we don’t have internet access to be online and go offline every single time we open the app. Also, not everyone’s cpu has WiFi capabilities to use a hotspot. This was never an issue with the Origin app! So we need internet and/or hotspot capabilities to play the games we paid for on the EA app? Im sorry but your suggestion fixes nothing.
