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 limited. When I run out of GB for this month, I have no idea what I'm going to do... I'm so sad, and the reason I even got into the Sims was to be able to have an offline game I could immerse myself into for hours at a time. I DO PUT MY EA APP INTO OFFLINE MODE, but anytime I turn off the PC or have to reboot it, it requires internet connection to open EA therefore access to sims. So no internet connection? No sims ☹️ I honestly do not find the EA user friendly, if anything, IT IS AGAINST THE USER!

Only at EA: playing a single player game offline requires you to be online to start it. Putting it in offline mode AFTER having to be online to launch it completely misses the point of having a single player offline experience. Who designed that abomination of an App?

@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.

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'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?

KEEP EA IN OFFLINE MODE!!! | EA Forums

23 Replies

nyran125
Rising Rookie
6 days ago
Same I need offline mode to work also, it sometimes doesn and sometimes does not.
hannurallyn
17 days ago
That is actually exactly the problem... If you don't have internet to get online to set it to offline mode, then what? This didn't used to be an issue with Origin app.
Gam3rXpr0YT
19 days ago
@EA_Darko wrote:
Hey @weepingdelilah once you have opened the EA app while online you can set the EA app to offline.

Darko
i also have this promblem and i love to play sims but i dont have internet at home or mobile hotspot to connect and even though i put EA into offline mode if i close the app or reboot my laptop i need internet again to play
maroo348
2 months ago
why has this issue still not been fixed? users should not need to log online to be able to play offline games. This was not the case with Origin. This has been an issue for over a year. PLEASE do something!
RainbowLinings
2 months ago
that's... not helpful. the whole point is WE DO NOT HAVE INTERNET. i paid for this game, why should i not be able to play it whenever i want?
RainbowLinings
2 months ago
over a year later & we are still having this issue. it's extremely classist to just assume that people have internet all the time. what's the point of "going offline" when you have to be offline to do it? why can't i just play *MY* game when i want to? has anyone bothered to actually try to implement a solution, or is EA ignoring it like every other issue?
DANGERGOOSE1
Seasoned Veteran
4 months ago
@EA_Darko wrote:
Hey @weepingdelilah once you have opened the EA app while online you can set the EA app to offline.

Darko
This doesn't work. I don't keep my PC on 24/7, I turn it off when I go to bed at night and whenever I leave the house. If I wake up in the morning and the internet is out, I turn on my PC and I can't play any EA games. Most of the time the EA app won't start when internet is out, sometimes it just says it can't connect or something, and no games will launch.
highlyfavoredha
6 months ago
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.
GawgPorkChop
Rising Vanguard
9 months ago
Agreed. For single player games it does seem pointless, and the implementation well, you said it!
LiELF
Legend
9 months ago
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.