Good news!
After being forced to download the EA app in order to play Sims 3(a game which predates even Origin) I logged in, closed the app and tried to load the app without internet. One failed attempt, resulted in the app telling me to log in online first with "keep me logged in" checked. Funny since I had already checked this on my first log in. Still I tried logging in, logging back out, ensuring the box was checked and logging in online once more before finally closing the app, turning on airplane mode and successfully logging in WITHOUT internet.
It would have saved us all a lot of stress however if someone from EA had come to this thread to let us know we could in fact do this. I was quite honestly set to boycott any future EA purchases over this. After all, I shouldn't pay for offline games which I cannot actually play offline. Requiring any kind of secondary program or launcher for an offline game is irritating enough.
Glad that it is up and running offline now however and wanted to stop by to let others know since I was clearly not the only one stressing over this. It will load offline, you simply may need to log in and out online a few times first with the "keep me logged in" box checked.
I was able to play in offline mode, but the frustrating thing is that when I choose to put EA app in offline mode it keeps trying to constantly log me in. So after 2-3 hours of offline play EA app will force itself closed saying there was a problem and I have to sign in again which is really frustrating because then I'm forced to close out of my game and reopen EA app just to login and then go into offline mode again. I've even tried to uncheck the keep me logged in button but the app will still try to force me to login even when I'm choosing to be in offline mode, I've never seen such a stupid thing on an app before.
Ayup - no internet so figured I'd fire up DAO and the stupid app won't let it load. Tried several ways to launch the game without the app but whatever EA did to force it through their wrapper prevents this from happening. I don't think anyone at EA has ever played a game before.
This thread says solved but it really isn't - has EA ever come back with a response on this topic or posted a road map of when it will or ... ? Where's a customer satisfaction survey when you need one.
