I have The Sims 4 in my account and my girlfriend play in my account, but i want to play TS4 and other games in the same time that she is playing TS4 in other computer...
Theres a way to open the ea app always in offline mode?
May it be a cold day before I buy another EA game. Thunderstorm caused my PC power supply to glitch and need to be reset. Internet is down hard and no one is going to be out in the continuing storms to work on it. Meaning I'm unable to start the game I've been playing daily for months.
I can understand requiring an occasional sign in, but I was online yesterday. This EA launcher is the last straw for me.
If you own the game through Steam you should know that there is a way to open (most) games directly in the Steam app by bypassing the developer's launcher. So you can launch via Steam's offline mode instead of being stuck waiting for the EA launcher.
Go on your Steam Library and right click the game you want to open without the launcher.
Click on properties.
At the bottom of the 'General' tab, beneath 'Launch Options' you can see there is a text box.
In this box enter: --skip-launcher
You will only need to do this once per game and it can be removed at any time. Enjoy!
(This apparently doesn't work for every game but it has for every one that i've tried it on so far, including the Dragon Age games which are also EA)
Just curious on if there's a projected fix/update? With the recent storms sweeping the country and leaving many without power, internet or even both for days on end it's a bit saddening to finally get back to our devices without being able to play EA hosted games offline.
@EA_Leeuw wrote:
Hey @Sentry11313,
Hmm, yeah it does look like that is the only way to make the EA app work in offline mode at the moment. I will pass on the feedback.
I wanted to play Battlefront 2's campaign.. I haven't touched it yet and thought it might be a nice way to spend the next few days I have without internet. Since I can't open EA's App in Offline mode, I can't play any of EA's games. Other game launchers have this feature so I was quite surprised to see that EA didn't.
Here to add my frustration to the mix. It is now JANUARY OF 2024, and I STILL can't play the SINGLE PLAYER game I have legally owned since its release in 2014, and invested hundreds of dollars in unless I'm signed in Online. This is beyond frustrating, especially when I want to play it on my Steam Deck, which isn't always connected to the internet.
I refuse to put any more money into anything distributed by EA until this gets fixed. Luckily, I still have Sims 2 and 3 discs, so I still have arguably better sims games that WILL work offline (on my PC, at least). We also have Life By You to look forward to.
Sincerely, screw you EA. You've had literal years to fix this, and still NOTHING.
That wouldn't really happen because as bad as EA can be when it come to its actions towards its customers, ever since it moved out from being within the development field and, instead, primarily focus on publishing strategies, it been running on a relatively constant flow of cash.
Unlike CDPR or Larian, EA. itself, is not dibbling much in the actual development of their product, but instead pays sub-contracting company into doing it 99.90% of the time and that allows it to mitigate the risks when it comes to development cost.
To give you an example, if CDPR or Larian are in-between 2 projects, they still got to pay their devs employees regardless of whatever is produced. If those cut off some HR, they might regrets it later when they might need said HR back hence a development company, in the video game industry, is like a company that is constantly bleeding money and gets an infusion whenever they release something.
EA has been mostly cut off from that part of the industry as while it's paying active companies who are working on current project for them, it don't have to bleed any money in down time because whoever is hired is not hired by EA, but by the sub-contracted company. Once a project is done, as per the established contract, EA can cut ties with the company until a new contract is established. Many times, when an spoke person from EA mention a "teams", it's actually a team composed of a few managers that communicate with a sub-contracting company.
That's also the reason why EA seems so disconnected and slow in updating its own stuff as, often, it doesn't actually do it itself. Even adding 1 thing to its App might required it to push out some contract proposition, wait for a positive reply from companies, select the best option and then have that selected company work on the app which can then involves months of works for that company to understand how another worked on the app prior. That's without considering the potential issues that may come up when 2 different companies has to work together on 2 features on the same app at the same time.
@Sejian wrote:~Snip~
I'm going to assume this issue won't be resolved until EA releases a new app.
I for one, hope you are proven correct, but my cynicism for this consumer-antagonistic company says otherwise… They will only change when they have been bought out by a better company, as they are the extreme polar opposite of Larian Studios! ⇐ Wouldn't it be great if they were bought out by either Larian or CDPR?
July 2022 to December 2023 and still no progress on this.
Could've just left us with Origin.
I'm going to assume this issue won't be resolved until EA releases a new app.
This nonsense is forcing me to do things I stopped doing years ago just to play my legitimately owned games.
Thanks EA, you continue to impress with the marvelous job you're doing. Even Ubisoft Connect has a functioning start offline feature.
Indeed very strange that offline mode requires internet connection. Doesn't make any damn sense. Why would I want to go offline if I have working connection? It's just the opposite and I want to go offline mode when I don't have connection! What kind of muppets designed this.
