The local.xml trick does not work for me anymore. I've spent hundreds of dollars in the Sims and it's dlc, only for it to be locked off. Very crummy EA.😠
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@lance8765 There is no current workaround.
ORIGIN works well for me, for what it's needed (certify the player to load the games he owns), and I see no reason in the world to plague the PC with other USELESS software!
I paid for these ****** games, let me use them in peace, I don't need anything else, neither advertising, nor "social media", nor anything! Just playing in peace with my ****** games!
And leave MY PC alone... it's mine not yours! You're getting more and more arrogant with all this add-on software to video games!
@dungchungkey
EA has really changed the way of working on its EXEs, they no longer read the "local.xml" file, because I changed the Windows rights making it untouchable... it just doesn't read it anymore. He changes it if he can, otherwise he ignores it.
Beautiful demonstration of arrogance and disinterest for customers!
Thank you. Do we still mark the xml file as read only?
@Ha_DHuWe My games are downloading in Origin!! Thank you so much! I have been trying for over a month to get access to my games. I've posted on EA Help, and contacted support multiple times and they were not able to resolve the issue. It's been so frustrating not being able to play the games I've paid for. Thank you for sharing this work around! You are the best!! I just wish the EA App worked and EA provided proper support instead of relying on their users to figure it out!
