After saving up some money I bought the horse ranch expansion pack directly off of origin today (full price, no bundle deals nothing). It downloaded fine and when I first played it at home it worked as it should. Now, I usually play sims on my two hour train commute, so offline. I've never had a problem with that and all my eight other expansion packs work and show up fine.
With horse ranch it doesn't show up as owned pack in the game and obviously I can't play my current save with it. As soon as I get home and connect to wifi it works fine. I know, that EA prefers us to be online when we play but I feel like if I pay 40€ for a game that in theory works offline I should be able to use it!!!
I'm playing on a MacBook Air M1 and use the origin app.
Does anyone know how to fix this? I'm heartbroken!
@kerjo2000 I just tested this myself, on my Mac, and couldn't reproduce. Even opening Origin my wifi already disabled (and no wired connection), Horse Ranch loaded fine for me. I'd suggest trying again in case this was a one-off situation; you can disable wifi while at home to see.
If this keeps happening, please run the Origin reset tool:
https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/origin/origin/how-to-reset-origin-on-mac/
and repair the game: open your Origin game library, right-click Sims 4, and select Repair. Then launch the game once while online, and try offline again.
Worse case scenario, you can use your phone as a mobile hotspot for the time it takes to sign into Origin and launch Sims 4. You could then cut the connection once you've loaded your save, or perhaps just after you've signed into Origin. You shouldn't have to this at all, but if this is a temporary glitch on your end, that would be an effective interim workaround.
