Unfortunately it seems there's no progress at all... However, if you download it from Stream you have the option to choose ANY language you want, English included as well 🙂 the EA support is absolutely useless in this matter, so there's no point to even contact them (I know it's not their fault that this problem persists but they can't even advise you to use a different platform for downloading so I came across this solution by chance). Hope you'll manage to get it from Steam, it's also free to download there 🙂
I'm on Mac so can't play it through Steam unfortunately but thank you for the advice!
Hopefully there is a resolution soon 🙂 Guess I'll just go back to Sims 2 for now lol
I've emailed support so if I get a helpful response I'll update here too
I have submitted a similar issue months ago: install the game in French, but game is in English (I live in the UK). I relate to all the play arounds people have described above (customer support, universal version, works once in the right language, but then an error again, etc). In my case, what I can say is that I have tested my game versions on a PC, and everything is fine!!!! So I would love people to stop suggesting that we have region locked games, because this is not the case. This is a Mac specific issue, and it is even an Mac EA App specific issue, as it wasn't happening on Origin before either.
I am really angry at EA. I have spent HUNDREDS of euros/pounds for that game, and I would like to feel heard, as it doesn't seems to be the case. And I know I am not the only one in that situation... I will not buy any other EA game before the EA App for Mac is fixed.
EA has to fix the EA App for Mac.
