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Re: Impossible to launch Sims 4 without Internet connection

@Viddeliten I agree. Like people literally hate EA and they wonder why. I've owned this game for years and back in the origin days I could play it offline almost indefinitely. Now in 2023 said game is rendered unplayable unless I have an internet connection despite the game itself not needing any online multplayer functionality. I've just decided to download the pirated version. At least I can actually play the game when my Wifi goes down.

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  • Yeah, seriously. Can we get a button on the launcher to play anyway without an update?

    EA disables mods after an update, which is fine... and it's not that I don't want to update, but I'd like to delay a few days until mods are updated, then allow it to update.

    At this point, I'm looking at adding a hosts entry or blocking EA.com on my router completely to manage updates for the Sims4. I hadn't played in two years and spent a couple days getting mods together - only to have them all break right after that because of the update.

    All that was needed was a full day for the mods to be updated, but it would have been nice to skip updating for a day for that. I don't always have time to play - so getting shot down by updates is frustrating when I do have time.

    I play Fallout and other games modded as well - this is ONLY a problem with EA games with the new launcher. For all the rest, you can wait a day or two to update.
    Come now EA - that would be super simple to add. It's not that we don't want to update the game - but with mods, we really need to do it on our time table.

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