Re: Sims 4 - Game License Invalid

Letiyy01  What antivirus do you use?

Separately, have you ever claimed any Sims 4 content through Steam or Epic?  Do you live in a different country than the one where you originally bought or claimed Sims 4 from EA?

This error is becoming alarmingly common, and the system troubleshooting hasn't helped anyone yet as far as I know, so I'm wondering whether there's a hidden account issue.

Another test, if you're interested, would be to borrow a friend's account and test it on your machine.  Since the game is free, it's simple enough to add it.  I'd suggest doing a clean uninstall of Sims 4 and the EA App with Revo Uninstaller (the free version is fine) before using the new account.  Rename the Sims 4 folder in Documents > Electronic Arts to something that doesn't include "Sims 4" so that Revo doesn't flag it for deletion.

Hi there, Letiyy01 Have you also error code EC:204?
It comes out when you try to play offline "invalid licence" 
There's an issue reported, check it out: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/NEW-Oct-2024-EA-app-and-Error-Code-EC-204/td-p/14126582  

This EC:204 problem was resolved with an update to the EA App about 18 hours ago.

The app should update automaticly so next you want to play you can launch the game in offline mode again.

All good, and a thank you to the team who got onto this so fast.

Not true, because I've just updated my EA app and the EC:204 still shows up. App version 13.396.0.5909

Oh? It rears its head again?,   How odd, I was only online just yesterday with no trouble at all.

Although I am at odd with how easily they seem to have wrecked the updates for sims 2 to play on later model PC's so easily.

They took an old game that was running pefectly and somehow managed to break it.

this EC:204 is around since 2023 and still annoys me so much, because it forces me to update the game even tho I don't want to (for whatever reason).
this was my most recent post about it
https://forums.ea.com/discussions/ea-app-technical-issues-en/ea-app-error-code-ec204-again/7545401
I received no support at all

This is driving me crazy as well.  EA is no help at all.  I really don't like being forced to update my sims 4 game, when the updates ruin so many mods that I play with and I don't like playing without them..hence why I like to play offline.  I  am dumbstruck that there is no fix for this EC:204.