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ArielisFree
Rising Novice
2 hours ago

Required to Verify Age but Cannot???

I'm just trying to play the Sims, and I was able to yesterday, but something must have updated since then. I have a header at the top of my screen when I open the EA app saying EA needs to "check your age before you can buy or access age-restricted games and content." I get why Sims would be age restricted, so trust me, I'm fine with verifying my age and going through the proper channels, but the link provided for verifying my age just... doesn't work??? I've clicked on it incessantly. And when I hit the play button for the Sims 4, it opens a window that says "DisplayName field missing from registry." It wants me to sign into my EA account via this window, which freaks me out a bit because this looks like the least official pop-up I have ever seen. It's this nondescript white tab with a weird pattern for a background and a single box for my username shoved all the way to the bottom of the window. The window can't even be resized, and the box I'm supposed to put my password into is so far down it's off screen. And I can't scroll down to get to it. I am bewildered. 

I am hoping this is just a bug with something new EA is rolling out to verify people's ages. Otherwise, something is very wrong, either with my personal version of the app I have on my computer, or the EA app in general. I just want to play the Sims 4, y'all. Please someone fix this???

9 Replies

  • Same - even re-entered a credit card and no change guess they wake up soon and realise they forgot something

  • Getting this issue too. I cannot click the "Verify Here" button, the "learn more" gets a 404 page. I'm in Australia. Been a member since 2008 (which makes the account 18 years old), and my DOB is in the system. Only started with the latest update. Was working fine yesterday.

  • killilump's avatar
    killilump
    Seasoned Newcomer
    2 hours ago

    My ea account is over the age of 18 but my ea app is also stuck with the age-verification loop and won't let me confirm my age.  I need ea to fix this problem cause I'm clearly over the age of 18. I just would like some help please.

  • Vaadazi's avatar
    Vaadazi
    Seasoned Newcomer
    2 hours ago

    I'm having the same issue. nothing opens when I use the verify flink, and the Learn more button takes me to an error404 page. 

  • Same issue in germany. I can start games but they will crash soon after...

  • XrisGirl's avatar
    XrisGirl
    Rising Novice
    2 hours ago

    I am having the same issue. It is asking for my age, but when I click on the link it does nothing. I hope they fix this so I can play my game again.