Did EA just steal all my Sims 2 games that I PAID for?

My library still shows the Ultimate Collection on there.

Could you have accidentally hidden the game in the Origin?

Otherwise, you're going to have to more calmly describe what's happened in more details.

Sims 2 has been removed from Origin with NO warning. My games show up there but they can no longer be played according to EA staff. Very, very upset. Why would anyone by and EA games if they are going to do this to people? In the middle of a Pandemic with so many out of work (me included) they just "had" to. Very upset this morning.

"momshavingfun;c-17810753" wrote:
Sims 2 has been removed from Origin with NO warning. My games show up there but they can no longer be played according to EA staff. Very, very upset. Why would anyone by and EA games if they are going to do this to people? In the middle of a Pandemic with so many out of work (me included) they just "had" to. Very upset this morning.

I'm able to load up my game and I play via the Ultimate Collection so it's not EA taking away your ability to play the game.

Can you go into more detail about what problem you're having?

@momshavingfun

I can still load my ultimate collection game however I did not update the game the last time around as I read from other players at that time they were experiencing issues so i avoided it.

"@momshavingfun;c-17810753" wrote:
Sims 2 has been removed from Origin with NO warning. My games show up there but they can no longer be played according to EA staff. Very, very upset. Why would anyone by and EA games if they are going to do this to people? In the middle of a Pandemic with so many out of work (me included) they just "had" to. Very upset this morning.

How long has it been since you looked to play your TS2 games through Origin?

The individual games were removed years ago. That's why a lot of people were given TS2 Ultimate Collection. If you didn't get it, that means you didn't buy from Origin nor did you remind them they promised to keep our TS2 games Available forever; which is what I did and why I got TS2 UC. This was Years ago. I don't know if you can get them to give it to you now. :(

"SPARKY1922;c-17811008" wrote:
@momshavingfun

I can still load my ultimate collection game however I did not update the game the last time around as I read from other players at that time they were experiencing issues so i avoided it.

To add to this, mine is fully updated.

I didn’t know you could download the Sims 2. I would love to play this game again. ?
Ultimate sounds like it’s one big bundle of all the packs?

"ncisGibbs02;c-17811024" wrote:
I didn’t know you could download the Sims 2. I would love to play this game again. ?
Ultimate sounds like it’s one big bundle of all the packs?

Unfortunately, EA is no longer offering the Ultimate Collection out to players.

Short of buying the discs and hoping you can get all of the packs and hoping you can get the game to install and play on your computer (not uncommon for older games like Sims 2), you're out of luck for any legal means to obtain the game.

@Rflong7

aside from the S2 ultimate collection has any other version of the sims 2 game ever been available on/through origin?

@Seera1024

Can you confirm it was the ultimate collection you were playing through origin (I think it must have been as you mentioned above updating the game the last time) If so it is my experience if EA knew something was missing from my origin account that i had clearly been playing/purchased beforehand they have always reinstated whatever it was that had gone missing and while I understand they are no longer supporting UC I would have thought they would reinstate the series/game for you on that sort of basis. Maybe it's time to try another advisor and hope for a kinder person..

"@SPARKY1922;c-17811043" wrote:
Rflong7

aside from the S2 ultimate collection has any other version of the sims 2 game ever been available on/through origin?

Seera1024

Can you confirm it was the ultimate collection you were playing through origin (I think it must have been as you mentioned above updating the game the last time) If so it is my experience if EA knew something was missing from my origin account that i had clearly been playing/purchased beforehand they have always reinstated whatever it was that had gone missing and while I understand they are no longer supporting UC I would have thought they would reinstate the series/game for you on that sort of basis. Maybe it's time to try another advisor and hope for a kinder person..

Yes, Origin started while TS2 was still being sold. It's why they made TS2 UC - because it was promised to still be available if we bought the game through Origin.
While I didn't buy my games through Origin, it was also promised if we Registered TS2/TS3 to Origin, it would always be available. :)

I'm pretty sure they did announce their removing of TS2 singles from Origin.