Has anyone been able to make Create A World work with the new EA App? Update 3/19/2024

@Damienf519 I've been lurking the EA Sims 3 forums (EA Answers HQ) where people are complaining about this issue, and sadly, I don't think there has been a solution yet; otherwise, they would have posted. The only solution I am seeing for now is to keep using Origin and trick the game into using that when using CAW instead of EA App. If you'd like to keep up to date, you might want to lurk at the boards like I've been doing. In any case, if the issue is fixed, I'll post an update. I'm currently using Origin, but I have no idea how long I'll be able to keep at it.

Thanks @ts1depot. I'm sorry to hear that. Looks like I better backup Origin before uninstalling and reformatting my hard drive than. Knowing EA and how they treat their older titles, it's possible they will never fix it

EA, if you're going to insist on making everyone switch to the EA App eventually, please just update CAW so that it works with the EA App and we don't have to either use the Steam version or not at all. I don't want to have to stop building worlds. I really enjoy it and I'm far from the only one. People who play the Sims 3 love custom worlds

I posted a thread at EA HQ about this, when I learned today that the hack for Steam stopped working around November of last year.

It's beginning to look more and more like a killswitch. If it is, that is insane. People literally spent money to not only build but play custom worlds. Literally, I wouldn't have bought Showtime or Island Paradise if I hadn't learned how to build my own worlds. I think a lot of players who played custom worlds were the same way, were encouraged to keep buying additional content to play custom worlds. For instance, many of them would've quit Sims 3 after IP indefinitely had world builders not provided island worlds that didn't suffer the lag of Isla Paradiso.

I'm hoping that this is just an oversight, but if it was "decided" to kill off CAW, I hope that people understand that this is anti-consumer and that it serves EA nothing to alienate the Sims 3 player base. Many of us went back to TS3 because TS4 started off great and then began taking the "sand" out of the "sandbox" and alienating older players by making things happen against their will for the sake of realism (like making female sims develop buddha bellies and gain weight after giving birth). I literally quit TS4 after that laundry SP, because I knew that's when the entire thing was going south and had become an embarrassing and in some cases creepy "real life simulator".

So, if TS3 and CAW are being tampered with to discourage us into moving onto TS4, just know that we won't. I can't speak for everyone but I can speak for myself. Some of us go all the way back to TS1, when it was a sandbox game and not a life simulator. TS2 and TS3 carried that tradition. TS4 was going great for awhile (I absolutely adored it, especially the character designs), but then it seemed to become some creepy real life simulator for awkward GenZs and Millennials trying to use this game to experience real life or deal with image and body issues.

The point is, do not kill CAW or TS3. You will be alienating a much larger portion of the Sims player base than you suspect. The fact that social media is heavily dominated by GenZs and Millennials squealing over every TS4 update doesn't mean that TS3 is dead as a game. It just means that because TS4 is trending, you can make the most money right now being a social media influencer on YouTube, Patreon and other venues than you can TS3, TS2 or the original game.

@Damienf519 Backing up and reinstalling Origin doesn't work anymore, as of this week. I posted a rant in EA HQ about it. Hopefully, someone will listen.

ETA: Download an earlier version of Origin here: https://origin.en.uptodown.com/windows/versions. Just make sure to not update it, or what'll happen is that you'll be forced to upgrade to EA App.

@ts1depot Than I'm going to have to shut off automatic updates for Origin and back up every file necessary to make the current version of Origin work, and I will not buy any new products from EA until the make CAW work with the new EA App. I will give EA the benefit of the doubt, but that said, even if this is not intentional, it is unacceptable as far as I'm concerned

@ts1depot
Thanks. I might need the current version of Origin through in order for the current version of CAW to work with all of my Sims 3 packs. I already shut off automatic updates for Origin and for the games, and the only game I have installed at the moment that uses Origin is the Sims 3 and CAW so for the moment I should be safe.

Thanks for the link through

@Damienf519 Okay, but just know that if at some point you get forced to switch, you can always try to revert to an older version of Origin. And I agree with you that even if they plan on fixing this, it is unacceptable, because it's the official and not the beta release of EA App. If this was beta, this would be forgivable, but this is a whole other kettle of fish.

AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO DOESN'T LIKE THE EA APP??? I CAN'T GET MY SIMS 3 OR ANY OTHER SIMS GAMES WORKING BESIDES SIMS 4!!!! IF I CAN'T PLAY LIKE I USED TO WITH BOTH THEN I WON'T BE BUYING ANY MORE SIMS 4 PACKS UNTIL MY GAMES WORK LIKE THEY DID IN ORIGIN!!!!

AM I DOING SOMETHING WRONG OR IS THERE SOMETHING I HAVE TO CHANGE TO GET THEM TO WORK AGAIN? I MISS PLAYING BOTH GAMES THAT I HAVE BUILT UP FOR YEARS! BEING """FORCED""" TO CHANGE PLATFORMS INSTEAD OF BEING ABLE TO CHOOSE SUCKS AND I WILL FIGHT UNTIL I GET THEM TO WORK AGAIN! i REFUSE TO BUY ANYMORE SIMS PACKS UNTIL MY GAMEPLAY IS RETURNED AS IT DID IN ORIGIN! ORIGIN MAY HAVE BEEN A BIT SLOW BUT AT LEAST IT RAN ALL MY GAMES AND ALL I HAD DOWNLOADED!