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

I AM TOTALLY WITH YOU ts1depot!!! MY FEELINGS EXACTLY!! I HAVE PLAYED A LONG TIME WITH SIMS 3 AND HAVE EVERY EXPANSION AVAILABLE AND SINCE THIS EA APP TAKE OVER I DON'T CARE FOR THE SWITCH OR THE FORCE THEY USED TO GET US TO USE IT JUST TO RUN OUR GAMES. I LOVE 3 MORE THAN 4 BECAUSE IT IS MORE ADVANCED IN WORLDS, CONTROLS ETC. I WAS NERVOUS WHEN DOWNLOADING THE EA APP AFTER WHAT A REVIEW HAD MENTIONED EARLIER ABOUT THEIR GAMES FAILING TO RUN OR MISSING CONTENT! THIS APP SUCKS FOR ME, BUT I HOPE THIS WASN'T INTENTIONAL EITHER AND I WILL BE TRYING TO GET BOTH MY GAMES WORKING. I NOTICED THEY ARE EVEN PREVENTING THE SIMS MEDIEVAL, AND PIRATES AND NOBELS WON'T EVEN WORK ANYMORE BECAUSE OF THE CHANGE... I HOPE THEY LISTEN AND RETURN OUR GAMES TO US!!!

i SAY IF THEY WANT US TO STOP PLAYING OUR SIMS 3 AND OTHERS BESIDES 4, THEN THEY SHOULD REIMBURSE EVERYONE THEIR MONEY FOR THE GAMES AND EXPANSIONS WE CAN'T PLAY NOW!!!

@Kat41,

"Kat41;c-18233081" wrote:
i SAY IF THEY WANT US TO STOP PLAYING OUR SIMS 3 AND OTHERS BESIDES 4, THEN THEY SHOULD REIMBURSE EVERYONE THEIR MONEY FOR THE GAMES AND EXPANSIONS WE CAN'T PLAY NOW!!!

The New EA App does not cause any problems with the Sims 3 in general outside of CAW as far as I know, so thankfully that won't be an issue at least. It’s possible, but I doubt that EA is trying to force people to stop playing the Sims 3, they probably just don't care about it anymore because they see it as just a legacy title.

I AM SEEING ALOT OF PEOPLE SAYING THEY CAN'T PLAY IT. DO YOU OWN THE SIMS 3 PACKS?

I DID'T BUY MINE ON STEAM BUT ON THE DISCS

Well I'm sorry to hear that @Kat41. I know for a fact that people can still play the Sims 3 on the new EA App. You should be able to EA technical support and they should be able to help you make everything involving the Sims 3 work with the new app, minus Create A World. Even that through I suspect at some point someone will make a mod to make that work with the App, if EA doesn't, but still don't count on it

Can't Sims 3 be installed on Disk without the App?

I know I blocked Origin from the internet so it wouldn't update to the App. I played a lot of TS2 UC and don't want to lose it.

TS3 still plays fine for me. I have it installed by disk but never updated to 1.69 (or whichever before the locking it into Origin) - which you shouldn't have to do unless your game is downloaded from Origin.

@Rfong7

Unfortunately even through I turned off automatic updates, and this still happened. https://at.tumblr.com/damienf519/why-ea/dx7r2lnp2pmh

In the meantime, I read somewhere that there is a way to tell Origin no, I don't want to update and continue using Origin, but I have to edit a file to fix it, and so far it won't let me do that

Also Create A World requires Origin to function properly

Dearest @EA_Cade ,

you are always so kind and considerate to give us super fast responses and updates to problems we are encountering that I am now asking for your personal help yet again.

The new EA App has caused quite a lot of ups and downs especially for us gamers who love TS3 and thankfully most issues have been solved in an amicable and efficient way.
But I'm afraid we creators in the CAW corner have encountered one for us extremely important and at the moment unsolvable problem that is leaving many of us very disappointed.

The Create a World program is working fine but due to the new EA app the Edit In Game mode is not responding any longer. If you click on EIG the app greets you with the message 'The Sims 3 is already running. Go ahead and start playing. It's a good one!' or just redirects straight to the launcher which means the game will open as normal but not in CAW like it used to do with Origin.
Changes to a world in progress and adding builds in CAW is now impossible. This obviously makes the usually fun world building experience very frustrating :'(

I am sure the developers of the app have been approached via the EA Help Center but even though I have tried to check for answers I did not come across anything official to say 'the issue is being looked at'; not even a 'tough luck we can't do anything about it'.

You and the team have probably enough to do but would it be possible for you to check if this matter has been addressed already please.
It would be great if you could find out for us if we can expect a fix sometime down the line even if it is not imminent or whether we need to try to find other ways to approach creating and sharing our worlds.

Keeping fingers crossed there is a workable solution as it would be such a disappointment for many if we have to give up building worlds.

Your prompt attention will be most appreciated. Thank you ever so much :)

Heya,

I actually responded on this issue yesterday in a different thread here.