Run Sims 3 without Origin
This happens a lot and I'm getting tired of it. I strongly dislike how sim 3 makes me have to use origin to play the game and it gets on my nerves. Especially when I'm in places where I don't have wif...
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Hi!
i actually have the same problem, with SimCity and now the Sims 3.
i called 4 times the client services, chatted online with them, 3times, get over 2 weekends to try to play.
they send me 3 emails with different ways to uninstalled and reinstalled origin and my games! And it still doesn't work. I have the physical disks.
the first time I called, the guy told me to go see the store where I bought the cd?? Are you kidding Me?
and each times i have the same reply from the persons I chatted with: "hopefully it will work" well I doesn't!
and like you I'm getting, not tired but seriously pissed off. This stealing people. You bought their games and you can't even play with them, and they don't care!
i don't know who had that marvellous idea to connect everything with origin, but now it doesn't work for everybody!
Time to do something about it!
Up until they patched it, there was a way to play these games offline. However, since the November 2015 patch there's no way that I know of to play these G a me's truly offline.
I wouldn't bother contacting 'support', I went in circles for hours trying to get them to understand exactly what Offline means. They didn't. Instead they claimed logging into Origin, going online then hitting the option to go offline would be good enough.
Honestly, it's despicable that they'd operate this way but as you may be able to tell, it's their way of preventing piracy. Even if that's at a cost to their buyers.
One other thing to note is that even though we have bought the games from the company, we are not purchasing the product as we would if purchasing a physical item. Instead we're buying rights to access the game and it's content, this is all in the first few lines of the T&C's visible when installing the game.
I wouldn't bother contacting 'support', I went in circles for hours trying to get them to understand exactly what Offline means. They didn't. Instead they claimed logging into Origin, going online then hitting the option to go offline would be good enough.
Honestly, it's despicable that they'd operate this way but as you may be able to tell, it's their way of preventing piracy. Even if that's at a cost to their buyers.
One other thing to note is that even though we have bought the games from the company, we are not purchasing the product as we would if purchasing a physical item. Instead we're buying rights to access the game and it's content, this is all in the first few lines of the T&C's visible when installing the game.
